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I doubt that, but sounds like a decent short story idea for /r/writingprompts

> Provided they didn't take insider knowledge and intellectual property with them, of course.

And that is exactly what Apple's legal filing claims...

Why do you keep submitting essentially the same exact thing?

The fires were fought by the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion [1], acting as on-call firefighters... they "jumped" on many of the fires to get there quickly. I read several personal stories of individual paratroopers, and their courage was impressive!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555th_Parachute_Infantry_Batta...

I've faced similar scams with drivers. Sometimes they'll call and encourage me to cancel, saying all sorts of things but commonly "Where you going? Oh, I'm not going in that direction", etc. But then they don't cancel the ride and wait for me to do it. I do wonder if they get the cancellation fees.

Not sure if the mods will build it (I'd say unlikely -- nothing has changed in the decade I've been here) but in the meantime, you could use a CSS browser plugin and edit the CSS yourself

> and the searchable codebase

Do you mean that you'd search Google's entire codebase monorepo for code examples, or that there was a better, searchable code snippet tool internally?

I don't drive a lot (only a couple dozen kilometers a week), but I live in a sunny area. I'd be happy if my car/truck/atv outside could just charge for "free" outside (big news to me, perhaps not to most) and never have to buy petrol again.

I was not interested in the Cybertruck, and I find it relatively ugly and many of the features don't apply to me. However, a solar-charging option is BIG news to me. I'm surprised this was not mentioned on-stage.

This is essentially just a co-located box, that you connect to your virtual network over a VPN/interconnect. Why is it not inside the virtual network? Why is the pricing hidden behind a sales person? That seems like the first cloud instance to have hidden pricing...

I believe it's still technically a dupe. In the past, the mods here decided to merge comments on articles reporting the same event.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626837

It's still a reason not to use their products, if you know the staff cares more about the promo than the product. Why would I want to use something (or build a business on something) that would disappear soon thereafter.

The demo video answered my questions, is short and the tech is impressive. Not entirely sure of the business model though. The non-rigid tracking might be more useful than the projection -- perhaps a Defense application?

Pertinent data points from the article:

> $4 billion, mostly cash

> 17 million monthly active users

> 350 employees

> profitable on a net income basis, 2018

> raised $49 million from investors

Is there a good book on Unix history? Something accessible like "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet"?

Same, I've been avoiding domains that I know will just show me an unacceptable banner (on mobile) or paywall (desktop). It's funny that I've trained myself to avoid them. I wouldn't really mind them being blocked in these lists, as long as I can optionally disable/enable the domains, or whitelist them if I want (there are some news websites I've paid for)

> skip employing doctors at all in favor of nurse practitioners

Hold up. I hope you're not being negative on hiring NPs. As someone who is in favor of NPs (and knows many NPs), they provide excellent primary care and hiring them can help bring down the overall cost of healthcare. I say we should teach and hire MORE NPs to provide cheaper primary and preventative care, not blame clinics for hiring them.

> All the students I met with were surprisingly well informed about both events in the US and American history.

This is surprising to me. I imagine they read some news/propaganda about the events, rather than reading the NYTimes, WAPO, or BBC news directly. Can you comment on that?

> As a former naval nuclear officer

Did you have to get special approval?

> Several years out, I no longer trust Google - not because I trust my former (immediate) coworkers less, but because the direction

It makes me uncomfortable that the data is always there, and the direction of the business just needs to change. Perhaps they're not being profitable enough for wall street? And on a time scale of 10 more years, I'm sure there will be a number of "incidents" in which teams were given approval to use the data in unsavory ways.

> many teams > a shared credit card

Sharing CCs across teams is a business antipattern. You should use expense reporting, or switch to invoicing.

Regardless, when I was a consultant we had success with the email admins tracking the signup and/or billing emails, which arrived at the account numbers.

I've only found this page [1] which donates to the Mozilla org without specifying which project you care deeply about. Ideally there would be sliders, like on Humble Bundle for percentages.

[1] https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

> Why would anyone shoot an intruder on commercial premises?

The article is about government property (a courthouse) not commercial property.

Colin Percival (creator of Tarsnap) runs FreeBSD on AWS (discussed here on HN several times). More info:

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-12-26-the-many-ways-to...

> They are a real time laboratory for testing dynamics mathematics.

I wouldn't say "testing", but perhaps "observing"?

This looks like a viable alternative to docker, at least for BSD. Any opinions on that statement?

> The average price, according to a 2013 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report, is about 4 cents per dollar, which means a $200 credit card balance goes for $8 on the secondary market.

Wow, that is cheap. Is there a way to buy your own debt?

These kinds of deals are enterprise-level, in meeting rooms, with sales people. They don't happen on the public web. So your challenge isn't plausible and you take no risk here

Great news! I'll have to check that out, thanks!

There's a beautiful map store in London that I visited. If I recall, everything in there are contemporary "originals" -- meaning printed in that year, no re-printing. So a 1973 map of the Underground was from 1973. They also had very old, beautiful maps. I wanted them all!

After 20 minutes, I began to realize my wife was casually leafing through dozens of poster-size maps with £30,000 price stickers on them. My jaw nearly dropped. Her hands held "art" that they valued at close to £500,000++. I also realized I couldn't afford the map I wanted and left empty-handed