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He's also a great follow on twitter
by notatoad 7y ago
He's also a great follow on twitter
- ceejayoz 7y agoEspecially when someone threatens to report him to "his boss" for poorly representing Pinboard on social media.
- driverdan 7y agoHe was great until he shifted his focus to 98% politics. Most of his posts used to be funny, now they're depressing.
- notatoad 7y agoEh. I'm not sure what the point of Twitter is if not politics
- function_seven 7y agoOh man, so much more. Humor (@loneblockbuster, @3yearletterman), earthquake news (@DrLucyJones, @DrWendyRocks), tech news or announcements (@patio11, @ircmaxell), and so on.
- dorkwood 7y agoI mainly follow developers and artists who post work I’m interested in.
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- jpindar 7y agoIt's the quickest way to get breaking, local, or event-centric news. It's the preferred means of communication for my utility company in the event of a blackout. Some companies have contests for free swag; I've gotten an Atlassian hoodie and some hand tools from Digi-Key.
- ajdlinux 7y agoMaciej is one of the few software people whose political tweets I go out of the way to read.
- elandrum 7y agoCurrent reality is depressing. It’s not like he is distorting it for profit or anything.
- masukomi 7y agopolitics is depressing, but to me his twitter stream is an example of what we should strive for: making a product we care about that can fund other things we care about that people won't normally pay for. In his case it's funding attempts to make US politics less I also like knowing that some of my $$$ is helping him do things like that.
- paulcole 7y agoThe funniest thing I remember was him talking about how upset Germans got when he said he didn’t do invoices. If they persisted, he’d send a blank invoice with instructions to just fill it out however they wanted, which just made them even madder.
- itengelhardt 7y agoWhat? I'm German. This is infuriating. I now have to pay him and ask for an invoice just to experience this :-)
- ido 7y agothe tax offices here require invoices. i personally don't care at all but unfortunately i do need to pay taxes.
- jacobush 7y agoSee, your comment is funny!
- klingonopera 7y agoThis is how the rich and poor are segregated in Germany. The system is to take too much from you, and let you reclaim that, theoretically once you've proven that you had tax-deductible expenses. But it's enough to just "talk" to the "Finanzamt" to already get a baseline €1000 tax-deductible expense, without even needing to show them anything. Which makes me wonder, why not just deduct this from all income taxes, if you're willing to grant it to everyone, without any proof. Sorry for sounding cynical now, but "dumb" and "busy" people are naturally disadvantaged from this system. That's not exactly... helping anyone. Except those who profit from the motto "A sucker born every minute!". But even they'd have more advantages, if their "suckers" had more cash at their disposal...
- marcus_holmes 7y agoAustralia has the same system. They'll give you $1000 without proof. I worked out that it's utterly pointless hoarding receipts and doing all the paperwork, because the difference between what I could claim with paperwork and without paperwork is maybe a couple hundred bucks. Not worth the effort.