mikeiz404

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by mikeiz404 4y ago
If you’re worried about beating inflation, have a long time horizon, and don’t mind some risk you might looking into investing in total market index funds. An index fund for the S&P 500 has averaged ~10% returns when looking back 30 yea
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
I think there are some steps which can be taken to help mitigate this: - use a VPN to obscure rough IP based location lookups and if the VPN has shared traffic it also make tracking more difficult - limit apps which are useful with geolocat
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
With respect to neonics this article by the intercept [1] gives a pretty good overview on the tactics some other of the larger pesticide makers have used. It’s incredibly long but worth the read. Plus they provide links to a lot of primary
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
Two thoughts. 1) The 80/20 rule is a percent so absolute numbers can go up while relative numbers stay the same. So I’m not sure looking at absolute numbers of available items over time is good enough. You’d also want to look at sales&
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
You may be interested in the LocalCDN extension [1] which tries to solve the privacy vs speed issue for common resources by intercepting known remote resource requests and returning a local copy. 1: https://www.localcdn.org/
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by mikeiz404 4y ago
You don’t need to read the payment data. I think a phishing/spoofing attempt may be possible by playing a louder or directional ultrasonic message to introduce an alternate payment url. Or you may be able to accomplish a denial of serv
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
GitHub README is here https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/blob/main/README.md for those looking for some background.
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Ah I misinterpreted that you were talking just about your app, my apologies. I didn't mean to call you out on that. I'll update my comment to reflect that.
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
> If a user of the app deletes, it completely nukes their entire account, down to the last byte. Edit: This comment is in response to the suggestion that all apple apps delete all local data which after rereading the parent they were onl
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Your face structure may be different than mine but I found this sleep mask stays put and works well at blocking out the light — https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07D3M5TTZ
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Have you tried a sleep mask? Once you lift it off the room will be light again. I found that to help quite a bit and as a bonus they are portable and much more economical than motorized blinds or blackout curtains. That being said motorized
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
From some research I did a little while back light therapy does work according to the research papers but the problem comes when the end product does not deliver enough lux (amount of light over a given surface area at a given distance). II
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
I made a reply to a similar sibling comment over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30561845
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
So the part I’m getting hung up on is if Eve attempts to MitM the quantum key exchange wouldn’t the probability of winning drop below the acceptable threshold since Eve does not posses the entangled particles? If that’s the case then wouldn
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Personally I don’t like paywalls because… 1) the price is too high for the content I consume. Often I will read a single article from a single well known publisher a couple times a month to a couple times a year. 2) I don’t know if I will f
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
For more context I believe this is the article the quote is from: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240379-the-benefits... At my company, Zerocracy, we practice a #NoAltruism policy. We, quite literal
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
> The article suggests that quantum key distribution (QKD) is a replacement for a courier, but that is not true. Distributing an initial small secret key (which allows authenticity of the post-processing of the quantum measurements) is s
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
For reference the relevant section is > How secure is Facebook Pay in online stores? > To keep your information secure, your debit and credit card numbers are encrypted for safe and secure storage. This information won’t be shared wit
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
The ethereum crypto minor for many would be a reoccurring net loss (or a negative externality on the person paying for electricity). > “Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electr
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Can you add a link to the app? I’m not seeing one in the description.
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Wow that’s kind of alarming; I wouldn’t have expected that behavior from an OS provided AV (I would have assumed it would be more conservative) but maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised given the trends these days (and microsoft’s decisions wi
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
So it’s been a long, long while since I’ve explicitly run AV software but doesn’t signature, heuristic, and behavior based detection all run locally on the machine? I suppose the exception might be sandbox but from what I understand this is
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Reader view works too (on mobile)
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Wouldn’t it be roughly equivalent for a miner to put the amount spent on overhead and recurring cost such as electricity into staking and then sell or “dump” the staking rewards assuming the % payout is the same? It seems given enough time,
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Tip: Turn off dark mode If the background is dark blue you won’t be able to see the effect very well.
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Do your photos scale in your gallery? This is off the top of my head but if your images are set to a percent based width so they scale (mine are) and you know the aspect ratio of the image then you can set the CSS ‘ aspect-ratio’ property (
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
For those who don’t have fb I believe this is the video (but I’m guessing from the comment’s content only) — https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/08/19/jack-dorsey-spe...
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
Hey just wanted to first say thanks for taking the time to write a detailed response. > I've never even seen the thing with my own eyes, but I know it's a pretty big flex by the French that they own it. > It was insured in 2
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
It appears to be more of a UI issue where the legal entity name is shown along side or sometimes in place of the URL which can be misleading. To compound problems legal entity names are not required to be unique across states or countries s
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by mikeiz404 5y ago
If you complain to them about that they will allow you to use an ACH number instead of account credentials.

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