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I have two full-time jobs like he described
Why?
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No, why this type of job? Why not quit one of your jobs for a couple weeks and spend that time looking for better ones? Everyone is hiring.
Because I guess I have more drive to maximize my income than I do integrity. I'm able to do these two simultaneously for the most part.
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#104This is why I don't trust my own videos/photos/documents/notes/etc. to "the cloud". How many examples like this have there been where peoples stuff just disappears one day with no way to bring it back? More than I can count. Though, saying I don't trust my files to the cloud is not the same as saying I don't use the cloud. I keep two copies of all of my files in 2 physical location. However, both of those physical lo…
I need to add cloud mirroring. What cloud service are you using? I was about to give Backblaze Personal a try, but stopped because I don't like how they handle encryption. If I'm understanding their site correctly, restoring requires giving them your key. I'd prefer something where decrypting for restoration is client side. I'm currently contemplating Backblaze B2 or Amazon Glacier using Arq or Duplicati[1] or someth…
I'm pretty happy with duplicati and backblaze b2 since crashplan stopped business with consumers.
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People look at me like I'm crazy for not giving in to streaming services and insisting on maintaining a music library. It's hard for me to avoid concluding that these people simply don't really enjoy music.
I don't think it's that, really, that streaming users don't really enjoy music, it's just that streaming services simplify things, removing the need to handle physical media. Never underestimate the warm, convenient glow of laziness that streaming services enable. I do think that there can be something lost when listening to an assortment of single tracks as opposed to cohesive albums. Getting a new album and letting…
I only listen to albums with Spotify. I have over 100K listens on last.fm and 90% of it is with Spotify and listening to full albums. That doesn’t have anything to do with streaming. A lot of “casual” people are always going to go after singles mostly as soon as that’s available.
I do think though since so many people don’t listen to albums anymore some shift will probably happen over time. Though it seems like nothing has changed too much yet and it has been a few years.
Re: Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers
#106This is why I don't trust my own videos/photos/documents/notes/etc. to "the cloud". How many examples like this have there been where peoples stuff just disappears one day with no way to bring it back? More than I can count. Though, saying I don't trust my files to the cloud is not the same as saying I don't use the cloud. I keep two copies of all of my files in 2 physical location. However, both of those physical lo…
I need to add cloud mirroring. What cloud service are you using? I was about to give Backblaze Personal a try, but stopped because I don't like how they handle encryption. If I'm understanding their site correctly, restoring requires giving them your key. I'd prefer something where decrypting for restoration is client side. I'm currently contemplating Backblaze B2 or Amazon Glacier using Arq or Duplicati[1] or someth…
I'm still on crashplan. I prepaid for 5 years, so I've been moved to the small business plan since my 5 years aren't up yet. At some point I'll probably need to look at moving my data somewhere else. Anyone have any recommendations on the cheapest place to backup 3TB of data?
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By the way, with backblaze you can specify your own key. They just can't help you if you forget, and you loose all your data :)
You can specify your own key, yes. Now how do you use that key to restore without feeding it into the website?
According to this, you still have to throw it in the website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169040
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Cookpad?
While I vehemently disagree with what the a user above you said about "doxxing" companies being wrong (it's not doxxing, it's whistleblowing), I also don't think we should guess. If someone KNOWS what company it is, I do believe it's in the interest of the uses and society to know this, as a warning, but guessing just potentially hurts innocent companies that have nothing to do with this.
Good point.
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#109Not sure if the "moments" stuff is that "14-years-old". I'm not sure about the Snapchat implementation but the things on Instagram and FB etc. surely have people of all ages using them. Though yeah that's not the main point of the article I know.
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It does, but I don't see how an entity such as a corporation can be "shamed." A corporation is not capable of feeling shame. The individuals who work there can, but no one is asking for any individual to be named. I suppose it could said those who work there might be indirectly shamed by association, but that's a stretch. Therefore I don't see how there's any issue in naming a corporation for their role in a situatio…
Even it were a person, people have a right to know. If a car blew up because of a faulty gas tank, is it “respectful” to not name the car company? If a vet killed your poodle because of negligence, is it “repectful” to not name the vet? Free markets depend on the free flow of information. “Protecting” a company that did something wrong isn’t “respectful,” it’s unethical. Knowing a company (or a person) that messed up…
If I post on Twitter that my car blew up with a car wreck photo from some random website that I’ve photoshopped slightly to block Tineye, the Internet will set itself aflame trying to figure out what kind of car it is, create a press firestorm around the issue, and tank the company’s stock.
Trusting one person enough to go find which company they’re trying not to name only proves that you were able to find which company they were trying to keep you from naming.
It doesn’t in any way provide veracity to their story, but if they’ve shorted that company’s stock, it’ll certainly provide them a profit.
The issue here is that you don’t “know” anything if you _only_ dig up the company, because you don’t know anything more truthful than you did before someone told you a possibly-untrue thing.
Unfortunately, people are prone to hearing “I found a likely suspect company” and respond with “therefore the story is true, burn them to the ground”.
Feeding them a name to riot around by naming a probable suspect _without any proof_ does nothing to improve the story, and materially harms suspect companies, their founders, and their employees. I don’t mind if you share a company name when you’ve proven they did this, but if you can’t prove it, don’t just post a random company name on the Internet and say “I think it’s them”. That’s inciting a riot without cause, and why I encouraged otherwise here.