ColonelBlimp

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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
I'd be interested to know more about the direct correlation between increased cost of housing due to enforcing building codes and homelesness. Can you share links to studies or articles about that? Thanks.
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
>Of course the email is for suckers as it has more than enough clues about being scam but I guess some poor souls might actually fall for it. I wonder whether that type of comment is in line with Hacker News Guidelines. In any case, blam
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
The logic of many responses in this thread remind me of George Costanza’s “preemptive break up”.
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
>I found out about this only 6 months in. The fact that you realised what had happened 6 months after signing the contract might give you some information about how motivated you were about this job in the first place. Of course, this is
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
>I have ADHD and I leave YouTube running in the background while I work and when I sleep. I know for a fact that 5+ hour on wednesday was "10 Hours of Hotel AC White Noise (High power setting)". 80% of the time it's on in
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
LTT uploaded at least a couple of videos explaining how they make money: https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4 https://youtu.be/Rh5hL47z2us
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
Several people in this thread have mentioned oat milk lattes as an apparently relevant piece of information to understand or rather legitimise their understanding of what’s happening in the tech sector.
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Ask HN: Best practices for using email to log in to important online services
2 points by ColonelBlimp 4y ago|1 comments
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
I've seen the same in many other humanitarian responses. The UN also has Toyota Corollas (or similar sedans) in their fleets and they're often used for short distances. The problem (or the advantage depending on the security situa
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
True. And when they break it's much more likely to find spare parts or someone who knows how to fix the car.
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
It didn't happen often but for security reasons in some conflict areas MSF decided to paint their white Land Cruisers in pink to make sure everyone knew who was driving the car. It also made their cars less attractive for thieves.
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
Inflation has a supply dimension that should be mentioned too. Not everything can be explained by excessive consumer demand.
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
I suggest you read adql's response below. Also copied here just in case: "There is no "digital data" in physical reality. There is "analog data that is within a threshold of the bit that we decided". Hard drive
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
In my experience as father of two children (now teenagers), the most challenging part didn't have to do with raising them. It was the slow and unavoidable process of disappearing from the lives of our friends. My partner and I were the
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
I recommend Posteo https://posteo.de/en . Nothing special, just a simple, straightforward email provider that does what it says (including respecting your privacy). It’s cheap (1 Euro per month for 2 GB, and 25 cents for ea
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
After much frustration using Teams, I realised that the majority of my colleagues didn't care or even noticed all the small and not so small things that don't work. So, I accepted the sad reality that in a typical office environme
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by ColonelBlimp 4y ago
Since time is a key part of the OP's question, The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (published in Italy in 1940 as Il deserto dei Tartari) is an excellent novel about life and time. In other words, the mistakes we often make with how we s
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by ColonelBlimp 8y ago
What core design decisions? It's a real question. I closed my Twitter account when I realised it made me unnecesarily unhappy but without really knowing why.
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by ColonelBlimp 8y ago
I suppose for those who wanted to make millions of dollars selling podcasts to advertisers, the bubble may well be bursting. For those who make podcasts because they have something to communicate and believe it's the right medium, I do
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by ColonelBlimp 9y ago
I might be wrong, but I haven't found any reference on the Center for Disaster Philanthropy website of their non-profit status (e.g. 501(c)(3) organization). So my question is: are they a charity?
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by ColonelBlimp 9y ago
You may want to take a look at the list here https://www.privacytools.io/#email for alternative email providers with higher privacy standards.
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Next-Door Strangers: The Crisis of Urban Anonymity(iasc-culture.org)
1 points by ColonelBlimp 9y ago|0 comments