Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 9y ago
I think the concept is the same as Socrates's "The first step towards wisdom is recognizing your own ignorance".
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Great read. I remember seeing plenty of Herbalife leaflets posted on the street when I was younger, and I always thought it was a scam and something exploitative (which in a way it is). This helps putting things into context.
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"There must be a term for this kind of question." I agree. It might be summed up as "Why other people have different preferences than I do ?" "Why do people buy expensive clothes/cars/watches/tech ?&q
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"Getting jobs and being an employee has opportunities, it's easy for many in our industry to get 200K+ salaries" I wish we would stop repeating this, like it is some kind of universal truth. It might be easy for tech workers
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My relationship with DDG for the last few years has been the following: - I read somewhere (mostly always on HN) how great it is. - I set it as the main search engine on my browser. - I use it for a while, but I notice how slow it feels com
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"read wsj journal paywall" The method explained in the first link works wonderfully, and it took a total of 0,51 seconds to find it (according to google).
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It doesn't sound like a lot even now... https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-purple-surv...
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Talk about nitpicking, the article is likely from a US publication and they put the value as their main readership expects it.
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by Kurtz79 9y ago
Good news. I have been running a private OpenVPN server on a 5$ Droplet for years, and I have no complaints.
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Relevant XKCD... https://xkcd.com/570/
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"Ah yes, and lightning will certainly hit the same person again and again." It did though. Again and again. Will it keep doing so ? Possibly, possibly not. I don't think anyone can make a reasoned prediction one way or the ot
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Why someone would risk or be inconvenienced carrying such larges amount of cash in order to carry a transaction is beyond me, and yes, I would find it suspicious. If you lived in a country where every other week you see in the news some pol
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by Kurtz79 9y ago
Yes, it it seems Japan has a weird relationship with bank accounts and credit/debit cards, as I learned here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
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That's the reason why I don't use Chrome on mobile (Android). There are plenty of valid alternatives, Brave is one of them.
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I would find more ridiculous (or suspicious) someone carrying 2000€ in cash in this day and age for whatever reason, to be honest. It is clearly a measure created to prevent tax evasion, which in Portugal is a real issue (as in most Southe
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More like: "Uber should follow the same laws as other companies that want to operate in Europe". I hope they do, since I consider the system far superior to traditional cabs, and would probably still use it if they had higher fare
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One of the most important features that still makes the human brain superior to a machine is its innate ability to use context to discern meaning.
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Except that pyramid schemes are usually designed from the start as such. Bitcoin wasn't: it was designed in good faith as a cryptocurrency. That people ended up using it as a speculative device says more about these people than the act
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Agreed, I will probably end up doing the same. I swear I can taste thai curry in the last batch of yogurt I made.
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In sparse order: - Increased popularity of homecooking/healty eating over the last years (celebrity chefs shows, websites,youtube, etc...), over take out or frozen stuff. - Ease of use. The IP has a premade setting for all its major fu
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If I'm not mistaken, there is no mention in the article that the system was actually connected to the Internet. The Stuxnet attack (which as another commenter said was the real "watershed" event) managed to infect the target
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There are probably reviewers in good conscience and those who take advantage of the system. The main problem compared to other environments is that reviewers on Amazon have no real accountability: try to sing praises of a bad videogame or m
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I like the idea of UBI in theory, but I cannot imagine it won't have any impact on the cost of living. At the very least, it would force companies contracting minimum/low wage workers to raise wages substantially (because why work
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I really don't get the motivation of the change, aside from basic greed. I mean, it seems like a dream business model, you basically channel donations to content creators taking a cut, collecting goodwill along the way. Their service c
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by Kurtz79 9y ago
Interesting article! In Sicily (especially in the eastern part of the island) almond milk is quite a common beverage, it also makes for a killer "granita".
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Of course it is, but even with all advances in terms of UI in Linux distros, many people still prefer the MacOS/Windows GUI and ecosystems, or just like Apple hardware more. Macs historically have always been a decent compromise for ha
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"That's why products are becoming progressively more expensive" Examples ? Since you mention 1000$phones, in tech you see more and more "premium" products, accompanied by very basic ones that are still quite funcion
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Not touching the moral issue, but online gambling is definitely legal in many countries in Europe, where vastly advertised and known betting and poker websites exist.
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PSA: It's about this "KVM": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch Not this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
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"PS: They might say be operating a stall at a locally grown market, but it's the stall not the farm that's generating income." If the stall sells products coming from the farm, the difference is lost on me. It's lik

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