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by artpi 5y ago
4 years ago I bought Dacia Duster - it is a Renault-made car on the chassis of Nissan Quashqai. It costs $10k new, straight from the dealer. Mine costed 13k because I added powered mirrors, electric windows, A/C, and aluminum rims. Whe
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Fast decision making is the only productivity hack you need(piszek.com)
4 points by artpi 5y ago|0 comments
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by artpi 5y ago
If you write something that we would love, or sparks an awesome discussion - it is your DUTY to submit it :D. The goal here is to find interesting stories, not get "white knight points" for refusing to post your own content. I sub
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by artpi 5y ago
Busted!
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by artpi 5y ago
Precisely the opposite! Author is annoyed listening to friends complaining about mistakes that would have been easily avoided if they took time to think.
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by artpi 5y ago
Updated! Thank you - English is my second language and that sort of thing still catches me off-guard
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by artpi 5y ago
I (author) have a kid, a dog, an apartment and a summer house I inherited. I definitely speak from experience here and am not specifically against anything in particular, except rushing into decisions. Houses have sizes, locations and whole
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by artpi 5y ago
Hey - author here: Yeah, I kind of forgot to caveat it all with how unreasonably good I have it as a programmer, and that story refers to my programmer friends, who like to marinate a little too long in bad jobs that they could have easily
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Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot(piszek.com)
89 points by artpi 5y ago|61 comments
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by artpi 5y ago
James Robert Watson has some other amazing inventions on his site: - Accessories for medical arm slings: https://www.jamesrobertwatson.com/slingaccessories.html - How to make elevators more user-friendly https://
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by artpi 5y ago
Thank you dang for managing this community with such care!
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A better way to display museum hours (2017)(jamesrobertwatson.com)
134 points by artpi 5y ago|26 comments
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by artpi 5y ago
There was a very active community back in the day: http://forum.gwrota.com/ It spawned an entire community of TV-shows translators that now translate other series. And of course, it was torrent then. There was just no other
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by artpi 5y ago
Polish SG-1 fan forum was huge and it kickstarted my belief that meeting people online-first is possible. I traveled 90km to meet people I met on that board.
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by artpi 5y ago
> The world didn't used to be like that. I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tribe and not try to spread. While I
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Monotheistic Thinking Trap(piszek.com)
1 points by artpi 5y ago|0 comments
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by artpi 5y ago
The App form factor is better suited to the user mental model of something they use daily. It has both higher stickiness AND it slots with their expectations. I made a mental shortcut of bundling these 2 together. By definition I cannot pro
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by artpi 5y ago
We are not Epic :)
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by artpi 5y ago
It is the whole truth. App users come back more often and Apple deserves their share of credit
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by artpi 5y ago
Our main business is not fighting Apple, although we support the open web quite a bit by leading the WordPress project https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg
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by artpi 5y ago
Many, many users expect every single thing to be an app
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by artpi 5y ago
Another Tumblr dev here: That's not even going into the monetization pieces. As we are implementing tipping and multi-merchant subscriptions in Post+, we still have to use In-App-Purchases with it's severely lacking API. The hoops
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by artpi 5y ago
This is the best comment of this entire thread
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The Climate Care Industry(piszek.com)
3 points by artpi 5y ago|0 comments
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We Haven’t Won Yet: Stripe to a Trillion(timoshea.substack.com)
2 points by artpi 5y ago|0 comments
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by artpi 5y ago
Humboldt was very impressed by them. His one beef with Jefferson was over slavery. He considered colonialism the biggest stain on humanity's record.
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by artpi 5y ago
( OP here ). For me the core of Solarpunk is that we need to work with nature and we need to inspire people to do so. In my definition, your suggestions are very much in line! Contrary to some communities, I consider "overthrowing capi
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by artpi 5y ago
That's where all quotes in this article come from! Fantastic book.
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by artpi 5y ago
Hey, OP here. The problem won't solve itself and we have to be wary of greenwashing. But as John Carmack says, we need tales to inspire, not tales to condemn. If we set our goals as just mediating damage, that's what we'll do
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Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk(piszek.com)
102 points by artpi 5y ago|59 comments

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