mikea1

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by mikea1 4y ago
> But how do you do it? Any registrar that receives the transfer will automatically have the extended expiration date. (The expiration date is actually tracked at the registry.) For reputable registrars, I think you could gather a list f
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by mikea1 4y ago
> The process is free as in gandi won’t charge you to migrate but newer registar might The new registrar will charge a fee and the expiration date of your domain will increase by one year. The transfer fee should be roughly the same as t
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by mikea1 4y ago
> I've purchased domains from Gandi, pre-paying for multiple years of service such that some domains I have don't need renewing until 2027. Just in case you did not know: if you transfer to a different registrar, you will not l
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by mikea1 4y ago
> I've seen a real trend over the past decade of a lot of people wanting to consume content/ideas/etc. from a slide format rather than reading paragraphs of text. I prefer long form content... but spending time in the comm
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by mikea1 4y ago
Thanks for expanding on that train of thought. Your elaboration with civic duty is apt.
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by mikea1 4y ago
> By leaving it to the market with such a pithy attitude, we divest collective responsibility and instead assign it to some mystical process. I think of it the other way around. If you do not vote with your wallet/feet, then you are
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by mikea1 4y ago
> The bottom line is that Mars is an awful backup for life. In the near term, absolutely. But the long term goal is to colonize multiple planets/moons. Eventually, Mars will be one of many worlds on which life finds a foothold, whic
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by mikea1 4y ago
> People will lose interest and it'll be about as interesting as Antarctica. And then what? Sports! Imagine playing basketball (or football, etc.) on a dome on Mars with less than half the gravity of Earth. People back on Earth woul
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by mikea1 4y ago
This people-people vs. things-people dichotomy is an interesting theory. Did you read this somewhere or is this something you deduced?
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by mikea1 4y ago
My bad, I had a critical typo. I was referring to the special contract that Verisign has with ICANN to manage .com [0] [0] https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-decides-on-com-...
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by mikea1 4y ago
Yes, a registry just manages TLDs. The registry Verisign, for example, manages .com, but it's not the owner. In this case, Tuvalu owns .tv and they contracted with GoDaddy Registry to manage it [0]. It can be confusing because the line
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by mikea1 4y ago
They just did. Due to their contract with ICANN, it is a political, negotiated process. The newer gTLD registries have a freer hand. Edit: "contact" to "contract"
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by mikea1 4y ago
> they're just beating domain scalpers to the punch Not quite the same punch. A domain scalper can only demand a premium price once (when they sell/transfer it to you.) But, a registry may charge you a premium price every singl
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by mikea1 4y ago
And it is fair to say that a significant price increase was likely after the transaction. From the above linked article, it was a leveraged buyout (which by its nature puts a lot of pressure on extracting revenue from the business and its c
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by mikea1 4y ago
> GoDaddy doesn't have a monopoly on .com, .biz... GoDaddy is the registry for .biz[0]. That is, GoDaddy was started as a registrar, but the company integrated vertically with a registry division, so it plays both roles now. This wa
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by mikea1 4y ago
There are price tiers for different domains. If a domain has been classified in a premium tier, then its create and/or renew price is significantly higher. Price tiers are generally controlled by the registry (Google Registry, in this
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by mikea1 4y ago
> HTTPS would have to be enabled, compression on, and HTTP request logging enabled. Basically, the framework should be configured in the same way it would be in production. Kestrel can be directly internet-interfacing, but that's no
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by mikea1 4y ago
People respond to incentives. If you want to change behavior, you need to change incentives.
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by mikea1 4y ago
I just tried this for 5 minutes. Seems like it works well for me. The most remarkable part, mentioned in the article, is that the mouth/jaw closes naturally. Very interesting because my mouth naturally hinges open when I sleep on my ba
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by mikea1 4y ago
> But "not changing commit IDs" isn't part of git's utility. How is that not a useful, intentional feature of git? Commit IDs (hashes) ensure DAG consistency as well as many other benefits. Linus explains it better th
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by mikea1 5y ago
Well said! In hindsight, it is easy to forget that there was a lot of FUD at the time. These programs were created quickly - some countries had better infrastructure to handle this than the US - but the alternative could have been an under
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by mikea1 5y ago
On the one hand, the S&P 500 has outperformed the FTSE for just about any period in the last five years. But that’s not necessarily due to the PPP. Stimulus checks and unemployment insurance were the majority of the $2.2 billion effort.
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by mikea1 5y ago
This is impressive and shows a lot of dedication! How are you hosting the site and assets?
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by mikea1 5y ago
The salt-and-hash combo is how email logins worked for decades. The problem with this approach is that what you really want different salts, which requires that the server knows the plain text password.
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by mikea1 5y ago
There are downsides to any diet. Keto has the huge upside of cutting out nutrient-poor highly processed foods that many people do not even realize are unhealthy. Also, the idea of “unhealthy fats” is debatable [0], but that is besides the p
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by mikea1 5y ago
This is similar to an approach in a clinic run in Toronto by Jason Fung that puts patients on a Keto diet for a few days before they begin fasting for five days. If I recall correctly, the purpose is to acclimate the body to running on keto
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by mikea1 5y ago
> Take sausages Not a great example to make your point because processed meats (specifically, cured meats) are carcinogenic. [0] > Are these now bad? Colorectal cancer has always been bad. The difference is that we have more data now.
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by mikea1 6y ago
That’s consistent with the biography by Ashlee Vance: Elon pushed for Windows and C++ because he believed it was a more mature ecosystem.
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by mikea1 6y ago
I like that your comment aligns with game theory. It is in the best interest of individual corporations to hire the best candidate. It is in the best interest of the industry to create a strong pool of candidates. An industry consists of in