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by nkw 3y ago
Do any of the financial gurus have opinions on what happens if/when the Tether fraud collapses? My naive guess would be the price of bitcoin increases short term since that is probably the only quick way out of Tether in the event it l
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by nkw 3y ago
That terminal is beautiful. The colors, typeface, and sparse layout make it incredibly readable for me.
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Coinbase Receives Wells Notice(twitter.com)
53 points by nkw 3y ago|13 comments
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Roku says 26% of its cash reserves are stuck in Silicon Valley Bank(cnbc.com)
57 points by nkw 4y ago|4 comments
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by nkw 4y ago
This will do absolutely nothing. Since the Supreme Court gutted the TCPA there is zero downside for companies to violate it.
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by nkw 5y ago
Looks like G Suite (or Workspaces or whatever it is called now) is experiencing this too.
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by nkw 6y ago
You might consider NX if build times are an issue. It is monorepo based and includes computation caching[2] and incremental builds, but under the hood uses the angular build tools. We've found it pleasant to work with. [1] https:&#x2F
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by nkw 6y ago
So how is Elastic going to fare if Lucene makes a similar switch?
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by nkw 6y ago
You might consider giving credit to the sources of data used to make this.
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by nkw 6y ago
This appears to be part of the CDC's 9/4/2020 order. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/04/2020-19...
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by nkw 6y ago
> if they want to prevent evictions they need to pay the landlords what they’re owed There is cognizable legal argument that this order might qualify as a 'taking' within the terms of the 5th amendment, which might require the
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by nkw 6y ago
An argument could be made both that it does and does not. I would probably say no if I was the judge deciding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption
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by nkw 6y ago
That would be 42 U.S. Code § 264. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/264 > This should be unconstitutional if it's not already. Sounds good. I suggest contact your elected representatives to e
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by nkw 7y ago
So I'm not the above poster, but for me the one that killed my workflow was this still-open, 17-year-old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195361
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by nkw 7y ago
There are much better ways for the judiciary to maintain their finances than relying on arbitrary non-cost based fees for public access to public information. Judiciary funding is around $7 billion/year. Pacer makes maybe $150 million&
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by nkw 7y ago
This is pretty much doomed to fail because of the pre-dispute mandatory arbitration clauses coupled with class action waivers contained in the carriers' contracts. Under the current law surrounding arbitration it is a practical impossi
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by nkw 8y ago
Contact a member of this organization: https://www.nacdl.org/ who practices in the area (geographic and subject) of your pending charges. Almost all have websites that will accept messages and most will communicate by email
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by nkw 8y ago
> Because my life is fucked worse than it already is if I don't show up. This is already the case, but surprisingly people (including those accused of crimes) do not always make choices which are in their long-term self interest. &g
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by nkw 8y ago
> you have to be tried within 56 days If this was attempted in the United States, and we wanted to maintain the due process protections afforded by our Constitution, we would have to fund our indigent defense programs at levels far, far
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by nkw 8y ago
I'm actually surprised there has not been more pressure by the business community to decouple health care/health insurance from employment. Health insurance costs, and the administrative effort to provide it, are an enormous burde
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by nkw 8y ago
> Yeah, I'm sorry, but as a citizen of the UK, the US system of bail and bail bounty hunters is just nuts. Which is somewhat ironic since the foundation of our bail system originates from UK common law and the limitations on it (e.g
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by nkw 8y ago
I think most people with more than a passing acquittance with the bail systems in most states could agree with the title, but what I have not seen are any proposed solutions that address the underlying problems certain characteristics of ou
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by nkw 8y ago
So I like to think I'm pretty darn on the liberal side of the spectrum, but the (ACA if Democrat) (Obamacare if Republican) was overall a giant handout to the health insurance companies while carrying forward almost all of the pre-exis
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by nkw 8y ago
Where in the OFAC regulations or any IEEPA type executive order is a requirement that a U.S. bank obtain proof of U.S. citizenship from an accountholder?
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by nkw 8y ago
> It’s a regulatory requirement. Really? Do you have a citation to that regulation?
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by nkw 8y ago
I'm not sure how much legal protection such silliness buys them. I'm sitting in an airport lounge in Frankfurt and just flipped on a VPN to access the article. I can't imagine that whether or not I access the website via the
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by nkw 8y ago
If anyone wants it, I put a copy of the actual order here: https://www.woodlaw.com/casedocs/gov.uscourts.cand.305531.24... Even though it is marked as an opinion (and should be free) I don't see an easy way to acc
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by nkw 9y ago
Not much beyond looking at the product pages. The only piece of Office 365 that we are in love with is Word. Slack is the choice right now for us because we can use G Suite as our identity provider for SSO and the Slack integrations that ar
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by nkw 9y ago
The primary roadblock for us is gDocs. Sheets would probably meet our needs because spreadsheet aren't really a core need, however word processing/documents are our lifeblood. While gDocs has improved it doesn't come close to
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by nkw 9y ago
I don't really get why this is that useful. Except maybe the Gmail/Dropbox integration. Our office pays for 1) G Suite - from which we use Gmail and Calendar, 2) Dropbox for Business for file storage/sync, 3) Office 365 for W

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