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by zapita 9y ago
Exactly.
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by zapita 9y ago
You're thinking of people who charge you a management fee and try to "beat the market". I'm talking about people who charge you by the hour to explain to you how to manage your money. Maybe "financial advisor"
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by zapita 9y ago
The short version is: retain a competent wealth manager to advise you. EDIT: not all wealth managers are scam artists. If you suddenly earn lots of money and don't know what to do with it, find a professional paid by the hour to advise
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by zapita 9y ago
I like the idea and think this could grow into a successful business... But my god what a terrible name. I can't stand it when businesses appropriate terms with a well-established definition... From Salesforce calling their Ai product
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by zapita 9y ago
Very useful, thank you.
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by zapita 9y ago
I did not know about that. Do you have a reliable, unbiased resource to recommend where I could learn more?
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by zapita 9y ago
That's a good point, your comment led me to research a bit more, and I learned that prop13 did in fact caused local governments to rely more heavily on sales taxes. Ironically this has contributed to the perverse incentives against bui
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by zapita 9y ago
Development seems to be moving quite fast. I'm also seeing lots of third-party tools and services launching on top of it, which is very encouraging.
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by zapita 9y ago
Note that repealing prop13 would probably not raise property taxes overall. It would spread them more fairly across all owners, instead of the current arrangement of newcomers subsidizing established owners.
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by zapita 9y ago
Not disagreeing with your overall point, but note that you can configure iOS to hide message contents from lock screen notifications.
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by zapita 9y ago
Honestly I stopped reading as soon as I saw the name of your project - really, it's called "stdlib"? What good can possibly come from that name? Either the confusion will prevent your product from ever succeeding; or, less li
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by zapita 9y ago
But how does that 50ms factor into the overall latency experienced by the end user?
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by zapita 9y ago
What will the latency be like? My understanding is that these satellites will be in lower orbit, allowing for shorter round-trips... But how much shorter exactly? And how would that translate to real-world latency? Presumably there would be
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by zapita 9y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. > From this perspective, the subsequent depopulation was not the intended goal of the conquerors, although they indeed caused it through disease, wars against resisting groups, and disasterous attempts
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by zapita 9y ago
> This is a strong assertion. I'd like to see a more complete argument for it. I understand. This came as a surprise to me too, and it took a lot of my own research before realizing how much the scientific consensus is changing in
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by zapita 9y ago
The "great disease swap" is a myth. By far the greatest cause of the destruction of indigenous American cultures was intentional actions by European settlers: massacres, war, starvation, displacement, kidnappings, alcoholism, and
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by zapita 9y ago
Out of curiosity, which part of Microsoft have you joined? The culture in large companies can vary greatly between divisions. What aspects of the culture do you not like?
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OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS(openbazaar.org)
512 points by zapita 9y ago|236 comments
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Computes: decentralized computing platform built on IPFS(computes.com)
2 points by zapita 9y ago|0 comments
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by zapita 9y ago
It looks like their blog crashed under the load... Here's the full text below. Today I’m announcing my departure from Docker, the company I helped create ten years ago and have been building ever since. A founder’s departure is usually
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New Zealand's privacy commissioner deletes his Facebook account(theguardian.com)
3 points by zapita 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook announces privacy tools to 'put people in more control' of data(theguardian.com)
2 points by zapita 9y ago|0 comments
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Au Revoir(blog.docker.com)
898 points by zapita 9y ago|287 comments
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by zapita 9y ago
Sure, Microsoft is no longer the monopolistic behemoth it was back in the 90s. Nobody here has claimed otherwise. There is a wide spectrum between "absolute domination" (your strawman) and "desperately trying to stay relevant
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by zapita 9y ago
> It is yesteryear trying to desperately hang on to have relevance. What an incredibly misguided comment. Microsoft is a major player in the business software market, and there's no sign that will change anytime soon. Sure, Window
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by zapita 9y ago
> Those Rockafellers are doing just fine even today after Standard Oil was broken up. Yes, it took a long time to break up Standard Oil, leaving plenty of time for the Rockefellers to amass wealth. What's your point?
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by zapita 9y ago
"I can understand the hatred many people here have toward Standard Oil or other big gigantic life-controlling entities. The step to remove Standard Oil dominance is to find, create and nurture alternatives. For example, I started buyin
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by zapita 9y ago
Right, that's what I've witnessed anecdotally: strong ability to sell, usually as part of a top-down "digital transformation" project with tons of agile development consulting and multi-year sales cycle; then a few years
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by zapita 9y ago
They're higher in France but not meaningfully higher, hence my comment "not that different". In fact if you take into account the cost of typical private employer-paid healthcare, the cost might actually be higher in Californ
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by zapita 9y ago
This is incorrect. The French like to complain about their taxes, but it's not that different from California. Employee protection regulation absolutely is problematic in France, because it over-protect relatively small groups at th

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