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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 #16305748
Excel.
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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 #15877176
Not.
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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.