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by biztos 4y ago
I read a lot of “serious” things online, probably more than I should, and I never even remotely felt like Medium had any kind of dominant position. For a certain kind of formulaic, clickbaity, “who needs an editor” kind of content sure, it
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by biztos 4y ago
I think it’s just the branding awareness that is suspect. You can host a WordPress site on blog.yourcompany.com for an amount that rounds to $0, and it will probably satisfy most people who dislike Medium and other aggregators. Or you can r
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by biztos 4y ago
Yeah, that’s what one might expect, given than “Czechia” is pretty close to some historical words for the area. But it has not been my experience at all that Czechia was the “usual” word, at least among English speakers in Europe. Nor do I
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by biztos 4y ago
I have heard the people of Myanmar referred to as “Myanese” many times, in English, in Thailand. Enough that I might guess it’ll establish itself, like Czech people being “from Czech” did in much of Europe (in English).
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by biztos 4y ago
And in many other countries too, without the “choose” part. I pay more than that for my private health insurance in Germany… it’s a pretty good one but has a high deductible so I’ve never actually used it in over a decade.
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by biztos 4y ago
The trillion-dollar company is often less able to produce quality products than a small shop, because of bureaucracy and hubris and dead weight. So while I agree that the business case for web apps incentivizes mediocrity, there is still
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by biztos 4y ago
And isn’t Wasm supposed to (some day) free us from the need to pick JS for the front end?
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by biztos 4y ago
Arguably off topic, but having suffered through BER several times, I have a few tips to share which might reduce your own suffering. First: post-security you will find some of the most disgusting food ever served in an airport, but hey it’s
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by biztos 4y ago
Did it autocorrect, like Apple’s famous ducking duck?
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by biztos 4y ago
AFAIK that's not enough, for instance see the long-standing industry practice that people working on the Important Stuff are not allowed to ever look at the source code of the Direct Competitor; or clean-room reverse engineering, etc.
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by biztos 4y ago
> their code is so special that no one else could have ever come up with it independently I'm worried about exactly the opposite: having Copilot help me write code that seems quite generic to me, but which in fact makes my code subj
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by biztos 4y ago
Governor Schwarzenegger was from LA (after being from Austria of course), still lives there (West Side I believe), and had/has most of his network there. I agree that LA is vastly more important than Sacramento but I doubt that was the
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by biztos 4y ago
You should get out more: http://www.buyinchiangmai.com/land-measurements-in-thailand.... [Edit: And in Hungary, which is also European, you usually use hektár (ha) and négyzetméter (m2) now but you'd better know yo
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by biztos 4y ago
From the same article: > Environmentalists have long said desalination harms ocean life, costs too much money and energy, and the plant would soon be made obsolete by water recycling. Well if that's true then awesome, let's get
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by biztos 4y ago
So we sell them the water from the Colorado river, and use the money to build power plants there, with which we will power our expanded desalination for the benefit of agribusiness foreign and domestic? I mean, it would probably work, right
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by biztos 4y ago
I wish there were no software patents, and I can even understand why someone might cheer on countries that don't respect their IP treaty commitments[0] as a sort of anarchist burn-it-down position. But as long as IP is a thing in the w
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by biztos 4y ago
TIL:[0] > Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's bod
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by biztos 4y ago
> Are you too stupid to drive? Crippled in some way? Economic problems? Have some criminal history? Alcoholic? I recently got my driver’s license, first one, at an age far far above the norm for America, even if you factor in New York. I
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by biztos 4y ago
Is there any movement trying to achieve this other than the "State of Jefferson"[0] which would create the reddest of all Red States? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_st...
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by biztos 4y ago
Hmm, I would be really curious to see what happens when a foreigner with an Identitetskort leaves the EU. Maybe those countries that accept an EU ID would also accept that? I'm not sure about this but I think the German residence card
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by biztos 4y ago
Europeans who drive normally carry their national ID card, and their driver's license. This is enough to drive out of, and back into, the EU across some borders.
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by biztos 4y ago
In 13+ years of legal residence in Germany, I was never issued an ID. I assume if a Russian citizen were in the same boat, the residence permit affixed to their passport would suffice, but it's not an ID card. AFAIK, no EU country will
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by biztos 4y ago
> those with assets got rich and those that work get poorer I think this is the take-away of the modern world economy. If you can somehow get enough money to join the asset-holding class you have a chance, otherwise you have no chance.
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by biztos 4y ago
I think the point was merely that JavaScript is obviously not the "universal scripting language" and claiming it is demonstrates not just hubris but ignorance. That said, I have tons of little one-off utilities I launch with &qu
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by biztos 4y ago
For a while there was a Hungarian one called iWiW which IIRC stood for “internet who is who.” But pronounced like “ee-viv.” Wikipedia says the first “I” was for International but actually I don’t think anybody knew/cared at the time. I
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by biztos 4y ago
> I created the world's first social network when I was a grad student at Stanford. Really? [Edit: it’s a very big claim to make, and intuitively I want to say it’s unlikely, but maybe it depends on what you think qualifies as a “so
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by biztos 4y ago
Perhaps not in the US: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/91459
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by biztos 4y ago
I’m from a place pretty near Oregon House and used to drive by it every couple of months. IIRC these people made decent wine, and you could go see their art collection for free, but I never got around to it.
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by biztos 4y ago
I am generally in favor of more privacy, but it’s hard picture the real-world use of this for anything other than overlapping jobs (“J2”) and evading sanctions. What else is it for?
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by biztos 4y ago
Assuming you Kwondone bad puns on names. (I wond-R what the auth-R's name might give us if we knew it.)

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