was RickRussellTX @ reddit
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, “has taken on the responsibility personally to serve as the senior executive with overall accountability for Microsoft’s security,”
Err. Wasn’t that already true? He’s chief executive officer, not chief some shit that doesn’t include security officer.
They need Dimo Higgins, Goblin Hunter
resolve it in whatever way CF deemed appropriate
CloudFlare deemed the upgrade to Enterprise service appropriate.
Will you be able to buy Google Wallet gift cards with cash, and charge up Google Wallet so you can make POS and online payments?
Because I suspect that was a main driver of Google Pay.
But, the guy admits that what they were doing with the domains was expressly permitted in the “Enterprise” class service. If it was expressly prohibited in the “Business” class service, then they set themselves up for the shakedown.
First of all, congrats! Your business must have become pretty successful. How exactly did CF decide to “ask” you to switch to Enterprise?
Maybe…
* You violated their terms of service…
I wouldn’t say Cloudflare is innocent, here, but this business handled Cloudflare the cudgel that was used to beat them. They admit to doing something with their domains that was expressly prohibited in the service they were paying for.
It’s exactly the same as their regular accents except every third sentence is, “Jesus Tapdancing Christ it is fucking cold in here, somebody turn up the heat!”
Yes, the article mentions it. Ms. Monteleone did not (at least, among items attributed to Ms. Monteleone).
The article is not speaking for Bumble. Ms. Monteleone IS speaking for Bumble.
they are laying off globally
“Globally” presumably includes Texas.
Obvs, I don’t have any insight whether they laid off Texas employees at any greater or lesser rate than their global rate, but “a reduction in our Texas workforce” is completely vague, and could refer to layoffs or voluntary departures.
no conspiracy here. Texas just sucks
It’s possible that they are trying to distract from the layoffs, AND Texas just sucks. The two are not exclusive.
This seems highly suspicious.
Bumble laid off 37% of their workforce just 2 weeks ago:
If you read the article, Ms. Monteleone says:
We — since SB 8 — have seen a reduction in our Texas workforce by about a third. Those employees are choosing to move elsewhere,” she told the audience at the event. “There are a variety of laws in Texas that I think many people find incompatible with living a healthy life and being their authentic self,” added Monteleone, suggesting that not all the departures may be tied directly to this specific piece of legislation, but possibly to several other Texas laws or proposed laws that don’t sit well with Bumble’s employees.
Not a word about their decision to cut their own workforce – some of them are surely part of that “reduction in our Texas workforce” (note how she doesn’t say they transferred to other locations, or left the company of their own free will). I guess their huge layoff happened “since SB 8”? cough
It sounds like they are trying to do damage control, by spinning their layoffs into a narrative about TX reproductive medicine laws.
Believe me, I’d like nothing more than to see big companies like Toyota, JP Morgan, and USAA give the finger to Texas. But I don’t think Bumble is being honest about this, and I don’t think they constitute a blip on the radar of the TX economy.
In many jurisdictions a woman having nonconsensual sex with a man isn’t even considered rape
It wasn’t defined as rape in the US until 2013. The FBI only considered “penetration” to be rape until the definition was revised, so national statistics didn’t represent ANY female-on-male rapes, unless the female used a body part or object on the male victim’s anus.
It’s still possible the daughter was sick of her hyper-involved dad, and planned the whole thing
What the actual F, dude?
That’s almost certainly the case. Here’s a breakdown of funding at UCLA that shows 25% of research funding coming from non-government sources. The rest is federal, state, or other government.
I worked at a US university for 12 years, I can’t speak to what happens in Canada, but here in the US it’s definitely a mix. Student tuition is not used for research at all, at least not in any research program I’ve ever heard of.
In fact, research grants are garnished (usually to the tune of 30% or more) to pay general university expenses, and student instruction is part of that budget.
All true, but where is the money for university research coming from?
I mean, some of those research grants come from the same private companies. There’s value to them in using that money to train the next generation of scientists, in addition to funding basic research they can use directly.
But, admittedly I don’t claim to know how the research dollars are split between private/government/other.
EDIT: Here is a study from UCLA covering 2010-2015 funding that shows about 75% of funding comes from government, and 25% from private industry, charities, or other non-government sources.
if the choice is nuclear or carbon I’ll take nuclear
I’m totally with you on that.
My response:
Everybody has easy answers and a proper & permanent disposal site and method are always “just around the corner”.
I am persistently mystified that so many people – many calling themselves “green” or environmentalist – consider this a solved problem.
Spent nuclear fuel piles up in retaining pools at nuclear reactor sites, and we can’t take it anywhere because nobody can figure out where to put it. Everybody has easy answers and a proper & permanent disposal site and method are always “just around the corner”.
Meanwhile, solar and wind – for all of their problems – can meet large portions of our energy needs RIGHT NOW with minimal capital outlay to install new capacity.
Interesting. I doubt the source material is copyrightable, but I also doubt the consortium is under any legal obligation to provide copies, unless signed some previous agreement to that effect.