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Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.

You are reminding me about a day decades ago when a guy I met and his wife were sitting in my living room with my gf and I. He wanted to talk science fiction, and his wife and my gf were going to talk about nursing. Seemed like a nice couple until they started talking about "something they were doing" in a mysterious way...

I remember saying, "sounds like scamway or something" and he actually had to say that it was in fact amway he was talking about. uncomfortable.

didn't go much further than that.

Looking backwards I realized how little friction we had getting to know these people, etc... sigh.


I wish Amway was bigger so more people would be exposed to it and be similarly inoculated.

At least amway has real product. You are expected to sell to make money in the early years. In 30 years of real work you get a passive income retirement plan - but you need to put in real work selling things to get there.

when you look at the real business model of those who have had success they are still selling the soap in retirement. It is not going to get you rich, but it isn't too bad a life.

well it was - the only people I know in amway are in their 80s and so it may be different.

amway deserves the hate. Truth is it isn't as easy as they tell you.


Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.

When the Internet was a quite new a guy who knew I was a programmer met with me to pitch an Internet business and it took me a while to figure out he was literally pitching Amway online.

Primerica were our local huge MLM. They were ruthless!

I haven't been in decades but there seemed to be the world's highest concentration of candle shops. Maybe people are looking for fancy candles.

Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT

If you go the old school "filter taped to box fan" route, be sure to add a shroud for the corners, as blade tip turbulence there actually causes reverse air flow. See the article by the 'R' of Corsi-Rosenthal.

https://www.texairfilters.com/how-to-improve-the-efficiency-...


I bet this moves more air per unit noise and/or power too.

The attack on Stryker used Microsoft InTune to remote-wipe all of Stryker's systems. If you can wipe a system, could you also drop code on it exfiltrate data and credentials?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346091


Microsoft Strykes again. What a surprise...


Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/


SoftICE was like magic back in the day.


Still thinking about those three black olive slices?


I work with hospital IT people at customer sites. Can confirm that the positions seem to require neither extensive knowledge nor effort.


> set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.

Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.


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