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Should it not be ”Live free and die” then?

Funny. Kagi was the payment solution I used to sell shareware in the late 90'ies. I believe the company later disappeared due a fraud case that made it bankrupt.

Seems like both domain and company name is recycled into this now.

It is a numbers game. And by increasing the number of chances to "play", you increase the probability of scoring (i.e. "increase your luck surface area").

> How do you know if by increasing your good luck in one area you’re not increasing your bad luck in another?

I think you do know. Eat healthy and move => most likely will increase the probability of be able to be more active at an older age. Build and launch projects => increase the probability of building a profitable business (but if doing that makes you burnout - sure, you could say you increased your "bad luck" from a health perspective)

Why, oh why, is in-car infotainment so bad? And I don't mean bad as in subjective opinions about user interface. I mean the fact that my 2 year old high-end Audi A6 still show Yelp ratings in the navigation system in Europe - Yelp pretty much shutdown in Europe 2016!

It feels like there is somewhere an hierarchical organization somewhere completely lacking product management and a connection to what is expected in the digital world.

It is the consequences of a power outage in Flexential PDX02 data center.

Indeed so. Once in my youth I brought my Amiga 500 to a friend's place, and he had a cat that peed on the edge of it.

The computer was ok, but it was basically a flood of cat pee seeping in into the memory expansion slot underneath.

Tried everything to get rid of the smell. Including perfume. Didn't make it better. Especially when it got hot.

Still today, when I smell cat urine I instantly think of Motorola 68000 assembly.

Except you had to register in an app every place you went to, during covid. Nice social profiling that data could provide… say, if another type of party ended up as the ruling one.

I wonder how many thousands (millions?) of man-hours of lost productivity over the world the Github SSH debacle resulted in. Not only for teams to fix the issue in a build pipeline no one touched for several years, but also the lost productivity for teams build/deploy pipelines to break, etc.

The problem is not crypto. The problem is (the lack of) diversification of his investments. Putting your life-savings in a single stock is equally bad. Putting your life-savings in tech stocks is almost as bad. Diversifying it over multiple industries, exposure to different markets, and other assets than just stock - now we are talking.

It is not the same kind potential lottery win as stock picking the winner, but you also will not bit hit as hard.

This is the lesson that must be learned, not only with investing in crypto, but investing in anything.

Pick any of the big four; PwC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG.

Typically they'll do a valuation and put a bonus threshold. x% under, x+n% if over.

> Is your leader the ultimate authority of your group?

Yes. Selected by, and sole connection to the mythical group "board".

> Does your leader have impressive, made-up names or titles?

Yes. "Chief Executive Officer".

> As far as your group is concerned, would they say that there is no legitimate reason to leave them?

Yes... if ever trying to leave, you are technically bribed with something that you cannot use in stores or pay rent. They call it "equity".

> Is your group suspicious about the outside world?

Yes. Always this talk about how the outside world is "the competition". Sometimes "the users.

> Does your group believe that they are the ‘right’ religion/church/group/ones, or only ones, who have ‘right’ teaching/doctrine?

Yes. "The competition" is wrong.

> Are there any of the above such rules/laws in your group?

Yes. Rules are in "the handbook".

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Around February there's a whole week where schools are closed with the incentive to do sports - especially winter sports (given the time of the year). A lot of people go to ski resorts - the alps (or up north in Sweden - which got mountains but is far from the Alps).