His work now boils down to prepping Intel for an acquisition.
IIRC Intel and AMD have a patent sharing agreement that dissolves if either is purchased.
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saywhanow commented on Don't squander public trust on bullshit livboeree.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/NavinF
Texas Cops do not care about causing a few heart attacks and a few traffic accidents when they are mad about someone hurting a cop.
Source: I live in Texas.
They’re not that mad; they’re only offering $10k for information leading to his arrest. That’s less than Texas brings in via civil forfeiture on an average day.
There's a scene in "That 70's Show" where Kelso and Red bond over Pong and decide to mod the game to make it harder. And a few hours later with a soldering iron, smaller paddles!
The first time I saw that episode was at a friend's house. I felt so smart telling him that was impossible because you can't mod software with a soldering iron. Then his dad poked his head out from the kitchen and told me Pong didn't have software.
Turns out the only impossible part of that episode is the idea of it taking a few hours. Changing the paddle size was a mod already supported by the hardware and the manual gave details on how to do it. Though it wasn't necessarily intended as a difficulty setting, it was intended to support different sizes of TVs. iirc, all you need to do is solder 1 jumper.
Idk. A few hours for Kelso to solder a jumper sounds about right.
saywhanow commented on Money Buys Happiness, Even If You're Already Rich wsj.com/personal-finance/... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Money can’t buy happiness, but when properly utilized, it’s damned effective at deleting obstructions to happiness.
saywhanow commented on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/canucker2016
I don’t understand why smart TVs are not jailbroken yet.. or at least have alternative OS options which support most varieties.
Jailbreak my TV? I’d rather keep it in Alcatraz (aka air gapped).
saywhanow commented on iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video] youtube.com/watch?v=KRRNR... · Posted by u/haunter
Why pin point a single individual? They can just boobie trap a whole shipment of iPhones and let them hit the markets. Terror's a numbers game! /s
To evade detection of payload.
Credit card debt and credit card balance are the same thing.
> I don't know about others, but I always float thousands on my balance
This is the operative part. People on this forum tend to be in tech, and floating thousands is possible. A quick google search showed average US income is 60k/yr. Less 10k for taxes, less 20k for housing, that allows a float of less than 3k per year. The source previously stated an average debt of 6k, which is a balance more then the monthly income, and ergo is being carried over.
Looking for more direct data on how many Americans are paying credit card interest, I found this data:
"Half of credit cardholders surveyed in June (2024) as part of Bankrate's latest Credit Card Debt Survey said they carry balances over month to month. That is up from 44% in January – and the highest since since March 2020, when 60% of people carried debt from month to month" [1]
I thereby stand by my statement that your second paragraph was equally wrong (and equally right) as the second paragraph you were calling wrong.
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/08/10/credit-card-...
Credit card debt and credit card balance aren’t the same thing, in practice.
If I had long standing debt on a credit card, I’d be paying an extremely high interest rate on that debt even with a >800 credit score.
If I have a balance that’s completely paid every month, I pay no interest on that “debt”. And while that money is floating, it’s in a 4.5% high yield savings account (Sallie Mae).
In the former situation, I am losing money. In the later, I’m making money. (Compared to paying with cash / debit).
It depends for some of us, though. I have a credit card that gives me 5% back on Amazon purchases. Another card gives me 4.5% back on travel and dining expenses. That card also gives me 15% back on Lyft rides. Even if those businesss were to offer me a 2% or 3% discount to use FedNow, I would stick with the credit card.
And on top of that, I really do value things the credit cards offer, like fraud protection. If I pay for something with a credit card and never receive the goods, I can get the card company to issue a chargeback, and pay nothing. If I buy something with FedNow and never receive the goods, that money is just gone.
The protection offered by credit cards has real value.
Some anecdotes from this year:
I attempted to use LetsRoam over a year ago. It was a spectacular failure and offered no value. Cancelled and all was well. Over a year later they started charging me two monthly fees for who knows what reason. I called them, they bumbled around, and referred it asynchronously to some other department. I’m three months into these mysterious charges. All have been clawed back.
I tried educative.io and frequently encountered non-sense that was objectively, demonstrably false being presented with high confidence. I asked for a refund, and they said they don’t do that. I wasn’t really asking…
I paid a $2k deposit for a Harley that the dealer didn’t have in hand yet. There were unreasonable delays (I suspect they sold the bike to someone else for more), and the dealer’s policy was to not refund the deposit, but to only allow me to apply it to another motorcycle. Guess who else has policies. Because of the amount and timeframe, this was a little more involved, but still only took 15 minutes of my time.
I paid to park, but it appeared to fail. So, I tried again. I was doubled billed. Idk who I’d contact to request a refund. So, dispute it is.
I open my banks app, click dispute, and am refunded. It’s saved me untold hours of dealing with incompetence and/or maliciousness.
I simply don’t deal with this BS. I behave ethically (as best as one can judge that for themselves), but as soon as I hit abusive commercial sociopathy, I disengage. As far as I’m concerned, Visa / Chase are earning their 3%.
A product named after a tool used in its creation is a red flag, to me, that focus isn’t on delivering value to the user.
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Instead it exposes them all to the VPN company instead. You've just moved the attack point to another company
If I’m sailing the high seas and my ISP gets irritated, that’s a problem. If my VPN provider does, next.