the_hangman

Afaik many of the people who were on board to help start gem.coop have stepped back after the recent controversies with Andre Arko, at this point I don’t think it will ever be anything more than a ruby gems mirror

Genuine question: how do you take something which you have already been paying for?

They removed other maintainers access to their AWS account, and one of them had allegedly taken a screenshot of the root password from a password manager and logged in a few hours later and changed the root password to lock the legal owners out. Most of the community has turned on the maintainer who did that, it was extremely childish behaviour.

It's been a while but if memory serves me correctly the controversy at that time was actually about him unilaterally deciding that people at basecamp shouldn't be talking about politics in off-topic slack channels after people started trying to organize support for something he didn't agree with. IIRC something like 1/3 of the company quit at that time

Wow, this is utter shit. There is literally nothing here.

No wonder he was going 70+ days without being paid.

I thought you were just being petty until I tried to read it. There is so just much context switching without any clues at all to the reader, it is really jarring.

A good friend of mine recently was able to purchase a home in the Bay Area (we're in our late 20's). It has been absolutely fascinating the last few months watching his views towards housing supply do a complete 180 from "We need to build more housing" to "If they can't afford it maybe living here isn't for them".

Correct. But none of those entities are controlling transportation infrastructure in the United States. They're manufacturing vehicles or parts necessary for those vehicles, or controlling the air traffic on a completely separate continent.

The law's intent (not saying that I agree with it) is to ensure that the air transit infrastructure in the United States is controlled by U.S. citizens, not that every piece of transportation equipment worldwide is manufactured and controlled by the U.S.

I'm not sure I follow. I just sat here with my 6S trying various ways of holding it for a good 10 minutes, and I can't figure out for the life of me what you're talking about when you say that you have to hold it lower to double tap the home button than you do to firmly press it. If anything, I find the exact opposite to be true: I need to support the bottom of the phone less when I am simply double-tapping on the home button, while I need to have more support towards the bottom of the phone if I want to firmly press it.

This seems to make sense, intuitively, as well: I'm applying way more pressure to the bottom of the phone with a firm press of the home button than I do when I lightly tap it, even if I have to tap it twice.

What? Who paid for Windows 10? I thought Windows 10 is supposed to be free?

It just keeps getting better (or worse, depending on if you invested with him)...

In addition to failing to settle a huge short position, he managed to turn $1.12 million into $58,500 in 28 days.

> Contrary to SHKRELI' s representations to Merrill Lynch, MSMB Capital had failed to locate OREX shares to borrow in order to settle MSMB Capital's short sales. As a result, MSMB Capital failed to settle a short position of over 11 million shares of OREX, which Merrill Lynch ultimately closed at a loss of over $7 million. In addition to the losses in the Merrill Lynch account, MSMB Capital suffered over $1 million in other trading losses in approximately February 2011. Based on these trading losses, the value of assets in MSMB Capital's bank and brokerage accounts, not including the OREX losses at Merrill Lynch, declined from more than $1.12 million on or about January 31, 2011 to $58,500 at the end of February 2011.