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by scubbo 4y ago
Fair point. I will certainly admit that, despite having made a decent (not spectacular) profit in crypto in 2021-22, the cascading high-profile failures and rug-pulls have made me lose faith in the individuals involved. The technology and c
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by scubbo 4y ago
Absolutely right, and I salute the impulse to educate folks that taking financial responsibility and autonomy is something that is possible and profitable! (While still disagreeing with you that crypto fits the requirement-profile of an eme
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by scubbo 4y ago
I think you're comparing apples to oranges. Even Crypto's most ardent supporters would not disagree that prices are volatile - which means that it doesn't suit my stated requirement that there's never a bad time to liqui
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by scubbo 4y ago
This is a factual but unhelpful comment. I (and many many other people) have a need for an emergency fund that is liquid at short notice. Storing _all_ my wealth in investment vehicles (and possibly needing to liquidate it at an inopportune
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by scubbo 4y ago
> when you think about it the brain is probably the descendant of some parasite which crawled into another organism and used the exo-organism as a puppet I haven't heard this claim before - any specific reading I should look for?
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by scubbo 4y ago
Cannot stress enough how much you should run, not walk, from Wells Fargo. When I was foolish enough to seek a mortgage with them, they instructed me to sign documents stating that a) my partner was my spouse (and doubled-down on that when I
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by scubbo 4y ago
I'm getting 4.25% from Vanguard's "Cash Plus" account[0], which is also FDIC-insured (up to $1.25M). I don't use Apple Pay so can't comment on 3, but I'll happily take an extra 0.10% interest at the cost o
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by scubbo 4y ago
Can you describe a credible submission to a bug bounty that isn't "100% isomorphic to extortion"?
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by scubbo 4y ago
> Do you not have any respect for people who actually spent their time and creativity to provide the information necessary for this model to even work? Yes, which is why I'm delighted to be able to filter out the advertizing spam th
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by scubbo 4y ago
> Asking the question just means you have no idea what you're saying. Or in other words, it's a stupid question. So, to be clear, you're saying that the only kind of question that isn't stupid is the one where the que
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by scubbo 4y ago
Glad I wasn't the only one that saw that! Right up until the "Clear Values" section, I was finding this all very reminiscent of advice I'd received from Ten Percent Happier / Headspace! Which is not, to be clear, cr
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by scubbo 4y ago
I've enjoyed Matt Levine's metaphor in Money Stuff - an MMO-addict bought the maker of his favourite game.
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by scubbo 4y ago
Well, yes, but "enough" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Learning git is a large and steep learning curve, but the benefits from doing so outweigh the costs.
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by scubbo 4y ago
> [K8s] allows dev teams to not worry about all these things; all they must do is to write a simple YAML file. More importantly, teams no longer need to ask DevOps/infra folks to add DNS entry and create a Load Balancer just to expo
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by scubbo 4y ago
> bad actors will take everything resulting in some not having access to a condom until a refill It must be extraordinarily scary to live with such suspicion and paranoia.
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by scubbo 4y ago
Can we please, please, please have someone write the authoritative article on why this is _actually_ a bad idea, so that it can be linked next time this conversation comes up, rather than merely intimating that it's bad? ...Yes, I&#x27
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by scubbo 4y ago
> Try examining the above script. It's a lot of work. It's not just a bunch of wget's and cp's, there are a bunch of subroutines and conditionals. Too much to look at. This would be a reasonable counter-argument if mo
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by scubbo 4y ago
I think you are misinterpreting "push". In the comment you replied to, it is (I believe) being used in the sense of "pressure, force, compel", rather than "provide with opportunity". My reading of TedDoesntTalk
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by scubbo 4y ago
> I’m not really sure why the government thinks they should be free. Why do you think they shouldn't be? > I think I’m mainly jaded of the government giving away things and the generally negative outcomes it creates sometimes. Wh
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by scubbo 4y ago
Sure, and as another answerer of that SO question points out[0]: > We are used to read from left to right, so a command like > `cat infile | process1 | process2 > outfile` > is trivial to understand. > `process1 < infile |
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by scubbo 4y ago
And if you're in a situation where you care about the overhead of extra processes, you wouldn't be exploratively and iteratively constructing a query on the command-line - you'd have already done the exploration in order to u
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by scubbo 4y ago
Quite. I had occasion to share this[0] in another thread, and it's relevant here, too: > When I offer a pipeline as a solution I expect it to be reusable. It is quite likely that a pipeline would be added at the end of or spliced in
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by scubbo 4y ago
Hopefully this[0] should be the last word on "useless" uses of cat > When I offer a pipeline as a solution I expect it to be reusable. It is quite likely that a pipeline would be added at the end of or spliced into another pipe
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by scubbo 4y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by scubbo 4y ago
In my idiom, at least, "kind of" is not solely deminisher, but can also be an approximater - to say something "kind of upset me" _could_ mean "it upset me, but not a great deal", or it could mean "it had a
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by scubbo 4y ago
Goodluck!
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by scubbo 4y ago
> The light bulb went off: I knew the answer. They don’t want you to buy a shot of espresso. Espresso is not as profitable as espresso drinks. The only way to push espresso drinks with fancy syrups and names is to make sure as a stand al
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by scubbo 4y ago
Good to know, and I always appreciate and respect people bringing statistics and citations - but this in no way refutes my core point that it is always reasonable to assume that Facebook will act unethically based on their past behaviour. Y
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by scubbo 4y ago
It is disingenuous to pretend not to understand that unethical behaviour in one area is a strong predictor of unethhical behaviour in another area.
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by scubbo 4y ago
> use a self hosted vpn that plugs into pihole? never tried it Not that it plugs _into_ PiHole per se, but rather that the Self Hosted VPN makes your phone use your home DNS server (including the PiHole itself). It works! I use https:&#

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