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by theprop 9y ago
"And that’s why Microsoft software is so insecure, and why everything that prevails in the marketplace starts off by being insecure. People race to get that market position, and in the process they made it really easy for people to wri
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by theprop 9y ago
"Facebook revoked users’ ability to remain unsearchable on the site; meanwhile, its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, was buying up four houses surrounding his Palo Alto home to preserve his own privacy. Sean Spicer, the White House pr
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by theprop 9y ago
Well, perhaps it's the previous generation's innovators and the current generation's maintainers...if you want to trace out lines of responsibility but that's tricky...whoever discovered petroleum probably never wanted s
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by theprop 9y ago
Great point!! Yes, exactly!!
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by theprop 9y ago
That's hunter-gatherers! That's more than 10,000 years ago before agriculture developed...
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by theprop 9y ago
So glad you mentioned that story!! I hope you read that NYTimes write-up. It was EYE-OPENING how LITTLE power the EPA actually has!! It's unbelievable. That said, I felt that some of Trump's efforts to lower EPA approval times
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by theprop 9y ago
No, it's precisely the opposite! Maintainers (using whale oil for energy) would have driven every whale to extinction and left the world without an energy source a century ago. Maintainers (using horses for travel) would have drowned
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by theprop 9y ago
Woah, nearly $100 mn per year. Did they start paying all the "volunteers" who create all their content?
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by theprop 9y ago
Sadly, this is the norm & the way the current system works...if you can profit now & collect a huge bonus now, your incentive is to do that no matter what happens to the future. Cigarette companies knew of the harms of their produc
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by theprop 9y ago
"Each goes from rock climber to couch potato, from rebel to middle manager, and from sex crazed to sleep obsessed." Please married folk please tell me this ain't the case...
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by theprop 9y ago
The fundamental problem you have with this plan is that at rock bottom pricing you're not going to earn enough money to pay for customer acquisition. SaaS companies generally need to spend a lot of money to acquire customers. That sai
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by theprop 9y ago
Stop reading. Start acting.
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by theprop 9y ago
Wow...extraordinary the detail they can resolve to. Probably we'll all be tracked in real time by AI bots analyzing real time satellite video feeds soon...
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by theprop 9y ago
The best food advice I've read: don't eat or drink anything that humans haven't been eating or drinking for at least 500 years.
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by theprop 9y ago
Hmmm...it's very unlikely that everyone who will open a "Root" account will write their own apps to control their account. So the idea is that any developer can create a "Root" app for my "Root" bank acco
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by theprop 9y ago
Luck is definitely a BIG tension in terms of punishment. Anyone for example driving drunk is at risk of killing someone, but only the drunk driver who actually kills someone (bad luck essentially) is put in jail for months or years.
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by theprop 9y ago
Strange that he doesn't even mention let alone discuss that the primary reason he lost may just be the reason Buffett originally cited which was the high fees of hedge funds/active management. That in most if not all market condi
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by theprop 9y ago
Thanks!! Wow ~50% lower prices is A LOT when it comes to the highly competitive market for produce.
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by theprop 9y ago
280+ comments and no one has mentioned roughly how much cheaper Chinatown produce is relative to other NYC grocery stores (I didn't see it in the article either). Anyone care to say?
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by theprop 9y ago
You may prefer the Epic Privacy Browser.
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by theprop 9y ago
"Laboring away in obscurity, as frightening as it feels at the time, is the way a lot of good things happen. Maybe the way most good things happen." ....so there's hope for me!
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, some of his deals are where he built buildings. Even there, it was a matter of getting some tax credit or very good deal on the land or something that essentially transferred resources to him instead of to someone else. It's not
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by theprop 9y ago
Try having a contest or competition. See who can hold the plank the longest or stand on one foot the longest. That makes it fun.
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by theprop 9y ago
It looks like ESPN's "$6.4 billion in 2014" in profit is pre-tax, so it generated $4+ billion in cash that year leading an analyst to value ESPN at $50 billion three years ago ( https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x
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by theprop 9y ago
Great suggestions -- the fire hydrant is a great exercise. More simple exercises are one leg squats -- if you use a desk to keep your balance, they're not that difficult to do and a great exercise you can do anywhere. Also, you can dr
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by theprop 9y ago
Meaning is simply usage...in the mathematical sense, Von Neumann's definition may be what is technically a zero sum game, but in general political and economic discussions, zero sum game does have a clear and fairly precise meaning. In
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by theprop 9y ago
Chekhov's short stories are one of the great accomplishments of any human being ever. His plays also began the modern theatre.
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by theprop 9y ago
"Outside Japan, there are just two case reports of hikikomori syndrome, one in Oman and one in Spain." I agree that this should be quite common around the world. In the U.S., there are a lot of 20-year-old men who live with their
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by theprop 9y ago
If you have a $5k or so budget and your product appeals to a more general audience, you will definitely get 1000 users by sponsoring the Epic Privacy Browser...they have a high visibility sponsorship that reaches a few hundred thousand user
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by theprop 9y ago
I really agree with this that kids are better off in most environments without shoes, and probably everyone. I'm an adult, but for years I've had to wear orthotics. I recently started climbing stairs and even small mountains wit

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