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by phyller 8y ago
The problem is 200 passwords being compromised, including my emails which are used to reset everything else. I can't fix it faster than the thief can wreck my digital life, and everything is digital now. I couldn't even start unti
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by phyller 8y ago
Consider this. I am in a coffee shop. Someone walks by and grabs my machine. This is a huge annoyance, need to replace and setup a new machine vs. (with my password manager getting hacked) my life is basically over because as far as anyone
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America's new religions(nymag.com)
3 points by phyller 8y ago|0 comments
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by phyller 8y ago
You guys are missing the point. It might be the all-time highest payout from Spotify. Because of Spotify, many many people will not buy the song. So what once would have been millions of dollars in revenue is much less, and the entire music
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by phyller 8y ago
Personally, I would go for food, clothing, and shelter
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by phyller 8y ago
This is how I see New York City. Living there I was so used to it, then I went to San Diego for a wedding, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw people walking around outside barefoot. Because everything was clean, why not? Everyone else
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by phyller 8y ago
In the grand scheme of things, if that's accurate they've got 20+ years to find 2 meters of elevation so they don't get drowned. This kind of breathless reaction is what makes people skeptical of the entire concept. Please ex
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by phyller 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. My thesis was that both the CEO and HR VP were not being guided by emotions, but logic. They didn't feel that their colleague was on board with the CEO's plan. Before they did something t
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by phyller 8y ago
Great article. I think the narrative around health care is often around who has access to good insurance and who doesn't, and as the cost has skyrocketed we have doubled down on that debate. The real problem is that health care provide
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by phyller 8y ago
I think this was another case of the truism that HR doesn't work for you, they work for the company. The pep talk from the HR VP was probably to try to get his honest feelings so they could determine if they really needed to let him go
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by phyller 8y ago
> In the same way, just telling somebody "the truth" can get the message across. But it makes you the junior engineer of talking to people. What a great explanation for HN, and for me. Thanks!
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by phyller 8y ago
The problem with this point of view, is it's the same people doing this over and over, just causing distress everywhere. For a couple hundred dollars of theft they cause both the loss of the item, but also all sorts of other trouble fo
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by phyller 8y ago
Agreed, sounds like the advice is to put your fingers in your ears, and sing as loudly as you can to drown out the doubts and questions, instead of solving them. Saying that no, the life path you are on is great, stop doubting yourself, kee
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by phyller 8y ago
If you can keep a high salary and work wherever you want, and you want a quiet life, then just throw a dart on a map of the USA or the world. Basically everywhere except a few metropolitan areas is very cheap to live. If this is something y
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by phyller 8y ago
Pretty sure parent comment was specifically referring to violence as I don't recall explicit nudity in Star Trek movies (just suggested nudity).
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by phyller 8y ago
It's even worse because neither you nor the people treating you actually know how much cost you are incurring. You find out a few weeks later when you get the bill. Imagine if anything else worked like that?
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by phyller 8y ago
The hospital bills a million dollars, the health insurance says, no we'll pay you $125,000. That's it. I don't know enough to understand how this situation came about, but the bill the hospital provides is often 2x to 10x the
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by phyller 8y ago
I was being sarcastic. The logic being if the United States would go to war only for economic benefit or control, then that must have also been the case for Vietnam and Korea. Which is, of course, ludicrous.
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by phyller 8y ago
The United States has given China preferential trade deals (deals that are unfair by benefitting China) since the Nixon era. It is truly a tragedy that these two countries don't get along better.
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by phyller 8y ago
If the game is fair, both trade partners win, no one loses. Trade is not and should not be a zero sum gain.
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by phyller 8y ago
My Iraqi friends, particularly one from Mosul, told me that the issue they had was that when Saddam was overthrown the coalition took too little control instead of too much. This created a power vacuum that allowed all sorts of bad actors t
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by phyller 8y ago
Exactly, you make my point. If somehow you think the US had benefited from this you are crazy. The US didn't pour billions of dollars into Iraq, no one in the region was threatened by a despot with the third largest military in the wor
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by phyller 8y ago
This is a losing argument, the people (many many people) that believe these wars were all about the USA stealing oil and gold will never change their minds, they didn't get that opinion in the first place because they were thinking ver
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by phyller 8y ago
Both you and the comment you are responding to are wrong because in international trade there should not be one loser and one winner. There should only be winners and no losers. That is not only possible but that is the normal state, and wh
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by phyller 8y ago
This pattern of behavior by China has been happening for a long time, the activity itself is nothing new. My theory is, Trump is extremely good at getting attention, especially of the many that hate him. He has put the USA's relationsh
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by phyller 8y ago
Ironic that California is possibly the worlds worst polluter. Better forest management might go farther than electric cars in reducing pollution. (But also keep the electric cars coming please)
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Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then immediately removes them(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by phyller 8y ago|0 comments
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by phyller 8y ago
I would argue that suicide is itself extremely selfish. Remember this point, when a person commits suicide they most deeply hurt the people that love them the most. Is that right? Is that fair? They don't hurt the people that don'
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by phyller 8y ago
As an American I wouldn't call that a noble suicide. Waste of life all around for a misplaced sense of honor. Which apparently is still misplaced today. I'm not sure you can have much of a noble suicide in fact. I know it is sort
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by phyller 8y ago
Plus, I already know that Uncle Al is a conservative nut, and cousin Fred is a liberal nut, and interpret their content accordingly.

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