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631.
by 300bps 5y ago
I worked for over a decade at a large trust company. The lifestyle difference between 1.2 and 20 million in assets are not similar. $1.2 million is comfortable and $20 million is generational wealth. Many people who have that level of asset
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by 300bps 5y ago
Nobody who eats PopTarts is eating them due to their “health benefits”.
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by 300bps 5y ago
But you probably need some basic aptitude and you need a huge amount of self-motivation Could not agree more. When I was 14 years old my friends would go out to the mall to hang out. I would sit at home working on the modem routines for m
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by 300bps 5y ago
“Float” is the number of shares that a company has sold and are available to trade. “Short Interest” is the number of shares that have been borrowed and sold into the market. So having high short interest just means one or more people are b
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by 300bps 5y ago
So, I’ve been making websites since before CSS was a thing Off topic but I remember when CSS stood for Content Scramble System and was the digital rights management technology on DVDs. Three people (two unidentified, one in Norway) cracke
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by 300bps 5y ago
A lot of the old DDoS attacks rely on the ability to spoof your IP address. Many networks are now configured to drop packets exiting their network that don’t have an address from their network. For example, in a Smurf attack the attacker fi
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by 300bps 5y ago
We don’t live in a binary world where our only two choices are: 1. Respond one single way to events 2. Ignore events There are lots of ways to express concern that are less alienating.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I don't get crypto either. I say that as someone who bought a new computer in March 2021 for $1,900 and have used that same computer to mine enough Ethereum in that time to pay for it. Man some days I was making $70 per day when that S
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by 300bps 5y ago
It’s a widely known password auditing tool that’s been around for 24 years.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Or why outright lying that every Tether was backed by a U.S. dollar is termed “misleading”. It’s incredible - they had 4x as much Tether as dollars backing it and lied about audits taking place that never happened.
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by 300bps 5y ago
The article said he plans to continue his appearances despite not being paid anymore: The Wizard said he would keep up his regular appearances at Christchurch’s Arts Centre, chatting to tourists and locals. The centre is hosting an exhibit
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by 300bps 5y ago
I’m sure there are a lot of people my age that remember EA extremely fondly for the things they did decades ago. M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of Gold and Archon and many others were the best games some of us grew up on. I haven’t been involved
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by 300bps 5y ago
C64 I guess this wouldn't be of much use Correct, and even more - the Commodore 64 used a 6510 processor, not a 6502 processor. They're similar but there are significant differences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by 300bps 5y ago
Preventing all people from investing in private companies or closing a loophole that the law was never intended to allow? Because anyone can continue to invest in private companies. You just can’t get tax free growth from them.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I'm actually pretty fiscally conservative but I think it's ridiculous that someone abused the intent of a Roth IRA by accumulating $5 billion into it. The whole purpose of IRAs is to encourage regular people to save for retirement
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by 300bps 5y ago
My kids are 13-17 and are pretty good with money. When they were very little, I did the following: 1. Bought a cash register at Staples and we would have "store days" on the weekend where the kids would make stuff to sell to mom a
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by 300bps 5y ago
I take 2,000 IU of Vitamin D3 nightly right before bed and have no trouble sleeping.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I'm from the U.S. and your experience matches mine. I just have like 1 niece, 1 cousin and a friend or two that I had to unfollow. I'm still friends with them, I just don't see any of the political stuff they post. I know som
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by 300bps 5y ago
Can check these out as an alternative: https://ultimate64.com/ The Ultimate 64 is the computer and the Ultimate II+ acts as a memory card reader for a Commodore 64 so you can mount different .d64 images to it.
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by 300bps 5y ago
A lot more information on DDOS background and techniques on Cloudflare's learning site: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-atta... Includes full details on 11 different common DDOS attack
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by 300bps 5y ago
Until you realize ETH has been around only 8 years and the transaction is entirely irreversible It’s funny you make this comment specifically about ETH since it literally exists today as a result of a hard fork that reversed transactions
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by 300bps 5y ago
if we consume the fuel byproduct, presumably we just end up with co2 in the atmosphere? It's necessary to compare the two things: 1 - we drill out more fossil fuels and burn it 2 - we convert atmospheric CO2 to fuels and burn it #2 i
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by 300bps 5y ago
I have a Lenovo Carbon X1. Can’t get more than 16 GB of RAM. Can’t get larger than 1 TB hard drive. Really crappy wifi chipset that blows up when I use a VPN. I kinda feel like he explained what happened to ThinkPad. They went from IBM whic
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by 300bps 5y ago
Each person values their time differently. I actually value my time at a very high hourly rate. The point I was making is that this attorney’s marketing worked… but his process was terrible. It was more work for me to have the attorney do
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by 300bps 5y ago
I received a letter from an attorney telling me I could lower my property tax. I expressed interest and he sent me a 5 page form to fill out. I looked up online that it was a 1 page form to dispute my taxes myself. Filled it out, was in the
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by 300bps 5y ago
I learned a similar way - from typing in programs from magazines like Compute!’s Gazette.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Speaking as someone who believed all the hype about having fully autonomous cars by 2020, I think the truth is that it is orders of magnitude harder than we thought it was and that we are orders of magnitude less capable than we thought we
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by 300bps 5y ago
What we need now is a search engine that weeds out sites that have been SEO optimized for keyword density. I’m tired of searching for “generic keyword” and getting a page with an extremely low signal to noise ratio written like this: “Many
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by 300bps 5y ago
Hard to generalize about a country of over a billion people but in many areas of India there is a strong sense of “keep money in the family” which is why they like to hire their cousins. That’s also why even marrying first cousins is so com
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by 300bps 5y ago
One thing I haven’t seen covered is multiple servers = redundancy. If a server goes down, having a net split is a lot better than having the entire network down.

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