StopHammoTime

The problem is the baby is being thrown out with the bath water. The solution is good, the modern pillaging of the data is not.

I love NFS but unfortunately with exchange rates it becomes quite expensive when compared with local (AU) hosting.

I’d always reach for them first for any real stuff I need to do outside of WP (which is most of my go-to atm for family stuff).

I will highlight one difference between the US and Oceania - our currencies are at least a third less than the USD. So $150k in NZ is probably closer to $100k and in Aus it’s $110k.

Edit: furthermore, in both of your examples you can just go to another provider or not use those services. If you are locked in to AWS, you HAVE to pay this price.

Now I can just send this article to people lmao.

They wanted to have the euros flowing in right until the last minute.

1. Flash messages on all user facing consoles. 2. No new resource able to be created for 6 mo this. 3. Emails. 4. Service end date should have been at least a month prior to mandatory shut down. 5. Any people still running workloads in May should have had aggressive contact attempts made to ensure they were aware. 6. The console in the region should have switched to a final backup that can be exported by the user or moved to another region. This should have been available for 30 days.

You don’t do this because it’s fun, you do this because you need to save reputation. If I can’t trust you with business critical data then why would I use you for my critical business?

Also, as someone who works for a large enterprise, if you really believe email is the way to inform them of these changes, well I’d reconsider your beliefs.

Plus, what point does BTC have to Russia? They can’t exchange it for Fiat and no one accepts it for anything of useful value. At best It’s just an extra step between them getting their Fiat currency. He could convince other nations to use BTC, but he would be better off convincing them to use the Ruble. Nation States don’t want un-sanctionable assets - they just don’t want to be victims of those sanctions.

Even if Putin did do any of that, it just proves the SECs point. The US Government does not want people transacting with sanctioned nations and individuals. They would rather make it illegal than lose the financial power they currently have. For better or worse, governments don’t want crime (or more specifically their definition of it) to be supported by their citizens. This is why the SEC (and soon, Congress too, I’m sure) won’t stop. The existence of Cryptocurrencies are antithetical to their own existences.

Ironically the Neeva AI features were the thing that made me stop using it after I’d been using it for about 3 months.

Oh well, further proof you can trust businesses to be anything except businesses if they haven’t proven themselves yet. Promises are empty until delivered.

I’m honestly surprised I’m not over 750.

By admitting that they knew these documents were classified and did nothing they have now broken the law. If they shut up, they can plead ignorance “oh I figured it was role play, why would I trust stuff on the internet, etc”.

It is never in your interest to talk to anyone in cases like these. Get a Lawyer on retainer and wait.

BNPL makes their money by charging a network fee. AFAIK AfterPay charges about 7% and this is meant to cover the debt charges from the banks and administration fees.

It still shouldn’t have been easily accessible to anyone except the instances running the SSH service.

Even though I'm a Platform Engineer these days, I hate the tooling that we have to do deal with today. Instead of having people build solutions, we all need to understand hundreds (if not thousands) of cloud/vendor-specific APIs. The actual solution itself is almost a by-product of the job of getting in run in the cloud.

Maybe don't bring back VB, but a world where we can deliver solutions quickly and effectively without spending hours debugging dependency issues between releases.

Even today tradespeople get paid $50k more per year than I do and they have far better conditions. They strike all the time and refuse to do work they aren’t paid for.

I, on the other hand, have worked multiple jobs where an expectation of 18 hour days 6-7 days a week is not out of scope for the role during periods of crunch. This brings my hourly wage based on salary down to that of someone working at McDonalds.

Who exactly is entitled?

I automated the renewal process using TF and integrated it as much as possible with other services. I then integrated it into a CI/CD pipeline. It took DAYS to do these renewals (ironically of course, $30 per year for a fixed certificate would have been cheaper than the people time but #startuplife). It became a 30 minute process. It only took me two days of interrupted time to build this solution and get it working.

Still going after two years so it’s already saved about 900% on the labour costs.

They would never have been able to sell enough to not be able to cover their deposits - that’s when regulators stepped in.

The FDIC should take on the bills and loans, and pay out the cash now. They will collect the entire balance eventually and they have the benefit of time and I imagine they’re authorised to hold assets like this long-term (or do a cash swap with the fed, they have plenty of long term bonds what’s another $100B). I have always assumed this is what the whole point of the FDIC and similar schemes in other countries. They foot the bill immediately and then spend time fixing up the mess but eventually reclaim it all back. It’s a bit like if you’re not at fault for an accident - the insurer pays you out now and then they deal with the at-fault driver and you’re not involved in that process afterwards in most cases.

According to the press release, SVB had $206B in assets and $176B in deposits. The math is simple: everyone should get their money back. There may even be some money left over for investors.

Anybody with more than $5 million in the bank should have someone dedicated to managing that money. If you don’t, then you’re not running a business properly. Startups like to skimp on important things like that and they shouldn’t. Any CFO with basic skills should be doing or arranging this depending on the size of the company. That’s literally their job.

I know it's not meant to be trustworthy as a data source, but this seems like ChatGPT is just outright lying to me?

For context, I asked the following questions: 1/ What problem did tools like flightradar24 solve and can you provide me some academic references outlining these 2/ Can you give me DOI references for those three references please

I actually can't find the articles in the listed journals at those locations either so it's not just a metadata match issue. The articles just do not seem to exist at all.

Linked my twitter post with images of the real articles along with the list that ChatGPT supplied to me.

If you are making 15% appreciation YoY, your mortgage raises are covered and then some by that increase. If you do not have the liquidity to cover those raises, then get out of the market for someone who does. What you are describing is passing all the risk of your investment onto another party to take advantage of the entire profit.

We do, in fact, understand ALL of the policy implications here. It seems like you don’t. The housing market should exist to PRIMARILY provide housing. Any effects such as you being able to cover your margin by passing on your increase to a tenant is a secondary benefit and should be curtailed to meet the primary need of the economy.

Investments should have risks to make economic sense. In Australia, property owners have mostly been buffered from those risks. Economically, the question needs to be asked as to what value investors provide to the market? The current property investor class is for all intents a purposes a vehicle designed to remove money from the pockets of poor people and put it in the pockets of upper middle class people. Most landlords take bonds to fund improvements to their houses after a fingerprint is found on the wall or the concept of “reasonable wear” is not accounted for, they pass on almost all of the costs, and when a person asks for help with a problem they get ignored indefinitely.

You would make similar money in the stock market but you are taking advantage of broken system that enriches people already in the system. Mortgages give access to houses because they are necessary. People now take mortgages and use them as a margin loan to fund speculation and investments.

The policy answer is to stop allowing investors to access all of the benefits that have not been designed for them. Fixing the John Howard era middle class welfare rorts would begin to fix the problems.