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by gist 7y ago
> The fact of the matter is that history has shown that even big death tolls have been much bigger emotional affairs than sustained economic and market affairs. My look into the Spanish flu case, which I’m treating as our worst-case scen
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The Digital Marshallese Sovereign(avc.com)
9 points by gist 7y ago|1 comments
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by gist 7y ago
Why do you (and others) think that education and academia is somehow special and not the same as, say, acting (or any career) where people regularly earn no money and work bad 2nd jobs just to survive and do something they love or want as a
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by gist 7y ago
> Molekule air filters as superior technology based on nothing more than having seen their Instagram ads. Is this any different than people buying any luxury product based on marketing? Look at any designer clothing item. It's all b
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by gist 7y ago
> It’s good to sometimes do something else, to stay mentally fresh. That's a judgement based on the idea that going to a kids meeting is a 'good' thing and nobody should question it. Let's say Obama in his first few w
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by gist 7y ago
Development time? He is President. You make as if they are going to have some kind of normal life in any way shape or form. > Being president is just another job, albeit far more high profile. Just another job? More high profile? You are
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by gist 7y ago
Not sure I understand what Obama given his job as President and you have in common re: my comment. If you can go to your kids school events and it doesn't impact your work (or happiness or makes you happy for that matter) in some way (
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by gist 7y ago
> And it's absolutely no surprise that an activist would push on Twitter; its CEO isn't even full-time. For those to young enough to remember (you do) there are so many things that happen in this day and age in public companies
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by gist 7y ago
> Cryptographers have maintained that when you create a back door, it is a question of time until it is found and publicized. Why would it not be possible to create a system that required several manual and offline steps in order to brea
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by gist 7y ago
> Technology companies need an "ombudsman" - a contact that customers can go to when the normal tech support processes have failed. From what I read this is nothing to indicate the process failed (so far) just that the user dec
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by gist 7y ago
> BTW If you, dear reader, ever find yourself so frustrated with Cloudflare that you feel like your only recourse is a blog post... my email is jgc@cloudflare.com and I’m happy to hear from people. I know that people will think it's
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by gist 7y ago
> Does anyone know what might have caused Cloudflare to delete my domain? Any ideas for how I could transfer my domain away from Cloudflare sooner? I don't get the point of 'shoot first ask questions later' type approach.
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by gist 7y ago
The problem with the 'game' of worrying about what comes out of your mouth is that you find over time that if it's not on target all the time and every time people will still have a problem and hate on you (friends or strange
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by gist 7y ago
> "don't speak unless you can improve upon the silence" Sounds like one of those things that is meant to keep people in their place and/or make them feel less worthy or as a put down. > A lot of the nervousness com
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by gist 7y ago
Noting also that from my quick reading (note the qualifier there btw) I am not seeing the issue of having people review the essay mentioned. Most people not only don't have this luxury but we also don't know the contributions that
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by gist 7y ago
'More bosses give 4 day workweek a try'. How weak is that? What does 'more' mean anyway? .001 more? 40% more. Of course there is no answer to that. What about 'more bosses think wearing blue shirts in the office is
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by gist 7y ago
> While at the same time anybody is allowed to buy TVIX, a 2x leveraged VIX ETF, which is basically gambling. Nobody is hyping that and most 'anybodies' don't even know that exists. (I never heard of it but everyday I read
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by gist 7y ago
> Would love to see them go even further and let just anyone invest Very broad statement. 'Anyone' in 'any' amount? Surely you are not advocating that. Are you? In what way do you think the average person 'anyone
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by gist 7y ago
Very true. Also words vs. conversation tends to be very efficient although often lacking cues that come with voice or visually. No wasted time and much less boredom from feeling trapped.
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by gist 7y ago
> Would it not be better if those domains were used for a genuine purpose? I own (as many others do) a vacation home. Wouldn't it be better if that home was used by someone who was homeless and needed a place to live? Why should I h
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by gist 7y ago
This was a surprisingly good article and I had not even really (odd actually) heard of Tim until literally the other day. Maybe I came across his name somewhere in the past but thought "he's a self help type author no interest&quo
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by gist 7y ago
> Healthy happy people simply do not spend much of their time that way. But what if making comments makes you happy? While I don't disagree with the premises of what you are saying I think you are not considering that for some peopl
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by gist 7y ago
Where are you from where do you live? Does not work that way in a capitalistic system in the US. He has the domain and it's lawfully his to decide what to do with it. It's not owned by the public. He's not wrong for selling
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by gist 7y ago
Depending on the auction venue may not be a way to 'bid last'.
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by gist 7y ago
Same here. Except time period longer and it's a few text files and text routines.
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by gist 7y ago
Fwiw the correct way for Microsoft should they decide to bid on this domain to win this auction would be for them to make initial overbids that drive the price up to prevent others simply playing a game of chicken from taking hold and getti
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by gist 7y ago
> The end of the article the owner talks about why he doesn't just give the domain name to Microsoft for the good of security I can't even take that type of statement (in the article) with a straight face. You have an ordinary
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by gist 7y ago
> I consider it bad reporting that Brian doesn't mention whether Mike already contacted Microsoft or not. To my other comment you say 'contact Microsoft' as if there is a phone line which goes directly to the decision make
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by gist 7y ago
> I wonder what kind of authority ICANN has in revoking domain name registrations in extreme circumstances. Not even close to the way this works ICANN does not 'revoke' domain names. There are ways to take possession of a domai
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How to Securely Erase an SSD Without Damaging the Drive (2018)(blog.macsales.com)
1 points by gist 7y ago|0 comments

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