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blakdawg

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    Comment #39152136

    https://www.macincloud.com/ might be of interest.

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    Comment #17848415

    Do you have a non-paywalled link?

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    Comment #17160184

    If “fold[ing] up shop” includes filing bankruptcy and losing all of your non-retirement assets, and you’re cool with that, then you’re basically good. An LLC won’t protect you from…

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    Comment #16597381

    I wouldn’t be shocked if lower-revenue customers turn out to be a disproportionate demand on support/customer service. Not every potential customer is a good fit from a vendors per…

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    Comment #16590968

    SSLeay, which was forked and became OpenSSL, was developed by Tim Hudson (AU) and Eric Young (NZ). Also, he's not precisely (primarily?) an open source developer, but Julian Assang…

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    Comment #16565562

    Is there a reason that a consumer would prefer an application-specific currency (intimate, DentaCoin, whatever) rather than a generic currency (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, whatever)? From …

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    Comment #16434817

    What if you didn’t wait until you’re unemployed to start thinking about the next opportunity? What about contributing to a community, with open source code or a tutorial or a confe…

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    Comment #16425186

    ... says the article written by a guy who sells stocks and bonds for a living. I wonder if he lives in a rental.

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    Comment #16364857

    What's more important, air or water?

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    Comment #16270057

    The headline isn’t a very good summary of the article, or the basic idea expressed therein. The author proposes the use of a tontine, an investment trust arrangement dating back to…

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    Comment #16236616

    Do you have a non-paywalled link?

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    Comment #16235513

    > Futures contract is bought or sold to hedge against risks for the underlying asset. Ex: Buying corn futures to hedge against corn price fluctuations. In case of bitcoin though, t…

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    Comment #16075684

    I think the title is a little aggressive - it presupposes that an ICO buyer received a "tip" with inside information. While that's not an unreasonable thing to consider with respec…

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    Comment #15793838

    This seems like unintelligible gibberish: >The issue starts from the 13 DNS root zone servers, which servers from many public/private internal connected networks connects to these …

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    Comment #15752326

    That's not nearly as much fun as reimplementing the functionality yourself.

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    Comment #15717063

    This is basically true, but a little overstated. In particular, it's helpful to make a distinction between brute-forcing a cipher, and brute-forcing a particular file. If I GPG-enc…

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    Comment #15674046

    How is this different from traditional appearance services? The only difference I can see from a quick look is the use of an iOS/Android app.

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    Comment #15650299

    I'm not sure about the provenance of the statements apparently attributed to Musk. However - assuming he said that stuff - I don't think it's particularly interesting or shocking t…

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    Comment #15649202

    Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage…

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    Comment #15591305

    I knew a guy who made a shitload of money with a software program he wrote for carpet stores/installers to optimize cutting different carpet pieces to minimize waste. It sounds sim…

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    Comment #15591288

    No, Parsons is at least a 2-trick pony; from Wikipedia: "In 1984, he founded Parsons Technology in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and began selling MoneyCounts, a home accounting program. In …

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    Comment #15370484

    Lol. "Reddit sucks because they banned us. So we're making a better site where we decide who gets banned, not those other guys."

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    Comment #15309827

    They aren't intended to reduce homelessness, they are intended to cause homeless people to go somewhere else.