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Factually incorrect... Before Mega when has was a Ponzi scheme operator and self-professed super-hacker he posted pictures all the time of his trips around the world in super-yacht, private jets and expensive cars. Including the US.

OVH does mostly dedicated server so they may find it economical to have slightly more operations staff. The job count also includes the US HQ so sales/management type positions.

Two people around the clock with no provision for vacation or absence is a minimum of 10 people (if you keep all shifts 40h and below.) Add a couple for redundancy, some sort of manager, cleaning staff and a surge of day time staff and you're at 20. You can probably use a few more people, some tradespersons, and security (this is near DC, they have to be thinking about Gov work) and pretty soon 54 is not too crazy.

OVH provides lots of leased servers so you need larger staff than a pure colo. They're also calling this US HQ so add some sales, support and operations staff that would/will be remote at the second US datacenter.

This is why things like mandatory escrow and encryption backdoors are an horrible idea. However much the NSA would like us to use them.

And Hangouts is only partially interoperable with XMPP.

When the main pain point is money, counter offers can be great. When the problem is the job itself or the environment, accepting counter is probably a bad play (except maybe a lateral move in the org, if large enough.)

That's my experience anyway.

If you're going to be reporting on his beat, you have to be at least somewhat fluent.

That's not how Canada works. We're way to the left of the US. Furthermore, that's outside the power of the provincial government to do.

One of the main service provided to the village in the article is a ferry with a subsidized rate since it's on an island. Without ferry, there's not going to be a village.

Better are those winged levers you can close with your arm or elbow. Most of the staff bathrooms in the hospital I worked in had those along with proper antibacterial soap. Not the Triclosan kind, the high alcohol content kind that's actually effective in a 15 seconds application.

The basic Ivory is essentially only soap. The sunlight bar soap is sold for laundry but it's basically a pure soap made from vegetable fat (that was the big innovation, it wasn't made with tallow rather palm oil.)

Careful... They did release scented ivory and I accidentally bought some, worse still it was lavender and packaging was only barely different.

Hard water causes that, even (can be worse actually) if it's softened.

Parallel reconstruction is not so easy when the case is already at trial as you can bet the defendant will not be doing whatever it is law enforcement need to now find evidence of. Time machines are still not available.

A lot of pitons, especially softer ones, will remain in place. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes because they couldn't be pulled out. But pitons are not really used much anymore. Very, very niche.

Bolts (expansion or glue-ins) are heavily used for protection but the use is controversial in places. They are basically always left in permanently. Push here as been to limit use to areas where there's no other options and to place them carefully to minimize impact. There's a push to only use high-quality stainless (or Titanium for areas exposed to salt) for longest possible life.

The rest of the protections used, nuts, hexes, cams, ice screws, snow pickets, and some exotic devices are usually meant to be removed after use and minimize impact on rock. Although if someone needs to bail in a hurry, leaving expensive gear behind is normal.

Nuts and hexes are basically blocks of aluminium on a wire or webbing sling. Nuts being smaller solid chunks and hexes being larger and hollow. They have tapered shapes (sometime complex, curved, or even designed for a camming action) and you try to wedge them in place. They can be very secure in the right placement. After a good fall on one, it sometimes happen that it cannot be dislodged and it stays fixed for a few months or years.

Cams are mechanical devices designed to grip both sides of a crack and expand outward when loaded. They have two spiral shaped lobes to accomplish this. Very strong when well placed and they have a range of sizes to fit different cracks from tiny body weight only cams around for cracks of 1/4" or so to monsters that fit in cracks of 6" or more.

Ice screws are hollow threaded tubes, the article here does a good job showing how they function.

Snow pickets are T-shaped beams, about 2 feet in length or more that can be driven into hard snow or buried in a trench. Not that strong but workable.

There's a lot of special purpose "protection" that is usually barely able to hold body weight that gets used for aid climbing (when you use the gear to make progress) in situations where nothing else will work. Often to link sections (called pitches) of unaided climbing (called "free" climbing). Free climbing still uses protection in most case, unroped "free-solo" being the exception.

At some point, these superhosts provide hotel services in a distributed, piecemeal way.

There's going to be a watershed moment where a "host" offering 10-20+ properties is going to get the hammer of the law on them for running an unlicensed hotel and quite probably for some form of tax fraud as well (hotels often have many extra taxes.)

That's cool but that's a fixed 10 cents, so basically Discover is forwarding to you some of the money they receive for handling the debit in the first place.

I have yet to see a debit card do a 1% cash back, which is really common in credit. Here in Canada, the debit charge (handled via the interbank Interac "sort of coop") are really low, 6 cents per transactions is about par. There's nowhere to tack on even a 10 cents cash back.

Which came first? This TV show format or the Listicle?

Either of which is beyond annoying.

Once in a while, I'll seek out a few Listicles with ad blocking off to see just what the state of the art of agressively deceptive advertisements is.

7. Millenials seem to flock to urban areas where cars are less required

Usefulness of a motorcycle has an all-season vehicle is very climate dependent. I know HN biases to the bay area where it might be possible. Out here, we get 14-18 feet of snow in an average winter. That motorbike is going to get you in the ditch for half the year. Especially when "plowed" after a big dump can mean single lane (for both directions) with a couple inches of slush or powder.

Heh, I'm 34 and I still don't have a drivers' license. I'm working on getting one but only because I moved out to a semi-rural area to follow my partner's faculty job.

Debit cards, which are huge outside the US, never have reward programs (that I've seen anyway.) Visa does not charge different fees for different product types for them.

That alone does not get you 200k clients.

To a large extent, humans took the place of wolves (and other predators) in North America.

You also need to retain a significant set of slides the classifier wasn't trained with so you can verify that it does work for data outside the training set.

I'm sure it'd be very awkward over at Norad when half the duty staff has to round up the other half as PoWs...

Largely inconsequential.

The article is not very clear. The money that is not accounted for is $62.4B. The reason that money is unaccounted for is because of trillions of dollars of accounting adjustments in budgets.

That trillion dollars figure is just summing up the magnitude of all accounting adjustments throughout all the records of the DoD. The moral equivalent of:

    SELECT SUM(ABS(trans_amount)) FROM transactions WHERE trans_type = 'Adjustments';

In an imaginary accounting DB. The $62.4B figure was the same thing minus the "ABS()"...

My take is that the shell script does not have any unspoken assumption or magic that is performed by the tool.

It all has to be in the script building up strictly from well-understood and long stable basic bricks (and the few places where you don't it's even worse with devops tools.)

Any issue, any question can be answered by reading the damn shell script and you're never dependent on a cookbook/recipe/playbook/component that you got off of some github repo that you need 5% of to do X.

Sort of... When trading that large a fraction of the whole pool of BTC, the trade itself would drastically alter the value of a BTC. To the point that I'd be surprised if someone could openly acquire that large number of BTCs before being priced out of the market.

The block chain makes it worse because everyone can see the progress of the buyer and there's no market maker with anywhere near this level of liquidity.

Is there no provision at all for time off to vote? In Canada, an elector must have 3 consecutive hours to vote and if that means taking an hour or two off work, the employer must provide that paid time off or face a 2000$ fine or 3 months imprisonment.