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But it shows that there's really no penalties for the rich to commit billions in fraud

Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years in prison. That's the average prison sentence for murder. The message being sent is that you should turn on your partners in crime now and save yourself a lot of suffering in the long run.

I think people have no handle on what years and decades of life lost to prison means. The numbers are just abstract to them.

> it shows that there's really no penalties for the rich to commit billions in fraud

She’s a felon, banned “from holding executive roles in public or crypto companies,” penniless and probably fighting lawsuits for the rest of her life.


Not as long as you are willing to roll on the other guy. This has always been the way.

It's more about who you defrauded. Bernie Madoff died in prison because he defrauded other rich people.

As long as they have someone "worse" to snitch on

This is a shame. Coworker got a Lightning and he loves it. He doesn't tow with it but he does field work for fiber optic stuff, usually back home every day. Runs his computers, tools, ventilation for going down manholes, he even powered a sump pump from it, without needing to haul a generator. The hybrid truck can now do the same, but it's a really nice truck


The plain old ICE F-150 has had power outlets as an option package for more than ten years, i.e. 7 years before the Lightning even existed.


The lightning and power boost can do up to 50amps though, the old trucks had to be running and you had to have a second or hight output alternator added. Having the battery/hybrid with their nice inverters was nice


Donated! Thank you very much, NetBSD was one of my first experiences, on a Pentium 60 with a 504MB hard drive. It made me who I am today, eternally grateful to have learned from such amazing and talented people.


Thanks a lot :)


I'm so glad you say that. Resi aerial is perfect in most locations. No dig, no service boxes in front yards, under someone's unpermitted driveway pour, ample power easily, a guy in a bucket truck is all you need. Trenchless works well when it can, but even reasonable infrastructure underground is twice as expensive. I love seeing a neighborhood lit up in fiber in 2-5 days and subscribers online at 1-10Gb in soooo many places. Keeps crews busy either way :D


> a guy in a bucket truck is all you need

Downside is: a drunk guy in a truck is all you need to tear it down, not to mention natural disaster influence. And it's unsightly AF.

Yes, it's fast and cheap. That's how we got the situation that a backwater village in the midst of the "anus mundi" of Romania has XGPON for a few dozen euros a month, while you're lucky to get anything above 50M VDSL in Germany outside of large urban areas and 200M VDSL in urban areas.

But holy hell it's an eyesore to be in said village in Romania, look out the window and look at a bunch of fiber strung not even from a proper pole but from a tree. Takes the German expression "Kabelbaum" to a whole new level.


Even if a pole is taken out by a drunk driver that does not mean the cables are going to be severed. I've seen plenty of times when poles had to be replaced, but the communications cables remained undamaged in place due to the strength and tension of the supporting strand.

The bigger issue over the last 5 years in the area where my company operates is the number of dump trucks that leave the bed up. Given the weight of dump truck it is easy for them to pull down multiple poles when they catch the cables, although perhaps they are drunk drivers...


And outdoor DSLAMs are invulnerable, to cars, vandalism, dog-piss, whatever? Ever walked by one in the middle of the night, when its cooling fans hum? Wanna live near that?


GPON outdoor units don't create any noise, they are purely passive.


Yes. But you've written about ugly and vulnerable infrastructure am "Arsch der Welt"/"JWD" first, and lamented about limited availability and performance of pink Telecomicstan VDSL in Teutonistan second. I've written about the latter, since I've heard them, because they are not passive.


Max. 16Mbit in Berlin-Schöneberg here.


Lots of words to say "use already available time libraries and use ISO time formatting". Cool story bruh. And really really terrible way to communicate one of the most beaten to death categories with that site design


Most time libraries - especially the stdlib ones - are broken in various subtle ways. ISO time formatting is neat, but only works for past events.

Your approach is usually going to be sufficient-ish for timestamping past events - which is most applications. But try to build a calendar, and you'll quickly notice that it simply doesn't work that way.


Because a ton of people in office were his "clients". This country is rotten


Reading the Epstein saga start to finish has been instructive as to how power works in this country.

I previously had not understood it.


What you wrote is very interesting (and intriguing). What readings would you recommend?


Not the person you asked but what (s)he described sounds like "One nation under black mail" by Whitney Web. Actually worried whether the author would get Epsteined herself.


> (s)he

'they' works wonders in such cases :) (hope this is not seen as snarky or whatever)


Not the previous commenter, but I would recommend Hiding In Plain Sight, by Sarah Kendzior. It centers on Donald Trump, but covers in great detail what is publicly known about the seedy history of the people in his orbit, including Epstein, and it calls into question how the people in power in the political, business, and media worlds have left so many questions go unanswered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight_(Kendzio...


I think Biden sniffing every kid he could get his hands on qualifies as "hiding in plain sight".


I've been out of rails for more than a decade, ended up mostly with Django, but I always kinda miss rails. But Django has treated me so well, just wish async and python in general had more legs on this side


Paywall



Except, he paid people for, and promoted the upload of copywrited works. He knowingly participated and basically tailored his products to pirating. Some people love him, but he will see his day in court apparently, but no one wants to even deal with him because he's gone crazy.


We had a friend who threw amazing parties because he had this sort of transgressive sense of humor. He got rich, retired young, and I fully believe that the professional peer pressure was the main thing keeping his screws tight because he just fell apart over three years. At one point he was telling my spouse he was trying to make himself crazy. Congratulations bud, you already are. Sane people don’t do that.

Predatory people took advantage of his behavior and generosity, and by thirty he was involuntarily committed, his mother given power of attorney. My spouse was the person feeding his mom the information she needed to see to intervene. All he had left was the equity in his condo and $50k.

I’m not sure I believed the deranged millionaire trope until I met this guy. And I watch my younger friends and acquaintances for signs of mania that masquerade as out of box or transgressive thinking.


How did your friend get rich, and how did people take advantage of him?


Massive mooches, and a “situationship” with a woman who wasn’t quite his girlfriend.

Microsoft millionaire.


Source for "he's gone crazy"? Curious about the degree of crazy, since he seemed pretty out there from the start.


Looking at his Twitter, he peddles a bunch of conspiracy theories.


Sure, pirating means comandeering of a ship, not distribtion of copyrighted works.

He probably has a plan in a nearby Pacific jurisdiction like Vanuatu. Best of luck!


The language we humans use in casual conversation is a lot more fluid than that, you need to be able to deal with it.


Not when the language is used to accuse someone of a crime. He is no pirate, obviously.

> He knowingly participated and basically tailored his products to pirating


Nor is piracy, in the literal sense, the crime he is accused of. So I'm not sure what you're up in arms about.



I just love my eBay Juniper gear. There's a fan less PoE 12 port switch which is line rate forwarding, vlans, managed, etc, the Juniper EX-2200-C (compact, fanless very large heatsink industrial design). There's fanless Juniper SRX firewalls that'll do 1Gb/s NAT and L3 just fine. Yah it's an old proprietary freebsd binary blob network OS to commercial silocon, but they're solid and do REST and custom controllers if that's your thing (can build overlays and calico kubernetes with bgp on em even)


ok, but no 10Gbit


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