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by iak8god 9y ago
> You’ve lost your mind if you really believe inflation has only been roughly 2% the last decade. Do you generally find that being insulting without providing evidence for, or even explaining, your position usually brings people around t
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by iak8god 9y ago
Over the last four decades, the slow and steady annual inflation looks very easy to plan for: http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor...
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by iak8god 9y ago
Stash gold for a Zimbabwe scenario, lead for Mad Max.
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by iak8god 9y ago
That seems like a major obstacle to mass adoption. The average HNer will understand that, and be willing and able to do it, but the average person will not.
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by iak8god 9y ago
This question occurred to me while reading the article. Thanks for pointing this out. This seems like a serious limitation. Is the solution just for everyone to run their own instances?
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by iak8god 9y ago
It wouldn't really, but it would be significantly less douche-y, because it would ultimately be based in a less disparaging view of older job seekers.
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by iak8god 9y ago
Despite significantly increasing its total number of users since 2014, Facebook has many fewer users in the 13-17 and 18-24 brackets. The 13-17s dropped 40% in three years. https://isl.co/2017/02/2017-facebook-demo
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by iak8god 9y ago
Yep. I was hoping that sentence would end with "because I figured people over a certain age probably wouldn't be interested in entry-level positions ," and I was prepared to think that was an interesting point.
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by iak8god 9y ago
Probably living in extreme poverty is sufficient.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> In the past, there was another extreme in societies when raped woman could be considered guilty for inappropriate seduction of a men. That still happens in some societies today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatif_r
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by iak8god 9y ago
I am suggesting that the broader homeschooling community may be equally fertile ground to find enthusiastic early adopters.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> It's a good reminder to keep your coins off Coinbase. I'm finding that keeping coins off of Coinbase is easier to do than keeping cash off of Coinbase. It's fast and cheap to transfer cryptocoins to Coinbase, but takes
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by iak8god 9y ago
> A good place to promote this would be with secular homeschoolers. Those homeschooling for nonreligious reasons are often dealing with a bright kid interested in advanced subjects. I don't see any reason to restrict this to those h
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by iak8god 9y ago
> It probably isn't, but isn't that awful, too? Sure, but it's something we've been doing for decades. And I can't really blame parents for keeping kids occupied the easy way for a few hours at a time.
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by iak8god 9y ago
I didn't know Saturday morning cartoons had died. But surely the huge volume of content on Netflix et al played a role?
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Is there any real difference between this and targeting children with advertisements on good old fashioned TV?
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Do these exchanges report 1099s to the IRS? Not usually: "With the exception of some business accounts, Coinbase does not provide 1099 forms. Coinbase does however provide a specialized Cost Basis for Taxes report which will help
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by iak8god 9y ago
> I can imagine that that would stimulate a huge influx of people who do that simply as an excuse to take a 4-year vacation (of sorts). The current trend is to run universities and colleges "like a business." In this model, s
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by iak8god 9y ago
I'd guess Teichopsia was more interested in sources about slave labor, energy costs, and environmental impact. E.g. [ https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-what-we-die-for-child-... | This Is What We Die For: Child Slav
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by iak8god 9y ago
> You can also go beyond free. After Reader, I decided to go with Feedbin so that I know it won't evaporate when the next annual drop-the-least-sexy-projects time comes around. This is why I went with Newsblur.com, which is open sou
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by iak8god 9y ago
> you absolutely have to cuff up your pant leg to pedal anyway You absolutely do not need to cuff up your pant leg. You just need an ankle band to keep your pant leg away from the chain: https://www.amazon.com/High-Visibi
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by iak8god 9y ago
The title of this should be "Don't expect VPN to magically protect your privacy," not "Don't use VPN services." Here are some reasons I've used, and continue to use, VPN: * When I am on a network that uses
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Is there a distance that could be calculated between 2 hashes and tell if they are similar ? Yes, maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-preserving_hashing > So are your old passwords stored in plain te
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by iak8god 9y ago
> The standards for acceptable conduct in the 18th Century were quite different in this regard than they are today. Well, they didn't have Tinder, but I'm not so sure things were as different as you may think. Here's a pre
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by iak8god 9y ago
> I wish I had more insight into why Ben Franklin thought this was important. Perhaps you would if you'd tried it :) But really, doesn't this point boil down to: don't act like a sex addict, and avoid stirring up a bunch
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> Ah, but nowadays there are sites that won't let you set a new password "if it is too similar to previous passwords". (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ I don't know how people who don't use password managers are able to deal with th
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I wouldn't even know how to go about tipping my delivery person(s). I started home delivery of a newspaper last fall and the service got pretty bad right after the holidays (the paper is now consistently halfway down the lawn rather th
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by iak8god 9y ago
> So the annoying workaround is to append year+month on the end of each password (which I was basically told to do when first setting up my account). So combined with a "maximum 10 characters" leaves 6 for my actual password...
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I'd be willing give it a try. But if used in typical decorative grass fashion (small clusters as border accents) it should generate about enough flour to make a muffin or dinner roll every year or so. Is backyard production of quinoa d
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by iak8god 9y ago
"but for health" allows a lot. And "never to dullness, weakness, or to the injury of your own, or others' peace or reputation" is a pretty solid policy.

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