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Tell HN: Simple ransom spam results in success
3 points by hippich 8y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How to sell e-commerce private label business?
1 points by hippich 8y ago|3 comments
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by hippich 8y ago
It indeed depends on personal circumstances. In my case my case sending mail through own SMTP server is not a problem. Even if that would be a problem in future, you'd rather use one of SMTP PaaS (there are quite a few of them out ther
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by hippich 8y ago
I am using sovereign - https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign It is dated it seems, but still does a job. There are indeed issues with delivery, but you just work through these as they arise. Also, there is no monetiza
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by hippich 8y ago
To people mentioning public shaming. I had a mailing list with them removed with all contacts lost and account banned without even notifying me. Customer support indeed responded, but with something like your account was banned because you
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Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap(youtube.com)
3 points by hippich 8y ago|1 comments
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by hippich 8y ago
I guess depends on which 10 years you pick and whom you compare yourself with - https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
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The Ant and the Grasshopper: Living a Fable-Ous Life(danspira.com)
2 points by hippich 8y ago|0 comments
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by hippich 8y ago
more difficulty is better - more protected network is. where efficiency will come from is better mining hardware and introduction mass adoption of the lightning network.
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by hippich 8y ago
And I would not believe you until I saw this failure proving me wrong :)
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by hippich 8y ago
There is certainly an opportunity cost related to all these bankruptcies - I agree with that. But without someone trying it, we would not know it would fail. So in a way, it is a valuable result as well. (and no, I do not believe someone ca
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by hippich 8y ago
the author is making a point about the comparison to a transaction on a visa network. transaction on a visa network cannot happen without the rest of the traditional financial industry. I think the closest blockchain tech to a visa network
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by hippich 8y ago
most of these bankruptcies are due to firms holding reserves in crypto. I don't think all companies combined spent that much of resources on employees in recent years, and most of the lost money is due to plummeted market, and that mea
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by hippich 8y ago
much of ideas behind bitcoin itself was to replace traditional financial system. and traditional financial system is not zero energy use industry. in fact it uses a lot of energy. rough comparison from 2017 - https://hackernoon.c
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by hippich 8y ago
I can understand why one would not want such "features" in their phone. But I can't understand why someone would be glad something failed unless one is a competitor of the failing company.
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by hippich 8y ago
thinking globally... if someone holding the bag (i.e. bought at 20k and sold at 3k) - someone (smarter?) else got the difference and now have capital to deploy it more efficiently (if we assume bitcoin is not efficient deployment of resourc
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by hippich 8y ago
They are there to protect the state from the population. Since population doesn't have much means to harm the state, hence police are acting more "mildly", but no way they are doing traffic regulation mostly (in fact I can co
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by hippich 8y ago
That explains why you, in particular, can't take a risk at starting a business. It does not explain why healthy/young/single/childless people do not try it. Since we are talking about anecdotes - whenever I mention some
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by hippich 8y ago
When I was experimenting with my Clicker Diet (shameless plug - https://clickerdiet.com/ ) I found it is much easier to not eat in the morning/lunch times, to stay under daily target. It is intermittent fasting per se,
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Fighting Money-Laundering for God(asiasentinel.com)
3 points by hippich 8y ago|0 comments
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by hippich 8y ago
Now you learned the practice, consider taking CS degree at uopeople.edu to clear "Must have Bachelor degree in CS" and just to learn stuff beyond the day to day stuff. Of course, it really bothers you, it is totally fine just keep
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by hippich 8y ago
> Saying "Humans suck at estimating" is nonsense. It's a skill that can easily be improved - usually at the cost of some up front planning - and there are plenty of resources to help you with that. Not sure if we think abo
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by hippich 8y ago
1099 paid freelancers pay self-employment taxes, including the equivalent of all the social taxes. Why does government care? (there are no sick leave or vacation minimums in the USA)
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by hippich 8y ago
There is a concept of "spike" work. Basically, when you do not know what it takes to implement something, you work on a "spike", the result of which will be new stories better describing what needs to be done.
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by hippich 8y ago
And finding developer-run customers. I wonder how many such customers exist.
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by hippich 8y ago
That what many miss about social networks (and long-distance communication overall, i.e. IRC, ICQ, etc) - it is not always about looking at other people fancy moments (which is probably some type of social networks promote today) but it is
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by hippich 8y ago
In addition to obvious flaws others noted, these tools fails to catch a certain type of reviews manipulation: Try: https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07FTFFY24 https://www.fakespot.com/product/28pcs-wo
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by hippich 8y ago
yep :)
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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor (2009)(theguardian.com)
91 points by hippich 8y ago|30 comments
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by hippich 8y ago
", people tend to postpone work because they hold overoptimistic beliefs about the ease of the task" - this is certainly not the case for me when I procrastinate. Usually, I procrastinate when mentally exhausted, not seeing a clea

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