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> whining about long hours

I could get on board with the rest of your list, but this struck me as odd to include. Can you elaborate how it fits into that list?

> SMART

Any idea how you get known good samples for new drives (without buying a bunch of new drives)?

Sounds like that was potentially a good way to weed out a terrible place to work.

I guess I would say the high level functions of public key cryptography aren't that hard to grasp. Things like "hey either one of these keys can encrypt something the other one can decrypt and vise versa" is pretty straightforward. I don't think we have to teach the math involved if that's what you're implying.

Protecting the secrets words for a crypto wallet is pretty much the same thing as protecting the strong password for a password manager. If you lose that, then you're out of luck, and those are very popular.

You could also delegate trust in several places in the chain to trusted third parties if you feel the need, that could re-enable access, or shift assets into a new wallet.

Can you give me a better definition of "personal" vs "private", because I'm seeing all sorts of problems there.

Odd. I would only assume people kept possessions they made (tools, weapons, trinkets, etc.) prior to any formal states existing (or pooled them voluntarily). But, then, you get into _de facto_ states and what that potentially means.

Private property requires that a private individual stake a claim to it. Private property is mutually exclusive of a state. The state [typically] is the primary violator of private property by enforcement of some shared mode.

Another frustration with the RPi cluster is the arm requirement. If you're only building/running your own stuff, that's fine, but finding containers and helm charts that support arm can be frustratingly difficult.

This is speaking from experience. I love my k3s RPi cluster, it's fantastic once you get things working. I just had to augment with some x86 nodes in order to _also_ run some software that just wouldn't run anywhere else.

"The Whole Brain Child" is an excellent primer on how children's brains work and behaviors are exhibited, and from researchers in this area. I'm now listening to the follow-up "No-Drama Discipline", and hoping it will provide even more practical advice in this area.

"How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen, and How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk" is also good.

"Parenting From The Inside Out" is a gut punch about getting your own psychological problems addressed first.

I'll also say that prioritizing sleep (as best as you can), proper diet, exercise, and healthy boundaries between work/home are sometimes so much more important than any book you could be reading.

Can you explain more in terms of the planet side of things? I get that you think the wealth can be generated, but I think the comment you are responding to is referring to how can the planet support that level of consumption?

I am legitimately curious how a government entity can get a patent. Shouldn't anything funded with tax dollars automatically get put into the public domain?

I'd rather you write the code. Keep up the good work.

Hopefully these changes will allow you more time to focus on adding value to the vast majority of users. If a small subset of folks need the marginal functionality, it should be up to them to step up to the plate and make it happen.

One of my hobbies is birding: specifically going out and trying to count all the birds I can find down to a species level. This requires a good ear to do well. Many times I find myself closing my eyes and pausing all bodily motion to really listen intently for the low chips of a sparrow, or distant drumming of a woodpecker.

It's the government's requirements for filing 10-Ks and 10-Qs that generate this type of behavior. Plenty of examples out there where capital-raising efforts, and therefore investment decisions are stymied by markets that are driven by quarterly government reporting.

Some companies have been able to fight it off and really put long-term profitability into place (Apple seems like a reasonable example of this), but it is the exception, not the rule, and many times does not last long.

What's the solution to the problem of hating the Content Marketing game?

I think the fear of having to deal with writing spam blogs/emails is one of the bigger mental hurdles to my eagerness to build a product like this.

I've also been thinking about the whole "deflationary" nature of BTC (scare quotes intended), and the claims that it leads to an economy that cannot grow (the typical standard economics argument for government-controlled currencies).

It seems to me the inherent infinite divisibility might change this? I understand that gold is easily divisible, but couple the logistics of physical coin recalls and I see why that might affect gold and not bitcoin, which, in theory, could just double the precision of the currency with a quick commit. Need to expand the economy, there you go.

Perhaps the argument here would be that in a cash-less economy, where all funds are issued digitally by a government, this could also happen?

Who cares what the "local government" wants, what do the people want? The people could probably care less about huge lines being run if they can get their internet faster and cheaper.

Also, lorem ipsum on team page! Wow.

To be fair, the "pursuit" of those things are considered natural rights. Not the things themselves.

Not saying that a right to privacy doesn't exist. I think it exists because a combination of other rights DO exist. But rights can't obligate others, and if your information ends up in the public sphere, I don't believe you have a natural right to have it taken down.

If you contracted with a third party, and as part of that exchange, your info was supposed to be secured, you have a right to secure damages within the scope of that contract.

At least when you talk about reviewing code that "someone wrote in a month", note that a quick `rm -rf .git; git init; git add *; git commit` works wonders for others' perception of how quickly you can produce code. :)

If they are operated completely independently, then why conflation with CMU/academics when churning sympathy? The fact is, NREC and Uber are both businesses.

What's wrong with using jenkins to invoke the local tooling?

404?

AWESOME. I didn't know that, but it makes sense and is very unixy.

If you're good with vim (and particularly with vim macros), `vidir` is indispensable.

And you have a single paragraph explaining anything at all as to why you think that will happen, and it's basically, "too much efficiency will ruin capitalism." I'm going to need more convincing than that.

This isn't terribly difficult to do with simple searching:

"has:attachment larger:20M"

Just use a search like above, and adjust the size down as you need to pull more items into the search.

(Not saying the chrome extension might not be easier, but sometimes you're at your phone and also might want to do this.)

"26% of them see themselves as spiritual"

Can someone reconcile this for me? Wouldn't "spiritual" imply something along the lines of spirits/supernatural?

The concept of a cryptocurrency subsumes traditional currency. You cannot just say, "bitcoin is not a currency". Well of course it isn't! It's an entirely different animal.

It would be like saying the Internet is not a phone system.

The bitcoin community needs to come together and prove that legitimate self-regulation and sufficient transparency can work. We need to shed the Mt. Gox's by choice, and choose firms that are willing to undergo third party audits (like Coinbase did recently).

I'm a firm believer that there are better avenues than regulation-at-gunpoint, and cryptocurrencies are looking like a big part of that, but the community needs to prove this.