aphextron

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by aphextron 5y ago
I make low six figures as a single, childless person, and am just barely doing ok. I rent a cheap 1 bedroom apartment, drive a 20 year old Toyota, and end up with just enough for a small amount of savings each month with very little discret
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by aphextron 5y ago
I had the worst cough of my entire life in January 2020. A solid month of being unable to sleep without massive amounts of Nyquil. Never had any of the other weird symptoms I can remember though, so I've always written it off since I l
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Gap year? No! I am merely doing independent consulting. Do I actually have any contracts? So many questions! People aren't stupid. They'll have questions. And lies are extremely hard to keep straight in the long term. The sad
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by aphextron 5y ago
>"Yeah, I was the CTO of a startup. I learned a lot. Call this guy who was the CEO, he'll tell you about it." Ah yes, an intricate lie. The very foundation of a solid working relationship.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Your experience doesn’t ‘expire’ in a single year You're right, it doesn't. But it brings up all sorts of questions in the mind of your interviewer as to the true nature of your departure, and it immediately puts you at a huge
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Im quitting and not looking for another job. Gonna use the savings to take a gap year, or a couple, work on some stuff I want maybe. Maybe more involvement in OSS is coming too? Unless you have some serious FU money saved up, I'd s
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by aphextron 5y ago
Or just take Australia
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by aphextron 5y ago
The storage requirements for the Moderna and Pfizer shots are heavily on the safe side. They went with it for the EUA because there was simply no time to prove that it could be safely stored at normal temps. The overwhelming consensus, howe
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by aphextron 5y ago
You are my new hero.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>There's a similar number of people crammed into a similar geographical area on the east coast. The east coast has unlimited supplies of fresh water. California does not. The east coast megalopolis is also situated on a coastal plai
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by aphextron 5y ago
>What is happening to this paradise state? Too. Many. People.
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by aphextron 5y ago
Nothing is secure against a determined targeted attack. That's why we have layers of security. SMS 2FA adds a layer of protection against random attacks, and for that it works great. It should never be solely relied upon for high value
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by aphextron 5y ago
So much of "mental" health is really just physical health. As a young person with mood issues I could never really understand why I felt the way I felt at times, and would always just chalk it up to some vague self diagnosed men
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by aphextron 5y ago
Por que no los dos?
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by aphextron 5y ago
Yahoo and DDG both use Bing results.
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by aphextron 5y ago
https://www.lingscars.com
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by aphextron 5y ago
"Under fire" from whom? A random twitter user? NYPost is literally a tabloid on the order of National Enquirer.
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by aphextron 5y ago
Consolidation leads to efficiency. Which in the case of commodities, is the only way to ensure low prices. A new slaughter company is not going to innovate a more efficient means of producing a pound of beef. In theory, a perfectly run stat
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by aphextron 5y ago
I really wonder just how much of the perceived "danger" the world was in during the cold war came down to the paranoid delusions of these hot headed, rough and violent men who had just fought the most destructive conflict in world
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by aphextron 5y ago
> People with issues need help, not bullying. Absolutely. True mental health issues need clinical diagnosis and treatment. Things like CBT and antipsychotics have saved the lives of many people with psychological disorders, and modern me
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by aphextron 5y ago
>I saw some historian last year say, "there will be a world before covid and a world after covid", and I thought that was hyperbolic. But now I see the truth in the matter - it will not be some obvious, monumental, instantaneou
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by aphextron 5y ago
>maybe if you're trying to make money from it. if you're just trying to see if it's possible in a pure research mindset, then seems like success My point is not about money. Plenty of research groups have achieved sustaine
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by aphextron 5y ago
Pretty meaningless without data on the input power, isn't it?
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by aphextron 5y ago
lol yeah wow, who is this?
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by aphextron 5y ago
> So, yes, that seems to have been a good strategy The point though is that this was a massive gamble on Japan's part in the 1930's. They had no idea if it would actually work.
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by aphextron 5y ago
How's the internet in these towns?
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Ask HN: How common or plausible are TLS MITM attacks?
2 points by aphextron 5y ago|5 comments
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by aphextron 5y ago
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"
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by aphextron 5y ago
>America is a more balanced and equitable society today than it was in 1970. The inflation adjusted minimum wage peaked in 1968. An American worker in 1970 could graduate high school and get a job that would allow them to support a famil
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by aphextron 5y ago
Based on the evidence that they publicly claimed responsibility.

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