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by robcohen 4y ago
Correct. I'll need to take classes. I found an online masters in accounting that's AACSB accredited https://onlinemsa.illinois.edu/ I'll knock that out then take the charter exam, if I pass then I'll con
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by robcohen 4y ago
I collect a lot of certs for fun, but most have not been helpful. I still like to collect them anyway. I think OSCP was the most legitimately useful in tech https://www.offensive-security.com/pwk-oscp/ PMP has been use
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by robcohen 4y ago
By that logic, gold and silver are also useless. Edit: I was not saying gold and silver have no use, I was saying the argument that usefulness is dictated by whether you can use something to pay a mortgage is spurious. Also, to all the peop
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by robcohen 4y ago
Redfin actually. I lucked out in my opinion. If I were to search for land again, I would just talk to people and make connections. Go to local government meetings (council, etc). Community group meetings too. Ask around, tell people you are
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by robcohen 4y ago
What model laptop is it? Is the battery management on performance or battery saving? This used to be a frequent problem in the 2000s with Linux but I thought it was largely fixed except on the very newest laptops (takes 3-6 months for kinks
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by robcohen 4y ago
I bought 15 acres near Mustang Ridge, TX which is close to Austin, TX. Obviously not Europe but I'll comment anyway. I bought land here because ag exemptions in TX are ridiculously beneficial. If you're regularly paying cap gains
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by robcohen 5y ago
https://www.robcohen.dev/ - It's at least a bit pretty.
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by robcohen 5y ago
Supermicro (pls ignore their massive security problems). ThunderX is great for arm servers.
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by robcohen 5y ago
There's really no need for this. The solution is simple, separate the cost of the product from the cost of support. You need help with a product? ok, pay for it. Charge users for the cost of the employee they want to talk to. There are
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by robcohen 5y ago
I agree, I also gave it a shake and I could not grok it easily.
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by robcohen 5y ago
This is technically correct, but a lot of applications that use blockchain store the proofs on multiple chains, which in your example is equivalent in hashpower to one big chain. Also you are describing PoW and lots of chains are not PoW no
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by robcohen 5y ago
I have a Schwinn IC4 ( https://www.schwinnfitness.com/ic4/100873.html ) which I bought used for around $400. It's a fantastic bike and I have zero complaints. I have a ErgRower from Concept 2 as well, but I can&#x27
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by robcohen 5y ago
There is no practical way to answer this because there isn't enough information. At what scale? (Netflix or a small conference with 1000 users streaming?) Do you have expertise? (Are you a kubernetes/nixos guru with extensive colo
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by robcohen 5y ago
It think something like this would need to scrape the information from each service, which sounds like a lot of scraper upkeep for a variety of different sources. I think a more interesting question is whether there is a public API that has
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by robcohen 5y ago
Cyber defense is generally a joke. The people who know how to do it knew how before they ever joined the military. The bar is so low for security for pretty much everything that simply showing up to run a Nessus scan and patching basic fire
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by robcohen 5y ago
Same arguments from both sides, different day. So tired of the self-righteousness of both sides. The reality is that there are use-cases that are useful today with crypto. The reality is also that the vast majority of money in crypto is the
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by robcohen 5y ago
Obviously. It’s just not a 3rd party. It’s the 1st party.
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by robcohen 5y ago
In the Marine Corps I used to run 8 miles a few days a week in direct sunlight in southern california. It wasn't even particularly humid, and I'd still get perilously close to heat exhaustion. Then I realized I could put a large i
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by robcohen 5y ago
Yes, eventually I believe proof of work will be replaced by other protocols such as proof of stake. This is already the case on many chains. The cost for proof of stake is minimal, as in you can run a full node on a raspberry pi. Check out
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by robcohen 5y ago
So I think we're talking past each other. For NFTs, there is the minter and the current owner. You can have third parties sign NFTs or validate their provenance, but ultimately the NFT's value is determine by the market (offers fr
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by robcohen 5y ago
> game developers would almost certainly require the NFT contract to involve some kickbacks Perhaps. But I think you may be jumping to conclusions there. The truth is that licenses have not been easily transferable in the past. So there&
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by robcohen 5y ago
No, you do prove that you own a digital asset. Now whether that asset is blessed by some third party, and whether that blessing is considered valuable, is largely unrelated. I never said that you own an image or anything the NFT references.
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by robcohen 5y ago
I'm not a huge fan of NFTs, but they do actually solve a problem. They allow you to prove that you own a digital asset, without having to have anyone "vouch" for you. I can prove I own it myself. They also allow me to trade t
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by robcohen 5y ago
> I love transit and want more of it, but the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving. Wow. You just crystalized exac
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by robcohen 5y ago
Even at the time, EOS didn't look great. The technicals just weren't there for the protocol. It was joked to be the AWS of blockchains -- ie. essentially centralized, same with Ripple. It was definitely not the most promising. I w
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by robcohen 5y ago
Taproot changes this. Smart contracts are going to be a lot more feasible now.
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by robcohen 5y ago
I think this analogy is almost correct, but it's better to think of crypto as owning a deed to land. You can in fact hold on to it and trade it, but at the end of the day all you are doing is changing the name on the deed. The land sta
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by robcohen 5y ago
I would have skipped as much of high school as possible. Just enroll in a community college and graduate with a degree with a masters in a 3+2 program. School is largely a waste of time.
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by robcohen 5y ago
One trick I've found for colos -> Find a small local ISP or WISP, get to know the owners. Do research on local colos and what they charge for say one rack. Then halve that price, split it amongst 2-3 friends, and make an offer to th
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by robcohen 5y ago
Fiber is the only thing that any money should be going to. It it isn't even expensive. Just require all road construction to also install fiber. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/nati

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