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eggpy commented on MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud krebsonsecurity.com/2019/... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

Keverw · 6 years ago

Yeah, but wonder if people got any overdraft fees, etc during that time since the money was temporary missing because they expected it to be there for the checks or automatic payments. Usually $35 a pop, so could add up. So your money missing and overdraft fees sounds so devastating.

I know a while back the local news was talking about this issue and interviewing workers, and some of them were unsure about their money. but sounds like they got it back at least. So sounds like now just a court battle, but at least the individual workers aren't involved in the nightmare directly it looks anymore.

Sounds like it probably was days before putting it back, as they had to call and talk to someone - told them it was a mistake then later yet another disappeared... Then call again, etc... Even a Facebook group was started with many employees who all had the same issue.

Here's the clip https://youtu.be/ELZaXpJiMFU

eggpy · 6 years ago

Those overdraft fees are absolutely reversible, it's just a pain to contact the bank to have them reversed.

eggpy commented on Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet nationalgeographic.com/sc... · Posted by u/Leace

0xffff2 · 6 years ago

Life friendly != human friendly.

eggpy · 6 years ago

I understand that. This planet is far more likely to not be habitable, period. We might as well consider Neptune to be "potentially life-friendly".

eggpy commented on Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet nationalgeographic.com/sc... · Posted by u/Leace

eggpy · 6 years ago

> potentially life-friendly

Spoiler: it's not

eggpy commented on Update on AB5 uber.com/newsroom/ab5-upd... · Posted by u/dawhizkid

SauciestGNU · 6 years ago

I think the proper classification of drivers is likely an existential threat to Uber, and they are responding as such. I find it highly unlikely that a court would find transportation to be outside the scope of Uber's business. Although you have to almost admire the sheer brazenness in their admission that they will not adhere to the law.

eggpy · 6 years ago

> you have to admire the sheer brazenness in their admission that they will not adhere to the law

I mean, that has been Uber's MO since they started. AirBnB too, nothing new about this

eggpy commented on The periodic table is 150 years old this week economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/jkuria

pradn · 7 years ago

There are now attempts to create a "periodic table" for data structures. Such a table would allow you to predict variations of data structures and the behavior of such variants. You can see such an example in page 7 of the PDF below.

https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/periodi...

eggpy · 7 years ago

That's pretty interesting, I look forward to see what comes out of this! People often tend to conflate "computer science" with "professional software development" and I admit my first reaction was "so what? I routinely use just a small handful of data structures, do we really need something like this?" but seeing it visually laid out in an easily-digestible format is somehow inspiring. From a scientific perspective I can imagine discovering more advanced structures much like "missing" elements from the periodic table.

eggpy commented on No Thank You, Mr. Pecker medium.com/@jeffreypbezos... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

coryfklein · 7 years ago

But if humanity as a whole enforced social norms that rewarded blackmail-refusals, then the value of blackmailing would drop so low as to be not worth it and extremely uncommon.

Essentially we could develop a herd immunity to blackmail.

eggpy · 7 years ago

Yeah but scandal attracts eyeballs and people are more interested in spectacle than choosing the morally superior option

eggpy commented on A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua newyorker.com/news/the-ne... · Posted by u/jelliclesfarm

Steko · 7 years ago

The goalposts are moving. Yes to "worth considering" but that's not what I was responding to above ("is likely an alien device" ... "certainly seems to make that claim").

eggpy · 7 years ago

I'm not trying to move the goal post. I'm only taking umbridge with the fact the previous poster said "No one has claimed that Oumuamua is likely an alien device". The person interviewed in the very article this discussion is about seems to think that maybe it could be. So we are talking semantics between "likely" and "possibly".

eggpy commented on A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua newyorker.com/news/the-ne... · Posted by u/jelliclesfarm

Steko · 7 years ago

That's not a general conclusion he's pushing, it's what he thinks would be a likely conclusion if two other hypotheticals are met:

"if it is indeed less than a millimetre thick, if it is pushed by the sunlight, then it is maybe a light sail"

It's not clear at all that he think it's likely that it's less than a millimeter thick or that it is a light sail. That's simply "the only thing that came to his mind" to explain the additional force(s) working on it.

eggpy · 7 years ago

Ok how about the introductory paragraph that states

> The following October, Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, co-wrote a paper (with a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, Shmuel Bialy) that examined ‘Oumuamua’s “peculiar acceleration” and suggested that the object “may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth’s vicinity by an alien civilization.”

or another spot where he says

"Every now and then we find an object of artificial origin. And this could be a message in a bottle, and we should be open-minded."

Seems to me like he is saying it could be worth considering that maybe this is an alien object.