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by npsimons 9y ago
> 1. Invest in a well diversified portfolio that pays very low fees (vanguard funds for instance) 2. Do not try to time the market 3. Save as much as you can as early as you can - maximize your 401k/ROTH contributions 4. Never carry
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by npsimons 9y ago
> The main problem trying to be fixed here is "identity theft". It wasn't a problem, at least it wasn't up until the point that creditors reframed it as "identity theft." It's fraud, plain and simple,
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Not for left handed people. I'm left handed; the numpad is freakin' awesome for number entry. Back when I still played games like Descent and WoW, it was also very efficient to setup the mouse for my left hand and leave my ri
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by npsimons 9y ago
> By default you can manipulate the data to your heart’s content. http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3996068979/the-levels-of-em...
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by npsimons 9y ago
My personal favorites on the topic: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... https://robots.thoughtbot.com/5-useful-tips-for-a-better-com...
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by npsimons 9y ago
> > Jeans of all brands still have antiquated watch pockets, now too small to be useful > I disagree. They make great coin pockets, which also helps keep my phone from getting scratched up by the coins. I'll second; up until a
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Consumers don't keep track of every little law or right This came up in a similar form in the discussion about IoT devices and privacy. We hold doctors and civil engineers to standards to protect the public, why shouldn't we
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by npsimons 9y ago
I'm happy that IEEE is recognizing this, but there's a reason I'm no longer a member: IEEE supports software patents. Might want to remove that beam from their own eye first . . .
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by npsimons 9y ago
Much like Rubber Ducking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by npsimons 9y ago
> I _thought_ I wanted to play a video game for several hours but ultimately I understood, based on how I felt afterwards, that is not really what I wanted. This is what I'm talking about. I can spend all day watching Netflix, but
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by npsimons 9y ago
> “There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past impor
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. > variety of hobbies That's the thing though: do people really enjoy passively consuming entertainment? I can't speak for others, but it makes a world of difference when I spe
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by npsimons 9y ago
> You can’t hibernate an OS and swap out all the hardware and expect it to actually wake back up. You’re going to have to do a full boot. Have you actually tried? You sound like you're used to Windows where if you change a single pi
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Sidenote, those earbuds sound interesting. Could you point me to them? Bragi's The Dash: https://www.bragi.com/thedash/
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by npsimons 9y ago
> If we follow Troy's line of reasoning, then we would need to add these warnings to phones, tv's, websites, credit cards -- just about anything that contains data about you. I honestly don't see a problem with requiring
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by npsimons 9y ago
> And how do you know, pre-purchase, whether it does? By requiring a warning label on it, as the title suggests. Doesn't seem like such a silly idea now, does it?
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by npsimons 9y ago
> That's why you need standards, so vague terms like the 'general public don't care' are not used to abuse them. I wouldn't argue so much for standards of technology, as for standards of conduct. It's funny
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Everything connected to the internet is a potential security and privacy risk. Yes, that's true. What I'm saying is that not everything needs to be connected to the Internet, and requiring things to be connected to function
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by npsimons 9y ago
> It would be interesting to have a word for devices that is sort of like 'organic' for food. > It would indicate that the device is self-contained and has no connectivity. "Well-designed"?
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by npsimons 9y ago
> This feels kind of like that. It might feel like that, but it isn't. Everything[1] causes cancer. Not everything needs to have an Internet connection to a service to function, not essentially at least. It's only these peopl
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by npsimons 9y ago
No lie, I still have games in physical boxes, and none of them phone home or require any sort of Internet connection to function. Almost as if they designed for http://offlinefirst.org/ instead of the other way around . .
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by npsimons 9y ago
> I'm one of those crazy people who believes in standards-based protocols and commodity hosting service). If that counts as crazy, then lock me up, because I'm crazy too. I'll second everything you said, but I'm not s
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by npsimons 9y ago
> have the negative affect of giving us "too much" choice, and so people never settle or make choices, or take chances. As someone who settled and is now regretting it during the divorce, I have to ask why you think people shou
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by npsimons 9y ago
> > Slashdot was awesome right up until the point that they forced the redesign on everybody and drove away all the users that made it great. > The redesign wasn't what killed it. The constant astroturfing and (what I assumed
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by npsimons 9y ago
This is scarily close to how intelligence agencies infer information. If you ever wonder why government is so clandestine about even unclassified bits of data, consider how they could be used when combined. As someone else said, just imagin
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by npsimons 9y ago
> I would encourage anybody who thinks cyclocommuters are particularly bad actors to stand on a busy urban street corner and count the percentage of drivers who are actively engaged with their mobile phone. Also, every single time I see
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by npsimons 9y ago
Just like you can adapt to exertion in cold, you can adapt to exertion in heat. I regularly do both. It helps if you aren't overweight.
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by npsimons 9y ago
Shit, if I dig deep enough in Usenet or my email archive (going back to the nineties!), I can easily find some cringe worthy things written by me. It's actually rather humbling and enlightening.
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by npsimons 9y ago
> But yeah, I'd be happy to work 70 hour weeks for $3M per year. I think I might compromise to work 70 hour weeks for $3m for one year . The trick is, you don't get to pick when that year happens, and there's actually a
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by npsimons 9y ago
> The true advantage of Org-Mode is the extensibility, which comes from it being implemented in Emacs Lisp and living in Emacs. I feel this cannot be overstated. I am finally moving from a 2009 Nokia N900 to Android only because I know I

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