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by d4mi3n 5y ago
Eco tourism is huuuge in Costa Rica, and the local peoples greatly value both the cultural and economic value of conservation. I don't think that explains why they've been successful when others have not, but I'd be surprised
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Reading the OP's account on it's own, I figured it may have been due to burnout or similar. Reading this (excellent) comment, I'm reconsidering my own experiences. I suspect this may be the WebMD effect in action (I clearly h
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by d4mi3n 5y ago
It's a fascinating topic! Wikipedia has a pretty detailed entry on the topic and reports the earliest known ransomware attack to be as early as 1989[1][2]! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware#History 2. h
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by d4mi3n 5y ago
You are correct in that handling that volume of physical cash is likely more difficult than I implied, though I don't think removal of cryptocurrency from the equation removes the ability to scale. In my mind, the catalyzing effect of
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I'd argue they make it less risky . Ransomeware has been around since the 90s, just not nearly as prevalent as it was harder to do without getting caught. They could easily instead demand somebody mail cash/money order to an aban
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by d4mi3n 5y ago
I suspect there’s more to the argument than than is being analyzed here, but there are some interesting points in terms of who stands to benefit from a closed vs open information ecosystem. I’d be interested in seeing elaboration on those
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by d4mi3n 5y ago
I hadn't heard of Borromean Knots before you made this comment and got a great read out of it. Thanks! For others following up on this thread, Borromean Knots seem to be an extension of psychoanalytic theory that tries to describe soci
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This depends a lot on context. For example, if you operate as a lender in the US finance industry, you're legally obligated to do things like: 1. Do KYC (Know Your Customer) checks to verify somebody's identity 2. Cross references
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Oddly enough, this comment seems to reinforce the findings we just read about.
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There are other approaches to this as well: 1. Passing around a configuration or context (similar to your gripe around params) 2. Referencing some kind of global configuration (a la env vars) 3. Referencing a local or scoped configuration (
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by d4mi3n 5y ago
I see things like this that seem to me to imply that in order to deserve benefits, someone needs to work. I think a more productive line of debate would be: 1. Do we, as a society, believe we should only care for those who can be producti
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
I hear you, but I feel like that ignores a lot of externalities to hosting a site for a client, including: 1. Support (fielding calls, answering emails, etc) 2. Updates (copy, design, patching) 3. Admin (billing, contracts) And that's
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They are in fact not great IDs and the Social Security Administration asked very nicely for the rest of the country to not use them as a form of identification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus A few reasons wh
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
Both of these vulnerabilities are problematic, though it’s some comfort that only one of them exists with the default OpenSSL configuration. DoS attacks are problematic, though I’m wondering what creative uses attackers will find for buggy
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
While I agree NPM bloat is a problem, this doesn't seem like too unreasonable an approach to publishing a la cart libs like these. I haven't looked closely at the repo itself, but code generation through build/release scripts
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
Fantastic and valid points, though I think pkulak also has a fair point in identifying that this big picture setup negatively impacts folks in Portland via air pollution and other side effects of more coal plants than would otherwise be req
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
Context may be important here. Mortgage vs credit card debt in the US are a bit different due to the type of assets they back--real estate appreciates, many day to day purchases on a card do not. However, there are places where mortgage bac
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
Agreed. I think existing plugins handle vim plugin compat, but for those of us who just miss modal editing it'd be nice to have support for that via existing keybindings. The existing key chord feature in VSCode made up for a lot here,
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I agree the economic issues are problematic and painful. Sadly, I don’t see a way around a lot of financial pain for everyone over coming months regardless of the status of a lockdown. Depending on you
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About 2%, currently. Meaning if you walk into a room, spend time in it with 100 other people, 2 of them are likely to die. The odds are low for an individual. Sadly, 2% is a bigger deal when you get on a bus, walk through an airport, use an
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
This misses an important fact: not everyone is acting in good faith and what should have been a discussion on public health policy has been turned into a political football. Good on you if you can help people who are struggling, but recogn
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Hard to get a diagnosis when the hospital is overrun with people dying in line, friend. To the other points: yes, things will be hard. We can quantify how hard each approach will be. In the case of a lockdown, there will be orders of magnit
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What do you do about folks who don’t have the luxury to choose to isolate? The majority of US citizens don’t have the funds to stop working for more than a week or so. What about all the nurses who die in the line of duty treating all these
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That'd make more sense if heart disease had a significant chance of killing people breathing the same air as you.
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This limits options that are unwilling to meet your requirements; places you would have passed on due to insufficient salaries anyway. If you're willing to take lower salaries, lower your minimal salary requirements to receive more of
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
> And the breaches will still happen, because most of the compliance requirements will be in the nature of having to install antivirus on your Linux servers and mandating passwords to be changed often enough that everybody writes them on
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The article did reference CDDA vehicles in a list item near the beginning of the "Pathfinding" heading. I've been waiting for CDDA to support multi-tile creatures for ages, but that's likely to be some time coming as the
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by d4mi3n 6y ago
Very true! I was also fascinated to find that it wasn't uncommon in the fossil record to have evolutionary lineages of species branch and later recombine. See: https://theconversation.com/dna-dating-how-molecular-clocks
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The kind of mold is important here. Mold on cheese is often not harmful to people. Mold on meat is typically indicative of stuff that will peel out your insides.
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There's also a cruel irony in the fact that addiction has very negative impacts on folk's self esteem. One of the negative cycles in addiction is when someone does become the villain in their own story. It's heart breakin

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