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I thought urbanrealtor was banned years ago.

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whoa

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Imagine how bummed all the oarators were when the printing press showed up.
Imagine how bummed all the pony express riders were when the telegraph showed up.
Imagine how bummed all the horse breeders were when the horseless carriage showed up.
Same as it ever was.

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Check out Google Fi: https://fi.google.com/. My buddy signed up for it while in UK and it cost him like 2 bucks for 2 weeks of data. He would even set up his phone as a hotspot and let me use it with my iPhone. Easy, cheap.

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[quote=spdrun]Unnecessarily alarmist. It’s only an issue if you’re sending info or viewing private info, not just viewing public info.[/quote]

Not true. Someone in between you and a non-encrypted site can modify the code in any way they see fit, including injecting ads, or worse, malware/keyloggers/etc. Any public wifi is susceptible to this if you’re not viewing encrypted content.

How do you know that this or any non-SSL site hasn’t been modified between the data center and your browser? You don’t. Because it’s not encrypted.

See:

• Researcher catches AT&T injecting ads on free airport Wi-Fi hotspot
• Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection

Middlemen can’t modify encrypted content, which is why you need SSL even on “public” sites.

SSL certs are basically free now (https://letsencrypt.org/) and all technical arguments against them (take up CPU cycles, browsers don’t support them) are irrelevant on today’s hardware/browsers.

Basically:

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Check out Chuck Alek Biergarten in North Park for something a little different from the West Coast/SD hop bombs. They do unique old-world low-ABV styles of beer. A rare niche in SD’s crowded IBU tsunami.

http://www.chuckalek.com/chuckalek-biergarten/

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Did anyone notice that young people don’t like to talk on the phone. You have to text first before calling. It’s considered rude to telephone unannounced.
And even with texting, they don’t respond when things are taken for granted and go without saying.[/quote]

Phone calls are selfish and rude.

They’re like, “TALKING TO ME IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE CURRENTLY DOING! STOP WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE DOING AND TALK TO ME RIGHT NOW! WAAAAH WAAAHHH BLAH BLAH BLAH”

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[quote=AN]Depend on where you live. Here’s an article on Bloomberg today: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/hong-kong-teslas-linked-to-more-co2-emissions-than-gasoline-cars.

In China, it’s even worse. If all of Hong Kong and China drive EV instead of gasoline powered cars today, our CO2 problem would be much worse.[/quote]

The argument ignores one of the main benefits of EV: it centralizes power generation at the plant. It is much easier to replace a single CO2 plant (or install carbon scrubbers/storage on them) than it is to replace millions of cars.

It also ignores the efficiency of EVs. Electric motors are about 80% efficient, compared to about 20% for combustion engines. So even if EVs are burning CO2 at the plant, they’re burning a *lot* less of it.

The equation only improves with time as CO2 plants get replaced with renewables. Meanwhile, those combustion engines will just continue to spew CO2.

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Barack Hussein Obama

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SSL is not only important for submitting data (logins, passwords, etc), it is also important to ensure that what you’re getting back from the server is unaltered. Non-SSL transmissions can be modified on the wire, which means you can’t trust what you see in your browser. For example, there was an airport a few years back that got into trouble for injecting ads into websites for people browsing on their free WiFi. This example is rather tame (annoying ads) but you can imagine injecting more nefarious things into the payload: keyloggers, re-writing forms to submit to 3rd party servers, etc. SSL prevents tampering with the raw HTML/JS/CSS that the server sends to your browser.

SSL certs are basically free now (https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org/, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-certificate-manager-deploy-ssltls-based-apps-on-aws/) so it’s only a matter of time before SSL becomes the norm for *everything* and not just login forms/banks/etc. Google even bumps your pagerank if your site is SSL, and penalizes non-SSL sites.

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Stanford, for the networking alone. Everyone I work with in Silicon Valley went to Stanford.

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[quote=deadzone]Still waiting for an example of Engineer making 175K in San Diego.[/quote]

I know one, but they work for one of those “Bay Area Startups” everyone is talking about.

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Uber, but for Piggington.com traffic trends as a function for predicting the next crash.

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[quote=flu]What is wrong with just ignoring people? Yes, you might not like hearing all this religious stuff, but they have every right to practice what they believe as long as it doesn’t encroach on your right and doesn’t compromise someone(s) safety.[/quote]

Well that’s the answer right there then, isn’t it? Currently seven state constitutions literally ban atheists from office. That makes it hard for me to ignore.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]I hope we have an atheist president one day before I die.[/quote]

I guarantee you’ve had one already, probably multiple/most.

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