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guess how much you would have made with the same skills/work at a VC or hedgefund?

‘everyone knows’ is doing a lot of work here. you still need to spend time, and make a lot of good judgement calls (not easy!) to earn a useful amount of passive income on investments without losing your principal.

being a professional investor (what you’re referring to) is especially terrifying in a low interest rate environment.


Imported goods.

Anyone making real money on their ‘side gigs’ is very unlikely to be on that thread, let along telling anyone in detail what they are doing. It invites unwelcome competition.

More than 6 weeks of refined product also tends to be hard to maintain - moisture, bacterial/fungal growths (really - especially in kerosene derived products), oxidation/gumming (usually more of a problem in lighter fractions like gasoline).

Even 6 month type stockpiles usually take special regular maintenance procedures.


India has about 1.5 billion people, and has only recently been getting most of them online. Less IPv4 legacy, and it has always been obvious that IPv4 was never going to be ‘enough’ to actually onboard everyone anyway.

When I lived in India, everything had IPv6 out of the box.


There are still ascii dialup bulletin boards out there. and operating model T’s. IPv4 will be around for longer than you or I.

There are also still Telex and X.25 networks around there, not to forget the whole public telephone network!

But at some point, getting a native connection to all of these started becoming increasingly rare, and now these are largely emulated/tunneled on top of IP. The same can happen for IPv4.


> IPv4 will be around for longer than you or I.

That's a matter for the legacy network on the other side of the internet to handle, as it converts my IPv6 packets to IPv4.


Just wait until someone starts remembering the other archaic terms like ‘fraud’, ‘indictment’, etc.

Only if you do it in a place you’d otherwise not be able to have a fire. I wouldn’t recommend your living room, or the stairwell of you apartment complex.

I think they’re saying that Dropbox didn’t have the original (old) copy of the file retained, even though the change was just 2 days ago, because the old version was ‘more than 30 days ago’. Which is bonkers.

I don't think that's how the 30 day timer works. Once a file is replaced by a new one, the old copy should persist for 30 days. So if it was overwrote 2 days ago, should have 28 days to recover it. But don't know about this situation

That it didn’t do that, despite that assumption, is what the op was complaining about.

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