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by biztos 4y ago
You're right, my comment was overblown (night-posting) and I wasn't even reacting to the Figma acquisition but rather to the general implication that entrepreneurs should want money as opposed to wanting to create a good thing (li
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by biztos 4y ago
I had not heard of Pleroma before, it looks nicely lightweight: https://pleroma.social
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by biztos 4y ago
> Jeez, dude. I hopefully stand corrected. I didn't mean to suggest it would bring down civilization, just that it would cause more havoc than you might assume. During the Texas blackouts was mobile internet available? Phone servic
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by biztos 4y ago
> As an entrepreneur he simply did his job: he built an extremely valuable company and took the best deal he could probably get for it. Sorry, but: no. There are many ways to work in the world, and certainly one way is to be an amoral
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by biztos 4y ago
If you're talking about a major extended outage, I would worry about having books to read, food to eat, other humans to interact with, music to listen to, and a way to exercise or at least move around outside. As a hacker you will als
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by biztos 4y ago
> The guy... was definitely not him But: > We gave him the day That was very nice of you, but my first thought in that situation would be security. Your best case here is you have a fraudster "accessing the terminal" -- b
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by biztos 4y ago
I think the problem with ads based on the conversations is twofold: 1. Whatever you do to make it work for useful ads ("Oh, you like Goddard? Check this out on Netflix...") could also be super creepy ("Oh, you have ED? So sor
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by biztos 4y ago
I tried out Hungarian — I speak it well but have an accent — and it got some parts wrong in the transcription that a human speaker would definitely understand. A second try was better but not quite 100% and I do worry about edge cases with
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by biztos 4y ago
Funny, I also didn't see it at first and then felt stupid after reading the comments. I was trying to figure out whether the thing that looks like a dude in a bat-wing suit might be from one of the declassified UFO sightings...
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by biztos 4y ago
And yet, the woods are teeming with hikers and campers, at least in California. I often wonder whether the opportunity to stage your “life” in a beautiful place for social media is a part of why so many more people head into the woods than
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by biztos 4y ago
I hadn’t heard of PacSafe before, so — if your suitcase is cabled to the furniture and your PacSafe is in the suitcase, wouldn’t a thief who has already opened your suitcase (probably in-place) just take the PacSafe with them to open later?
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by biztos 4y ago
Oracle buying Sun? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Sun_Microsystem... Has more real value ever been destroyed in the service of paper value? Arguably yes, though I am including DEC in this equation: https
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by biztos 4y ago
I'm OK with being downvoted for irrelevance but in case anyone doesn't get the reference: A great deal was made of the change to Proof Of Stake, enough that it sort of became an end to itself, and the conversations about how exact
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by biztos 4y ago
In the interest of levity, and at the risk of downvotery, I ask: > So... it's done? And the blockchain answereth: > It's done. :-) https://youtu.be/1_TuEO6Mttw
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by biztos 4y ago
For a poetic treatment of the fires of Kuwait, see Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/ Trailer: https://youtu.be/vMIM-ma2juo
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by biztos 4y ago
The Price of Everything It's about how the global art world interacts with the bottomless well of cash that has been gushing into it during the last few decades, with a focus on one older artist who is quite successful but not by tho
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by biztos 4y ago
True, but most museums also keep the bulk of their collection -- except of course for the crowd-pleasing hits -- in storage. I think their motives are mostly better but the end effect is often the same: a work of art is rarely, if ever, se
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by biztos 4y ago
I use Go and Python both for short scripts and tests in a very similar way, when the Standard Library covers my needs. echo 'package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("hello"); } ' > foo.
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by biztos 4y ago
In Hungary, Trappist is first and foremost a cheese. I would even call it the default cheese, though like many cheeses it was apparently invented in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappista_cheese
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by biztos 4y ago
In Germany (for employees) they just take their share and if you’re ok with that you don’t have to do anything at all. Unless you’re a US citizen or permanent resident, in which case you still need to file in the USA, but that’s not the Ger
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by biztos 4y ago
Not to pile on to the NSFW complaint, or maybe yes, I found this one pretty funny (SFW): https://imgur.com/a/GXaf9kH But yeah, bounce. I think this will be a big enough factor in the “AI” thing that whoever comes up w
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by biztos 4y ago
I’ve done this both ways a few times, and still bounce between Europe and the US a lot. Once I got used to A4 et al I found it maddening that the other sizes are missing in the US. A4 vs Letter is no big deal, IMO, with modern printer dr
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by biztos 4y ago
Indeed, as far as I can tell (I’m in Bangkok but I’m not a local) there is a lot of choice and a super wide range of prices. Public transit is constantly being expanded and there is so much stock of modern buildings, I can’t see it changing
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by biztos 4y ago
In that case it wouldn’t be, but from what I’ve seen online most of the forums, tips etc about this are for people with two full-time jobs they “work” simultaneously and not for people who legitimately go to their second job after finishing
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by biztos 4y ago
FWIW I too thought it meant the opposite of underemployed. I didn’t realize the “fraudulent holding of two jobs simultaneously” had acquired this name. Apparently there are other definitions as well, used in economics. One being when worke
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by biztos 4y ago
I was one, though my job title was even snootier. I still wrote a lot of code but there was some precedent for that in my immediate group, and we were always short of (real) senior engineers. Zooming out, I don’t think the natural born ha
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by biztos 4y ago
I have noticed this on YouTube as well, I would assume something similar is happening on other video sites. Sometimes there is a video on a trending topic among the first few Google search results, and when you go over to YouTube and have a
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by biztos 4y ago
What does "non-campaign" mean in this context?
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by biztos 4y ago
> The Google continues to put them near the top of results after all these years. WebMD: the Pinterest of Health.
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by biztos 4y ago
Redefining words like “murder” to include killing animals for food requires some pretty impressive mental gymnastics too. But I don’t find either one hard to imagine.

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