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by 300bps 5y ago
With over 121,000 unread emails in my “everything” gmail account I’ve come to the same conclusion. It only becomes a major issue when I want to find an email from a real person. It’s amazing - every marketing email seems to come up on every
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He has separate email addresses on a custom domain. He then gives one of those separate emails to humans. Companies he orders from gets another email address. Social media companies get another one. Etc.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Wizards are physically weak, have finite spells to use and require solitude and rest to regain them. Living in a tower gives them substantial physical security. You can have one point of entrance at ground level that is significantly guarde
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by 300bps 5y ago
Commodore 64 power supplies fail similarly. The voltage regulator on the 5V line fails causing higher voltage to be fed to the motherboard potentially frying every chip on the board. https://retrogamestart.com/answers/r
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by 300bps 5y ago
Meetup is freaking amazing. I have no idea why everyone doesn’t use it. It doesn’t matter what you’re into, you’ll probably find a group. I use it for hiking, kayaking and social events. It is so easy to meet people on there and just find t
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by 300bps 5y ago
Here’s a pretty good write-up of the point you cover as well as the point others have made that the Chinese are able to quickly memorize 9 digits vs 7 digits for English speakers possibly because the names of their numbers are shorter. htt
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by 300bps 5y ago
You're in the U.S. but you used the term, "bog-standard" which is typically British. Questions and I apologize in advance if they're sensitive. I don't really expect you to answer them publicly, but maybe they give
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by 300bps 5y ago
Just realized I’ve been using Wireshark over two decades (well, Ethereal until 2006). One thing some may overlook is that it uses WinPcap (now Npcap) to actually do packet capturing. It is trivial to make .NET and probably other framework a
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by 300bps 5y ago
Nobody at all is interested in exclusion; they are interested in more inclusion. If you have limited open positions and you use race to determine who gets them then you are excluding 1 person for every 1 person you are including .
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by 300bps 5y ago
SWIFT is: 50% payment messages 43% securities messages The rest are a mix with a lot being treasury transactions. I work on the investments side and use SWIFT for security transaction settlements. For example, when we trade a security (stoc
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by 300bps 5y ago
Depends on the school district. My school district gets an average of 350 applicants for every open teaching position.
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by 300bps 5y ago
You're entitled to choose a non-public school, to want to divert that public resource to yourself How is that? In the US schools are paid for via property tax. You pay the same property tax to the school whether you have 0 kids in th
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by 300bps 5y ago
Amazing context to just how big the universe is as we kill each other over a tiny part of a ball of rock and dirt. Reminds of Carl Sagan’s, “Pale Blue Dot” https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g
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by 300bps 5y ago
https://archive.is/22B4o
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by 300bps 5y ago
Do you have a citation on this? Or is it as you say just obvious? Here’s a study that found no link between age and a slow down of ability to learn things: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC455
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by 300bps 5y ago
I am almost out of my 40s. In the past year, I've gotten three AWS certifications and learned new hobbies from scratch (ex: electronics component-level repair). I haven't seen evidence that my ability to learn things has slowed do
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by 300bps 5y ago
7zip is just one of three applications mentioned in the article and the article says it’s much slower and seems to more recommend offerings from Facebook and Google. First off, 7-Zip achieves a better compression ratio, but it is much slow
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by 300bps 5y ago
Yeah I use RAR daily and I have no interest in using a tool made by companies who exist to collect data and use it to serve you ads. I’d rather pay $29 for a lifetime license than have any chance at giving more data about me to Google or Fa
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by 300bps 5y ago
And Russias GDP is as big as Italy Russia’s GDP is 25% smaller than the U.S. State of Texas. It sounds like a joke but it isn’t. Texas GDP is $2.0 trillion. Russia GDP is $1.48 trillion. Most of Russia’s GDP is selling oil and gas which i
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by 300bps 5y ago
It seems like you’re speaking generally and don’t know just how evil Oracle is as a vendor. Finding new revenue streams is exactly what Oracle has been doing. Take just one example - Java. Created in 1995 by SunOS, officially made open sour
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by 300bps 5y ago
I agree that every large corporation that uses Oracle software has a unique license with Oracle. And every one I’ve heard of considers Oracle a predatory vendor and they want to stop using them. They do things like charging you per CPU to r
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by 300bps 5y ago
I know good engineers who started quite late in life. My experience matches yours exactly. Almost all of the good engineers that started late in life in my experience are just plain extremely smart and would excel at anything they did. On
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by 300bps 5y ago
How is not touching a programming language until college a bad thing? I am the OP you're asking this of and I don't think first touching a programming language in college is a bad thing. And I also don't subscribe to the be
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by 300bps 5y ago
I think it ends with everyone becoming a developer Not in a million years. When I was 10 I got my first computer and spent 12-16 hours per day on it every day learning BASIC, 6502 Assembly and many other languages. All the adults at the t
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And now the majority of the first page of results on Google are ads.
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I think you are looking at it from a negative/pessimistic perspective. Another way to look at it is that most CEOs are optimists. https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/11/15/optimists...
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...and at the end of the day DeFi will be so regulated it will have all the bad parts of DeFi and regular finance.
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Read Blockfi's press release: https://blockfi.com/regulatory-developments/ BlockFi is first participant in new regulatory framework for crypto sector They're the first participant. They won't be the la
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Those are small talk and are taxing on me :-( Years ago I read the book, "How to Practice" by the Dalai Lama. Like any book, there were a few parts that stuck with me. Paraphrasing, one of them was: "If you are in the right
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The IRS paid out $30 million in refunds for completely made up “slave reparations” deductions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_reparations_scam There are 1.6 million 501c3 organizations in the U.S. They range f

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