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by larrys 11y ago
I found this interesting (circa 1990) re: signaling: "Harvard, like a number of other top law schools, no longer ranks its law students for any purpose including a guide to recruiters. "
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by larrys 11y ago
Separately, continuing after funding to use a domain hack side.cr is a non-starter. Worse yet SEO miss if you google "sidecar" they don't even come up. [1] [1] Except on the right panel as "company" but not in the a
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First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review (Obama) (1990)(nytimes.com)
5 points by larrys 11y ago|2 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Good question. ICANN does audits where they cherry pick some domains and say "show me what the fuck happened in logs and prove you did the right things". However the audits are every 3 years or so and the domains are just random p
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by larrys 11y ago
So on your business card instead of putting your name@domain you can just put "Hey! To find me just google 'my name at my long company name'" and people will end up in the right website, right? And what about email?
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by larrys 11y ago
Edit: Not any place you want actually... Per ICANN if domain is made innactive the page that it points to if it points to a page (it doesn't have to you can just put the name on hold) needs to describe how to get the domain back. Once
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by larrys 11y ago
Some domain registrars send postal notices. However they don't charge discount pricing.
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by larrys 11y ago
I am not a programmer but I am able to do some "things". Starting with Unix in the 80's (and trying to do C) back when you had a book or two (and nobody to ask any questions). There were many times that I had to work 4 hours
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by larrys 11y ago
"hoping that you'll make enough money to change the laws" I think what you mean to say perhaps was " raise enough money to change the laws by hiring lawyers and political operatives that know how to work the system &qu
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by larrys 11y ago
Ok sure then you are then advocating taking property lawfully obtained and giving it to someone else? And what do you mean by "predatory real estate owners and bankers". It's a free market system if you can't afford to l
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by larrys 11y ago
And, noting that they don't use the word "unicorn".
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Billion Dollar Startup Club (updated Today)(graphics.wsj.com)
3 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
This chart is interesting, noting that they don't use the world "unicorn" they call it the "billion dollar startup club" http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
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OSHA SIC Codes Not Updated for the Internet(osha.gov)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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Hackers Trick Corporate Email to Steal Funds(wsj.com)
2 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Of interest: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/09/05/remote-control-he... "A 19-year-old model helicopter enthusiast was killed Thursday when a toy helicopter he was flying struck him in the hea
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by larrys 11y ago
"Kimchi also laid out his thinking on how autonomous drones could safely fly in the same locations as helicopters. Helicopters are much more problematic than planes for drones because of low-altitude flying." I wonder what size dr
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by larrys 11y ago
Seems that it would be quite possible to design systems to defend against these type of things. As only one example: http://archive.defensenews.com/VideoNetwork/2277581414001/Am...
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by larrys 11y ago
We still do a nominal amount of legacy hosting (dates back to the 90's so why give up the money?) and had a long time customer switch because his brother offered to do it for free. He also switched the domain name as well which ended u
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by larrys 11y ago
Hosted at Bluehost.com. Like other hosts (charging only I see now "$3.95/month") they promise you "unlimited bandwidth". The TOS then defines "unlimited" in a way that let's them do things like this.
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by larrys 11y ago
"The reason for this is that the prospect of future wealth, rather than current income and working conditions, is the main driver for people to stay in the business: low-level drug sellers forgo current income for (uncertain) future we
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by larrys 11y ago
In looking at that thread (from the OP) I am wondering how much the algorithm, among other things, takes into account the appearance of comments downvoted to oblivion. I would guess that that needs to be a factor considered. A quick scan of
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by larrys 11y ago
One of the first books that I read talked about the story of the backup tapes on the car seat that were erased when someone in Sweden (?) with heated seats drove home. (urban legend iirc).
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by larrys 11y ago
One thing that I have seen over many many years in business is the need to decide where and when to cut corners and take chances. I have definitely seen that after the fact you could feel "geez I should have done that how stupid"
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by larrys 11y ago
Machines: Yes this was the 80's (sorry I didn't point that out my mistake) and things have changed. However to that point if you have your golden machine operator turning out good work (and he is only 1 of 2 on a particular line)
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by larrys 11y ago
Agree the advice is well intentioned and is correct (in theory according to what I read) but not entirely practical. For example: "then at a minimum you should verify regularly that the code has not changed (you have to hope that you a
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by larrys 11y ago
So in short store the keys in some place that you have easy access to by a password. Kind of a version of two factor "something you know and something you have" whereby the "something you have" is the cloud storage devic
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by larrys 11y ago
My idea is a USB stick on car keys (my comment) is preferred simply because a phone is a more high value target than your car keys typically. You usually don't leave your car keys "laying around" they are in your pocket altho
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by larrys 11y ago
ssh keys on USB attached to your physical house and car keys with encryption (say an encrypted volume). Don't note what machine or where the key has access to either. I know purists will take issue with this but it's a solution to
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by larrys 11y ago
Easier just google "Sleep Is the New Status Symbol For Successful Entrepreneurs wsj" (note the wsj at the end). The link clears the paywall.

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