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by larrys 12y ago
Many registrars have sold people on using whois privacy to "protect yourself against hackers and spammers". [1] Many end users either buy this argument or simply parrot what they see others doing (or not doing). There are legitima
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by larrys 12y ago
The idea is good but they need to have both an "about" page, contact info, and remove the privacy on their whois. [1] If they aren't willing to disclose who they are I would have a problem with hiring them. [2] There is no re
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How Millennials are reshaping health and wellness(quirks.com)
32 points by larrys 12y ago|3 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"$60 billion is incomprehensible to most people. It's money so big that it is not money anymore, it's the power to make society-level decisions. In a sense it is so big that it becomes an obligation--see Bill Gates and Warren
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by larrys 12y ago
"Imperative statements tend to evoke more visceral reactions than indicative ones." Also as a general rule they will get more linkbaity attention.
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by larrys 12y ago
"move closer to where you work" My office is about a 3 minute drive from where I live. The biggest improvement isn't the gas cost it's the fact that I pickup an immediate 1.5 to 2 hours a day in time from not having to c
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by larrys 12y ago
An urban legend for sure, this version also claimed the government was culpable: (Towards bottom of page) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_saving_device
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by larrys 12y ago
Agree. Talking a good game and doing are two different things. (That doesn't mean however that it's not possible to do both). People for sure go for pithy sound bites and easily digestible (with no way to verify) information throw
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by larrys 12y ago
I remember a similar theme way back in the 70's being used in the rear pages of auto magazines to sell some secret additive to getting high mileage in your car. In a similar way, if something was a great idea, and could improve mileage
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by larrys 12y ago
" many of which, if you actually applied them to the real world, would result in clients saying, "Wow, these guys are hard to work with, can we please find someone else?" Exactly. Totally flies in the face of saying "how
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by larrys 12y ago
Thanks for asking! But I'd rather not mix my commenting on HN with business. What I suggest that you do (if this is important to you) is whatever registrar you use, ask them (in writing) what their policy is with respect to whois and
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by larrys 12y ago
Depends on the registrar. As a registrar I can tell you that we would bend over backwards before allowing a domain to go this route. Also there is very little practically that prevents a registrar from putting in valid whois info (event the
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Hundreds of Thousands of Google Apps Domains’ Private WHOIS Leaked(blogs.cisco.com)
170 points by larrys 12y ago|45 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
That's a good point but I don't have any time to do those things (but it would be fun). That said if you've never flown a gas rc you should give it a try (if you can afford it since they are typically more expensive than an e
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by larrys 12y ago
"Swarms of drone pilots could be flying and recording without the intent to monetize" I'm not sure I agree with that. As someone who has flown RC Helicopters for a long long time, one of the reasons I haven't gotten more
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by larrys 12y ago
You are talking about solving a problem that would take many years or decades to solve.
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by larrys 12y ago
You also find that happens on certain cruise lines. A family works on a ship and send the money back home. I am guessing that some people think that there is so much money sloshing around the Valley that taxes should be higher to take care
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by larrys 12y ago
"This may not be the most popular thing to say, but ... Just move?" The other question is (don't know the answer) how many people who owned homes (instead of renting) were able to cash in in some way on rising property values
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by larrys 12y ago
I think you are getting blinded by to much of a "halo". After all that's a bit like thinking that someone has to go to an Ivy League school (let's say Harvard) or "game over". We all know that there are many su
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by larrys 12y ago
"expectation in the tech industry of having to maintain certain after hours activities to make one self marketable" On hacker news you are getting a very small slice of the tech industry. And by reading HN you are subjected to rep
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by larrys 12y ago
He raises a good point. I stopped reading NYT online regularly when I started spending more time reading HN. The fact is you have to pick your battles. And what you spend your time on. Your question is good though. If I understand you to be
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by larrys 12y ago
Other than cost (which is certainly a factor) I guess I've never understood why people schlep around a laptop and use the same laptop for their desktop by plugging in cables. I know people do this who could easily afford an additional
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by larrys 12y ago
Ntim, but I think that has much wider appeal and for that matter it has visuals that are practically art in themselves. Almost like back in the day what was known as a "coffee table book" something that would be a conversation sta
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by larrys 12y ago
Good points and good examples but to me this is a bit different. First, most of the things that you have mentioned there are other birds of the same feathers (or whatever the expression is). So it's an experience that can be shared. T
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by larrys 12y ago
To summarize: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
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by larrys 12y ago
"Information on particular SMS cards is surprisingly hard to find, so I made a database of SMS cards, collecting information on 900 different cards. Given the historical importance of SMS cards, I think information on this technology s
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by larrys 12y ago
That doesn't help occasional important people who might send you an email that you might miss because it ends up in spam.
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by larrys 12y ago
"This is about directly replies from me to people I have been emailing for months all of a sudden ending up in their Google Spam folder" Yup same exact thing. Just the other day I sent my wife a few links from my business email ac
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by larrys 12y ago
This book backs up what you are saying (in part): https://books.google.com/books?id=qtCRa7bCz3oC&pg=PA13&lpg=P... However as another commenter pointed out the "phony" switch worked. Plus according the the
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Build Your Own Cloud Hard Drives Get a Second Life(wsj.com)
5 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments

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