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by CamTin 9y ago
Similar to the (sadly, fading) Bar Mleczny in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny Simple food (Polish food obviously, not Indian), government-subsidized, targeted at students, the elderly, the poor, but n
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Is there a chance that any of this plays out in favor of small advertisers? Seems like not, if current ad pricing is in part subsidized by VCs funding money-losing media platforms and hoping to "make up for it in volume" as is exp
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How did you hear this?
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Because then you don't get to build out fun infrastructure like this and write it up in your company blog.
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I'm pretty sure automobile manufacturing requires very rigorous technical standards. Hell, it's the industry where QA was practically invented, with most of the innovation occurring in Detroit and even at Ford . I trust an oldl
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The national sport is still played recreationally: every employer I've ever worked for has a softball (similar to baseball, but with some rules changes for amateurs and a larger ball) team. These teams play in leagues organized by the
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TL;DR there's nothing wrong with the way we structure our workplaces that can't be fixed by suppressing your own feelings and identifying with management and ownership.
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Sorry, I'm not ignorant of that stuff, it just doesn't apply to me in any meaningful degree. I'm not retired, or close to it, and I don't have any investment income, and I've never owned a home. I just work for a li
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Right, so why all the fuss over whether some of them don't bother? How many banks do you need? As long as there's one that will take your business, why should you care that the one down the block won't? I guess it could be an
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by CamTin 9y ago
WBK ( https://www.bzwbk.pl/ ) seemed more than willing to open me a bank account quite recently. There were a few more forms due to my being a US citizen, but it seemed like actually fewer than my wife (a Polish citizen with
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There are actually things like the expatriation tax and "name and shame" provisions which discourage people from renouncing for tax purposes. Also (note that I am not an accountant or lawyer and this is not advice), most ordinary
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There doesn't appear to be a way to sign up without authenticating via Facebook.
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Jonathan Blow (cult/indie game developer/studio owner) has a lot of ideas about evolving C++ (or rather, building a new language to replace it) specifically in a game industry context. This perspective is interesting because its k
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by CamTin 9y ago
My use case is closer to being a small dev shop doing webapps for other people. If they go out of business, I would have tons of Django/whatever work all of a sudden, but lots of pissed off customers when I don't have time to rewr
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I was thinking more in terms of ameliorating the risk of building a successful small business on this and them going out of business after gorging themselves on VC money and having a heart attack.
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Anybody know of any self-hosted alternatives to something like this?
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You open things up to select sharps earlier than the general public, with limits. They get the benefit of potentially better lines and you get the information benefit of what the pros think the fair price for any bet is, allowing you to adj
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How much of your sales are "walk-in" from the app store versus buzz/referrals from your (not small) network?
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Do/did you do any marketing for it, or that $100/mo is just from being in the app store?
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You can easily (through shoddy, cheap outsourcing body shops in India, Phillipines, etc.) get support costs low enough that just taking the calls is cheaper than fixing things, at least until the end of the financial quarter, and that'
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> Why can't we let the markets regulate themselves? Because this is a synthetic market the government explicitly created and maintained through patent legislation.
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I think the intent is an argument that basically says "if everyone were doing it, it wouldn't be good" which is less shaky (though see ShaneWilton's comment as to why this isn't so).
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The whole country is laughably undermaintained -- all public infrastructure, period. I think this is what it looks like when a major first world economy just slowly winds down -- decades of "profits" that are really just cashing o
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by CamTin 9y ago
Are you saying the real killer app for AR is notes apps? Seems unlikely to me, but I'm interested how you think that UX would look? Why is it better in AR than in a paper notebook/evernote/etc?
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This is correct. Chinese Democracy was released in 2008. https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Democracy-Guns-N-Roses/dp/B00...
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Am I missing something with compile-to-javascript languages, or does this kind of heavyweight tooling and build system preclude most on-the-fly repl/console use for development? I'm far from a professional webdev, but have been at
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I'm all against useless styling, but a web without clickable hyperlinks is not a web at all.
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Whether or not something is really hate speech is beside the point of my argument. The big tech companies could decide to block speech that disparages Bugs Bunny and the point would still hold. Without ISP-level neutrality, competition does
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Without ISP-level neutrality, the opposite would be true. Here's the scenario in that case: 1) Google, Facebook, Twitter, CloudFlare, GoDaddy, and a few other actors ban a certain flavor of hate speech. 2) The pro-hate-speech crowd tri
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Are you worried that the necessity of getting those grants written/approved will push you into the same kind of incentive structure that you're trying to escape? Or is your theory that, yes, you'll have to deal with some of t

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