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by hangonhn 5y ago
100% agree with you. Not at all condoning their business practices. I'm just saying their business has value because of their large customer base that they've already acquired. Its a customer base that becomes more valuable over t
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by hangonhn 5y ago
I've been a long time critic of RH but you can see the value to their business. They mainly target millenials who are largely shut out of the investment market because of their poor financial situations. Tiny portfolios and game-ified
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Even if they collapse you shouldn't lose your portfolio. These people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_Company keeps track of what you own.
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by hangonhn 5y ago
I got this book recommendation from NPR many years ago: The Art of the Sale: Learning from the Masters About the Business of Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GSYZZM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_... Definitely a great
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Someone should make a website that rates services by ease of unsubscribing and include a link to the unsubscribe link if one exists. A few publications that I enjoy is on my "Never subscribe" list because of the difficulty of unsu
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Can any Googlers confirm or deny if this is also what Google is doing near their campus? I was out walking my dogs near the Google campus and was just stunned by the landscaping that looks like a bunch of unmanicured wild flowers in bloom.
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by hangonhn 5y ago
I never appreciated Futurama when I was younger. At the time it felt like worse Simpsons but in the future. But later on I realized it’s a really good critique of our contemporary society disguised as the future looking back on us with Fry
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by hangonhn 5y ago
I had this surreal NDA experience once: a couple of startup guys was looking for engineer #1 for their new idea. They were total “idea people” and needed someone to build their idea. After going the idea with me and what they envisioned our
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Sherwin Nuland wrote in his book "How We Die" that he really regretted getting experimental treatment for his brother who was dying of cancer. The side effects of the drugs were quite painful and his brother ended up dying anyways
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Perhaps someone can start a computer repair company named "Eunuchs Computers"?
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by hangonhn 5y ago
There are a lot of grave injustices in this world and this was probably not even remotely close to the worst but I am still really bitter about what happened to Aaron after all these years. I remember how upset I was to hear of his suicide
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by hangonhn 5y ago
In case anyone is interested in the history of watchmaking, etc. there's a great book titled Longitude: https://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-... An accurate marine chronometer was necessary for r
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by hangonhn 5y ago
My apologies for the mistakes in my statement. You seen to know much, much about this topic than me; thank you for adding the nuances this complex topic. My comment was based on my recollection of what I saw at the San Francisco Museum of A
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Tangentially related, there is a Greek influence on Buddhism in East Asia because Buddhism arrived in China via the Greek Bactrian kingdom. The Buddha as depicted in East Asia is wearing Greek robes and there are elements of Greek philosoph
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by hangonhn 5y ago
HATEOAS was a little more useful when the commonly used media was XML rather than JSON. XML has XPath, which I was able to use to find the URLs for the different actions I want to perform, should they ever change. In practice, however, thos
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by hangonhn 5y ago
This article is old but really good at explaining HyperLogLog: http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinali...
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by hangonhn 5y ago
I think part of the problem is copyrights don't apply to plain recipes by themselves: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#:~:text=... . "A mere listing of ingredients is not protected unde
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by hangonhn 5y ago
What is the best way for someone in the US to donate to help with the situation in India? I'm not Indian so I don't know much about charities in India but news like this is just heartbreaking and I want to do my minuscule part in
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by hangonhn 5y ago
I think that's what happens when your root is in enterprise software or at least some of your heritage is in enterprise. I have no great love for MSFT but I agree with you about their willingness to support things well past their expec
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by hangonhn 5y ago
Yes! "Against the Gods": https://www.amazon.com/Against-Gods-Remarkable-Story-Risk-eb... It's the opposite of Taleb. Basically, if people were rational and used financial instruments properly, a lot of the ri
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by hangonhn 5y ago
But isn't that true of most reviewers? I don't feel compelled to act unless I have strong feelings in either direction.
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by hangonhn 5y ago
It's an op-ed piece on WSJ. Op-ed piece is just that, someone's opinions. They don't have the same journalistic standards as real news articles. My personal preference is to generally avoid all op-ed pieces and if I do read t
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by hangonhn 5y ago
> More charitable reading is that the encryption key was sent over, and they started restoring with that but using standard OSS tooling. That would make a lot more sense but I also bet there's a non-zero chance that in a day some du
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by hangonhn 5y ago
That's a bad tradeoff. Local and session storage are not secure. They were never meant to be. In storing JWT in local or session storage you've trade CSRF away for XSS in return. The latter is MUCH harder to secure against. Any sc
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by hangonhn 5y ago
That's not what GP is saying. His disputing the claim that WWI was the first industrialized total war. Total war is not the same as a world war. Total war is the idea of committing your entire nation to war (economy, population, etc) i
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by hangonhn 5y ago
OMG. This is just brilliant on so many levels. It's not just subversive against FB's rules but also can be the start of some kind of art project as a statement about what tech companies know about us. But the project itself gives
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by hangonhn 5y ago
There was also a high degree of arrogance on his part. That he thought his needs and priorities outweigh those of the much, much bigger community and/or that he doesn't need permission from anyone in charge of the codebase is just
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by hangonhn 6y ago
Thanks for this info. That was part that always confused me about India and SII. I couldn't believe that they were exporting vaccines a while back. It just didn't make sense to me given the size of India's population. The onl
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by hangonhn 6y ago
There's nothing bucolic about farming -- ever. Both my wife and I come from farming families. I lost a great grandfather who effectively worked himself to death in his early 30s and my wife had a great grandfather who died from being a
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by hangonhn 6y ago
There is a pretty big generational divide among the Taiwanese with the older generation still identifying as Chinese while the younger generation is adamantly identifying as Taiwanese. It's hard to imagine how a peaceful reunification

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