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Yeah, I'm currently 20 and Jim is over 30. That is one of the reasons I've decided to leave - I don't want this to sound cocky or something - but it was apparent that I'm more capable than Jim, or to put it other way Jim doesn't really have an idea what he's doing. I was able to discourage him from some crazy things he wanted to do along the way, but after some time I realized that it's leading nowhere.

I guess the turning point was when we were talking to a journalist and he asked us what are our KPIs (key performance indicators). Jim had no idea what that is, so he just told him some nonsense - I had to step in to make it clear. I just don't want to imagine the embarassment if we were sitting with investors instead
You could null route or firewall all the open resolvers, or at least the most common ones.

If your router is linux, that might look like

/sbin/ip route add blackhole 9.9.9.9 2>/dev/null
/sbin/ip route add blackhole 1.1.1.1 2>/dev/null
/sbin/ip route add blackhole 1.0.0.1 2>/dev/null
/sbin/ip route add blackhole 8.8.8.8 2>/dev/null
/sbin/ip route add blackhole 8.8.4.4 2>/dev/null

I'm probably leaving many of them off. There is probably a RBL for those by now. Here is one [1] and here is a list of them. [2]

[1] - https://github.com/bambenek/block-doh

[2] - https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS
Salesforce has stock in many companies through Salesforce Ventures, including Optimizely, Twilio, Box, Dropbox and Stripe.
Interview with Tamar Shapiro, Instagram’s Head of Analytics
Sorry to say but Wikipedia is far from a neutral source.
Its the practice of insulting someone to achieve the reaction you were originally looking for.

It is a manipulative practice that aims to break down the self esteem of someone that would otherwise dismiss you, so that they want to validate themselves to you to remain attractive in their own head. All while you just wanted the attention to begin with. A little different from trolling, where you rile someone up just so they embarrass themselves. With negging, you want them to want validation from you and you want a relationship with them.

It is a gender-neutral pick up art, more commonly taught by men in communities that want to meet women. Try not to fall for it. Try not to be manipulative. It also works.

The pick up art community overlaps with the NLP community which applies their speech hacks in professional and career settings.
Any idea what the yearly gross income from duderanch.com might be? Or the selling price at the exit?

I love the narrative. I'd love it even more if we had a glimpse of whether this ultimately settled in as predicted ($25k/year) or turned out to be a whole lot more rewarding.
And maybe just me but I doubt it - It leaves a REALLY bad taste in my mouth getting the alert that the email read receipt is being tracked.
Can’t you setup cloudflared on your pi-hole or does it have issues?
The Tezro and Octane both have prominent power-on lights, but I think they're tasteful and cool.
> We are already close to replacement levels

We are at those levels for almost 50 years now in "the west". Guess you are conveniently disregarding the mess you created over this last half century(and long before when the growth in India was 6 children per couple while in the USA it was 3).

Here is a novel idea for you: you use the resources available by your territory as you see fit as long as you don't destroy the rest of the planet for us. If you choose to do it with double your population or half your population, is solely your sovereign choice and we have nothing to say about it. The same way you shouldn't have anything to say about how we use our resources with our - in check - population where people - for a very long time now - mostly think twice about if they can actually support a child with the resources available (natural or economic) before having it.
I'd say the same thing about the US judicial branch.
> it worked out fine.

If for "worked out fine" you intend "self-destructed", yeah, it did.

UK is dead!

Ireland will stay in EU, Scotland will vote to stay in EU, even London is looking for a way to stay in EU, what's left?
For me brexit has, for many people, been a case of them voting against their own best interests, due to believing what they're being told by politicians.

The Leave camp, during the campaign, were very strong on the idea that leaving would have economic benefits, not penalties.

When combined with the UK press use of the EU as a scapegoat for many unpopular decisions over the last 40 years, it's not surprising to see the outcome we did.

Reality will only sink in, once we've left and the outcome becomes apparent. I really wish that weren't the case and that people would look at the people pushing brexit to see they are not likely to act in the interests of the majority of the population, but I don't think that's what's happened.

EDIT: to provide one example look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kin... The North east of England voted Leave in almost every area...
The market cap is currently at 666 BTC.
'sproeiauto' is still legal, one of the few Dutch words using all vowels in a row.

One of the interesting differences about Dutch spelling compared to English, is that there's an official institution (Nederlandse Taalunie, literally Dutch Language union), that sets the spelling and spelling rules for most words. The spelling of Dutch thus is the same in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname. The uniformity in spelling means that for most Dutch words (not loan words), you can easily tell how they're pronounced by the way they're written, as opposed to English that never really changed their spelling of words, despite some shifts in pronunciation. Readings older Dutch texts is takes slightly more effort, because the spelling of some words can be completely different from what it is now.
Remind me to which frequencies should I tune my receiver to pick those?

Anyway, paying for ad-free and surveillance-free experience is increasingly not possible, as companies try to double-dip.
What a lovely article!

It should be emphasized that graph databases can do all other types of databases (relational, document, key/value, etc.) as you can see demonstrated in this article (https://gun.eco/docs/Graph-Guide).

This makes graphs a superior data structure.

If you think about the math, any document is a trie, and tables are a matrix. Both trees and matrices can be represented as graphs. But not all graphs can be represented as a tree or graph.

This gets even more fun when you get into hypergraphs and bigraphs, which are totally possible with property graph databases where nodes have type!
Democracy allows for the changing of minds. As long as there is a vote that gives a PM a mandate for a course of action it can be done. Its not anti democratic to have another vote.
> Farmers commit suicide in India at some rate measurable in multiple dead farmers per day.

India is big. What's the per capita rate?
you are failing to see half of the equation -- capital supplied companies can make moves that are not an option for boot-strap, and those moves are used aggressively in many cases. Secondly, capital is abundant in the West (perhaps too abundant) .. those seeking return on that capital are making the paths that lead to this system.
I think there may be two schools of thought here, though.

Some people interpret the very act of cursing as incivility, regardless of the purpose, and some people only view it as uncivil if it is meant to be uncivil.

Personally, I don’t agree that the only reason to curse is to offend. In my mind, curse words have a very specific meaning and sometimes they are by far the most appropriate word for a situation.

I would liken it to using words that describe parts of the human anatomy. There are some people who would never say the word penis in polite company, but sometimes it’s just the only word for the job.

Also, I’m not suggesting that my interpretation is the only reasonable one, just that I think there are widely varying positions.
Contact the advertiser's sales department, waste their time, then chew them out for their shady advertising practices. Tell them that every time you hear an ad for them without a disclaimer, you will personally tell 10 friends or strangers that their organization is run by unethical crooks and should be avoided at all cost.

Since you're in India, I wonder how economical it would be to hire a telemarketing company to do this for you.
Yeah, Jim buying me out would be a preferable option now
Serious q: What's the best way to track opens?
I don't think so. I'm British and know it as "borscht"; I've never (consciously) seen "borshch" until now.
Do keep a gitops folder / repository to keep your cluster in sync with expectations, do not let adhoc edits become the norm.

Use tools like kustomize to reduce proliferation of duplicate k8s resource files.

Do make sure you are using health and liveness checks.

Definitely take care to specify resource requests and limits.

Do use annotations to control provider resources, rather than manually tweaking provider resources that are auto generated by basic k8s files with no annotations.

Aggregate your logs.
Three things:

Step 1: Citizenship Amendment Bill, gives citizenship to every one apart from Muslims(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_Amendment_Bill_201...)

Step 2: From Step 1, all religion adherents apart from Islam are automatically included in NRC.

Step 3: From Step 1 and 2, NRC becomes all about Muslims.
"But what about my business model? Don't you know I have an inalienable right to it?"
That is no different than until recently, crack had much harsher penalties than the same amount of cocaine. Crack was seen as an “inner city”. How many minorities do you really think live in what most people classify as “rural America” or even the suburbs?

Not that I am saying that I have ever gotten a racist vibe where I live, but let’s just say that every place we go in our part of metro Atlanta, we stand out.

Every study shows that most Blacks live in a majority minority neighborhood.
OP is probably referring to a conversational technique where one person tries to gain rapport with another by (sometimes slightly) insulting them. It's more common in the hookup scene, "pickup artist" scene, etc, FWIW.

I'm not aware of its usage in VC pitching, but does not sound like a good idea.
thank you zapstar! Sorta like Bill Walsh (49ers coach) said (essentially).. start on the right foundation and "the score will take care of itself".. Domain names are such a great way to start a project off on the right foot..
The mistake you made was two years ago, by not putting in vesting in your initial contract. But since we can't fix the past...

You appear to own 40% of the company, which means you own 40% of the IP. Whether Jim paid for the development or not isn't super relevant, the relevant part is the contracts between Jim and freelancers. Who is assigned their IP? Who is listing as hiring them on the contract, the company or Jim?

Jim can try to play games by re-incorporating and moving the IP around, but you'd still be entitled to 40% of it. But you might have to sue to get it.

The good news is that you can just walk away now, and if it gets really big later, you can file your lawsuit if it might actually be worth something (see Facebook). In the meantime no need to stress about it.

Of course I'm not a lawyer etc etc, but from my experience this is how it would go down.

BTW if you wanted a fair deal, you'd get 20% of the stock now and forever. That's what you would have vested in with a standard four year vesting agreement.
that sounds cool, what happened to it? that'd be a fun project to work on today :)
When you talk about being brave, what are the consequences that the person is facing, except being famous and being praised by the media? Would that person be expelled from school or put into a jail?
I made a 911 call once about someone yelling "GET AWAY FROM ME SOMEBODY CALL THE POLICE" in an altercation across the street from my window. My address wasn't showing up properly in their database[1], so I started trying to say "they're homeless so the exact unit isn't necessary, let me give you cross streets" and she cut me off immediately with the most holier-than-thou delivery of "homeless people need help too".

....dude, _I_ called _you_. Obviously I'm on board with the idea that homeless people need help during emergencies just like anyone else. I get that dispatchers are people and people aren't perfect, and this lady's unprofessionalism didn't end up making much of a difference in this particular case, but I wonder how much gaps in training and competence bigger than these minor examples cost in terms of response time and lives.

[1] Which is pretty concerning if I ever have an emergency...
This sounds like everybody should be using Nim. Why do they still use Python, C# etc and why is Nim still so rare then?
> Saving some scratch over a few years of paid employment, then bootstrapping, seems like a seldom-traveled route.

Probably because most people don't in their wildest dreams have the kind of spare cash left at the end of the month to do something like this.
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Keep in mind that while 40% equity means you get 40% of dividends, it also means you’re on the hook for 40% of losses (or of the minimum annual tax bill if your company has no profit).

So retaining your equity may not be free.
I happiky use about 1% of Tmuz and and only truly understand half of that. Still super useful.
>If the news reflects the medical community's POV and the medical community is wrong, that makes them "complicit"?

The expectation is that news are independent and practice journalism and they don't just take anyone at their word.
According to https://www.finder.com/personal-loan-documents, lenders require at least two forms of government issued identification. Also, applying for and keeping a passport requires one to pay about $110 every decade.

In my experience, having a passport makes it much easier to do various things that require identification.
I don't know what kind of money you're thinking of (you mentioned a couple thousand dollars), if the sum is relatively small - eg $3,000 or less - I would not schedule payments over time. Try to get the partner to pay you out immediately and walk. If it's a larger sum, it might make sense to schedule it into payments (particularly if it means a consequentially larger payout). The ideal is to have no outstanding agreements whatsoever between you and Jim. Next week or next month when the app fails (or xyz happens), he might decide he doesn't think you're owed the rest of the payout because of said failure ('but the thing no longer exists, I am not paying for something that failed!'). It's a lot of bullshit for $3,000 in regards to a contract and payments over time. If he decides to stop paying for any reason, now you have to consider suing him, which is a lot to go through for $1,000 or $2,000 or whatever is remaining (more likely the balance is lost at that point).

Right now Jim probably thinks there is serious value in the app. The odds are overwhelming that isn't true. While he believes that, your likelihood of getting paid are dramatically higher, so again go for the 100% immediate payout if you can.
'No Religion' Officially Overtakes Christianity in New Zealand Census Stats
I've worked on software that attempts to estimate the end-user demand represented by a given resolver. Most of the specifics are covered by NDA, but suffice to say that it's surprisingly difficult to do accurately. There is a lot of non-standard behavior in various resolver software, some of it avoidable, some of it not.

This trick of altering the hostname of a subresource to identify the client is a thing I long wished we could do, but sadly we didn't have enough control of the content to do that.
I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me. Thanks.
I was taught in school (elementary or secondary school, I forget) how to make an emergency call.

We were taught a recommended recipe: Who, where, what. You tell them who you are, where you're located, then what the problem is. The responder can then start asking questions to get the details they need to classify the category and urgency of the emergency.

It's really something that should be widely taught.
I swear like a navvy at times (which I have worked on decreasing over the years), but feel extremely uncomfortable with it in some environments and times.

One concern I have about it is that it is a useful "letting off steam" step before an increase in physical aggression or temper.

When that step is removed due to it becoming a form of punctuation, the escalation to physical becomes potentially easier or quicker.
That's a lot of charts to be tattooed onto my forearm.
Not just adjectives, vowels too! E.g. tick tock vs tock tick, chit chat vs chat chit, ding dong vs dong ding [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160908-the-language-rules...
Hey - off topic but what do you think of BSides? There is one soon in my area and have been on the fence about attending. Is it hit or miss on location?
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You’re not going to see a post from a seed accelerator on said seed accelerator’s hosted forum about self-bootstrapping without investors hands in the mix though.

You’ll get all sorts of responses leading the other way:

“no one has money to bootstrap a business!”

Or

“An investor has special capital and asset powers you need it”

Which is nothing but FUD.
Perhaps, but when the creditor/lender needs to provide proof that they interacted with the consumer and shows a copy of the faked identification as "proof", it should be easy enough for the consumer to hold the lender liable for the bad credit report.
A pretty simplistic description of the situation, but not wholly untrue. Oil has naturally leaked out of the ground and ocean floor for millions of years [1]. Granted, man made oil spills are still bad for the environment as they release significant quantities of oil at once.

1. https://www.whoi.edu/oil/natural-oil-seeps
What has 5 Rs biscuits are not being bought has got to do with GST? It's specifically addressed in the podcast I shared. It's more like the company wants tax cuts from the Government.

And, no, "Discretionary demand" is not dead. There's no data to back that claim. The demand has decreased and that's why we're in a slowdown.

Rural demand is not the only thing that has gone. Urban demand is also down. We've had years of bad loans, high taxes etc. Add to it sector specific changes like new Engine norms in Auto sector and introduction of norms like RERA in real estate. These were going to culminate in a slowdown sooner or later.
Would you like to use the domain Free.TV ?

I am the founder of OpenDomain - we are "Open source for domains".

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And gmail, Google Cloud, and Android are different organizations in one company. What’s the line? Having too many products? Do we break up other companies too? I’m trying to tease apart the logic here that makes tech companies a special case.
Using other people’s capital has better EV and a better worse case outcome than completely self-funding. Not that every company needs to be venture backed.
Well for one thing, it would be literally impossible to establish a subscription model for radio stations. For another thing, online news sources have been trying to make subscriptions work for years and nobody's figured out how to do it yet.

But going beyond that, who are you to declare that entire mediums' worth of content is invalid simply because of the lack of available mechanisms for collecting the revenue they need to sustain themselves? What a gross oversimplification.

If you want behavior to change, you have to provide a valid alternative. You can only say "I won't put up with X" if there's a viable Y to replace it with. Otherwise it's just "I won't put up with you". In which case, when it comes to businesses, the other party will either get even more aggressive with their tactics, or just die altogether.
Stuff like this, or some of patio11's early work seems a lot more within the grasp of ordinary people. That's why it's interesting to read about for me, at least.
You’re generally correct, especially with how people mostly use bicycles and e-bikes. But it depends a bit on how you’re positioning it; two interesting cases that I’m thinking of: using a “trickle power assist” to cheat your way to effectively 100% efficiency, so it needs to be efficient with small augmentations from a battery (which I think is the sort of case that would commonly be particularly inefficient, but when combined with your pedalling in the same drivetrain I imagine it might not be); and velomobiles for longer-distance travel (very much more being a car replacement), perhaps even touring, where larger range figures start to matter more. If you can get it to go 20% further at a given speed, that becomes a bigger deal.

A substantial art of this thought experiment is about designing a delightful product. As my dad said to me: if Apple were designing a bicycle or tricycle or velomobile or similar, what would it be like? We both agreed that there wouldn’t be an exposed chain, for starters, and I suspect that they’d at least try to do away with the chain altogether, and they’d care about efficiencies if they went down this path.
My pi-hole is blocking 20% of all queries. Can we say that 20% of end-users internet traffic is for tracking and advertising ?
I'll bet its more than the $664 USD this website valuator [1] reports, lol.

[1] http://www.siteworthtraffic.com/report/duderanch.com
I think the ejection plan is also really good in romantic relationships.

If we are committing to each other, what does it look like if one of us decides we don’t want commitment?

Do we agree to do couples therapy for a X number of months where X is an agreed upon ratio of time spent together?
To add even more confusion, in my sort-of Philly accent, street is pronounced [ˈʃtɹit].

My uneducated guess on /ʒ/ is that /dʒ/ is the most common way of encountering it, so people aren't comfortable separating it out, even though it's still common. It probably doesn't help that the usual transcription is zh which basically doesn't exist in native English words.
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Podcast ads are so easy to skip. Don't even have to open your phone, just fastforward using headphone buttons.
Sounds like a net positive to me.

Media living in fear of offending advertisers limits the range of acceptable discourse and causes it to slant corporatist.
Paper leaks showing a quantum computer doing something a supercomputer can’t
He said age "17 or 18" is a minor detail, which from my perspective, coming from a country which has an age of consent under both, I agree.
1) Talk to a lawyer. Details are going to vary wide depending on where you are and the documentation that exists.

2) Your work has value, quite possibly more value than the capital put in by Jim.

3) If you own 40%, Jim has to buy your 40%. You position as a shareholder is not related to your position as an employee. Ownership doesn't disappear. I don't quite understand how/why you would reduce to 5% from 40% (without dilution events).

4) Don't sign anything until you talk to a lawyer.
this is so egregious to me i didn't realize email tracking like this existed.
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Johnson voted _against_ the withdrawal agreement twice, and then for it once. If Parliament is the problem, Johnson has been part of that problem. I'm also not sure what his clear strategy is. The current deal would involve going with a deal he has voted against twice and that his Leader of the House of Commons has recently described as "dreadful", and he has shown no indication that he is going to bring it back. The EU has accused him of "pretending to negotiate"[1], so I'm unclear where a new deal would come from.

Furthermore, unless I'm mistaken, I believe it has only been voted on three times.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/13/kicking-up-...