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Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 we…

Because someone else will come along and create an exchange that offers ponzi-like interest rates and run you of out of business. Also promising never to gamble with the depositors…

First picture in the article show a scene from Brisbane, where I live. And there are a lot of these suburbs. Brisbane is built on a flood-plain. But the house prices in the low-lyi…

"There's no need for a proxy like nginx; redbean is vertically integrated." Anyone have suggestions for caching? router? Something small and lightweight in the spirit of readbean i…

If this group can bribe insiders so easily, imagine what a state-level actor can do.

Whenever I come across risky stuff like this I make a song and dance about it at meetings so when someone (incl. me) trips over it, well, I warned everyone including management. An…

Reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWU6dJ8tub4 (Milton Friedman's 4 Ways to Spend Money)

I would have thought it was easier to electrify the yard and use pure electric powered prime movers instead.

He can say and do and present himself as this and that all he likes and everyone will run around hanging off his every word defending this and impugning that. He has money. Money i…

Reminds me of the stock beat from the Roland TR-909 as used in Siouxsie and the Banshee's Kiss them for me ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpcNaqkrPm8 )

An exercise machine... contacting different ad networks many times per minute 24/7 ... probing my network ... recording our conversations ... adblocker firewall Throw that trash ou…

From the Slackbook ( http://www.slackbook.org/html/book.html#PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT ): "The truth about pkgtool is not that it doesn't exist, but that it doesn't do any dependency chec…