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by Strom 9y ago
You talk to a bunch of people and ask them if they would be willing to pay right now. Better if you don't mention that it's not available until they agree to pay. It's sort of a funnel: people you think want it > people wh
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by Strom 9y ago
> There is absolutely nothing about this scheme that is better than before it was introduced. Nothing. Under the previous scheme Luxembourg/Ireland would get a gigantic share of VAT. I guess you could argue that this money can be
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by Strom 9y ago
Yeah you have to do all that you mentioned, and more. For example, with EU SaaS sales to individuals, it doesn't matter where the customer lives or what citizenship they have, what matters is where they are at the moment of the sale. T
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by Strom 9y ago
> 1000 subscribers is going to be impossible if your content is niche. Yeah the subscriber part is going to shut down my partner status. I'm not an active youtuber by any means, but I do have one long video which last year generat
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by Strom 9y ago
That's a privilege of big countries like Germany, although Kazakhstan might qualify as well. I live in Estonia, a country of 1.3 million, and although there is a standard Estonian keyboard layout, there's basically zero products u
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by Strom 9y ago
In my case the smart card is a mandatory government issued ID. [1] I use it to sign more than just banking transactions. Indeed I use it pretty much everywhere where classically a pen signature was used. However the concept is more generic
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by Strom 9y ago
While the public key concept is indeed useful, you don't need a blockchain or cryptocurrency to have this. My country's banking system already works with public key crypto. I can pay local merchants with my bank account by signing
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by Strom 9y ago
> 1070 Ti can do at least 50fps at 4K maximum quality in all tested games [1] Looking at the data in the link you provided, this does not seem to be the case. 26.3 @ Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 34.3 @ Grand Theft Auto V 36.8
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by Strom 9y ago
I'm not too familiar with GeekBench, but I'm assuming it's userspace code. Whether it traces rays or does something else isn't that important, because the slowdown is with syscalls. As for what common users execute, base
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by Strom 9y ago
The key thing to take into account here is that for every one of those early warnings that turn out to be true there's also a plethora of speculation that never amounts to anything.
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by Strom 9y ago
You should try defining this mystical true benchmark that you seek. Apple decided that heavy userspace execution and web performance are representative of common workloads. You are welcome to argue for a different kind of workload. As it
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by Strom 9y ago
> Well first of all they're not his rockets. Am I understanding this correctly, that the criticism of Elon Musk being all talk is because he didn't personally perform all the work in achievements like Falcon 9 and Model S?
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by Strom 9y ago
No it doesn't bother me if others (including big corporations) benefit as well, if I'm doing the donation anyway. I'll probably view it as a bonus! It's just that the benefit to big corporations alone isn't a motiva
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by Strom 9y ago
Surely there are better reasons to donate to these projects other than funding development for massive corporations like Netflix, Sony, and Facebook. The idea that my donation money will be primarily used to cut costs for these corporations
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by Strom 9y ago
The key to understanding is time. Those charts your linked show averages for whole years. However the original link in question here is live data. Based on the charts it seems the percentage is updated every 15 minutes.
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by Strom 9y ago
How inefficient and/or environmentally unfriendly would it be to store the excess in batteries of some sort? I've heard that scheme pitched for solar quite a bit, so why not use the same strategy of buffering for wind?
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by Strom 9y ago
It's not false as it says our EU membership , as opposed to every EU membership .
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by Strom 9y ago
It works by associating your tokens with your identity. You're the only one with the private key, however the identity manager (government in this case) decides which public keys are linked to an identity. Of course this also means tha
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by Strom 9y ago
Anecdotal but the only Uber/taxi driver who has ever started giving me an unsolicited tour of their car was a Tesla S owner.
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by Strom 9y ago
Valve has been working on a physics engine called Rubikon since at least 2012. [1] Maybe it will be used to fully replace Havok in Source 2. -- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTC0V0LWeGI [1] http://media.ste
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by Strom 9y ago
Yes it might be very much fine from the US perspective to do this. Things change however once you look from the other side. It can easily be in the economic interest of other countries to not pay the US copyright holders, especially 100 yea
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by Strom 9y ago
What do you mean by again ? Was it blocked by your ISP previously, or do you mean that it used to redirect to others like .se? Because I'm pretty sure the .org domain has continuously worked for me since 2004 when it was registered.
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by Strom 9y ago
Unlikely that there is a public list, but a node operator could certainly compile such a list based on angry letters they receive.
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by Strom 9y ago
I'll venture a guess that the submitter found it interesting when reading a recent HN comment [1] and wanted to share. -- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919242
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by Strom 9y ago
You're very much correct, thanks for pointing that out! I hadn't seen any mention of the new 7% individual rate in any newspaper articles or even accounting firm articles. I now inspected the actual income tax law [1], and sure en
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by Strom 9y ago
There's a principle concept that every expense has to be for the purpose of doing business. If it's not, then it will get hit with income tax, and sometimes even payroll taxes. In practice nobody really monitors these things and m
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by Strom 9y ago
It's naive to think that a company that has been operating for decades only has capability that is implementable in a weekend. Surely there are plenty of edge cases with certain songs/genres and how they mix with various environme
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by Strom 9y ago
Reporting is one thing, but getting things actually fixed is proving difficult even if you're very precise in pointing out problems. See VSYNC bugs for example: http://www.vsynctester.com/firefoxisbroken.html
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by Strom 9y ago
I've noticed the Chrome feature as well. I watch a lot of Twitch streams, and it causes a frustrating experience, albeit with possible workarounds by Twitch. It's that Twitch is about live streams and live chat, but now the video
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by Strom 9y ago
Yes it's all about no sound. Everyone likes opening up a bunch of tabs that include auto-playing funny looping videos, but nobody likes auto-playing sound, especially if it overlaps with some other sound.

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