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messickon Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan

9 miles of infrastructure is getting built right this second under the current review process.

https://www.metro.net/projects/westside/

messickon Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan

There is an actual big boy tunnel getting built on The Westside right this second. No waiting on Musk's bullshit required.

messickon Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract

Longer than a decade. I saw the AR-15s in 2006-ish. They also made a big deal that they are allowed to seize diesel fuel from all the surrounding gas stations in a real power emergency.

I just think it’s more marketing campaign on their part, honestly.

messickon Canada hits back at 'punitive' U.S. tariffs in 'turning point' in relations

It was a sarcastic reference to Trump’s “shithole countries” remarks about African nations last year.

messickon $36k Google App Engine RCE

"X World" has gone he way of "begs the question", "Literally vs. Figuratively", "One bad apple..", etc. Popular usage has destroyed the original meaning, and it's no use trying to get people on board with what those phrases actually mean.

messickon Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

I'd be surprised if you could find a "Best TV Show of all Time" list that doesn't include The Wire in the top 5. Most them of them have it #1 or #2 depending on how the ranker feels about The Sopranos.

messickon Peter Thiel submits bid for Gawker

> I'm surprised you didn't notice it.

Sorry, they were probably too busy reading about The Pentagon Papers, The Watergate Burglary, Iran/Contra, Monica Lewinsky, WMDs, etc. to notice that The Post had taken a new interest in reporting on The Whitehouse.

messickon Big Tech Is Going After Health Care

This dude posted up thread that Crohn’s can be cured by a 2 week water fast, so I don’t think he’s on the same page as you.

messickon Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent is not

Very bad.

messickon Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers

The attacks aren't ad hominem if they are "you are an abhorrent human being for considering pedophilia a 'different viewpoint'". The attack is directly against you for your terrible views. Ad hominem would be: "Your views on Net Neutrally are wrong because you and your party support child rapists".

messickon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Apple, Inc. | Sr. Frontend Engineer, iTunes Engineering | Cupertino, CA, USA | Full-time | ONSITE, VISA

Join iTunes Digital Supply Chain to come work on internal and external facing web-sites. We work in a team oriented manner with an eye toward site usability and code re-use. The ideal candidate will have great communication skills and come with a passion for iterating on products.

Send resumes to: dsce-job-apply@group.apple.com

https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#&ss=86380756&t=0&so=&lo=0*...

messickon If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

Huh, never knew. Ok it’s fixed.

messickon If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

lol

If you are "someone who has only ever worked on IT-focused Java development" that apparently we don't want at Apple, my email is in my profile.

messickon What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity?

The brother turning him in is how the FBI found Ted. The linguistics stuff was the evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

messickon Where Are the Brave Military Voices Against the Forever War?

Tulsi "Maybe Assad is Actually Good" Gabbard isn't going to do too well.

messickon Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers

Are you sure you didn't dig to find those examples? There are many buildings on SC with the regular Apple sign right on the street. To say nothing of the dozens of signs on Bubb, De Anza, Mariani, Valley Green, Bandley, etc., etc.

No reasonable person could drive around Cupertino for more than 10 minutes without noticing the large number of Apple buildings.

messickon The security content of iOS 10.3.3

I can assure you, radars have ∞ more chance of getting something changed verses just compaining about it on a website.

File the radars.

messickon How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide

>>Other techniques included looking at the user’s credit card information and whether that card was tied directly to an institution like a police credit union.

>I couldn't find a good source, but it doesn't seem like that's something a CC merchant would have access to. Do they really get to see that?

First 6 digits of any CC# is the Issuer/Bank Identification Number (BIN/IIN), and anyone can get access to that information.

Here is an online search tool: https://www.bincodes.com

messickon Tesla Tanks After Goldman Downgrades to Sell

Based on how deep you are into the Flavor-aid, I'm going to say that Jim Jones is the best comparison to your hero.

messickon Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

The idiom you are quoting is "one bad apple spoils the barrel/bunch", which means literally the opposite of what you think it means.

messickon Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20

Tesla's sales are a rounding error for Toyota. Even if Tesla somehow delieved 100% off their Model 3 preorders in 2017, that would be less than 5% of the number of cars sold by Toyota.

messickon Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000

The Intel CEO announced the factory from the Oval Office this morning. This went way beyond some tweets.

messickon FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees

"Shrink the State" is code for "I want to pay less taxes". And with less taxes, things like SSI and Medicare can't exist.

messickon Billionaire Peter Thiel makes fortune after sweetheart deal with [NZ] government

I think Peter can be kind of an asshole in some areas, but for all his faults, he isn't even in the same asshole universe as Milo.

messickon USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit

When exactly was the Democratic Party "antiwar"?

messickon HSBC CEO Says Bankers Generating 20% of London Revenue May Move

"why does everything cause cancer lol?"

Because with 150k signatures, you can get any weird ass proposition you want for a state-wide vote. And in 1986, voters decided that we needed to be warned about every little thing that might cause cancer.

Prop 65 has nothing to do with the CA gov. It's the voting public that made it happen.

messickon Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

If the OP is in his/her mid 20's, then "during their entire lifetime".

Not to be all "kids these days" about it, but millions of people read about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire in their World History class, instead of living through it.

Just last week on HN I saw a comment to the effect of "I trust China over the US when it comes to political protest". That's the kind of thing people say when Tiananmen Square happened before they were born.

messickon Snapchat has changed Venice, Los Angeles, and it isn't changing back

Only tourists this area "Venice Beach".

messickon Amazon to Create 100,000 New Jobs in U.S. In Next 18 Months

They are just trying to get ahead of Trump taking credit for the new jobs, like he has done repeatedly since he was elected.

Edit: Haha, never mind, looks like the Trump Administration is already taking credit:

"The announcement was made after the president-elect met with heads of several other tech companies and urge them to keep their jobs and production inside the United States," Sean Spicer, the incoming press secretary, said on a call with media outlets Thursday. "The president-elect was pleased to have played a role in that decision by Amazon."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/amazon-to...