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As a host I can confirm. 3 days ago I had March 100% booked. Yesterday the entire 2nd half of the month was empty. I slashed prices and bookings are starting to trickle back in. Ap…

Shea Serrano is a writer for The Ringer. He’s not rich, but he’s doing fine (has written a couple books). However it went to another level in my mind when his followers started pay…

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Contradiction? You’re too kind, he’s a straight up hypocrite. He used “privacy” to kill Gawker, in part because he didn’t like their coverage of his ventures.

Given Thiel’s purported views on privacy, the hypocrisy is overwhelming.

If you think you can convince him not to pull the trigger. I’d rather be standing at ground zero. Dying of radiation poisoning is an experience I don’t need to see to believe. My f…

Clean water is an exponentially larger problem than any single disease. From Flint, MI to Malawi, no one is going to listen to any aid worker about anything else if they’re dying d…

His political affiliations are in conflict with his desire for long life, given who has the nuclear football. I don’t care, I’m an atheist with no kids who’d be bored out of my min…

Just don’t piss him off. Just got done reading “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue.” Starts a bit slow and pretentious, but once it gets going…

Yeah, the first peak around Feb 1 is almost a mirror image of tax day. You could load up for first peak, ramp down for the trough, then load back up again for the “deadline” (not a…

I’m not an engineer, but the best ones I’ve worked with have stated that autoscaling ain’t easy to architect right.

MeF (“Modern” eFile) is only 5ish years old. The earlier version was EDI based I believe.

Trust Me I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday is the definitive text on the subject IMO, published in 2013. Some of the examples the author uses involve manipulating humans here on HN to dist…