Google "Dark pools". Currently they account for slightly over half of all US transaction volume. Yes, they're still regulated; no, we do not have visibility inside them.

I can already, completely above-board, sell someone a block of DRS'd IBM shares for crypto if I want to. Let's all be clear this isn't about denominating stocks in Bitcoin.

Rather, this is effectively about recording stock transactions on a blockchain. Nothing more and nothing less than swapping a distributed transaction log for a traditional ledger.

The implication is clear, the SEC is at least considering the idea of creating shares as a token cryptocurrency. In this case, the tokens are backed by real shares. That's not a technical requirement, though, and a future company might someday skip the major exchanges entirely to list only as a token. To be clear, there's nothing sacred about the exchanges and their "house rules"; there's nothing inherently wrong with using a blockchain vs a ledger; and to reiterate, this has nothing to do with "buying stocks with Bitcoin".

On that last point, I consider OKXICE's decision to accept payment in some nondescript "stablecoins" as extremely unfortunate. Not because I'm a cryptophobe, but because it muddies the waters as to the viability of the core concept of tokenized equity itself - Though that's a bit of a tautology, given stocks are already "tokenized equity". Whether we denominate them in USD or BTC or cowrie shells is an entirely separate issue.

How dare the people who create your revenue streams demand reasonable working conditions?

Of course employers are welcome to set the terms under which they'll give us money. And similarly, we're free to set the terms under which we'll accept their money. That's how it works.

Personally, I love companies announcing draconian new RTO policies - There aren't many better indicators their stock price is going to spike short-term then tank a few quarters later. But that has nothing to do with working for those companies. On that front, it's just a hard "no", to the point I'm seriously considering becoming a professional "interview troll" once I retire!

I hate ads more than the average bear, but I have to admit, I have no idea where people are seeing these either. Are "ads" someone intentionally loads and watches really ads, or are they merely short-form content?

That said, if these are everywhere and the very fact I'm using FF with uBlock Origin is the exact reason I haven't seen these... That is the sort of viral advertising most companies dream of.

There's a fuckton of cigarettes manufactured every year. "If all your friends jumped off a bridge"... Good riddance!

LPT: You can also turn your phone to watch the content. I know, mind blown, right? Pass it along!

I'm not saying I would or wouldn't take this particular buyout, but as you point out, it's not a safe assumption the default severance would be the same absent this artificially sweetened offer. At a quick glance, New Jersey is the only US state that requires any severance at all, beyond making employees whole for time worked and paying out accrued PTO. Many do have additional requirements around mass layoffs, but nothing comes anywhere near two weeks per year of service. Even NJ, as the best-of-the-best (honestly surprised it's not CA or MA, but not in this case), only requires one week per year of employment.

That said, I see the GP's argument come up quite often in any online discussion of layoffs, and it took me years to finally figure out, this topic basically comes down to a simple class issue: If someone is a moderately well-paid salaried employee, a severance offer is almost always going to beat UI by miles (and as you also pointed out, that's not a mutually exclusive choice, UI just picks up after severance ends). If someone is a low-paid nonexempt worker, by contrast, severance is usually nonexistent and employers playing games around UI claim appeals are a lot more common.

There's also other benefits to consider, most importantly health insurance. Severance offers usually allow employees to keep their group health insurance during the severance period, while COBRA is eye-wateringly expensive even for someone formerly paid well.

The highest UI check in the country is in Washington state, and only comes out to $1208/week, for a maximum of 26 weeks (barring certain exceptional circumstances). A Principal Engineer (level 65) at Microsoft averages just shy of $246k/year and this buyout is offering up to 39 weeks total.

Weekly, that's $4.7k vs $1.2k. Total, that's $184k vs 31k.

I can guarantee nobody smart enough to be an engineer at Microsoft (as much as we might make fun of their culture and products) is dumb enough to fail that one-question math exam.

No, that's when you want a RAID system with multiple disks.

This is only for small corruption, like a failing drive might cause, or due to cosmic rays/bitflips.

This is just EC for a non-redundant drive.

That's such a dumb, smoothbrained description I doubted the capabilities of the person who wrote it - at first.

Then I realized he was right. There isn't a filesystem that does RS or, really, any sort of single-device EC. This is a genuinely good idea, at least for spinning disks, where sector corruption is more likely.

This may be personal anecdote only, but I've only seen 1 SSD get any sort of data corruption as a failure mode, and it was a very early iteration - maybe a 8 or 16GB one. SSDs seem to simply fail outright - the FRU or something else failing for one reason or another. The storage is fine.

I read that as "land asteroids in the next 2 years" and I was initially much more excited than the actual headline suggested I should be.

Landing asteroids to mine would be much cooler than just a mere moon base.

Let's keep in mind who Elizabeth Barron is: she's the prior Community Manager at GitHub who was best known for DEI initiatives. Before that, she was a Community Manager at Pivotal. Before that, she was the PHP Community Organizer at Engine Yard. Geeknet (of SourceForge and prior Slashdot relation)? You'll never guess! (OK, yes, it's, Community Organizer, er, no, "Development Manager".)

Her only personal github anything is an "about me" blog. She has no repos of "scripts I find useful" or "little cool thing I did". She has no forks for things she's contributed to or features she's working on. Judging by her commits, comments, etc. she's still basically just doing that: it's just her, the marketeer. She doesn't have any code contributions anywhere.

She also appears to be a current, touring professional photographer (though, not frequent) and to have done web development before "the Internet".

She is wearing PHP like a digital marketing meatsuit, and while the project starves for technical direction and purpose, she's manually doing PRs about *checks notes* bunny.net. Seriously.

This is a language which should have died years and years ago but has been kept publicly alive by a bunch of low-tech-skill web developers who likely survive almost solely on inertia and having a corner people with both "Grandma, we told you to stop clicking on the links in your email" energy and entirely too much money.

ChatGPT says all of this is completely possible.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6add...

How likely is it that Flock is not already using its network this way?

imagine how flock personnel uses flock network every day...AI allows drawing conclusions from mass movement information that can provide information far beyond just someone's location. It is probably possible even to figure out market moves based on movement of groups of people.

This is not just about following any one person, this is about information movement, following a group of people who work on the same project for example to undersrand when they are going towards the same site / goal. This is beyond dangerous.

Here's the problem, and why everyone resents this crap (your fellow IT folks most of all)...

Yeah, great, you're an Exchange admin and can send email "from" any random VP you want. And you have access to their recent document history so can "spice it up" by referencing actual projects we might really be assigned to. When your phishing tests are literally indistinguishable from legitimate emails, you're not "testing" anything, you're daring people to ignore legitimate work at risk of their continued employment.

If "my boss" sends me an email, which the headers show really came from his account, and asks me to take a look at a spreadsheet we worked on three days ago - You're not being clever, you're an asshole.

I'm still using a 40" 1080p monitor I bought for $50 in 2011. It's the only TV in the house and we just use it for things mostly made before 2005.

The new stuff isn't worth the time.