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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Tarsnap, Arq, and SpiderOak are backup services created by HNers.
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Dramatic Discovery of Interpretive Compression Algorithm(spideroak.com)
12 points by rarrrrrr 17y ago|0 comments
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
When your palms face the ground, the orientation of the two bones in your forearm compress the tendons slightly. So, I'd really like to try a vertical keyboard. Kinesis makes them, but I'm not convinced I'd find the keys as comfortable as
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
For me it's a large screen and big comfy font size. You might find that resistance training helps, especially back and core/abdominal. An expert trainer will likely be able to identify what's needed.
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Avoid hemorrhoids: Improve Hacking and Health by Moving Your Chair(spideroak.com)
42 points by rarrrrrr 17y ago|27 comments
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
TLDR; Anytime one of your friends uses an app with default settings, it has access _your_ information. To disable, Facebook -> Account -> Privacy Settings -> Applications and Website, uncheck everything. Even then apps can sti
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Did you read the article in detail? It's clearly and unambiguously communicated as a $1, one month trial, as a way of offering a minimal risk option to people who might like to try but are unwilling to risk the $80 they charge upfront.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
If you're into distributed computing and storage engineering, give SpiderOak a call. Or if not, drop a note when you land anyway; we'll at least invite you for lunch or something.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
I'm a bit biased, but I don't feel S3 is the best possible fit for a frugal consumer's backup data. S3 is a high performance, general purpose solution capable of very low latency. Having that performance makes it more expensive than an arc
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
The truly deceitful food industry trick here isn't with calories but trans fats. The FDA allows food companies to round down and say "0 grams of trans fat" on the label if the product contains less than 0.5 grams _per serving_. So food comp
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Indeed. I didn't notice much change myself, but I already get a healthful portion of omega3s and antioxidants from my food. My parents had reduced joint pain/inflammation.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
If you haven't already, check and make sure it's not also full of hydrogenated oils as filler. I once saw such a fish oil supplement at Costco advertised as "full of heart healthy omega 3s."
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
FYI: For a very expensive, but pristine fish oil (actually from green lipped mussels in New Zealand): http://moxxor.com/ (I'm an investor)
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
It's already in your self-interest to be healthy. This is simply re-aligning the doctor's interest with your own. Financially speaking, it's in most western doctors' self-interest for you to be perpetually diseased. For example, doctors
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
No. Data center hardware is intended to pull cool air in from the front and push warmed air out the back. Data centers are arranged with rows of racks side-by-side, creating cold and warm rows in front and behind. Often the HVAC system i
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Great -- I'd like to support their journalism efforts and I'm not interested in home delivery.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
You might like SpiderOak: It includes a "Keep your own copy" option for all the encrypted data blocks. You can specify a local folder, or a SSH/SFTP server as the target. (I founded SpiderOak in '06)
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Please see my reply below.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Some quick answers to several of the questions posed in responses (I will try to spend more time in this thread later today): The expense of good quality food -- agreed wholeheartedly. It's one of the many reasons for solving (as PG says)
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
The natural health community has been screaming this for decades. Few take heed. My family has spent many years studying human health. The well-researched conclusions are so far from mainstream American beliefs that the ignorant dismiss t
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
This is also an apt description of the relationship between the FDA and large pharmaceutical companies. Also, the USDA and large food companies. There are likely many more examples. It's a systemic problem of our structure of government.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Theoretically, maybe, but in practice, the food industry's HFCS sources are typically of abysmally low quality. It's almost entirely from genetically modified corn which has been reported to cause kidney problems for some people. There's a
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Although there are plenty of junk juices out there -- the other bad things in soda give it an edge in nastiness over fruit juice. For example: acidity. Typical pH ranges of colas are 2.5 - 4.2. It literally causes your body to breath fast
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Do you not taste the difference between, say, wild Alaskan or Colorado River salmon vs. fish farm stock? Farmed fish can be improved just by using higher quality feed.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
This list avoids mentioning the every day dietary monsters: sodas, sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils, MSG, corn syrup, homogenized milk, and so on.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
As far as I know, we (SpiderOak) were the first backup company offering 2gb free - since December 07. It works well. I'd much rather offer real value than spend money on customer acquisition via advertising. On average, free users don't
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Umm, the exercise they cited was aerobics, which is well known not to provide a lasting all day long metabolism boost. Nothing new here. Resistance training however typically provides a metabolism boost for the rest of the day (i.e. until
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Leveraging memcached's ubiquity of client libraries as a means to provide other backend services is a cute hack.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
SpiderOak.com code includes plenty of client-side software. It's a zero-knowledge online storage/share/sync system, founded in '06.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
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