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meirelles

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    You're not going to like it, but I think the men you usually find attractive are out of your league Also, unfortunately, in today's society, high value men have less incentive to s…

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    Comment #31913150

    I think their business model is like a gym - they need people making an effort to cancel, not to renew... Crypto works for one-time payments, but it sucks for recurring transaction…

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    Comment #31862525

    People back then used to have (almost) free labor. That is one variable that also changed over time. All that pretty architectural features took a lot of effort and time. Usability…

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    Comment #31454037

    Even though the actual figure is unknown it still a fair argument, thanks

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    Comment #31449748

    silly question, being USDT "only" 80B, why does it matter if it collapses? considering cryptos market cap is more than 1T, and 100B's wipeouts routine, sometimes during crypto wint…

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    Comment #30479424

    > "If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable …

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    Comment #29667455

    OMG, again? Are we going to see this every week now? This guy has two jobs already and still has time to brag about and promote his blog? Please don't ruin the remote work for us.

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    Comment #29436308

    He reviewed my first Go PR a few years back when I posted something new for rclone. He's super nice, indeed. Kudos Nick!

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    Comment #29239047

    Print articles is optimized for reading not ads or SEO. Sadly the incentives makes the reader experience worse.

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    Comment #28838598

    We all agree about how much important debian is for all tech community. Why is it so difficult to scale their snapshot service? Serving static files at scale is a solved problem. A…

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    Comment #28546185

    Perceived value. It worths what people are willing to pay for. A lot of things work that way. Skeptics might wonder how long it would last, but less about how much it should be wor…

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    Comment #28437322

    I can't emphasize enough on this! The future doesn't give a damn about your reasoning, no matter how much well-tightened it is. Before us, uncountable incredibly smart people got m…

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    Comment #27640523

    Out of all stablecoins, I've found DAI the most interesting one, it's a beautiful engineer solution to tackle a problem. Backed by volatile assets, profits and interests (%). Every…

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    Comment #26124005

    Trezor is great as an U2F device because it uses the same crypto seed to initialize all internal keys, including the U2F feature. So you only have to backup the seed phrase offline…

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    Comment #26091121

    It's not about today, but tomorrow. Inefficiency is way easier to fix than break paradigms. How much it spends per transaction now isn't that relevant.

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    Comment #25575620

    Google Maps always do that in Brazil, it's so annoying. It recommends alternative routes to "save" you a couple of minutes. Dirt tracks, unmantained roads and sometimes danger neig…

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    Comment #25176862

    You actually can. It's possible to create app specific passwords. Well, a while ago at least.

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    Comment #22242844

    The Twitch folks were facing a related situation with the GC. They developed a workaround that they called Ballast, reducing the overall latency and making it more predictable. Qui…

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    Comment #18302298

    IMHO serverless is amazing if you clearly understand the bottlenecks and still see real benefits from it. Otherwise, you may exchange one problem for another (probably even worse).…

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    Comment #17128562

    To be fair, almost all non-maintained source codes becomes a problem, no matter the language, apply security fixes, update dependencies, handle all deprecated stuff, etc. isn't fun…

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    Comment #16902058

    My bad! Fixed. Thanks

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    Comment #16902023

    I think she's talking about ev1servers.net. I used to be their client. Yes, it was crappy white-boxes, but it worked okay with the proper setup. Look what happened with EV1Servers:…

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    Comment #16647659

    For Java exists the Project Lombok, it works pretty well for this purpose, you can use getters and setters without polluting the code with auto-generated stuff. Have some other coo…