Ignoring all else, did private conversation participants consent to their messages being posted publicly in this post?
Readit Newsquantumwoke commented on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/phoronixrly
quantumwoke commented on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/phoronixrly
For some additional context, the screenshotted Rebble board member has commented here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/pebble_rebb...
Looks like they were not consulted by Eric before this post.
quantumwoke commented on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/phoronixrly
I'll be totally honest: I have no idea what they possibly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on. That seems totally absurd and reckless.
Developer time?
quantumwoke commented on My dad could still be alive, but he's not jenn.site/my-dad-could-st... · Posted by u/DustinEchoes
Perhaps my understanding here is lacking, but that doesn't sound good at all. Feels like if someone has some sort of cardiac event, or, worse, isn't breathing, by the time the ambulance gets there, they'll be dead, with too much brain death for any resuscitation effort to be worth it.
As my medico wife explained it to me, you have about 1 minute after your heart stops before you start having permanent brain damage. Unless you live inside a hospital your risk of surviving a major heart attack at home is less than 20% at the best of times (and in fact seems to be about 10% or less in USA on average on some quick research).
quantumwoke commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw
Based on the DNS records, and the Companies Office website, the blogger owns several companies.
Business networking, local ISP, card payment solutions, basically. Given the blog posts about cPanel and Outlook, it tracks.
I note that the blogger lives in a small town in the South Island, so likely is focused on the local market.
Possibly. Would be better if the company name wasn't obscured from the post.
quantumwoke commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw
Looking around it seems its a small ISP / IT consultancy. It doesn't look to be anything shady at all.
ISPs that host illegal content can indeed be outside the risk tolerance of a financial services company. The blog post is very careful to say "one of our companies" and censor the name of it on screenshots so I'll be interested to see what it is.
quantumwoke commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw
Oh no… god forbid - adult content lol. Yes regardless of the content if the business is legal and they only changed an address that’s not a reason to have this level of shit support and no way to escalate and contact a human…
I don't agree with those policies but it's a possible reason for a financial services business to break a relationship if they discover incidentally that this guys business is breaking the law. Changes the blog post completely and the business info should have been included.
As a heuristic, using TransferWise is traditionally associated with Russian money laundering scams.
quantumwoke commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw
Nowhere in this blog does it mention what the business actually does, which is always a red flag. I've seen plenty of stripe bashing posts on HN that end up with the business being in newsletter scams or adult content.
quantumwoke commented on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive idiallo.com/byte-size/say... · Posted by u/firefoxd
I will never trust OneDrive with any files after it silently deleted thousands of my files while syncing - I hit the hidden maximum number of files limit and then it permanently deleted the remaining files with no warning.
Keep in mind this is just for Blue Shield California. There are executives of other health insurance systems in other states and regions who are making similar compensation.
However, I'll go ahead and say right now that I support the idea of these executives being paid these salaries, but on one condition: that we first achieve the goal of 100% of Americans having affordable access to healthcare. Once that goal is achieved, then we can start paying executives big bonuses and incentives. Deal? (Yeah, right...)
https://www.blueshieldca.com/content/dam/bsca/en/member/docs...
Below is a summary of the compensation paid in 2024 to Blue Shield of California’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and top three highest paid executives (other than the CEO and CFO) who were employed by Blue Shield of California at year-end.
Paul Markovich
President and Chief Executive Officer
$11,191,674
Sandra Clarke
EVP, Chief Operating Officer
$5,765,368
Peter Long
EVP, Strategy and Health Solutions
$4,360,245
Lisa Davis
EVP, Chief Information Officer
$2,873,613
Michael Stuart
EVP, Chief Financial Officer
$2,406,837
Some other CEOs:
Cerner (EMR provider to the VA), $35 million pay package: https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/cerner-to-pay-new...
Pfizer, $24.6M pay package: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/rebound-year-pfizer-ceo-...
Epic Systems is a private company, so there's no executive pay information, but the founder Judy Falkner's estimated net worth is $7.8 billion. Perhaps Epic could reduce the price of its very expensive software for providers to help ease healthcare costs and maybe Judy could give up some of those billions and not notice any difference in her quality of life?