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by drchiu 8y ago
Only two ways that I can think of: * Have a lot of capital to begin with (or saved up or inherited) * Move to an area where homes are cheaper
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by drchiu 8y ago
This is great news for MBP/MB owners. The lack of a 2018 release of notebooks while they properly address this is the right thing to do. I wonder how much the class action lawsuits had to do with this, but I feel happy about the outcom
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by drchiu 8y ago
Nice to hear Stripe being proactive before what is essentially functionality breaking changes. Kudos to you guys for having a page with instructions on testing it ourselves on production servers with small snippets of pre-written code.
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by drchiu 8y ago
@dschuetz's answer is pretty good. I would add that it helps to hang around people who are themselves critical thinkers. Not the negative cynical kind, mind you, but those who like to explore new ideas, question old ones, and are not a
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by drchiu 8y ago
I think teens nowadays are much more guarded (given how long social networks have been around now). They've grown up with the knowledge of how social media, when misused, can come back to haunt them. Most of my nephews and nieces have
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Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features(evonide.com)
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Will We Be Prepared for Disease X?(theglobeandmail.com)
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by drchiu 8y ago
A factory reset, according to Cisco, will fix it. Correction: according to the original report a reset will mitigate the stage 2 and 3 attack only Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html?m
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by drchiu 8y ago
The nature of the internet makes online tracking and the minimization of user privacy a natural progression of where things inevitably head. We do, for the most part, live in a capitalistic world. The irony of a privacy advocacy group using
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by drchiu 8y ago
Wow. I remember reading the story about the librarian. Didn’t realize this was how the recipient spent it. Something similar happened to a relative of mine who passed away, and donated much of the inheritance to an organization she thought
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by drchiu 8y ago
Long term shareholder here. I’ve noticed Buffet uses every opportunity to promote his brands. It’s super easy to over read into it when he uses See’s as an example. Honestly, The brand barely registers where I live. The better example would
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by drchiu 8y ago
Yes I remember reading about this thought here: https://wtfuh.com/2018-04-09/gdpr-has-a-few-problems/
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Apple India's net profit surges by 44%(telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Think of equity like buying a call option for pennies and having them explode to dollars or tens of dollars per contract. It may (and likely will) expire worthless, or the leverage from it is so great that you exit with a great return. As t
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Digital Ocean updates bandwidth pricing(digitalocean.com)
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Great diagram! Thank you
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by drchiu 8y ago
I once made the observation that much of the older generation’s net worth is tied intimately with their homes. That if we exclude home equity, the resulting net worth is very little — demonstrating a pattern of poor savings habit and invest
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by drchiu 8y ago
Interesting observation. I think most of us rely on some sort of world view or paradigm to operate. Probably as a result, the actual info stored is even less than a TB.
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by drchiu 8y ago
I’ve not taken the train before, but I’ve heard that the experience is quite different in a good way. No traffic. No hustle and bustle.
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by drchiu 8y ago
Great cartoon. It’s funny but it’s essentially what I’m feeling about the topic. The stirring is the variable modification, no?
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Ask HN: Is AI essentially just linear algebra?
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Why hasn't Apple spawned more billionaires?(vancouversun.com)
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by drchiu 9y ago
I find whenever I consider the alternative to free, I need to examine deep within myself to ask if I’d be willing to pay for the half a dozen services or so that I use every day for free, subsidized currently by an advertising model. Althou
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by drchiu 9y ago
It looks like they use real live human reviewers. Seems like a great remote job position.
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by drchiu 9y ago
Yup. This resonates with me as well for stocks and properties. Takes a long time to build and quite underwhelming to own. Nothing to brag about as people pretty much roll eyes and move onto talking about sexier ways of making money.
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You now need an income of $100k to afford a Toronto condo(business.financialpost.com)
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by drchiu 9y ago
Agreed. I’ve been involved in a few of these regulator type of questioning and they all speak the same way. It has the effect of making the (obvious) answer seem criminal. People in real life don’t talk that way because it can come across a
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by drchiu 9y ago
GDPR isn’t so much a freedom of speech regulation insofar it’s more of setting out the rules on how corporations need to handle personal data. The ideas behind GDPR are good, but I’m unsure of the burden of compliance. Users will enjoy, pre
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by drchiu 9y ago
I would imagine that only legitimate businesses have to be GDPR compliant. Government agencies almost certainly fall under some national security exemption.
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by drchiu 9y ago
Precisely this. Once you’ve dealt with sensitive data where authentication is required (real life, signatures with witnesses and all), the surface area for attack when it comes to data request is huge if the burden to reply is based simply

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