No, they give you 10k options that vest in 12 months, and then next year you get 5k options that vest in 12 months, and then 2.5k, and then 1.25k (if stock price doubles every year). So you get less than half what you would have.
Agreed that the government at the highest level should pay a huge amount of money. Though I think he should get $10^7 and the rest of the $10^8 should become an endowment for a criminal justice/prison reform organization and he can lead it.
> Religion has emphasized surrender as a way to find peace but I don't personally see how those words do anything
Surrender is not resignation, it is acceptance. You have to acknowledge and then emotionally accept what truly is, in order to be able to effectively construct a different future.
It's the combination of defaults that's problematic. If the site requires https, because it's e.g. a bank, then sure, require non-expired cert. But my static sites which have no auth, payment, or even subpages (path-obscuration being another of the touted benefits of https-everywhere), do not require https. Except because of the defaults Google's overzealous security team decided to inflict on the world, now I have to have a process that reaches out to LE every 3 months. For a static website which otherwise never needs updating.
Well according to others on this thread, w3.org enabled HSTS - so they specificly opted into strict mode. They were not using the defaults. So that criticism does not apply here.
Https also ensures that the connection has not been tampered with by an ISP. Its quite stupid, especially considering you're paying them already, but used to be common when most of the web was http. Also, router malware has been seen injecting JS into http pages to mine crypto.
I was a half-pack-a-day smoker for about 10 years, quit several times (once for several months), and the only thing that "worked" ultimately was realizing that I simply could never have another cigarette. After the physical cravings subsided, I still had frequent longings for that wonderfully ubiquitous way to 'fix' my internal itchiness/discomfort, but I had made such a commitment that I would have literal nightmares in which I smoked a cigarette--and then woke up in a panic, similar to dreams where I found out I'd accidentally killed someone and was debating whether to turn myself in or go on the lam.
Then one evening about 10 years later I was at a festival wandering around and I had this desire in my brain for something, I didn't know what, and it was a few hours later that I realized the thing I really wanted was a cigarette. It was that night that I changed my internal conception of myself from "ex-smoker" to "non-smoker". I don't have cravings any more for cigarettes, though there is a certain pang, I guess I would call it "nostalgia", and maybe it includes "envy" of people who can smoke a cigarette/cigar socially at an event and then not think about it again for years. Occasionally I will have accidental contact with nicotine (like buying a joint on vacation and getting a weird taste while smoking it and realizing half-way through that it's actually a spliff), and for a few days or a week afterward the light switch is again visible in my mind--though I'm thankfully not tempted to flip it. I wonder in those times whether a never-smoker who has a cigar once does have the same cravings in the days after, but doesn't recognize them as such.
So at least for me, who admittedly was never a heavy smoker, it doesn't resonate that I will struggle with this addiction until I die. The only apparent lasting (mental) consequences are that I have to consciously refuse nicotine even when it would be a legitimately fun and interesting experience (like when I was offered some fancy snuff at a party which everyone else got to enjoy). And when I see someone smoking a cigarette I might get the nostalgia or envy I mentioned above. But when I get within smelling distance it's just foul and unappealing.
Best wishes for anyone who's thinking of or trying to quit.
You don't want any components that have been used in coin mining. Generally, GPUs, desktop CPUs, RAM, consumer disks (both solid stats and spinning rust) and even power supplies are not designed for years of 24x7 100% load.
This is a part of why NVidia cracked down on gpu mining recently - when ASIC mining became more profitable than GPUs, the secondhand market got flooded with cheap high quality cards (thus ruining the primary sale market for new GPUs) and people flooded NVidia support with support queries for slow or unreliable GPUs.
Chia doesn't require running disks at 24x7 100% load. You fill up your storage and then wait until you win the lottery. Most of the time, you won't win and your disk can remain idle.
Drives used for Chia farming both SSD and HDD would have very little use over time. All the discussion around Chia destroying SSD's is when they are used in the initial plotting process which does a huge amount of reads and writes in the process of generating a plot. Once you move those plots to a large capacity spinning disk for farming, there is very little reads on the disk thereafter.
It's a meme for Long Now members showing that they intend/expect civilization to continue past the year 9999. It's an effective signal to other members and a great "Ask me" button.
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