Most banks will print a sheet of 3 on demand at a branch. I think they're called counter checks? I haven't used a checkbook in probably about a decade, so when they've been needed for some reason, I just get those.
That's not a broken clock, that's a clock that's set to the wrong time. Unless it remains 10 minutes behind, even when you set it 10 minutes forward, which would be a great prank gift.
It's quite possible that the founders cashed equity out of the funding round, and that could possibly be why it was such a large round. During the FinTech/Web3 boom back around 2019-2020, a ton of founders did this and it caused huge misalignments between them and their employees. Their thinking could be, "who cares if you didn't make anything from the acquisition when you've already taken $40MM off the table?"
haha. nc1895 here. I was hella late to the game. but you may even remember me, I ran [email protected] and ix.netcom.com. I am keman-the-klueless, anti-spammers once called me. I went to [email protected] after ICG bought us out. Then after @home went under, I went on to [email protected]. Back in the spam fighting days before adaptive intelligent filters, it was all hard work of reading email headers, tracing things back, finding the user, and closing out their account.
Notability isn't the same as credibility. Blue checks used to be useful so that you knew whether or not the person you were interacting with was who they said they were and had some cultural importance.
I agree, which is why I am disputing the claim that the legacy bluecheck system was one of the "credibility signals that once helped users".
> Blue checks used to be useful so that you knew whether or not the person you were interacting with was who they said they were and had some cultural importance.
It was a status symbol for celebrities and corporate journalists. And it's not a status symbol that anyone else respected.
The section that Spiro included about robots.txt belies just how amateurish this attempt is. That file has become the effective standard for instructing web scraping utilities, but is nothing more than a strong recommendation and is absolutely not legally binding in any way.
It's bizarre that Spiro wouldn't already understand this, but even weirder that it appears he didn't even research the topic or have an associate/junior partner with more applicable tech knowledge give it the once over. Possibly, Spiro and Musk were provided that feedback and purposely ignored it due to their outsized egos.
What's most obnoxious though is that Musk fired the employees in question while avoiding paying their agreed severance, and then has the gall to invoke the specter of non-compete agreements. I would hope that Spiro, or his firm, would at least be aware that non-competes are unenforceable in California and many other states.
I didn't feel safe in SF until maybe the mid-late 90s. SF was seriously a violent place until the tech boom. China Basin, where the ballpark is now, was one of the worst parts of the city.
A "safe" SF only existed for about 20 years total.
San Francisco is safer (in terms of violent crime rate) today than it was at any time in the 1990s. (It also went up from the late 1990s to the mid-00s, so if you only started feeling safe in the late 1990s, that was probably your personal circumstances, not the actual safety of the city.)
Fair enough. I don't think it's that unsafe now either. It just felt like it had a lot more rough edges when I was younger, but that could've been due to differences in experiences as I got older.
Sorry, but how can you possibly see his behavior and think the simpler explanation is that Musk knows anything about what he's talking about at this point as it concerns Twitter? Just because he owns it means nothing in this case - especially since he's avoided even discussing his misguided opinions with his employees?
The simpler explanation here is that he's embarrassed for making a stupid impulse purchase and now he's lashing out.
