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by VRay 5y ago
My favorite example is the Expat Software guy: https://expatsoftware.com/articles/ Another good one is Daedtech/Hit Subscribe
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by VRay 5y ago
Not to mention that working two jobs poorly is a lot more work and a lot less money than boostrapping a decent SaaS EDIT: Pretty rich that I'm getting downvoted so much, despite multiple examples of successful SaaS creators showing up
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by VRay 5y ago
I remember that the Dreamcast was already dead by the time piracy started becoming rampant, at least in the USA where I lived
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by VRay 5y ago
ah, if you wanted to say it that way in English, you'd say "If you >don't< want to meet people don't use Tinder" the way it's phrased means (unambiguously) that Tinder sucks, and Tinder doesn't work
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by VRay 5y ago
OK, I've been married for a long time and never had any luck with any dating service before that, but I don't think that's necessarily as true as you think You're within 2-3 degrees of separation of dozens or hundreds of
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by VRay 5y ago
haha, if a country wants to spend a 9 figure sum or someone comes back in time from the future to hack me, I'll be happy to consider myself pwned It's a huge bummer that I HAVE TO block all ads as a security measure, though, and t
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by VRay 5y ago
"Google Pixel 6 charger" -> Google, Looptimo, "Superer", "color rokk" I guess you could just admit you're completely wrong about Amazon search rather than change the subject to Google search
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by VRay 5y ago
Amazon search for "Good Mixer" Top results: Hamilton Beach KUCCU VIVOHOME Cuisinart Vospeed CUSIMAX Aucma
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by VRay 5y ago
Hey, if you want, you can give me $200k/month and I'll scan your ads to make sure they're just flat fucking image files without any arbitrary bullshit code
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by VRay 5y ago
What the hell are you talking about? No-name Shenzhen manufacturers rocket to the #1 slot all the time, through a combination of being cheaper and literally paying for 5 star reviews Just search for anything on Amazon right now and you can
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by VRay 5y ago
It's pretty funny that corporations can levy a multi-million dollar judgement against a single mother for pirating a CD, but then when the tables are turned, it's no big deal
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by VRay 5y ago
> Trump, whom they hated just as much Does anyone in power actually hate Trump? So far as I could tell, all he did for most of his tenure was slash taxes and carefully shepherd the market upward while playing a lot of golf
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by VRay 5y ago
While we're on the subject, silencers don't turn handguns silent, gas tanks don't explode when shot, and you can die from being buried chest-deep in sand
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by VRay 5y ago
Basically nobody in Japan has ever heard of this. Whenever I'm hanging out in Japan and run across another viral post about "The ancient and time-honored Japanese tradition of goldjoin", I ask Japanese people about it in Jap
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by VRay 5y ago
Mark Fields (the CEO) could put in a process to make it difficult or impossible to accidentally get your customers arrested, but he doesn't give a shit if that happens right now The idea is that Mark would feel some sort of inconvenien
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by VRay 5y ago
At least you can change the wake word on Amazon devices All Apple devices interpret "Hey Sarah" as "Hey Siri" and then start shooting their stupid mouths off, bugs the hell out of Sarah
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by VRay 5y ago
yeah, it's pretty frustrating, regular people on the street and even semi-technical people I talk to say "Oh, Apple is just as bad as all the others" They legitimately don't understand the difference between Facebook tra
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by VRay 5y ago
You can pass out layoffs across the whole company in a couple of hours through the same infrastructure you use to pass out work items, KPIs, and paychecks
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by VRay 5y ago
I've had decent luck with Blokada The nice thing is that it's open source
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by VRay 5y ago
How much UBI could we realistically afford right now? Keeping in mind that there'd be an incredibly huge reduction in economic productivity, since pretty much everyone hates working I'm guessing we could actually keep people fed,
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by VRay 5y ago
Man, that's really interesting Looks like Monero hasn't been pumping or dumping quite as much as other cryptocurrencies, maybe that means its creators actually care about making it useful as currency rather than as a medium for ~~
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by VRay 5y ago
9 percent of your workforce isn't going to work 2 hours a day, man. Almost nobody can handle being that much of a lazy, sleazy piece of crap. What probably happened is that the idiot CEO decided to check productivity via some BS metr
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by VRay 5y ago
That's the cost of doing business, you keep the profits and in exchange you don't treat your employees like fucking garbage. He didn't even need to lay them off, according to the article. He just wanted "a fortress bala
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by VRay 5y ago
Easy answer: Quit giving money to Valve, and use GOG instead GOG for buying stuff DRM free, and Game Pass for renting it cheaply if you don't care to own it
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by VRay 5y ago
Some six month old FUD and it hijacked my back button, pass on this article
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by VRay 5y ago
Getting a free all-expenses-paid weekend in Mountain View is a perk to a lot of people If I weren't busy with the familoids at home I'd love a free plane trip and fancy hotel stay. Er, in non-pandemic times at least
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by VRay 5y ago
If something changes within ~300ms before your click, the only way you'd be intentionally clicking whatever's there now is if you're amped up playing some online game
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by VRay 5y ago
Smart TVs scan what's on the screen to get data on what people are watching and sell that data to anyone who wants it The idea is to make sure they can keep that data flowing even if someone intentionally disconnects the TV from the in
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by VRay 5y ago
> Unless your only alternative is some mildly unpleasant activity which doesn't allow you to rest, that time was not valueless. So you're saying I shouldn't be playing MMORPGs all the time?
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by VRay 5y ago
He's saying rich people have assets with large intrinsic value that won't be hurt by inflation, like houses and stock shares, while poor people just have a little cash on hand and cash flow from their jobs. I have no comment/

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