thecus

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by thecus 4y ago
Why let depositors in the US banking system lose capital when there's an insurance fund covered by the banking system itself for this purpose? The investors in SVB lost everything, isn't that accountability enough? You really want
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by thecus 4y ago
There are plenty of necessary reasons for business to have money in accounts above $250k. There should be no exposure here, this is the US banking system - bank deposits should be guaranteed by the entire system (not the taxpayer). Let the
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by thecus 4y ago
The consequences are the reduction of billions in shareholder value, and we shouldn't be dumb about doing anything that reduces confidence in US banks. SVB shareholders will be down from like 60 bln mkt cap during the pandemic to a goo
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by thecus 4y ago
So, when you're running a $3mm payroll, how do you do that while keeping money in an FDIC insured state. FDIC needs to be reformed. I feel like it's been 250k for my entire life lol, at the very least the amount needs to be revisi
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by thecus 8y ago
Don't participate on HN a lot, but I couldn't resist responding to the GDPR violation in the same line as engaging with the NY Attorney General.
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by thecus 8y ago
I suspect that any cloud provider has enormous amounts of fraud on it and no tooling is 100% error free. It's also important to note that GDPR has specific exemptions for companies responding suspected security/fraud related issu
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DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database(cnn.com)
5 points by thecus 8y ago|1 comments
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by thecus 10y ago
Multiple people have asked about his wealth. In the S-1 it gives you a good overview of the minimum amount of wealth generation potential he had. His agreement stipulated that he had ISOs for 709,568 shares at a strike price of $.001471.
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by thecus 10y ago
His agreement stipulated that he had ISOs for 709,568 shares at a strike price of $.001471. http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=3847... "This Amended and Restated Incentive Stock Option Le
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by thecus 11y ago
Our own bodies destroy 'cancer' all the time. It's when the body loses control that shit gets real. Source: I stayed at a holiday inn.
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by thecus 11y ago
It's a good thing I pay attention to detail.
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by thecus 11y ago
Commented above, it's a cool project, but ultimately I wouldn't recommend spending too much time trying to fight a war against browser clients. Unless sites/applications are running their own thick clients, there is ultimatel
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by thecus 11y ago
It's a valiant effort, but there's really no way they'll win this battle. The client simply has too much control. I was toying with writing a chrome extension for sites/videos that behave differently when adblock is run
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by thecus 11y ago
And the supreme court specifically called out in their rulings that they did not imply that it was a constitutional right to carry a concealed weapon. That also doesn't mean it should be illegal... we've seen immense decrease in v
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by thecus 11y ago
And when 2/3 of the states support that change, it'll happen. The whole point of the constitution is that it is not driven by politics or emotional events. It is changed when a super majority of our citizens / states feel it
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by thecus 12y ago
It's a minor degree of information disclosure -- hardly at it's finest.
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by thecus 12y ago
I also want to add on that I do not view this as a security issue. There are a myriad of things that should be done: 1) Your company should not be using SaaS services for sensitive projects w/o codenames. (Codename FishSauce = Viber