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Comment AZ rollout is paused in many countries (Score 4, Informative) 327

Meanwhile:
The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has now been suspended in a number of countries across Europe and Asia, following reports of blood clots in some vaccinated people.
Many other nations, however, have defended their use of the shot and said they will continue their respective inoculation campaigns.
Thailand on Friday became the first Asian country to halt the use of the jab over safety concerns, shortly after Denmark announced a two-week pause to its nationwide rollout after reports of blood clots and one death.
In a setback to Europe’s ailing vaccination campaign, seven other countries have also suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot: Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Austria and Italy, meanwhile, have said that they will stop using certain batches of the vaccine as a precautionary measure.

Comment I work in mobile activations (Score 1) 53

While I'm a little annoyed that they are being let off the hook they agreed to, this is a positive thing overall.

Phone fraud is huge in the US and there are gangs that use stolen credit cards, and homeless/druggie credit and SSNs to steal thousands of phones every week and resell or ship them overseas.

I've tracked a single person fraudulently buy 20 iPhones in 18 days through stores in NY, Pennsylvania, NJ, and Maryland. We caught and blocked his purchases and additional 8 times. Different addresses, emails, SSN, etc. that he tried to rotate through but we were eventually able to start identifying him and blocking him. Unfortunately it is difficult to get the police involved.

If the phones are unlocked they are immediately resold in the US. If they are locked they have to ship them overseas and their profit is much lower. All of this fraud is reflected in your store costs, Verizon costs, insurance rates, etc. It all comes out of our pockets in the end.

Comment Re: I'm on the fence about this one... (Score 1) 1022

The flaw in the plan is you won't actually be able to get rid of those 1000 other "social safety net" programs.

You will still need:

Housing programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI

Food programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI

School programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI

Medical programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI

Housing programs for adults who waste their UBI

Food programs for adults who waste their UBI

School programs for adults who waste their UBI

Medical programs for adults who waste their UBI

Drug treatment programs, etc.

Comment Differentiate yourself (Score 1) 186

I work from home periodically and have team members that work from home every week. Usually works out well.

I read once that if you take the top 1% of software developers in China that is more than all of the developers in the US. You have to go up to 3% in India. What that means is that it is difficult to compete on pure skills. Where we can compete with somebody in India, Colombia, Croatia, etc. is that we are often in the office and can collaborate in person.

Just my $0.02

Comment Re:For the price of ONE MONTH of cable (Score 2) 283

For windows (and soon Linux) use NextPVR with a couple of HDHomerun devices attached to your antenna. Add the Kodi plugin and you have a full DVR with scheduled recordings and live, pause-able TV. Pay $25/year for reliable schedule feeds from Schedules Direct. Total cost $500 for the server, between free and $50 for any client TV, $50 for HDHomerun. $25/year for SD, annual donations to Kodi & NextPVR are my reoccurring costs.

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