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by biztos 4y ago
> when they expropriated the buddhists in the huichang expropriation during the tang… Do you happen to have any good links for learning more about this? The Wikipedia page[0] is a mess and my Google skills have fallen short. [0]: https:
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by biztos 4y ago
For anyone else who didn’t know that one: https://kevinkruse.com/the-ceo-and-the-three-envelopes/
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by biztos 4y ago
I worked at a Fortune 500 and the ladder was floating in a mist of opaque fog, with inexplicably shifting rungs. Upside was that many of us just said screw it and focused on the work. Downside was that many said screw it and went to other
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by biztos 4y ago
Um, no, that’s not even remotely true of Bangkok. Rhetorical flourishes are fun, actually getting to know a city is also fun. As we say in Bangkok: Recommend!
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by biztos 5y ago
YouTube Premium is easily the best value for money of all my subscriptions. Even when I'm in Asia and I get helpful warnings that "ads may appear in this location" I never see any ads. As a bonus, in theory the creators get
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by biztos 5y ago
There is a lot of “hidden oracle” going on in the upstart “level one” blockchains too, hidden in the sense that an outsider would never guess that’s part of the deal. I find it kind of fascinating to, for (made-up) example, place real-money
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by biztos 5y ago
Seems like a good investment, probably way more effective than buying Google or Facebook ads. However I do wonder sometimes -- how much love do the little indie shops get from these YouTubers? If you're a tiny shop and can't affor
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by biztos 5y ago
I would really not call the loopop guy (whoever he is) an "influencer." I'd call him an educator, taking advantage of the medium to give super useful, very thorough reviews of products that are both expensive and notoriously
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by biztos 5y ago
I feel like Andrew Huang is in another league of YouTuberdom with the high production values, it’s almost as if “YouTube” is his genre and he happens to be into synthesizers. Whereas Bad Gear is like what I would make if I knew anything an
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by biztos 5y ago
I’m a synth dilettante and I absolutely look at these channels for inspiration and validation on what to buy, and sometimes for tips on how to use it. Andrew Huang and True Cuckoo for the enthusiasm, sometimes also Ricky Tinez; Loopop and S
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by biztos 5y ago
I am the lower end of the target market for this: I mess around with synthesizers and I prefer DAW-less and while it wouldn’t be an impulse purchase, I could probably afford it. Except that it doesn’t record, so I still need another device
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by biztos 5y ago
> If you do hire them then I guess it becomes fine Not that anything will stop companies from doing this, and not that I think it ever really happens, but for it to be morally OK I think you’d have to both get their permission and compen
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by biztos 5y ago
Recent advances in generative “AI” content give me hope that human-curated indexes might once again rule the Webosphere.
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by biztos 5y ago
I used to work on Rincon Hill and the East Cut thing happened after I moved away, so I had long wondered whether it was an old name being revived (it kinda has a gold-rush ring to it) or another real estate scheme like calling the Tenderloi
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by biztos 5y ago
I don’t know but I would guess it’s because of the relationship between Rust and Mozilla. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26067118 There are probably specific advantages to Rust, but it’s also just nice to work in a
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by biztos 5y ago
TIL what really happened to godoc.org!
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by biztos 5y ago
> No ads, no nonsense, just the text. I tried it out and was kind of shocked by the formatting lock-in and all the embedded tracking... I couldn't make it just default to plain text and I wasn't sure what the GDPR implications
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by biztos 5y ago
TIL there was an Ottoman Barbarossa[0] in addition to the German one[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayreddin_Barbarossa [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Empero...
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by biztos 5y ago
Haha that reminds me, there is/was a sort of markup language they used for issue comments etc. I had to spit that out of a bug migration tool a long time ago. Back then there was no documentation for it, but I think it was something
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by biztos 5y ago
I have a paid license for Sublime but I still feel like I’m looking for the “right” editor for me, and if I find anything that looks like it might be it I will happily pay (after a small free trial to see if, like Nova, it’s not for my use
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by biztos 5y ago
I'm not going to wade into the Esperanto debate, but I find it fascinating that so many countries use the Metric system except when they don't. In Germany for instance almost everything is metric except (ironically?) for computers
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by biztos 5y ago
It's an interesting post-mortem and a reminder of the pitfalls of the "bootstrap" model if you don't have other income. But I take exception to the "200K EUR" part. Money you didn't make is not the same a
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by biztos 5y ago
Text is obscured by the floating graphic tool buttons in the top right, on iPad. Once you scroll down far enough for them to slowly fade out , the whole thing is lopsided, with a big white margin on the left and text hugging the edge on t
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by biztos 5y ago
YouTube has quite good discovery (for me anyway) of related content. Some of it is highly produced. In the best case it’s also more compelling to watch the delivery. And finally, I often go to YouTube for something specific, like say rese
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by biztos 5y ago
Where do you get the alcohol angle from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan#Death_and_success...
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by biztos 5y ago
"Together towards future- proof IT with STACKIT!" This is some first-class Denglish here to begin with, but because of the wrap on the hyphenation it took me a while to realize they were not suggesting we "proof IT" nor
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by biztos 5y ago
But if you write it on one line, the capitalization of We is definitely wrong. However you can always tell your correspondent is German by their capitalization of second-person pronouns! Also the awkward use of "kind regards" bec
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by biztos 5y ago
Thanks, I will keep voltage in mind. I have ample wind so my long-term plan is solar plus small windmills on the roof. For bigger cooking sessions I will have an outdoor grill, might add some burners too. This is Spain so big LPG tanks f
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by biztos 5y ago
Is there a simple trick to make this work? I’m planning to install solar and was thinking around 3KW with battery backup. I definitely want induction cooking. Should I get more capacity? Bigger batteries? Fewer burners? [Edit: bigger batt
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by biztos 5y ago
Are we not? I have a more expensive watch but my daily d(r)iver is a Seiko SKX009. Indestructible and with a bracelet upgrade it looks great. And here in Asia you see a lot of marketing for Seiko, and tons of shops. And there’s always Gr

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