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I'll ignore the inflammatory parts and focus on the 1% thing.

Why is it that someone who is privileged isn't allowed to want something more? True, they have a lot, but that's the way of life at this point, people move up, people's position gets better, that's the story of human history. However, this person is SO well off, that they're not allowed to question or look for something better?

Just because there is suffering in the world doesn't mean I can't want for more for myself and family.

Edit: Nope I lied, I'm not going to ignore the inflammatory bit, fuck you for saying it.

Last year we sold our things and left to travel around the world. We'd lived in a house for three years, I'd lived in an apartment for two prior to that.

It required two garage sales and countless trips to goodwill. It was sickening at times, how little you could sell your things for. We got back a thousand maybe 1.5k on our goods, the rest was a write off. Even still we had about 8 boxes of stuff when we moved out.

We came back from traveling sooner than expected and had to re-buy a lot of things, but we've been cautious not to get too many 'useless' things. That isn't to say there is nothing to adorn our apartment, just... much less.

In general I'm happier this way, we've got pictures we took on the walls, a few things we picked up traveling, kitchen stuff, and furniture. I hope never again to get to the point where we were before.

Worst part of selling your stuff: getting rid of our books.

Reading too much into it. Users would adapt, moving to other services and traffic volumes would return to approximately "normal" levels.

So the big differentiator here is delivery in under 90 minutes?

Perhaps I'm jaded by my experience in the industry (parents = florists and I worked for FTD in the past), but that seems like enough to get just a handful of orders. Broadening to the entire market might be a struggle. You've got many local florists, drop shippers, and supermarkets to contend with.

I love the website. I can see that perhaps having and beautiful app + trendy website might give you traction in a younger crowd, a group that purchases fewer flowers today. A focus on quality will give you a leg up over a huge percentage of local florists, for many quality just isn't there.

Are you opening locations in each locale wish to serve? That's capital intensive and leads to procurement issues.

If you gain traction, I hope you're ready for what Valentines/Mother's day bring.

You're just playing with words though. People choose to use debt, I've got debt, on the car we just bought, that's it. I HAD debt, but the student loans are now paid and the house was sold.

Am I lucky to make a good salary that allows me to pay these things down? Absolutely. However, I'm also responsible for the choices I make. Many people make more than I do and don't save as much, many More people make less and drive cars that are twice as expensive as mine.

Here's the problem though - you don't need to buy the BMW or the suburban McMansion. Save that money instead and when you're in your 40 you can tell the boss that he should give you job to a whipper-snapper, you're headed to Thailand.

No one holds a gun to the consumer's head, they just convince themselves they need thing. Then they whine when they haven't saved more than 300k for retirement at age 50 and social security is looking rocky.

This goes off the tracks for me about midway through. While for many people the reality described is actually their life, there are many of us (and I'd imagine a huge percentage of those reading this) that aren't slaves. If you're making over 70-80k/year, you have the capacity to save a lot and do the things you want to do before you hit 55, 65, or 75.

I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the "societal overlords" you're referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and "quit" the rat race earlier if they like.

I'm not saying that it doesn't have the possibility of being unpleasant at times, I'm saying that it doesn't strike me as a serious objection to a brand new transit method that is superior to existing options in so many ways.

Similar, though less invasive, solutions exist for 'emergencies' on private planes and such. They come with support for both male and female genitalia.

Financial incentive? You're traveling at 700mph through a partially evacuated, elevated tube in order to get to work. That isn't incentive enough?

You're thinking city buses. I'm thinking long-haul busses (like greyhound in the US). Greyhound buses likely have facilities, what I'm actually talking about are the buses used a core parts of the transportation infrastructure all over South America. Many of these also have facilities but I've been on many where the bathroom isn't functioning or just plain isn't there. You can easily travel for 30 minutes to an hour without stopping.

We're largely (70%) talking about commuters here, they're taking this twice a day, most days out of the year. Again, I'm not sure why for 90%+ of people that this would be an issue.

They're talking about pods that can hold cars, so it doesn't seem that way. The cost does increase, but doesn't look to be a deal breaker.

The focus from people on bathrooms is puzzling to me. I've been on buses, without facilities, that go for hours without stopping. This is a 35 minute ride with restricted movement, if you greatly fear being able to hold it for that long, there are other, less efficient methods of transport to accommodate you.

To me this article 1)says very little 2) conflates 'lifehacking' and 'lifestyle design'

Lifehacking to me has always been about little things you do to reduce friction and mundanity in your day to day. Tim Ferris promotes something else entirely which advocates an entirely different lifestyle, fueled by passive income, allowing you to focus on What You Want™.

[Sorry for the buzzword bingo above, I felt I needed to embrace it to adequately articulate the thoughts.]

I like these in general, but the 'line' skin is a usability problem. They look like buttons, but function like checkboxes/radio buttons which make it very confusing.

To expand on this a bit, absolute security for encryption just doesn't exist. If you wanted your data 100% secure, put it in a database, disconnect the DB from your network, put it in a locked room, guarded by biometric locks and security guards. Even in that scenario, the data is vulnerable, but why even bother discussing that point, as the data is worthless if you can't access it.

With that reality in mind, I was responsible for PCI for a large part of the infrastructure at a Level 1 Merchant, meaning a yearly audit had to be passed. Ultimately, our solutions boiled down to restricting access to an external (read different machine/network segment), firewalled host that did the decryption. In some cases this was an appliance that was purchased (this helps with compliance, but they're expensive, and they're a nightmare if they become a performance bottleneck as they're a black box you know little about). In other cases we used a web service we built that worked similarly (auditors will pick this apart because it isn't a "standard" solution).

In all cases here is a high level of how they work: encrypted data is passed to the service, which pulls the encryption key out of memory, decrypts the data, and sends it back to the requesting host. The encryption key is stored in (at least) two pieces, each piece is encrypted with a key encrypting key, key encrypting keys are know to very few employees, no single employee holds both key encrypting keys. The encryption keys is only assembled in its entirety while in memory.

Again, there are problems to this, as patio11 intimates, compliance includes much theater a times, but this is reality, and it does provide benefit over other solution, in this case, at least three layers of security must be compromised before you could decrypt everything.

I feel like for most beginners, 40L is the least they'll want to take, calling it too big is disingenuous I think. My wife and I both had 40L packs, the size was good, at then end perhaps we could have gone smaller, but not much below 35L each.

At the start, 40L was really tough and I think for someone doing this for the first time, 40-50L is ideal. The focus on bag size can be almost fetishistic for some long term travelers. Those who travel with two shirts, one pair of pants, and a laptop are going too far in the opposite direction in my opinion. I don't want to spend all my time doing laundry or smelling awful.

This is something that most don't talk about. Travelling is work. I'm not saying it is anything like 40 hours a week at bigcorp USA, but it is certainly work.

The constant movement, decisions about where to sleep, what to do, and where you're headed to next can be very stressful.

The three weeks we spent in Ecuador learning spanish are some of our fondest memories of our trip. We were ready to get moving after three weeks, but in hindsight I think it would have been good if we stayed longer.

I agree about the kindle version being useless, not just because of the device, but because the formatting of their books on these devices is awful.

We used mostly wikitravel on an ipad, made notes, and used our notes while moving about cities.

Another traveller chiming in, I've just started working after taking off for 8 months to travel South America (top to bottom), Antarctica, and Europe. I've been working now for almost 2 months.

Regarding packing: My wife and I each carried a 40L backpack. This is pretty small, but I'd highly recommend it for this kind of trip. They were a godsend on buses in South America.

Cost: Over the course of the trip we spent almost 40k ($165/day), if you exclude Antarctica it was a much more reasonable $92/day. Last minute deals for Antarctica DO exist, I recommend them highly (we saved somewhere in the neighborhood of 20k).

Transport: As with others in the thread, we bought as we went and opted primarily for overland travel. Tips for 30 hour bus rides: carrots to snack on and Harry Potter audio books.

My most recent post [1] was a wrap up after being home for some time. You can check out the blog for more on packing, budget, etc.

Happy to answer any questions.

[1] http://orofino.me/

I've since changed the password, but I believe this may be fixed in iOS 7. I seem to recall some thoroughly random password after install.

So were the systems for managing the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. The system can be compromised, given the proper will and facilities.

I feel like this is perhaps fake. The first post read well to me, seemed reasonable, at least the first time through. The second post, about the job, is what gave me suspicion.

The way he quits, the feeling of "liberation", it borders on sociopathic in some ways. Pretending you're going on holiday when in reality you're going to die, who has time for such games when they've got a 30 day timer running.

It reads like a movie, not like my experience with reality.

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I'm sorry, but don't smart cards completely obviate the skimmer issue? Aren't they widely used in Canada and Europe?

I'm not terribly knowledgeable in this area, but I thought this was a solved problem being held up by corporate interest in the US.

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I agree I need to be better at this. I actually reviewed a lot of my collection recently and felt that I should have been more discerning at the outset, but didn't actually reduce the number at all.

This doesn't fix the problem though. A tool to coalesce multiple sources and allow for easy sorting/editing with a way to them publish that result is really key here.

In my case, this isn't it. As others have responded, you take many pictures in order to get a good one. I'm messing with shutter speeds and aperture, I'm shooting on continuous advance, and as I mentioned elsewhere, I took a lot of photos last year due to travel.

Finally, I'm keeping maybe 20% of what I take. The other 80% are being deleted.

Shooting in RAW takes up enormous amounts of space.

I certainly have considered them, but I'm already paying for dropbox and flickr and a vps and domains. I try to keep recurring costs relatively low.

I use dropbox to back up important files and flickr is a backup for my photos. I'll be getting a NAS to provide at least some local fault tolerance for storing things like photos, music, and movies.