somedangedname

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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I dunno, I found season three of Barry to be pretty heavy going.

It was still very good TV but it felt like a completely different vibe than the first two seasons.

Comment · 3 years ago
>...a cabin with a toilet seat made of wood on top of a big hole.

In Australian slang this is called a 'long drop' after a particular style of judicial hanging.

And yes, there are spiders.

Comment · 3 years ago
> R.V. Jones' Most Secret War

Added to my reading list.

Have you read Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks? It's quite good.

Comment · 3 years ago
I didn't enjoy my experience working with them.

2 month wait for Apple enterprise verification for the app store.

Then another 2 months because the client had signed up for the wrong sort of enterprise program.

Tried contacting support, no dice. Tried [email protected] and got some useless functionary.

Terrible time all round.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
FYI I'm pretty sure large losses claimed in initial filings are a standard way of demonstrating to the court that a matter is weighty enough to occupy the court's time.

Large claims also have a role in bringing attention to the plaintiff's complaints.

The $27B figure doesn't dictate how much money could eventually be awarded or - indeed - whether the suit will be successful at all.

Other posters arguing for tort reform based off've this headline should have another think.

Comment · 4 years ago
My favourite unsubstantiated theory about FTX is that its fraud was a solution for Tether's liquidity and banking woes.

Twitter user Bitfinexed has speculated that Alameda Research's losing trades have counterparties that are associated with Tether and that the trades acted as a means of funnelling money into the struggling stablecoin.

He further alleges that Tether have been heavily minting coins to wash trade and inflate crypto asset prices. The liquidity from FTX would have been used to cover withdrawals by Tether customers since the start of the bear market.

I'm not qualified to assess the veracity of these claims but Bitfinexed has called a number of scams and collapses in cryptology before they have come to pass.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Yep. I'm from a region that grew sugarcane historically but is moving to tree crops like nuts.

Local 'big name' family is voracious in their consumption of government grants. They're not struggling by any means but they've got application writing down to a fine science.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Sure, you'll get a response after emailing [email protected]. But there's no guarantee that the customer service peep assigned to you will do anything to help.

I tried this approach when a client was having issues enrolling in Apple Enterprise to distribute an app in-house. Didn't work, took four months until we could release our app.

Completely killed any esteem I had for Apple.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The linked video is a great example of 'show, don't tell'.
Comment · 5 years ago
Cosmic Sin? Even in the trailer you could tell he didn't want to be in that :D

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