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Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and she didn’t steal any money for personal gain. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years.

Based on what we know so far about Caroline’s misuse (abuse) of funds and possible mass market manipulation all of which has resulted in billions of dollars in investor losses. 10 years in this case seems light, no?

I have a 6 and 4 yr old. We've had a strict no screen during the school week rule. They can watch on weekends, holidays, and sick days. There's a zero screen policy in public, with the exception of airplanes and long road trips.

My kids are really well behave in restaurant and never ask for screens (I'm not even totally sure they would think of it). The trick for us is regularly flowing food, allowing them to bring bring a small toy, coloring utensils, and honestly just engage with them. That could be through visual and word games or just talking to them and asking the right questions. It's hard work, not every meal out is perfect, and sometimes it feel like it would just be easier to give them the phone. But I'm happy that we've taken this stance. I can't tell you how many times a restaurant owner or a nearby table has said how well behaved our kids are.

The mirror is injecting their own ads. My guess is it was just a malicious ad forcing the redirect. It could still happen, but it doesn’t appear to be the main intention of the mirror site.

Thank you! One of the items on my todo list today was to find a glue suitable to attach plastic to glass. I’ve tried 4 different glues and non have held. Here’s hoping!

Twirp (by TwitchTV) is a good gRPC alternative. It’s significantly lighter and easier to use.

That doesn’t surprise me. It’s a very child focused park and I’m guessing they want to control the experience and environment as best they can. A bunch of high schoolers running around might change the dynamic.

That’s a wonderful story!

My 3 and 6 year old love lego kits. Historically I found myself sitting with them and helping when they got stuck or directing them when I saw they made a mistake. More recently I decided to pick up my own kit and build along side them. I’m currently working on the Saturn V rocket. It’s been a lot more fun for me and a way to bond with my kids.

How was Live Nation able to get as big as they did prior to TicketMaster acquiring them?

They also recovered money by clawing back returns that investors made in the years leading up to the scandal finale.

Maybe less relevant now that a lot of companies are still remote. In the past when a company cuts back on office perks, such as snacks, it’s often a leading indicator of financial issues and possible looming cuts.

I saw them in 1999 at Nassau Coliseum. Still to this day one of the best and most energetic shows I’ve ever been to.

This about sun up the evening: “groups of teenage boys took their own kind of mass action, rushing the barriers between the bleacher seats and the coliseum floor to overwhelm the outnumbered security guards. Half a dozen mosh pits held colliding bodies riding surges of adrenaline and testosterone during the set.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/07/arts/rock-review-rock-reb...

If you’re interested in Tom Morello’s version of how it all started for him, I recommend this nearly 2 hr show hosted by Tom. He tells stories of his upbringing and beliefs and plays a couple of songs for a live audience.

https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B08DVCMY4Y&source_code=ASSOR...

Burn Rate - written by Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos. It’s part startup story part mental health story. It’s very well written and goes into deep detail about his struggle with bi-polar disorder.

Project Hail Mary, The Martian, and Artemis - science fiction books by Andy Weir. All very different and very technical. I like Project Hail Mary the most. One of the best sci-fi books I’ve ever read.

Turn the Ship Around, by David Marquet. It’s a story about turning followers into leaders from the perspective of a military submarine captain. I’ve read dozens of management and leadership book over the years, but this one really resonated with me.

In their defense, board seats are not a full time job. The commitment could be as little as a few hours a month or quarter. “Partner” could also mean quite a few things, such as a partner at a venture firm for example. Which also may not be a full time job.

The difference here is that as an employee you commit to provide 40 hours of service to your employer. From the stories I’ve heard of these double jobs, this isn’t a weekend job working at the local coffee shop for an extra few bucks which doesn’t impact your primary responsibilities. Instead it’s a professional job with overlapping hours. Which means an employer isn’t getting what they paid for and these people are deceiving them.

Would you consider a middle ground for movie watching? I understand you don’t want to hook up your LG to the internet, but would you considering booking up a fire stick, Roku, Apple TV, etc device for the purpose of streaming movies?

You’d avoid the forced upgrades on your LG and suffer a minor inconvenience of streaming from another device which does have internet access. I don’t know what the ad’s situation is on those devices, but I’m sure with some research you could find a streaming device that hopefully meets your requirements.

Another option is cast all the videos from a tablet or computer to the TV.

I’ve been using KnockKnock, RansomWhere?, BlockBlock, and OverSight for many years. They are great pieces of software that are simple to use and do what’s advertised. The biggest issue I’ve had is memory consumption issues with OverSight.

This advice should also translate to your resume/LinkedIn. If you list a piece of technology on your resume you should know that it’s fair game for people to ask question about it during interviews and for your resume to match on those keywords.

I see so many resumes with massive lists of technology exposure. I assume the intention is to demonstrate the breadth of experience. But if you don’t want to work in that language or framework you used 10 years ago, take it off. Only list the stuff that is relevant and that you’re willing to work with.

The technical summary on my resume is just that, a summary, not a comprehensive list. It’s 1/3 of the tech I’ve actually used throughout my career because I’m not interested in a job doing Flash or Visual Basic and I don’t want to receive anymore recruiting inquires about Magento development because I used it briefly a decade ago.

Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space (2021)

A 5 part Netflix docuseries detailing the background and story of the Inspiration4 mission. I thought it was literally inspirational.

The Imagineering Story (2019)

A Disney docuseries focused on Walt Disney Imagineering and the history and creation of the Disney theme parks and attractions around the world. After watching this I had a whole new respect for Disney.

These are fair points and I believe there are similar laws in the US.

I’m not familiar with the money laundering laws. But do they state that you can’t buy something anonymously and without an audit trail? Because spending legally obtained cash seems anonymous to me. Is anonymizing your digital spend with legally obtained capital that different?

By that logic why haven’t the developers of Metasploit also been arrested? It’s hard to argue that the behavior of the software isn’t/couldn’t be used for nefarious purposes and to commit crimes.

Anonymizing spending on it’s own is not a crime. Clearly the line is crossed if the developer is promoting the use of the software for illegal purposes. I’m only vaguely familiar with Tornado cash, was that the case? If not, how do we as a society/community draw the line on determining a developers intentions?

I wasn’t trying to get out jury duty, but knowing my juror rights had me excused.

When the lawyers went around the room asking questions, one of the questions was something along the lines of “will you uphold the law as the judge describes it”. 40 odd people leading up to me all said yes, and then I said “maybe”.

I was asked to step outside to discuss my answer. I pretty much said “I know my rights as a juror and if a law is unjust it’s my duty to say so”. They said I could go home after that.

I'm getting 500's on 50% of my searches for the past 2-3 min from New York.

Take a look at Twirp (https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp) open sourced by TwitchTv. It's a lot lighter weight than gRPC. It does use Protobufs but addresses some of the concerns you mentioned, such as being able to test with JSON payloads, works over HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2, good client libraries, and doesn't require a proxy.

They address your concerns in more detail in the Twirp release announcement (2018) - https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2018/01/16/twirp-a-sweet-new-rpc-f...

I was using GoDaddy through Vivaldi yesterday without any issue. I guess this explains why, thanks.

Lightyear was a letdown. My kids enjoyed it but I thought it could have been much better. I expected to see Buzz as at this exciting space ranger, but that wasn't what the movie was about. If I was Andy from Toy Story there would be no way I wanted a Buzz toy after seeing that movie.

There's https://layoffs.fyi which is keeping tally

I switched to NeoVim and then back to Vim a few years ago. I ran into some bug that prevented my setup from working correctly that forced me back. Vim has been working fine for me and I haven’t found the motivation or a reason to try and switch again.

I recently purchased a Samsung TV that I hooked up to the internet. When I turned on the TV I was prompted to agree to their TOS. When I tried to agree to the terms it just kept erroring. I went away for a bit assuming it was Samsung network issue. It took me another hour once I returned to realize that my network was blocking their tracking domains. I had to connect the TV to my phone to accept the terms and bypass my blockers. The point is, you couldn’t even use this smart tv without first connecting to the web and accepting their terms.

I also haven’t really loved the Samsung TV. The UI is not great and it often forces me into their undeletable live streaming TV app.

I also recently purchased an LG tv, and I love it. The UI is great, there’s no ads, or intrusive apps. I’ll likely only buy LG tvs moving forward.

This could have been written about me. I remember going to a friends house one night and seeing FateX for the first time. We spent a night mass mailing people and causing general chaos online. I went home and got my hands on Hellraiser, AO Korn, Pepsi, Havok, MIB, and a slew of other progz which I cant remember their names.

One day I asked my dad how they were made and he said he had some vague idea. So he took me to CompUSA and we left with a Learn Visual Basic in 24 hours book and Visual Basic software box. I went off and started writing my own programs and hanging out in various AOL related programming chat rooms. I made IRL friends from people that were part of that scene and that I met in those chat rooms. I have very fond memories of the internet back then.

I was 13 at the time I started coding AOL progz and went on to have a career in software development because of it.