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by cubano 10y ago
But wait...he spent $3400 on a WP "security pro" to fix everything for him!
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by cubano 10y ago
Right...but the thing economists have learned is that these dramatic financial events come pretty much without warning, so saying that because people are predicting it and its not happening yet doesn't mean it won't eventually. Th
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by cubano 10y ago
> Inflation ends up being a wealth transfer from the working class to the rich. Absolutely, and while my use of the word "dodge" might have been sloppy writing, your analysis of it is spot on. But also, it is almost universally
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by cubano 10y ago
Looking through the history of financial crisis, the end-game is pretty obvious. Short-term, its a win for 401k holders and retirees so politically its an easy sell. However, sooner or later, all the dollars and yen that the government sim
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by cubano 11y ago
That look super interesting...just bought it in fact. Thanks for the info.
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by cubano 11y ago
This TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good... makes the same point and used data from an 75y study.
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by cubano 11y ago
I found the most surprising aspect of the article was the guy absolutely refusing to believe that his Skype contact was phony and trying to scam money from him, even when the very law enforcement he so trusted to help "save the hostage
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by cubano 11y ago
I'm not really convinced if its even possible for me to learn something that I'm not interested in. [edit] By learn, I don't mean simple regurgitation of the facts or some superficial thing, I'm talking about extended
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by cubano 11y ago
I am surprised that no one has been developing (or I haven't heard of) fully autonomous airplane pilot systems. Something like that tied to a fleet of solar planes like this for shipping stuff could be a real game changer for certain t
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by cubano 11y ago
Most IT-based business hire based on the lowest cost option and what tech stack the founders are comfortable with. Probably not as true in SV and SF, but the rest of the country it is.
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by cubano 11y ago
All b) really does is start the loop over again at the initialization step.
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by cubano 11y ago
One of my favorite little know facts about how much has really changed with medical treatment... Only 90 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge's 16 year old son died from a foot blister he got while playing lawn tennis on the White Ho
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by cubano 11y ago
Maybe, in the VCs minds, a "group of low-paid humans" is equivalent to "ai."
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by cubano 11y ago
Of course it is...its has been and is being totally propped up by the Fed monetizing debt with equity purchasing ie QEI, II, III with QEIV being considered soon[1]. This is nothing but an asset bubble that is sure to burst someday, as is ak
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by cubano 11y ago
Not me. In the 80's and 90's, I decided to do other silly things with my life, like becoming a professional guitarist and being a Dad. I know I know...how irresponsible. :)
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Panhandling for Education and Profit(boston.cbslocal.com)
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by cubano 11y ago
From my experience in addiction therapy, one thing has become very clear to me and that is much of the compulsive behavior caused by faulty brain wiring began during early childhood. In my case, I was abandoned by my biological parents for
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by cubano 11y ago
I would have thought that the two-week 0day exploit alone was 100 hours.
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by cubano 11y ago
Oh then you must try this: http://www.philosophizethis.org Stephen West does an outstanding job of tracing the complete history of philosophy in the West and relating its ideas to modern thought and idioms, and uses humor effect
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by cubano 11y ago
Isn't one of the more interesting benefits of a UBI supposed be that it frees the people getting it to be madly productive in their passionate interests? As Sam Altman said in a recent podcast (and I paraphrase here)..."its ok of
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by cubano 11y ago
I no longer drive for a variety of reasons, and here in Florida at least where everyone has, it often seems, 2 cars, and there is very little good public transportation, it's not really very fun. I get things thrown at me by random dri
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by cubano 11y ago
In my experience if a tech hiring person is playing with "trick" questions during an interview you should very quickly start wondering if this would be a place you really need to work.
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by cubano 11y ago
I think a more interesting question is...can any successful self-publishing website do the things necessary (whatever they may be) to prevent it from becoming the marketing shit-heap he describes? I have my doubts, but anything is possibl
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by cubano 11y ago
"Free will" is almost certainly an illusion as well. This has been proven in many different ways over the past 50 years. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5975778/scientific-evidence-that-you-...
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by cubano 11y ago
Here's one...maybe the actual developer who was contracted to build the damned thing purposely used weak encryption to try to ameliorate his/her part in making this malware mess.
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by cubano 11y ago
I'm not sure if my thoughts on this subject can ever be articulated correctly, but I'm going to try anyway at the risk of being misunderstood. Due to my lifelong struggles with addiction, I have often contemplated suicide. Actual
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by cubano 11y ago
Well then, do better and don't look back. There is no shame in taking a first job out of college and realizing it wasn't meant to be. Working at your age should be akin to dating...you should have no guilt or issue with realizing
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by cubano 11y ago
Yes for sure someone like you should head to Summerlin.
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by cubano 11y ago
> But the problem is not nearly as widespread as generally believed... Yes well we agree to disagree because I firmly believe, and my 35 years of experience following the issue closely prove to me at least, that not only is the problem
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by cubano 11y ago
I am not against public investment. I am for using modern IT practices to add transparency and accountability to the process.

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