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by pdog 9y ago
I close and reopen a PayPal account for every individual PayPal transaction I (rarely) need to make. It's a hassle, but I see no alternative if I don't want the account-based "features".
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by pdog 9y ago
This meme that transportation network companies are waiting for self-driving cars to eliminate drivers has been promulgated for years, but does anyone really know what will happen when self-driving cars are widely deployed? It's pure s
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by pdog 10y ago
> An average peasant in the feudalism had more free time than an average 9-5 office worker now. If you want the lifestyle of a medieval peasant, you can do that now. No one is stopping you.
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by pdog 10y ago
"As fate would have it, Jay's status appears to be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye." https://genius.com/Jay-z-encore-lyrics
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by pdog 10y ago
These are good techniques for working a network but you'll need better advice than "be human" if you want to be influential. Networking is overrated. Figure out what you're good at and make sure people hear about it. The
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by pdog 10y ago
No it doesn't.
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by pdog 10y ago
Why?
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by pdog 10y ago
Let's dispel with this fiction that the companies collecting all this personal data don't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.
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by pdog 10y ago
"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." C.H. Spurgeon, Gems from Spurgeon (1859)
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by pdog 10y ago
From the article, explained: At the time, Uber was dealing with widespread account fraud in places like China, where tricksters bought stolen iPhones that were erased of their memory and resold. Some Uber drivers there would then create do
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by pdog 10y ago
If you own a total market index fund, REITs are already a small part of your portfolio.
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by pdog 10y ago
If none of this sounds appealing to you, consider investing in a real estate investment trust (REIT). These are companies that purchase office buildings, hotels, and other properties and distribute their rental income as dividends. For exam
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by pdog 10y ago
Thank you. You've confirmed a long-standing suspicion regarding how white LED lamps are actually worse than yellow sodium for streetlights and headlights.
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Babyboomers cut out of wills as wealth goes straight to grandchildren(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
It's far more likely that Chrome's ad-blocking feature will be similar to the implementation of content blockers in Safari (introduced at a WWDC 2015 session)[1][2]. The new model for content blockers in Safari is faster and a lot
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by pdog 10y ago
Yes it does.
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by pdog 10y ago
What do the contents of a juice pack look like prior to juicing? As far as I know, it's not possible to manually extract meaningful amounts of juice from leafy greens or root vegetables (e.g., spinach, romaine, kale, beets, ginger) so
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by pdog 10y ago
Active money is trading much faster these days. A smaller percentage is enough to make the market efficient. The outflow is mostly from active domestic equity mutual funds (average expense ratio: 1%-1.5%) to index domestic equity ETFs (aver
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by pdog 10y ago
The vast majority of people trying to form any new habit will revert to their old behavior. This is human nature and has nothing to do with diet.
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Bulletproof Will Open New York Cafe to Spread Butter-Drink Craze(bloomberg.com)
1 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
Flipping a single bit of an encrypted file renders the whole thing useless.
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by pdog 10y ago
Most cameras can only record up to twenty or thirty minutes of video because the image sensor needs to cool down. These cameras are designed primarily for capturing still images, not video, which is the only reason this limit exists. It has
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by pdog 10y ago
> Uber said it uses generally accepted accounting principles. Revenue includes only the portion Uber takes from fares, except in the case of its carpooling service; the company counts the entire amount of an UberPool fare as revenue. D
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by pdog 10y ago
> One of the most unnerving aspects of life at Tanium is what's known internally as Orion's List . The CEO allegedly kept a close eye on which employees would soon be eligible to take sizable chunks of stock. For those he cou
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by pdog 10y ago
React was built entirely by Facebook and all of the top contributors work there. https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/contributors
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Actually, faster pickup times mean busier drivers(newsroom.uber.com)
2 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) With the recent revelations of Windows telemetry[1] spyware, it's worth paying the premium for an operating system, macOS, that doesn't spy on me. [1]: https://arstechnica.com&#
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by pdog 10y ago
Fukushima has demonstrated that humans aren't great at controlling or predicting the real risk of nuclear. The fact is, even if no one dies from acute radiation poisoning, nuclear disasters are costly and devastating.
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by pdog 10y ago
Medicare provider utilization and payment data (which is a large percentage of the total market in the United States) has been publicly available[1] for several years now. The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize[2] for the analysis t
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Caution Signals Are Blinking for the 8-Year Bull Market(nytimes.com)
2 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments

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