I would be worried about organized crime. All sorts of sketchy things go on. The only sports event at my Uni where I wasn't able to photograph was college tennis because they have a problem with people past-posting on college tennis:
On one level I can understand the thrill of having some money riding on a game but I am baffled by the prop bets. Fixing a whole game is not so easy and rather risky, but influencing the silly little events some people bet on looks easy and hard to stop. It's particularly crazy that people bet on decisions by individuals and small groups as opposed to the outcome of a contest.
Gambling itself is sketchy but legally hired employees especially developer-level have to be somehow protected from the decisions of the business, no?
Unless you're worried about the crime itself (as in somebody might threaten you personally and send you to a hospital kind of thing) and not prosecution.
Crime, criminals. Mostly organized crime, but the occasional whack jobs who “just need an edge”. Doesn’t matter where you are in the organizational hierarchy, I’d argue the most at risk are the lowest level employees.
Then what is? I know the higher ups / owners have to deal with some straight up mafia shit or money laundering but a gambling company doesn't really look bad on a CV the way porn industry or even a government job (at least here in Poland) does.
This might be a bit morbid but consider contacting estate sales agents in the Poughkeepsie and Rochester areas? The last generation of hard core mainframe employees are all nearing retirement or have retired and as they and their families deal with the detritus of their careers may just be throwing away stuff. A lot of the print books ceased mid 1990s, in favor of BookManager files and eventually PDFs.
Buy advertising, get press coverage, write blog posts, talk at conferences (or post online videos) about problems solved by the cool product.
I once was publicly identified as the web guy at an F100 company and it was a fucking nightmare of "Hey, I just wanted to touch base" messaging from hundreds of marketing and sales guys every week. And this was before they all had the genius idea to automate sales outreach with "AI".
And I know the retort will be "just ignore it" but what happens is they start to annoy your coworkers and other things. I had one guy who figured out where I lived and harassed my doorman to find out when I came and went.
I do not even work now and I still get a dozen inbound sales calls and messages a week. I ignore all of them.
The entire point of an indictment is to lay out a series of probable crimes in order to arrest the individual or individuals, stop the crimes in progress, and set up a potential prosecution. It is not a prosecution.
Further, as to prosecuting the thefts, for all we know that is the next step, or they have already done that and secured the cooperation of those conspirators as witnesses.
An indictment implies that charges are being filed and therefore that the prosecution already thinks they can prove their case. If they can't even prove if there is an underlying crime, what are they supposed to be preventing?
The entire problem is that they've set things up so they can charge people with something even if they can't prove the underlying crime, in order to exert undue leverage on them -- or even go all the way to conviction without ever proving the underlying crime, which is an injustice.
Pre-seed is variable, depending on the terms of the note, usually the investment is converted to a percentage of stock with some sort of discount at the series A.
Series A…typically 20% for the total investment, with the lead investor taking a majority of that.
Pre–internet, depending on the size of the store and retail chain, your cash registers might tie to a local small system which in turn talked to a central mainframe (IBM, Dec, Unisys, etc) using APPC over SNA, or TCP/IP, or Decnet, or whatever Unisys used. Leased lines were not particularly fast, but did not need to be, you’re talking less than a megabyte of data at most per day.
I moved my MIL to the Apple ecosystem circa 2009-2010 and have mostly been satisfied.
She has a normal (not admin) user account on her Mac. She cannot install applications*. Her Documents folder is synced to iCloud. Everything is backed up with Time Machine, and for good measure I rsync her home directory to my own backup periodically. She uses a locked down Google Worksplace account (this cost more since we pay for one admin account and her restricted account). She can access everything from her iPhone and her iPads.
Surprises: some applications can be downloaded and will install themselves into ~/Applications, these usually are the thousand or so zoom/webex/webmeetinggo variants. Initially we did not lock down her Google Chrome and she kept installing "Extensions that will speed up your browser experience!" which of course were scams, so we locked her out of installing Chrome Extensions (this has made it difficult to legitimately install chrome extensions unfortunately). She has, through what I'm guessing were bad UI questions for someone now in her 80s, wiped out her Documents folder multiple times, syncing the deletions to her iCloud. Minimal actual loss since thanks to my paranoid backup strategies.
Hard: she's been using Macs on and off since the 1990s. Each new recent release of MacOS or iOS has become a bit of a nightmare. While I get the relentless need to upgrade and improve and sell more widgets I really wish there was an LTS strategy we could opt into that was just security or sev 1 style bug fixes.
Really hard: I fell into this because every time she went into an Apple Store or tech shop for support they 1) would ask her what her Apple ID was and then just go off and create another one for her anyway. I found six before I got her to understand it's just her email address. 2) Every tech guy has his own way of doing shit, myself included, and it's utterly baffling to someone who simultaneously has been using computers for decades and yet is very much non technical.
She's in her mid 80s now, I think we're on her last MacBook Air, which I just moved her to in the past year or so. The next upgrade, if necessary, is probably to a Chromebook.
IMO, macOS is the only consumer LTS desktop around these days. Windows UX is going a million miles a minute with new Copilot junk every other day, intrusive widgets, and an exceedingly unpleasant browsing experience with shopping, coupons, MSN and more Copilot.
Edit: forgot ChromeOS. It’s a proper mainstream LTS desktop.
Made this same decision with my mom in her late 50's. She went back to work and uses Microsoft day to day at her job...but the Apple decision both for PC and for phone has been very beneficial. It was always more intuitive for her.
>I think we're on her last MacBook Air, ... The next upgrade, if necessary, is probably to a Chromebook.
Perhaps I'm stepping out of line by saying this, but: That Macbook Air isn't her last and the next upgrade will be necessary.
Yes, we all pass eventually, but death is horrible both for the individual and the loved ones, so it's worth "lalala"ing it away for trivial things like this and enjoying what time we have.
Anecdata: My mother passed five months ago. I was her tech support. I miss her, tech support and all.
Based on mutual family histories, there’s a very real chance she (85) will outlive me (56). The “if necessary” was more about whether this MBA is driven over by a taxi or if Apple updates cease for it.
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