Meekro

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by Meekro 13y ago
Are there any web hosting companies that don't rely on the "send a reset link to your email address on file" model of password resets? You're right, that model is deeply broken if anyone can intercept those emails (as
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People becoming "unemployable" because of robots is one of the most common arguments in favor of this, and that argument is nonsense because actual skilled jobs are not going away. Will a robot fix your car when it breaks? Will it
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The downside of rehabilitation is that it's really easy for the criminally minded to take advantage of. For example, if you have an opportunity to make millions from insider trading and the only risk if you get caught is that you'
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by Meekro 13y ago
Anyone who has a .edu email address can get Amazon student, which is free for 6 months and then 50% off forever. http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info?ie=UTF8&refcust...
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by Meekro 13y ago
I wouldn't have minded if the distributor was newegg or something, like it is for motherboards. But all these router resellers are really stupid "solution providers" filled with "customer relationship managers" who
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by Meekro 13y ago
That was my first thought, too, but here's how my exchange went: 1. Contact fortigate, they put a sales guy in touch with you. Ask him some tech questions, turns out he doesn't know anything. He gets a tech manager in the loop. As
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by Meekro 13y ago
Have you ever shopped for high-end routers, like Juniper or Fortigate? For some reason they absolutely refuse to sell directly, and force you to go through one of those stupid resellers that don't even understand the product they'
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by Meekro 13y ago
I still don't understand how AWS was preferable to a dedicated server host. Could you elaborate on that?
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Houston's public schools never taught intelligent design, and most people there don't give it serious consideration.
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Contrast SF's dysfunction with Houston, one of the conservatives' model cities. Houston's streets are clean, public parks seem to have the quality one would associate with private ones, there's no graffiti or homeless fo
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Tripod let you run perl scripts?
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by Meekro 13y ago
For Joe to be 10000x more valuable than Frank, a given company must prefer to have one day of Joe's time, rather than 27 years of Frank's time. Is that possible? Absolutely. Maybe Joe can spend that day calling up an old friend fr
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by Meekro 13y ago
This is nonsense. The transaction malleability issue doesn't cause coins to be automatically resent. The simple explanation is that the owner ran off with everybody's money.
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by Meekro 13y ago
That's painful, but those users will be even worse off if they can't use the app at all. If the creator's goal is to serve his users, and not his pride, then he'll have to swallow it and play by the rules.
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by Meekro 13y ago
DreamHost's DreamObjects is pretty interesting -- it's much cheaper, and implements the S3 protocol so it's (mostly) a drop-in replacement.
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by Meekro 13y ago
This is a really cool idea, but I'd like a bit more storage, and less cost, before I sign up. If I could get 3TB for $15/mo, I'd be there. 3TB drives can be had for $120, and I'd like my cloud storage to be competitively
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by Meekro 13y ago
You seem to implicitly concede one of my core points: that all this crap is based on appeal to emotion, rather than a rational reason for protest.. if we at least agree on that, I'm glad. Those industry-destroying innovations tend to t
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by Meekro 13y ago
You're right, they do have a claimed reason for protesting that I didn't mention (rising rents), but I think it's a very poorly thought out one, based on emotion rather than rational thought. If I was renting out a spare bedr
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by Meekro 13y ago
So now that Occupy Wall Street has failed to accomplish anything, like-minded people are kicking off Occupy Silicon Valley? I used to think that wall street was a target because they were seen as getting rich without producing anything, and
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California already has crazy high state taxes, which these companies pay. That money was supposed to be funding things like mass transit. It gets wasted and public transit is still crap, but we're supposed to believe that if Google onl
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by Meekro 13y ago
Regulated cab companies simply sold out during the snowstorm -- there were more people asking for rides, and fewer drivers willing to drive. Uber's approach solved both problems: filter down the list of ride requests to those who real
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by Meekro 13y ago
Paul Graham actually wrote an essay about this: http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html I agree with pg -- eliminating inequality would almost eliminate incentives to take great risks, and would be a disaster for the economy.
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Humans have been automating away labor in various ways for thousands of years. At one point, everyone would've had to devote most of their time to obtaining food -- now one guy (plus some farm equipment) can feed thousands. There are c
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