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title was changed to: US Urges Fix for Widely Used Software After Critical Alerts ...weird

Dallas metro here. I couldn't receive SMS based OTP from a bank for hours yesterday.

I was unable to receive SMS based OTP from my bank yesterday for a couple of hours... Wonder if it's related. Anyone else?

Ok I'll bite... What am I looking at?

Suppose you're a young 20 something with maybe $300 to your name. Daddy gets struck by farming equipment and dies. Now you have two choices:

1. Continue operations of the family farm, assuming you can come up with the money to cover taxes.

2. Sell the farm to Big Farm, Inc., get a $5M check and forget about it, regardless of the consequences that means to your customers.

like which?

Or, a bill for costs after you lose.

Stay away, you may end up owing money. From the Retainer Agreement:

> XVI. FIRM DOES NOT GUARANTEE RESULT

> I understand that there is always a risk to litigation. If I were to lose a case, under some circumstances, I may have to pay costs and/or attorney fees to the prevailing party. I acknowledge that FIRM has made no guarantee regarding the successful termination of my case and all expressions about the relative chances of success are matters of opinion only.

> When I check in with folks still there, they mainly talk about how the time difference and distance has done nothing but add churn to the entire process

I don't buy that. Saudi Arabia and the United States, via Saudi Aramco, have figured out a solution to that long ago. Business "flows" unimpededly between the two for decades.

> wages for new hires in construction, manufacturing, food and other blue-collar sectors appear to be ebbing too, according to an analysis of millions of jobs posted on ZipRecruiter.com. Job seekers report seeing roles that once offered salaries between $175,000 and $200,000 a year ago now being advertised for tens of thousands of dollars less

You mean, I can quit software engineering and install flooring for $150,000/year!? Count me in

Why even have an iOS app in the first place over a simple web app? Is there any additional functionality that the iOS app can offer over web?