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Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits

  • The grand jury also issued indictments against two county officials, Undersheriff Rick Sung and Sheriff’s Captain James Jensen, alleging that they had actually requested the bribes

    The duo from the County Sheriff’s office appeared to be the ones primarily in the District Attorney’s crosshairs, with DA Jeff Rosen stating in a press release at the time that the accused “treated CCW licenses as commodities and found willing buyers” in folks like Apple’s Moyer.

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    In a world full of spam, and then you read this

  • That last part doesn't sound right but I wish it did.

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    Sources: Big Ten has begun preliminary talks to potentially add Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford

  • UCLA/Stanford double alum here: the damage is done. The California schools belong together and UO/UW are great acquisitions for the B1G. This was the obvious move as soon as the LA schools jumped and I assume it was part of the original negotiations (with USC).

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    The buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel

  • Interesting. The link jumps straight to the article for me. No guessing involved. Yes, it's mechanically produced ultrasonic tones.

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    Twitter's valuation has been slashed by 47% at Ark Invest since Elon Musk took over

  • Musk is the CEO of a publicly traded company (Tesla) and the CEO of a company that just recently sold shares on the secondary market (SpaceX). The valuation of these companies is wrapped up in market sentiment about Elon Musk.

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    Musk is undeniably just trying to run twitter into the ground at this point.

  • every interaction that additional user makes with tweets viewed by those 100k existing users requires 100k updates pushed to those 100k users’ pages. Every like sends an update of +1 like on the tweet to every one of the 100k users. It becomes significantly more expensive per user engagement.

    This is not how a reasonable API works and is probably not how Twitter "pages" work. A "+1" just changes a number in a database from, say, 629644 to 629645. The latter is no more expensive to send over the wire to a client when it requests data.