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The story does not add up. What kind of person decides to go on a "beach walk" after finding documents that says their husband is worth 300M dollars? My reaction would be to get the document, and at least take a picture, and get the fuck out.


People respond in different ways in highly stressful, shocking situations.

I have a "flight" response in high stress fight or flight situations, and can empathize with her response.


Good argument. People do irrational things. But still, it's smart to assmue that taking pictures of interesting documents never hurts. I'm not worth $10k and already do it regularly.


Shocking? That's unbelievable, as in I don't believe her.


she was at her own home...


So? Everyone knows that "Facebook.com" was called "TheFacebook.com" before Sean Parker asked Mark to "drop the 'the' from 'thefacebook.com'." Anyone who watched "The Social Network" knows this.


I don't actually understand this. Can someone explain???


"vi"[1] is a very influential text editor created in the 1970s (and still used today). This "family tree" show a bunch of other old text editors that directly or indirectly influenced or inspired vi. (For example, George Coulouris's "em" was based on Ken Thompson's "ed". Bill Joy and Chuck Haley's first version of "ex" -- an ancestor of vi -- was based on "em".)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi


What a great read. Thanks for sharing op.


I love how you used the "[audio]" tag in your title.


I didn't. It was done on my behalf by the moderators.


Congrats to all the students and recent grads out there.


This is a freaking book, not an article. Who has time to read all of this?


It's time to switch to Apple.


Apple does this too. They just bury it 4 or 5 system levels deep before you can see that they track you everywhere and recognize your home, work, and other frequently visited locations.


> Apple does this too.

Do you have any proof that Apple uses this information for advertising purposes? Their privacy statements say otherwise. This would be a huge deal.


I have no proof that it is being used for advertising, but they do still have a copy of everything. Who's to know what their future thoughts about advertising will be. It's their Frequent Locations feature.


On iOS, location tracking is configurable per-app, at least. I can deny the Weather app the use of my location data while allowing the Camera app to access it.


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