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by czl 5y ago
Having point in time backups is a good start but I can see ransom-ware adopt to slowly corrupt your data in a way that is reversible but may take months to detect. Your backups going back months will then have this corruption. To detect thi
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by czl 5y ago
Assuming zfs is reasonable for the usecase: incremental zfs snapshots are likely efficient since these are byte level vs file level.
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by czl 5y ago
Compound interest over time causes gaps between the rich and poor to grow exponentially. The wider the rich poor gap the less efficient your economy. Societies that realize this implement debt forgiveness policies such as https:/&#x2
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by czl 5y ago
When used for productive things debt is good otherwise it is bad. Growing debt can indicate growing trust and confidence in the future. Growing debt can also indicate over confidence and blindness about the future. Economies have debt cycl
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by czl 5y ago
Any scheme that pays early “investors” with money from new investors will eventually collapse leaving masses who feel they were cheated. When no lies are told yet relevant education or information is held back or obfuscated or buried in pag
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by czl 5y ago
Madoff ran his scheme for decades. Till the day it fell apart 100% of his clients were up on their investments. They also learned that when you multiply decades of fantastic returns by a single zero your outcome is zero. Millions can be wro
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by czl 5y ago
Less volatile with every market cycle? Nassim Taleb disagrees: https://youtu.be/dLOeBSaq-Ps I bet the CoinGeek conference audience were stunned by his keynote talk because Taleb used to be a supporter.
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by czl 5y ago
Cryptocurrency schemes are public but their technology is complex enough (vs their typical participant) that it is not at all necessary to present false information. If anything it is this fact alone makes cryptocurrencies innovative over t
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by czl 5y ago
"a mishmash of genes from two different individuals almost always works out" => different individuals of the _same_ species (which btw is how a "species" is defined). The evolution of organisms that gene mishmash (aka
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by czl 6y ago
More land _and_ due to current orbital geometry, north hemisphere summers are not as hot and winters not as cold as in the southern hemisphere.
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by czl 7y ago
Being poor is mentally taxing. Which bill is more urgent? will I be evicted? will my kids have food next week? Your IQ test performance suffers if your head is filled with such worries. Drive your family in a car on a twisty narrow mountai
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by czl 11y ago
Can employer capture your passwords and use them to access your cloud accounts? Gmail? Facebook? Etc?