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I admit that at certain times I do enter from the furthest entrance...and I always drive past the first spot, and bet on that second one. Quite often there is a better spot as I'm walking in, but sometimes there's not. So when faced with the opportunity, I follow the prudent strategy.

Now at an unfamiliar location (walmart, movie theater, whatever), I always try to find a spot that butts up against a curb (preferably on one side AND the back of the spot as well) to lessen exposure of my vehicle to other motorists (doors, bumpers) as much as possible.

I think that the upsetting part is that most don't volunteer their data to these guys. They simply get spoon-fed our data, profit greatly from our data, and then grossly mishandle that data, failing to follow even simple security best practices throughout.

"If you have information that you want as many people as possible to know, it's a disservice to yourself to put it behind a paywall"

Of course, I don't think that most people read into statements the same way the 'ycombinator crowd' does. So maybe they read it that way anyway.

For reference, his homework question was something along the lines of:

If the auditorium currently has five rows of ten chars in place, and they need three times more chairs, how many more rows of ten chairs do they need?

I didn't suggest that at all.

I mean men and women are different. We tend to excel at different things, have different thought processes, process things differently, different strengths and weaknesses (generally, right? - there is obviously overlap).

Maybe her complaints help explain the lack of women in the field.

But maybe all that ranting explains the lack of women in the field.

It's a great idea, and I do love innovation. I've honestly never really had a problem with a chain though, myself.

I have about 6,000 miles on my cross bike (that gets used in some pretty dirty, dusty, sometimes-muddy conditions). And maybe 2400 on my newer road bike. I just clean the chain with wd-40 when it's dirty (sometimes water/soap first if really muddy), dry it well with a rag, then apply some liquid chain lubricant (sometimes after every ride, if it's needed).

I'd be against paying $.10 per article read (or clicked) because most articles, I never fully read. HN is an exception to that rule - I find most of the content linked from HN to be beneficial and worthwhile.

I've taken a lot of stuff apart in my days, but never an expensive camera lens. I've owned, just off the top of my head, a 70-200 f/2.8, 50 f/1.8, 85 f/1.8, and a 105 f/2.8 macro lens back in the day when digital was just starting to catch on.

There are times where I miss photography...I always assume I'll get back into it at some point.

I admit, however, that I get a new iphone each time one is released, and I've gotten the newest watch at its release also. My macbook, on the other hand, I do plan on keeping (and not upgrading) for _hopefully_ three to five years...unless of course my wife decides she wants my Air (to replace her ipad) - then I suppose a Pro is in my near future. :D

Definitely interesting, but I think that a fast-growing tree would probably create more O2 (consume more CO2) in its first 10 or so years. I think that big, old forests where large pieces of wood are dropping and rotting, etc, may tend to be on the neutral side of things.

I think that some studying of what type of trees to plant, etc is definitely in order. Certainly some drop less - and quite possibly they determine that the trees need cut down, turned to paper or paper products, and replanted every number of years.

When I think of the situation you are describing (CO2 neutral), I picture a dense, damp forest area. I feel like trees, properly spaced, may lean more toward co2 consumption.

Anyway, just a thought...

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Anyway, long story short. Someone managed to access my paypal and request a sum of money around roughly $40. That account had about $38 in it at the time. Paypal flagged the transaction as fraudulent, stored the money 'in my paypal account' instead of sending it to the requester, and froze my account. But this overdrew my bank account by roughly $2. Needless to say, 2-3 years of late fees added up to a substantial amount of money - two separate accounts - one for about $280 that I owed the bank and another that was about $350 that i owed to their 'overdraft' company. I didn't find out about either until they were about 2-3 years old and in collections.

I realize what I'm explaining is totally my own fault for not monitoring that account and keeping it up to date, but if paypal would have either redeposited that money into my account or sent some emails, instead of freezing the assets in a holding account, I could have avoided that.

In either event, that left a bitter taste in my mouth, and i severed all ties with paypal and that old account at that point.

I had to explain this multiple times to different government and military agencies throughout my career - it still comes up on background investigations.

This seems like a problem worth fixing, from Amazon's perspective.

Or a scan becomes that much easier to perform on 100,000 endpoints - and then your targeted attacks can begin on only vulnerable systems. 'Exploiters' waste a lot of time trying non-vulnerable systems.

The less information your server exposes to the outside, the better.

The client sends a list of acceptable cipher suites to the server. The server then selects one that is also agrees with (this can be based on many factors, strongest first, quickest first, a custom priority, etc). Because of this, if you send, say 40 ciphers, the server will only respond with one. To get an accurate list of cipher suites supported, you must send each one individually to truly test whether the server does support a particular cipher suite or not.

Not to mention, if a server is sending out its 'patch level' to a client machine on request, that in itself is a vulnerability.

The government does use such a tool - or at least something similar - https://pulse.cio.gov/ is just one example of a public repository of some of those results.

There is a guy at my work who tried to become vegan when he started dating his current wife. I want to say that lasted about six months.

I think what did him in was when he tried a coworker's home-made beef jerky one day - he must have felt pretty good in the immediately-following days. He's been eating meat ever since.

Honestly, before I was 'forced' (for work purposes) to use an iphone, I wasn't a fan of Apple - although I admittedly never tried using one. Since then, the three guys that sit near me at work have bought into the apple ecosystem as well.

For me, personally, while "Joe's Truck Parts dot com" might do a better job of finding me the floor mats that fit my truck (or the manufacturer) - Amazon already has my credit card on file, and my address, and (for the most part) ships anything I order to my doorstep within two days. So I know I'm not transferring my credit card data to some random, sketchy company who stores it on some Windows 98 server, and takes 2 weeks to ship me my product, and when they finally do ship it, it could take 7 days to get to me.

In either event, I do like to support local business and small business - but I enjoy the convenience and familiarity that Amazon offers...so even if their search isn't the greatest, I'll still be clicking purchase on their site, for the most part.

Now my current job is absolutely rewarding as well. I’m actually recognized a lot for my troubleshooting ability, but normally a typical project from start to end could be four months - or more - if it includes a lot of documentation to pass off to an operations team. I definitely do more designing, documentation, and transitioning of those systems than I do troubleshooting, however these days.

Keep in mind, I’m not complaining - just explaining. I love my job and am challenged. I think it just misses some of the more frequent gratifying completion of tasks (which cycling fills).

Hope that explains a bit more.

I was a mechanic in my younger years. I was content. I was lower middle class, but I didn't care. Yeah, it was dirty, it was tiring, it was hard on the body, but it was rewarding.

Once we had our first child, I refocused on a long-lost passion of mine and have been a network engineer for about seven years now...While I also love this job, and do find it rewarding, I got into cycling about six years ago.

I've always realized that I upped the 'profitability' of my career by over four-fold - and I know that I did it for the sake of my son and my wife. But I never realized that cycling actually filled a gap that I left for myself.

I'm completely fine with cycling filling that gap. My family lives a better life now, and I absolutely love cycling. The article definitely hit home with me - word after word, sentence after sentence, I can relate to the whole thing.

Recently, I bought my MacBook there. I also purchased a gaming headset from there.

I think the main thing is - what if I get my headset out of the box and one ear has no sound - easy fix with Best Buy. Same with the MacBook. In fact - I actually ended up returning my original MacBook to Best Buy within 14 days of purchasing it to get a slightly upgraded model - no questions asked, nothing lost but about an hour of time.

As other posters have mentioned, there's also the 'knock-off' chance on Amazon as well (or at least me, the general, uninformed consumer thinks that there is). I can't be certain that even Apple-branded products from Amazon are actually Apple products. But at Best Buy, my assumption is they are legit Apple products.

We came to the conclusion that the vast majority of feeds are filled with posts from sites that other like-minded people also have in their feeds. This causes the comments on those posts on your feed to mostly be filled with people whose feelings align with your own.

I think that's dangerous, maybe mainly because the general population doesn't realize this. Everyone, no matter how 'distorted' their views are - feels vindicated in those views.

Every time I feel like removing my Facebook, I just take a few steps back and only use it to stay in touch with family and/or friends that I have moved away from - which soon morphs back into the constant checking for new posts and then reading those comments, which tend to align and solidify my own feelings.

I think the world would be a better place without Facebook - and I also think the world would be worse off in some regards without it. In either event, if Facebook vanished tomorrow, I wouldn't complain.

I've always used a chest-based heart rate sensor until I started trying wrist-based about 4-5 years ago. I've used countless brands and models (ranging in price from about $49.99 up to about $399) on my wrist - and literally none are as accurate as the chest-based strap. The chest strap responds immediately to increases and decreases in heart rate. Whereas the wrist sensors always seem to lag, sometimes by up to a minute or so.

The wrist-based sensors always seem to differ depending on where on the wrist they are worn - high, low, inside of the wrist, outside of the wrist, etc - by maybe 5 bpm or so.

In either event, if you really want to test the accuracy of the wrist-based sensor, you should really compare it to the output of a chest-based strap.

In fact, the results will largely be personal - because the electric signals may differ per person greatly in different areas of the arm.

Needless to say, my apple watch is worn daily, but when riding, I have gone back to a chest-based strap.

That all being said, there is a guy that reviews these gadgets and will often wear 2-4 sensors while working out, and post an overlay of the results from his workouts. The baseline should generally always assume that the chest-based straps are accurate. His site is called DCRainmaker, if anyone wanted to look up his comparisons/reviews.