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People do not understand what FDIC insurance is.

It protects again bank failure. If the one's assets are drained from the bank, as long as the bank has not failed, it will have to make the account holder whole.

That's why a company would be stupid to hold $200M at Podunk Bank of Littletown, KS but is perfectly fine to hold it in a DDA account at Bank of America, Citi or Chase

Uber had NYC cabs in the app in 2013. I know it is the case because I used it. It disappeared sometime in 2014, i think

> The owner is making money, but so are the players, the referees, the concession staff, parking attendants, stores and shops that sell licensed apparel, and the bars, restaurants, and other adjacent businesses. Not to mention the marketing team, strength and conditioning coaches, web developers, and others who work for the team. And although temporary, it does create new construction jobs. This is true for football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and other sports.

There's a very simple solution to this issue.

Owner wants taxpayer money for the stadium? Taxpayer gets ownership in the franchise.

> So they're raising prices.

But but but cloud prices only go down /s

> I work at Uber. Opinions are my own. Etc. Here's my two cents: people in the company are acutely aware of this problem. Insiders legitimately want drivers to have flexibility without fear of penalties, and there are some major projects in the works to try to make things better for drivers.

This is laughable. The reality is that no one at Uber gives a two cents about "making it better for drivers" because of the sweet sweet paychecks that they are getting by screwing those drivers ( and since most of drivers look like the taxi drivers of NYC no one really gives two cents that they are being screwed).

Fish rots from the head. Uber has a rotten CEO. If he could sell his mother into slavery for a buck he would. Rotten CEOs attract other rotten people. Costco demonstrated that it is possible to even compete with the bottom feeder like Walmart without screwing people who work there.

At least Travis did not pretend like Dara does. Watching SV view Dara as a Jesus walking on water is wild.

Yes, you are in a bubble. The same kind of a bubble where HN geeks do not understand why Air tags are a perfect stalker device.

Women specifically do not want to be in cars which they cannot even theoretically control.

... And with that women said "eff that!" nailing the coffin of the FAV

> Google "contingent fee". Then "copyright act registration attorneys fees"

I don't need to - you, as an attorney, are not going to take every case on contingency. You are only going to take cases that you think you are going to win and you are likely to collect. In most of cases you would require a minimum payment from a client. In those cases the client will probably be fucked.

Btrfs has not been, is currently not, and unlikely in future to become a general population usable file system, which is a shame as 10 years ago it looked like a promising move forward.

Its window to it was when setting up ZFS included lots of hand-waving. That window now has closed. ZFS is sable, does not eat data, does not have a cult of wizards spelling "RTFM" and is can be installed in major distributions using easy to follow procedure. In a year or two I expect that procedure to be fully automated, to a point where one could do a root on ZFS.

> Are you seriously explaining litigation costs to a quite well-known attorney working in this space?

Yes, I am. The attorney's goals are not aligned with developer's goals because developer pays the attorney, not that the attorney pays the developer. Attorney makes money from developer(s) regardless of a developer(s) making money off the violation. It is bonkers that seemingly educated people do not understand this.

Fighting IP battles from a perspective of a little party that has IP against a giant that is violating little party's IP is a fool's errand. Rarely the fool wins. That's why there's no market for litigation financing in IP like it exists for litigation financing of ambulance chasing.

Yes, it works for an attorney. It does not work for a solo developer/small developers that hire the attorney.

If want to avoid massive casualties among civilians, it is very difficult to hit a Buk sitting between two buildings. One needs to be pretty insane to use air force against targets until Buk systems aren't destroyed.

Gitlab was a VC backed firm.

It costs too much money to enforce, takes too much time and payout is very small even if you win ( you won't -- you will probably settle for a fraction after wasting years of your time and hundreds of thousands of dollars )

Source: a friendly customer is an attorney specializing in just that.

> Here I am, a Russian oligarch. I ordered the Ukrainian invasion because I bet that NATO wouldn't intervene because of my nukes. But it turns out I was wrong and NATO is pushing back my invasion.

This is just a slightly different version of a Cuban Missile Crisis. It has nothing to do with economy.

Because it went out of support. 5 years is their term for Chromebooks/Chromeboxes. I paid $220 for it. Was it infuriating that they did not support it longer? Yes. But $220/5 = $44/year. I gave info to people who were curious if this worked. It did.

Want to write something ragey about it? Publish it on your blog.

Because it has not been supported by Google for 2.5 years.

Good. They need to make fines so high that getting it twice means going to a poor house.

> Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.

Akamai sucks at selling to everyone.

Here's a typical Akamai experience:

* An Account Manager (AM) - in a suit - he is going to be the one talking. Not an expert in anything, except maybe Brooks Brothers suits from a few seasons ago.

* Account Manager's Lackey (AML) - he is going to be the one with an iPad. His job is to type in the notes of the meeting, typically using a two finger peck method. This of course takes a very long time. So everyone speaks slowly. Sometimes AM would ask AML something about things that are coming or being rolled out using Akamai internal jargon.

* Account Manager's Attachment (AMA) - does not really talk, looks uncomfortable. Based on the way AMA is dressed it might be a sales engineer

* Every single response to your question would be something that you can either find on the website ( AM, AML and AMA are convinced you cannot read ) which does not actually answer the question or is met with "I will need to loop in the appropriate parties and get you an answer"

* Nearly every request that one would presume can be completed programatically is met with "We need to engage professional services for that." which is billed at some insane amount

That's experience of paying Akamai millions of dollars a year. Needless to say, spending three years untangling Akamai integration was worth it.

> I hope the aquisition by Akamai makes their volume storage a bit cheaper though ;)

Damn it! Another shirt needs to go to a dry cleaner...

It worked on CN60 - here are the instructions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30354398

It worked on CN60.

I have installed it onto an Asus CN60 which is not supported by ChromeOS since Sep 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30354398

It worked - I'm running it on end of line Asus CN60 Chromebox - the following are the details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30354398

I've successfully have installed ChromeOS Flex onto Asus CN60 Chromebox. This Chromebox has been end of support by Google in SEPTEMBER 2019. It worked. I'm using this box strictly as the video conferencing system for my home office - it is connected to a 42" 1080p TV with a Logitech USB camera and wired for the ethernet.

The following are the steps.

1. Opened the CN60 and removed the write protect screw

2. Used the same time to upgrade from 2x 2GB ram modules to 1x 8GB

3. Validated old ChromeOS booted.

4. Powered off.

5. Pushed recovery pin in and while holding it in turned the system on to enter a recovery mode.

6. Control-D to enter developer mode and remove request write protect off

7. Press recovery button again to turn write protect off.

8. ChromeOS clears the local data by itself.

9. ChromeOS says "preparing developer mode" and says not to turn off the system until it has restarted by itself.

10. The system reboots into a developer mode by itself.

11. Ctrl-Alt-F2 on a keyboard to switch to a text based console

12. Enter "chronos" as the login.

13. Ensure that the IP address is assigned - i'm using wired port.

14. Download and run mrchromebox.tech Chromebook/chromebox openfirmware de-googler:

  curl -LO mrchromebox.tech/firmware-util.sh
  sudo install -Dt /usr/local/bin -m 755 firmware-util.sh
  sudo firmware-util.sh

Installer recognized the CN60.

Select 2 to install a full uefi firmware.

system rebooted itself and said there was nothing to boot.

15. Create a ChromeOS Flex USB image on at least 8G USB stick - I used 16G - you cannot use Linux. You MUST use Windows. To do this in Chrome, got o Chrome Web store and install "Chromebook Recovery Utilities" by Google. Run them. Select Google as the Vendor and Chrome OS Flex as the USB. This process is long. During one of the stages the USB creator says that it did over 100% of work and there is a negative number of seconds remaining. Writes to the USB take a LONG time.

16. Plugin the USB into the CN60. Go to the boot menu.

17. Boot off the USB.

18. See the Chrome logo on a white screen

19. Eventually see CloudRun 2.0 installation screen

20. Select install to disk.

21. Wait for the install. The system will turn itself off when it is done.

22. Pull out your USB.

23. Boot off the disk.

24. Setup your main account - i connected it to the a Business Workspace account. It worked.

This is how to get it:

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11541904?hl=e...

This is a much more interesting technical summary:

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11547280?hl=e...

I'm going to try Flex. I don't want Linux on it. It is just a video conferencing box. I want it to be a total appliance.

P.S. I just checked - not a single Chromebook/Chromebox are listed on a supported devices list.

I have a previous generation Chromebox that I use for video conferencing. It is absolutely infuriating that a modern ChromeOS does not work on it not because the specs are out of date but because Google just does not allow it.

It has a supported CPU, a supported wifi, a supported USB and a supported bluetooth a supported disk and a supported amount of memory. But it is out of ChromeOS support window.