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ThermiteBeGiants, 3 months ago to random

Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:

baldur, 1 month ago to random

One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

FluentInFinance, 5 months ago to random

The wealthy avoid taxes using the “Buy-Borrow-Die” strategy:

Step 1: Buy assets and hold (to avoid capital gains taxes from selling)

Step 2: Borrow money from Banks for living expenses using assets as collateral, at low interest rates (while assets appreciate)

Step 3: Interest paid on borrowed money is a tax write off

Step 4: Wait and repeat. The long-term gains on assets outweigh the short-term cost of borrowing money

Step 5: Pass assets to kids, tax-free (with stepped-up basis) and repeat

JamesGleick, 2 months ago to random

A state rep got caught committing securities fraud. A grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Years passed. The defendant was elected attorney general. Years more passed.

Now he has agreed to accept punishment. He must pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, take legal ethics classes and perform 100 hours of community service.

And he remains attorney general.

Given these impossible facts—what state are we in?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-texas-plea-deal-securities-fraud.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.8BHi.hUSHim_e5rvK&smid=url-share

clive, 16 days ago to random

Whoa

campuscodi, 16 days ago to random

Microsoft not saying a peep about the Recall privacy scandal is a huge tell of how much the company is focused on security

We should have had a statement by now that Recall is either re-engineered or removed

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Trans people are "forever patients"?

So is literally everyone!

Fuck off.

skykiss, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

Update: Florida was one of four states with a lifetime ban, the others being Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia. On November 6, 2018, 65% of Florida voters approved Amendment 4, which automatically restores the voting rights of people convicted of a felony—except murder or sexual offenses—after the completion of their sentences.

#election

isotopp, 11 days ago to random German

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/wissing-seilbahnen-100.html

Seilbahnen, Busse auf Stelzen, Flugtaxis und andere Technikfantasien dienen dazu, das Verkehrsproblem in Städten zu "lösen", ohne den Verursacher, den motorisierten Individualverkehr, anzugehen oder ihm Platz weg zu nehmen.

15 qm Platz pro stehendem Auto, plus 4m x Abstand halber Tacho beim Fahrenden Auto, besetzt mit im Schnitt 1.3 Personen sind in dicht besiedelten Gebieten nicht haltbar.

dangillmor, 16 days ago to random

Just a reminder that if New York law enforcement had been doing its job decades ago -- among countless infuriating what-ifs -- the world would have been spared his malign presence in the past decade.

davidzipper, 4 months ago to random

Wow. Carmakers are going to hate this, but I think it's great:

A new California bill would require all new cars to contain speed governors that prevent them from going 10 mph+ over the speed limit.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/car-speed-governors-bill-18624126.php

yacc143, 5 months ago to random

So Broadcom, the new VMware owner in less than a quarter changes the licence model to subscription only, and kicks out most service and sales partner, informing them on the quick that their contracts will be terminated and not renewed. Or perhaps, nobody exactly knows.

That literally screams build your business on closed source products, doesn't it?

They call the #GPL anti business , but somehow the mainstream is quite okay to overlook unacceptable behaviour from the big players?

heidilifeldman, 16 days ago to random

He’s going to become more and more dangerous. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/this-is-the-final-battle-trump-posts-incredibly-dark-video-pledging-to-liberate-america-from-these-villains-once-and-for-all/

appleinsider, 9 days ago to random

After a terms of service update that infuriated artists, and an initial statement that poured gasoline on the fire, Adobe has made a clear statement about its new use terms.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/07/adobe-has-clarified-controversial-shrinkwrap-license-terms-but-the-damage-may-have-already-been-done?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

ernie, 27 days ago to random

A few years ago, a Reddit user asked for help in finding a “BOTTOM trackball,” which is an anecdote perfect for explaining how completely the optical mouse defeated the mechanical one.

Here’s how it happened: https://tedium.co/2024/05/19/optical-mouse-history-evolution/

new @tedium

selzero, 3 months ago to random

It's Friday night, no school tomorrow so your parents don't care what time you sleep. They are not home and Pizza delivery just arrived. You filled your fridge with Dr Pepper, have Ghostbusters on VHS, and Earthbound on SNES.

It doesn't matter that you are 46 years old and it's 2024, what is stopping you living this feeling...

dangillmor, 11 days ago to random

SF Chronicle online subscription is now close to $240 a year -- while the news content is shrinking amid weaker and weaker reporting.

yacc143, 1 year ago to random

That's what you get when you run public transit as a business.

It's a public utility, thus it shouldn't be strictly run by bean counters. Things like how much of the population does not need a private car or can get away with car sharing should be also important criteria.

Remote work is straining public transit — and many agencies are stuck https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/public-transit-office-workers-00094999
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raymondpert, 5 months ago to cryptocurrency

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jeffjarvis, 16 days ago to random

Food writer weighs in.

ernie, 16 days ago to random

I really don't get how people will put so much energy into removing ads on products willingly knowing that by doing so they're hurting small creators.

Not even on things like aggressive ad tracking. Like, podcasts.

yacc143, 9 days ago to random

🤷 5 years is the legal minimum standard that applies from next year in the EU for software support.

7 years for replacement parts availability.

Surprise, surprise, more and more mobiles are offered with, drum roll 5 years of software support.

This is about as surprising as even manufacturers with fruity logos not offering a proprietary charging connector for the UK market, when the EU regulation says it's USB-C PD.
Totally took the Tories surprised, I know.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-admitted-defeat-to-android-phones-software-updates-for-iphones/

jeffjarvis, 9 days ago to random

News organizations complain about AI and internet companies doing to them what they do to sources constantly. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLwYbdMX/

kevincollier, 8 days ago to random

There's really no possible better evidence to prove that Russian ransomware actors don't fear hitting any western target at all. They are completely undeterred.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/07/london-hospitals-cancel-cancer-surgeries-after-cyber-attack