j0rd

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by j0rd 8y ago
I think some kind of privacy sandbox & data escape logging would suffice to allow data leaking apps, to run on a libre type OS. The main thing an OS like this needs is the a ability for it's users to run their own "cloud"
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by j0rd 9y ago
The DTES is a shit hole, but it was kind of engineered to be that way. As for the safe injection site stuff, I lived and worked in the area around the time that place was opened. It was a shit hole before it opened and continued to be so af
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by j0rd 9y ago
Gold has been used as a store of value for countries which do not trust their fiat. It's also used to speculate. It's also used in industry. It's actually pretty easy to turn gold into fiat and vice versa outside of north Ame
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by j0rd 9y ago
Except when the smart contract with 1/2 the ether in it, does exactly what it's programmed to do, then you hard fork and pretend it didn't happen. Because? Value? Sorry, I really lost a lot of faith after that one.
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by j0rd 9y ago
I've been running e-commerce stores for 12+ years. The main business I work for started to accept bitcoins for our physical goods in 2014ish. I did the integration. I adopted Bitcoin because I'm not a huge fan of payment processor
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by j0rd 9y ago
I've always been really skeptical of those language performance comparisons which refer to PHP. As stated above PHP7 has similar performance when compared to HHVM which was made by Facebook. Additionally PHP has an amazing performance
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by j0rd 9y ago
Popcorn Lung is the only thing I've seen in my research https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flavorings/ I'd be interested to hear of more.
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by j0rd 9y ago
Personally use SS316L now. Hard to find though.
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by j0rd 9y ago
Because it stops innovation. Ni200 which is a pure nickel wire was invented for temperature control. Required a specific device and chip to use as it has almost 0 resistance. Some stupid uneducated people or vendors sold it and and used it
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by j0rd 9y ago
I personally think ecigs are an interesting experiment in free markets. A bunch of like minded people who had a habbit which was the leading cause of preventable death coming together to figure out a way to kill themselves less. Have there
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by j0rd 9y ago
It would be better if I quit, but wasn't planning on doing that, so I switched to vaping and haven't smoked since. Best? No. Better? Probably. One of the funny things with vaping is after two weeks smoking a cigarette becomes disg
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by j0rd 9y ago
Called Snus. Banned in EU, but supposedly one of the healthiest nicotine injestion methods. Most people would puke if they tried it :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus
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by j0rd 9y ago
I quit smoking a while ago for 4 months using a vape, then Thailand's military junta banned them and most shops closed. It's been a couple years now and tonnes of online shops started to sell and I'd see lots of local vapers
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by j0rd 9y ago
"Clinical trials of NRT in patients with underlying, stable coronary disease suggest that nicotine does not increase cardiovascular risk. At worst, the risks of NRT are no more than those of cigarette smoking. The risks of NRT for smok
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by j0rd 9y ago
I made a deal with an e-commerce site to take 10% of revenue added, after marketing expenses from new channels I create. Added 300k+ of revenue a month.
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by j0rd 9y ago
Good vote spamming business will be completely automated. They'll have accounts in reserve pool, with ability to spin up thousands more in a couple minutes. Most likely they make a couple hundred accounts a day and prime them with VA&#
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by j0rd 9y ago
Let's not bring identity politics in to this discussion.
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by j0rd 9y ago
The rates in Hong Kong with Stripe for non-hong Kong issued cards is 3.9% + 2% conversion fee if you don't charge in HKD. Additionally they're unable to deposit into a US denominated bank account. So if you want to process USD to
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by j0rd 10y ago
Can we get accepting payments outside of Hong Kong for less than 5.4% fees first for HK stripe businesses. Also allow transfer to US denominated bank accounts. That would be super.
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by j0rd 10y ago
Originally OnePlus One shipped with CyanogenOS, but the Cyanogen Inc fuct up and sold exclusive rights to CyanogenOS to a domestic carrier in India. This blocked the sale of OnePlus One phone in India until this could get resolved. OxygenOS
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by j0rd 10y ago
Place to donate via PayPal. Also take a page from buffer and release your expenses and revenues. I'm willing to donate any time I get a cert from you guys and I'm sitting on all this free PayPal money to give you, but can't v
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by j0rd 10y ago
Google Project "Redirect Method" admits it tweaks search to manipulate your thoughts/behavior. Is how i read this. Same thing when I read Algorithms used to catch pedo's, I read "they're spying on you" Use
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by j0rd 10y ago
Media server remote code execution. No way! For those interested in an old talk about rooting phones via media server & MMS watch this great talk. https://youtu.be/71YP65UANP0
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by j0rd 10y ago
YouTube video of start of TH 2014 coup. Was rather brilliant to be honest. https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk
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by j0rd 10y ago
I was in TH for latest coup, took under a couple hours to happen, less than a day to be enforced across country en mass. And I live in the oppositions main stronghold when it happened. Couple hours of lack of information is all you need, an
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by j0rd 10y ago
Supply and demand. Fact is anyone can really become a yoga teacher by going to a training program, so the supply of yoga teachers is huge. The competition is fierce on getting a placement, so that keeps the price down.
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by j0rd 10y ago
cheatmode is have a local statically compiled version of tmux ready to godmode servers you can SCP files to (all of em, if you've got ssh most likely) That's what I'd do, if a server doesn't have screen/vim and sysa
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by j0rd 10y ago
I keep a pretty sparse toolset. vim+screen and always use them together even on my laptop. So when I SSH into a box, I pretty much have my "full" toolset just as I would locally. For me, this is important. That coupled with the fa
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by j0rd 10y ago
Pick one and use it. I personally use screen, because it's what I learnt years & years ago. I also like that sometimes it's there by default when I login to a new server. ...but most linux "power users" prefer tmux.
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by j0rd 11y ago
Agreed, don't take 56% as fully being attributed to smaller page loads. In two weeks after the change with out any other changes to traffic or anything else, the improvement was 38%. I've talked about my findings with more caution

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