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   by biztos 4y ago

   My local mall has a Maserati dealership, among lesser brands, a couple floors up, and the tax on this kind of car is about 300% AFAIK. I’ve long imagined someone walking in, handing over $300K or whatever in cash, and driving it out the sec
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   by biztos 4y ago

   Good point, but at the time I didn’t think of that. I’ve never done a chargeback, which is probably a testament to my banks’ fraud detection. For $100-ish, and a good couple weeks since I made the payment, getting my money back wasn’t the
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   by biztos 4y ago

   I consider myself pretty quick to detect scams, having worked in cybersecurity, though probably no quicker than the average HN commenter. And yet 15 years ago I fell for the “sell products that are no longer available” scam. There was a ke
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   by biztos 4y ago

   Oops, I forgot about the briefcases full of unmarked €500 notes they must have their assistants lug around. So, is the default tip 500 (highest available) or 200 (highest you will ordinarily be given in a bank) or 100 (highest most people u
5. 395.▲
   by biztos 4y ago

   So do people actually tip with €200 notes, or do they treat the more common €100 note as “highest convenient denomination?”
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   by biztos 4y ago

   Without the wasps crawling into the sugar dispensers at every single outdoor café in Germany all summer long, people would eat the sugar and create a diabetes epidemic. At least that was my impression in Berlin; wasps got all the sugar, Ber
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   by biztos 4y ago

   I was surprised to hear this, since Khomeini was so commonly referred to as "Ayatollah" in the media. Wikipedia[0] still says his title was "Grand Ayatollah," but what appears to be his official memorial web site[1] cal
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   by biztos 4y ago

   I’m also American and I have no idea what you mean about the Zodiac Killer[0]. Is that a nickname for some politician you don’t like, or is an actual serial killer complaining about the president and it’s relevant because… I guess because w
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   by biztos 4y ago

   There is a lot of porn on Twitter, and the app doesn’t do anything to block it.
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    by biztos 4y ago

    It has prevented me from pursuing a couple of business ideas that would not be viable if we didn’t have iPhone coverage. When I see that their own software quality is lagging years behind the hardware despite effectively unlimited funding;
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I really want this to happen, and I hope Apple is forced to make it happen — a fairly likely scenario in the EU I think — but if they do allow side-loading I fear they will disable all sorts of Apple services when you flip that switch. No m
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    by biztos 4y ago

    Apparently: https://news.csu.edu.au/feature/are-feral-cattle-the-brumbie...
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I definitely recommend meetups. I think the key is to accept that some will be duds, but keep trying. And don’t overspecialize. I moved to a new big city a while back, and meetups (from Meetup.com but just because I don’t like FB) were a
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    by biztos 4y ago

    > Eyes not quite the same size, breasts pointing in markedly different directions, bone structure on the face markedly different to each side. Jodorowsky would absolutely cast actors with those physical characteristics if they could be
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    by biztos 4y ago

    Haha that’s awesome. I had figured it was just a typo for “better robot.”
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I’m not the parent but for me: 1. Sort by ID if you want to see things by insert order and are using serial/autoincrement for the PK. 2. Writing (or reading, or talking about) SQL queries in which the IDs are present. I solved the firs
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    by biztos 4y ago

    Interesting that it’s $6 there, when it can apparently be sold profitably for $1 elsewhere: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings...
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I find it works well for the kind of focused work where you have a list of small tasks and are checking them off one by one, in units of 25 minutes or less. For creative work you're right: it breaks your flow completely and you (I) end
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    by biztos 4y ago

    Wouldn’t the “leakee” then be able to say you just made it up?
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    by biztos 4y ago

    First, I'd point out that there is a lot more acceptance now for "day rate" or "week rate." You can find its advocates in most contracting-related threads here on HN. If you are paid by the day, it doesn't ma
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I'm sure this is a total noob comment but I love how the account is named "FTX Accounts Drainer" on Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/address/0x59abf3837fa962d6853b4cc0a1951... [Edit: and also the Heist la
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I always wonder about escape plans when people are doing really dodgy things with large amounts of money. Do you come up with an escape plan when you start doing the thing you know is probably illegal and will definitely get you in serious
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    by biztos 4y ago

    > Pay a company $10k in cash Do you mean bank transfer? Let’s say I buy a legal widget for $10K and I pay cash and I don’t plan to treat it as a business expense. On my side, I’m done, and any alarm that might be invoked is the proble
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    by biztos 4y ago

    > …and western government keeps trying to get rid of… But then there’s China, right?[0] And arguably India?[1] I agree with your larger point, but I don’t think it’s “western” per se to dream of the surveillance state knowing our every s
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    by biztos 4y ago

    Also Messenger.
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I don’t know how you’d track this statistically, but my experience has been that not just the pay but the quality of job is much higher for graduates of elite universities, and like pay this just feeds back into itself. All the people I kno
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    by biztos 4y ago

    Cool, any online resources you’d recommend? Any “ag-tech” you’re interested in for a small farm?
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    by biztos 4y ago

    If you’re in Europe, I would vouch for Nuevo Progresso from Czech Republic but their web site is… not helpful. Don’t think they produce much but you can get their flour tortillas in Budapest at Ázsia Bt. You want the simple, white-label o
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    by biztos 4y ago

    I’m American and for me, Hopper captures a uniquely American way of seeing, as well as subject matter. I hope younger generations can see that too. Even if it’s a bleak view it holds important truths. I have more favorites than I could li
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    by biztos 4y ago

    What's the deal with corn tortillas outside of the US and Mexico? I've found quite good flour tortillas in Central Europe and also in Thailand. But in 25 years of searching I have yet to find a decent, "proper" soft cor