This was not some secret: it's a playbook Broadcom has used on acquisitions before. Maintaining a virtualization company was never their goal: it was to make money fleecing the company's corpse.
And Computer Associates (now owned by Broadcom), demonstrated the way decades before Broadcom even existed.
I would have though that by now they are all gone. Probably those left are the ones that stupidly painted themselves into a corner and never thought about exist strategies.
For some customers, they looked at the resources needed to migrate, and decided it was cheaper to stay put and/or invest the resources that would be needed elsewhere in their business.
I doubt Broadcom is going to get many new customers, but Broadcom seems to be OK with that.
Uber and Lyft (and a few others) spent over $200M to convince the voters to pass ballot initiative 22 in CA to allow those companies to continue to treat their workers as independent contractors. You can fool a lot of people with $200M (and anyone who claims money does not matter in politics does not understand the importance of fooling more then 50% of the people).
And it is always gigabytes.
Well, it if was not gigabytes, one would probably not be using Elasticsearch in the first place (and yes, some people just use their default developer template for everything...)
But (a) it's written in Rust because Mozilla didn't trust C++
It was not that they did not trust C++ (itself) but it is easier to verify the rust implementation (because rust does a lot of the memory safety checks at compile time), and there is a long long long history of codecs having memory safety issues. One less potential future exploit is always a good thing (one should note that rust does not protect against logic errors, so the code may still be wrong, just potentially less wrong).
These crows have a very particular set of skills.
There are videos of birds attacking drones, and while not exactly common, it certain does happen. I would be surprised if Amazon has not worked with ornithologists (I would guess even have a few on staff) to learn how to minimize such attacks.
Surprised he didn't "suicide" before the trial. More power to people like this!
I believe the current approach is accidental falls from windows in tall buildings (there is probably a hotel in Oakland with enough floors).
I believe he lives in Berkeley, so he probably drives, or is driven, or takes Bart, to the Oakland courthouse every day (the courthouse is a 1 or 2 minute walk from the closest Bart station).
Financial security on the other hand...I wouldn't put it past them to do whatever they could to make sure he can't find another job or penalize any tech company that hires him somehow, of course for other ostensible reasons.
In one of his interviews, he stated that he never expects to be able to find employment in his field ever again. Advocacy roles (in various non-profits), on the other hand, may be his future.
They should have addressed the eventual charge for executing the payment up front and earlier by making it clear it was all an initial experiment. No one of any intelligence imagined that there is not a small cost to the banks to execute the transaction itself, although it is likely a very small amount per transaction (probably only a few rupees) for values under the various reporting thresholds (where the costs of the transaction goes up due to the additional overheads at the bank).
Charging now, for something that was free so long, is going to be hard.
Food, rent, etc. are things you need to buy every week, not an emergency. If you cannot afford it this week, you will never be able to do it. Instead you keep getting more and more debt at these rates until you reach the credit limit, then go bankrupt.
There are likely special cases (loss of job, emergency medical expense for yourself or loved one, money tied up for a short time) where the money is not available today, but can/will be in the near future. For some people, they might choose to use a credit card in those cases, but not everyone who lives a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle have a credit card, so buy now, pay later, is their only option (a bad option, but perhaps their only option).
We've had the iPhone driver's license for a few years in California. Guess the one thing you can't do with it? If you said present it if you are stopped by the police, you would be correct. I wonder if this is also the case in other states.
The interesting thing is that the California's own official mDL app incorporates the ability to read a drivers license. I guess California has not provided the needed tech to their own police agency officers.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
