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by coltonv 7y ago
Since it's HTTPS, a signature or checksum are pretty pointless, TLS will do the certificate checking and encryption for you. Your assertion that "if your server gets hacked, so do your customers", also applies to a checksum,
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by coltonv 7y ago
There's no need to be so judgemental of a well written article describing someone else's experience, even if it isn't as grand and wonderful as yours.
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by coltonv 7y ago
Cutting your own hair sounds like such a minor sacrifice if it means you can work whatever job you want to after 30 and retire at 40. I've found that I'm actually happier when I am more frugal. Spending money on things, more often
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by coltonv 7y ago
This is exactly what "student-to-be" means.
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by coltonv 7y ago
But doesn't MM mean 2000 in roman numerals?
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by coltonv 7y ago
I didn't intend to put down your suggestion, like I said, online banks are great, but there isn't a capitol one, ally, or discover bank in my state. So for people who use cash, a credit union is an excellent choice.
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by coltonv 7y ago
Other people are going to suggest online banks, which are excellent, but you can't deposit/withdraw cash easily to those, which is the main purpose poorer people have for a bank account. Instead, try local credit unions. As an exa
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by coltonv 8y ago
I've noticed an interesting thing in terms of "youtube rabbit holes" towards extreme content. I'm what American society would generally consider "liberal", and I watch a lot of videos about fixing climate chang
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by coltonv 8y ago
I agree, the best CEO would slash their salary when the going got rough. However, there's no system to keep them accountable to this, so it doesn't happen except in places like Japan, where there's a culture around it.
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by coltonv 8y ago
What the CEO really has is 200x the affect on the company. A 15m bonus for a CEO may sound ridiculous but if picking that CEO led the company to 50m increase in revenue over an average CEO than it was well worth it to hire them. Or at least
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by coltonv 8y ago
But also, possibly, you'd have a lot more and a lot deeper interaction. This could be the kind of app Facebook was originally, where you added your friend and shared basically anything random without a focus on getting likes. Dumb insi
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by coltonv 8y ago
A friend of mine just told me she's going back to school for a doctorate despite being a successful researcher at an Ivy league school. Basically if she wants to run a lab or lead projects with good funding, she needs the title, even i
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by coltonv 8y ago
I'm going to guess no, based on the fact that in Apollo 13 they had plenty of oxygen, but they needed to stop the buildup of CO2 or they would die, no amount of oxygen would help them, since CO2 is poisonous.
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by coltonv 8y ago
> A company that is not profitable now that is going to make a profit down the road is a good investment, since you'll be buying it at a discount on the market now. This line of thinking is the reason a lot of people lose money inve
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PSA: Buying a .dev domain via domains.google.com is very broken
3 points by coltonv 8y ago|2 comments
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by coltonv 8y ago
> Kink James VI Quality Freudian slip here.
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by coltonv 8y ago
Manufacturing insulin isn't under patent or a trade secret is it? If the price of insulin rises, then manufacturing insulin becomes more economically viable, so new players will enter the arena, thus driving the price down. Is there an
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Mimir (YC S15) – Helping Instructors Teach CS – Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer(mimir.breezy.hr)
1 points by coltonv 8y ago
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Mimir (YC S15) – Helping Instructors Teach CS – Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer(mimirhq.com)
1 points by coltonv 8y ago
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by coltonv 8y ago
You mean like your bank account number, which is constantly typed into online forms of all sorts of websites. Or your credit card number, which you probably say verbally into the phone to pay your bills? Truth is, lots of extremely sensitiv
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by coltonv 8y ago
The article describes a psychological technique, and the comment describes how a person who is extremely relevant to modern politics uses that technique. I feel the comment is exactly what comments are for, adding further context around an
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by coltonv 8y ago
It's crazy that the government never decided to put these into a museum or sell them to an American museum. I think any of the several air and space museum's in America would be absolutely thrilled to purchase one of these and sho
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by coltonv 8y ago
I agree with this. I believe one of the biggest reasons public opinion switched to support gay marriage so quickly was because of public exposure of extremists like the Westboro Baptist Church. If ideas are that stupid and extreme, it helps
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by coltonv 8y ago
If the chance I'm going to buy something that I've already bought again is close to 0, and it's not smart enough to find anything else for me that it thinks I should buy, then logically it should show me random things. That w
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by coltonv 8y ago
That's not true, putting a product I've already ordered on my recommended list instead of something i actually want to buy is costing them money in lost sales.
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by coltonv 8y ago
I have a friend from the Netherlands and his bike was stolen, despite having a lock on it, the very first week he was in the US. He was completely dumbfounded, the idea of a bike getting stolen was just ridiculous for him, growing up in a s
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by coltonv 8y ago
startWith, in this context of streams, means "let this value (in this case an empty string) be the first value the stream returns"
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by coltonv 8y ago
Amazon has lately been putting ads on prime video for other prime video shows. I have a feeling we're rapidly going towards most paid services having ads. Also, on prime video, occasionally, pressing the fast forward button won't
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by coltonv 8y ago
Bitwarden is the password manager that got my to finally start using a password manager with it's combination of full open source and good UI. I love that they are this security focused as well.
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by coltonv 8y ago
You say "Several major features land every year.", but you don't back that up. In 2018 the major features we got object rest/spread and asynchronous interation. Rest/spread is a big feature that I forgot to mention,

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