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by _xnmw 4y ago
There should be a name for this, "medical theatre", analogous to security theatre. A brilliant performance art, with all its buzzing machines, expensive insurance, bright lights, pretty graphic logos, well-dressed specialists and
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by _xnmw 4y ago
In America. This is why I love Europe, especially the places which preserve and continue to develop the tradition of beauty, variety, attention to detail, and individual “soul” of each and every place. In Ukraine, for example, every Puzhat
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by _xnmw 4y ago
An example of capitalism gone wrong when you have to get a prescription and health insurance just to download a vibrator app.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Looks like this idea was inspired by a Show HN that appeared last year [1]. Seems the original inventor of the concept didn't even realize what it could become, or didn't have the funding to make it happen. [1] https://
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> What all the parties to the conflict in Ukraine seem to have forgotten is that the future of mankind will not be determined by where international borders are drawn — these have never been static in history and doubtless will continue
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I'm about as serious as I could be. I live in Ukraine, work for humanitarian NGOs here, and I regularly travel in and out of the front lines of the war. It's not about appeasement, it's about plain common sense, i.e. not shoo
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Will be interesting to see if this PM's financial savviness will affect the war in Ukraine, i.e. by reversing or slowing the stupidest financial decision ever made by Europe, that is the decision to sanction Russia before winter. A sof
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by _xnmw 4y ago
False dichotomy. Going out on your own doesn't mean you think you are the smartest person in the room. It's often about freedom. If I decide I want to go biking alone, doesn't mean I think I am the best biker. I decided to ke
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> You're assuming that money and power matters less to Putin / oligarchs than lives. I'm not sure that's a valid assumption. My point is, they've already risked far more than just their money and power by going t
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by _xnmw 4y ago
The utter stupidity of thinking that sanctions could be an effective response or deterrent to military aggression boggles my mind. Force must be countered with force, nothing less. Anyone willing to expend soldiers lives is not going to be
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Yep, that's why I started working on Indie SaaS and am trying to go live on a farm, and will never work for a FANG (except Apple, because its hardware is mostly neutral), even remotely. I don't want to contribute to the dystopian
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by _xnmw 4y ago
And this is the reason why Elon Musk made a mistake by saying LIDAR was unnecessary for self-driving cars by assuming that cameras could fulfill the role of vision (He used first-principle thinking: our eyes can drive, so why do we need any
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U.K. seizes a British blogger's assets for pro-Russian propaganda(nytimes.com)
4 points by _xnmw 4y ago|0 comments
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Because money can't fix everything? In fact sometimes having too much money makes it worse, as YC startup wisdom says.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Curious, what brand of fish oil, and after how many days did you notice an effect on your vision eating "six softgels a day"?
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Russia cuts gas supplies to Europe(cnn.com)
8 points by _xnmw 4y ago|10 comments
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by _xnmw 4y ago
1. The downside of private sector investments is that they will only invest in projects with the most lucrative returns, which comes at the cost of serving further and smaller communities, more decentralized communities, and other less-prof
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Being a digital nomad has made me incredibly optimistic about life. Now I can live anywhere without being tied down by a job. Don't like how the world works? Join (or start) a village of like-minded folks somewhere else. Money, talent,
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Yes, I would think Russia would be willing to fight for 10 years, because this is literally their backyard, not some far-off exotic country. Many Russians consider Ukraine to be practically their own territory, even more so than places like
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I sent you an email to settle the bet a few months ago, it probably went to your spam. My email is in my profile. I was wrong about the war, but I think my understanding of the situation has improved. My mistake was naivety. The naivety is
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by _xnmw 4y ago
USSR is not Russia. Afghanistan was a not a "core interest" or existential threat to any of the USSR nations. If we use the Afghanistan analogy, Ukraine is on the border of NATO too. Interestingly, then NATO would be the overexten
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> What settlement could Ukraine have with Russia that wouldn't be the end of Ukraine? Any settlement would've been better than this. Every major city destroyed, 15% of the population emigrated.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
This is not a proxy war. Russia is involved directly on its border. A proxy war is in a far off land.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
It's far too late to change this. You cannot restructure the energy sources of a whole continent in a few months or even years. This could've been fixed if the West had understood and reacted appropriately to the magnitude of the
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by _xnmw 4y ago
And let me add, I've never heard of a bootstrapped startup taking less than 7 years to reach $1MM ARR, with many years of dirt poor earnings. You're likely to get to a million faster with a FAANG job with stock options if you&#x27
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I use the same app for archiving everything - bookmarks, whole website crawls, 15+ years of email history, receipts, large files and media, directories on my computer - everything. DevonThink - native mac app with fast search that has never
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I'm waiting for the day that AWS collapses under its own weight. Heard horror stories from backend engineers working on the infrastructure/dashboard code there.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Doesn't work with every flight number. Not sure what the criteria is.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Are they going to stay up-to-date with the latest version of Postgres? One problem with Yugabyte, TimescaleDB, Aurora etc. is that they are stuck on older versions of Postgres, which makes it feel like an entirely different product after a
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by _xnmw 5y ago
Missile defence is a fantasy that is impossible to build except against the simplest of rockets. Even Israel's Iron Dome and Arrow systems regularly fail against homemade rockets. The military industrial complex continues to perpetuate

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