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by nroets 8y ago
There are some good open letters by shareholder activists, especially if you understand the broader context: Pensioners enjoying meager dividends while management getting fat paychecks.
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by nroets 8y ago
"So if you want to run a rogue service, you need a conspiracy across departments" Or a developer that plants a back door in the code. He then exploits it on the production server. Maybe time is better spent on code reviews ?
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by nroets 8y ago
I toured the US with my bicycle for 5 months this year on a Walmart bikes. Each one lasted only 1 month (1000 miles) before it developed serious mechanical problems like broken spokes. But it was much more economical than an expensive touri
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by nroets 8y ago
My point is that there are many young Vietnamese hoteliers who would love to move to Japan and operate some of these abandoned houses as hotels. They will have to do all the renovations, cleaning etc. themselves, but they will earn much mor
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by nroets 8y ago
$60 a night is not cheap. I traveled (cycling) for 3 months in South East Asia and my average hotel bill was $8, some of them brand new hotels.
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by nroets 8y ago
Starbucks is not locked up by money. On my recent trip to the US, I encountered quite a few (homeless) people in there who came to charge their phones and they got ice water for free.
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by nroets 8y ago
If I had to survive on minimum wage, I would do things differently: No airline tickets, no long distance bus tickets and no sightseeing. Cooking ramen noodles instead of eating the dollar burgers at that I bought at McDonalds. I would also
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by nroets 8y ago
Many state parks in California has a special area for cyclists and hikers at a special rate ($5 - $10) and no reservation is needed. 1 night only in each park. AFAIK, primitive camping for a night or two in a National Forest is free. Just b
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by nroets 8y ago
I recently toured for 5 months in the US on my bicycle. My average cost was $30 per day. That included sightseeing, an airline ticket every month and a bus ticket every month. I used Warm Showers and wild camping, so I rarely paid for housi
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by nroets 8y ago
Using billing to measure the size or space of something is the worst kind of measure. For example, I recently got on a Grey Hound with my bicycle, packaged in a box. My ticket was $27, but the bike cost $30, even though I weight 3 to 4 time
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by nroets 9y ago
This article (and most comments here) assumes that all African countries are the same. Hans Rosling of gapminder made it clear how different they are. South Africa is very dependent on tourism. And it's not just SA National Parks. The
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by nroets 9y ago
Humans are not going to die out. Look at the data. We have made significant progress in reducing death on every front (war, many diseases, hunger, accidents). We are doing too little about global warming because no one is predicting that it
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by nroets 9y ago
Cooperatives is the best thing you will get. (A company owned by its clients). But clients around generally clueless how to run businesses. So they either don't excersize their voting rights or they vote for incompetent managers. One s
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by nroets 9y ago
> The requirement for consumers having accurate information is a government regulation. But there are many areas where self regulation works better than government regulation. Print media is a prime example. If one newspaper accepts a br
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by nroets 9y ago
Up this. In the last few months, I've seen people buy mining computers without doing their homework. Who controls the bitcoins that's mined ? They can't really say. Will it still be profitable when the next generation mining
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by nroets 9y ago
So person Y read an email late at night and forgot about it. So you send a director to jail. Tomorrow many of the "good" directors feel scared and they simply do not accept any new appointments. Who will fill the void ? People who
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by nroets 9y ago
Self driving (and taxis) cars can reduce traffic, because commuters can combine them with mass transit (e.g. trains). If a commuter travels more than 2 legs in a day, it's very likely that mass transit will not cover one of the legs an
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by nroets 9y ago
There are many caveats. For example, the server and the connection must be trusted. Otherwise, an attacker can the javascript to send himself a copy of your password. And weak password are subject to bruteforcing. If you trust the server, r
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by nroets 9y ago
Without advertising spend, the best search engine in the world would have been a university research project (the original Google based on Page Rank.) I would not see many of the quality TV productions, because I don't have pay TV and
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by nroets 9y ago
Sad, but true: "the fact that this treatment is more readily available means U.S. patients (insured ones, anyway) who might not need it go under the knife just to be safe" I only had to make that choice once, namely with the remov
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by nroets 9y ago
The Khoisan have occupied much of Africa for much of human history. [1] I don't know exactly how the Bantus displaced the people that they came across, but I suspect some form of foul play. 1: http://www.nature.com/arti
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by nroets 9y ago
Let me counter with these facts about banking in South Africa: 1. Fees at most banks are high. (A basic account with no transactions typically have fees of several dollar per month). 2. If people are moving away from physical cash, its beca
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by nroets 9y ago
Assuming you use 1 meter steps to walk 10km at an average rate of 5km/h, it will take 2 hours. 5km/h is a reasonable pace for someone walking to / from work / school. Assuming you take one step every second (3600 steps p
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by nroets 9y ago
Tinder calculates a rating for each user (ELO) using the data on right swipes (and other things). Then it only shows your profile to users with a similar rating. (Many users have documented this feauture) Tinder wants the most influential u
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by nroets 10y ago
The $300 billion was estimated by assuming that his assets expand with US economic output. That makes no sense because the US population grew substantially (and the US economy has diversified into many new fields).
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by nroets 10y ago
Has anything been published in international peer reviewed journals ? Are there scientists at NASA or ivy league universities who became concerned and verified it through modeling and simulations ? If the answer is no in both cases, why sho
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by nroets 10y ago
We see precipitous price drops all around us. Like the price of data storage (hard disk), bandwidth or transistors. Local price drops are even more common, for example the price of coal at the gate of some mines. There are some houses in It
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by nroets 10y ago
Captive breeding has been very successful: "The centre first achieved international recognition for bringing the cheetah back from the brink of extinction ..." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Wildt_Cheet
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by nroets 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by ZK proof. But the best password based authentication scheme will only allow an impostor one guess at the password. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaires
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by nroets 10y ago
I recommend that we all add the office number of a health care professional we don't need to our phone book. It will muddy the water just a little bit.

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