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by jvagner 6y ago
Can anyone point to coverage of crypto companies from the perspective of how they make money? I've never really dug into this, would love this decent leads.
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by jvagner 7y ago
the uncertainty principle applies here.. undocumented workers won't seek medical assistance if they're unsure of what will happen when they show up at a medical facility.
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by jvagner 7y ago
Not sure I agree. To some extent, sure.. "Everyone knows that people can learn new things". It's one of those aphorisms that we can probably agree on, however... if you examine how some people operate, across more than one sp
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by jvagner 7y ago
I unfollowed all accounts, deleted all my tweets and just login periodically to see what's trending or to follow a hashtag associated with a sporting event I'm interested in. And since I do that from home, I have the twitter app o
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by jvagner 7y ago
My current tactic: I'm reading "The Week" via Feedly/RSS only. It's helpful w/r/t with the "reload" impulse and the "casting a wider net" tendency.
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by jvagner 7y ago
I was unfamiliar.. but this made me laugh: "Subsequent closer examination of Titor's assertions provoked widespread skepticism." Ahh, it was the closer examination that lead to the skepticism.
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by jvagner 7y ago
I frequent Whole Foods, and I digital nomad a bit, so I visit a lot of Whole Foods-es. Recently came back to the East Bay (SF) and the Whole Foods I'm staying near, more than the others, seems like a staging store for Buy Online &
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by jvagner 7y ago
Maybe.. As for Transitions, I went with GEN 8.
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by jvagner 7y ago
There are 3 topics covered in the newsletter. It's number 3, scroll down.
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by jvagner 7y ago
I do own WPs, from a couple of years ago, for general use. I walked into a WP store in the last couple of months and asked.. alas, I was told something different.
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by jvagner 7y ago
I needed progressives (tri-focals). WP doesn't do lenses like that. My brand name frames were $200. Lenses were more than $300 on top of the frame price. It's not just the frames.
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by jvagner 7y ago
SF BART was just as full today as it usually is. Headlines might be that big tech companies are telling staff to WFH and paying their hourly employees during this, but most people at most jobs are going about their lives per the usual, beca
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by jvagner 7y ago
There are usually two sides to this.. in some organizations, people really care about their own titles. In other organizations, especially bigger ones, "Senior" and "Principal" and other kinds of add-ons to titles come w
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by jvagner 7y ago
I'm in my late 40s. My son is driving-age. It's hard to explain certain things like "Michael Jackson" to him. I agree with this.
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by jvagner 7y ago
Most devops I’ve run into aren’t doing devops. Devops, against sysadmin, build and manage the systems that manage the systems, hopefully as automations or infra-as-a-service or software defined infra. When you think you’re devops but you’re
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by jvagner 7y ago
What would a "Real Privacy Problems" website/blog, aimed at individuals/consumers, look like and need to do to be an effective site to a) inform, and b) empower people to hold companies and our governments more accountab
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by jvagner 7y ago
* Buying lists, dumping money in email campaigns to lists * Losing patience with the development of a sales funnel, dumping money into ads that have no reasonable copy, targeting, offer * Repeating offers because the development of a sales
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by jvagner 7y ago
Here's how I've managed my social: * Deleted Facebook. Don't miss it one bit. * Deleted Reddit. I open the app every once in a while, scan what's popular. But not a lot. * Pruned twitter. I don't follow anyone on Tw
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by jvagner 7y ago
"Hey [manager], given my recent trip to Italy, I'm going to WFH for [some period of time], make sure I'm healthy..." "OK."
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by jvagner 7y ago
The news media kept hammering the potential for cArmageddon.. which was weird. It was a non-story, and it still is, but I guess someone needs content to promote.
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by jvagner 7y ago
Take my money. All of it.
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by jvagner 7y ago
...and if you can't stand to see it, "hide" it.
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by jvagner 7y ago
That's how you turn on DND... Frustratingly, if you "x" all the notifications, there's still no hint that you can scroll to see night shift & DND toggles. I still have to think really hard every time I want to move
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by jvagner 7y ago
My experience: 1) I've been a seller on Amazon. 5 figure SKU counts, branded products. I was constantly being asked to provide invoices to prove that I had the right to procure and resell the products I was listing. I was also beholden
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by jvagner 7y ago
> is better than a candidate with a wealthy donor network of obscure motives pulling the strings behind the scenes. Surely this was said of the current occupant... never quite as clean as that, it would seem.
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by jvagner 7y ago
Feature phone + iPad w/ LTE
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by jvagner 7y ago
Netflix is all-in on comedy, esp standup. But I have the same problem with the music services -- I listen to a lot of "quiet" music playlists for sleep and work. And so, all the playlists Spotify build for me are quiet. But I also
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by jvagner 7y ago
dark web encoded doorway, obv
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by jvagner 7y ago
I think you're making the OPs point for them. And we have no idea if a similar action by Vultr is imminent (I'm not saying it is -- but we don't know ).
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by jvagner 7y ago
The point of this article is to switch from one Google for a lot of services to a disparate group of providers for same services... if one of the service providers goes away, or is no longer palatable, only the service they provide needs to

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