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by biztos 5y ago
Wow I’d never heard (or at least noticed) that and I speak German. Turns out they have red, brown and black too. https://www.hotelier.de/lexikon/w/weisse-ware
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by biztos 5y ago
Fascinating, I don't think I ever heard "whitegoods" before. In case I'm not alone: refrigerators, washing machines and the like, in UK English. I think. So like this: https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk But may
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by biztos 5y ago
Speaking only for myself, if I had a company office in my city I would go to it three-four days a week — even if my colleagues were all working elsewhere. (Assuming I can define my hours and commute by public transit or cheap taxi.) I was
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by biztos 5y ago
How do you determine the going rate? Are rates advertised somewhere for comparison? Seems like a pretty risky thing to advertise.
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by biztos 5y ago
I learned German before the reform and I grudgingly admit it’s probably easier to learn it now, but some of the lost bits had aesthetic value and some of the spelling is still maddening. Plus if you actually speak German in any German-speak
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by biztos 5y ago
Wow, TIL... sealed TDK SA 90's cost $25 each on eBay! Apparently this is due to a shortage of raw materials as well as market size? I wonder if the problem could be solved by using other tape formats that might be more readily availabl
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by biztos 5y ago
Dominican Republic? I'm sure there is a lot of status-related meanness everywhere but I was thinking in particular of the US practice of intentionally and radically overworking people (to a level dangerous to both them and their patien
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by biztos 5y ago
> No lawyer, accountant, doctor, engineer, scientist or other professional stands up each day... I think this has a lot to do with the office culture of software being figured out at the same time as the professionalization of Management
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by biztos 5y ago
Audio cassettes are making a comeback! It's a tiny niche right now, but that's what people said about LPs not so long ago. Some of my favorite bands now release cassette tapes. I don't have a player at the moment, but soon!
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by biztos 5y ago
The magic of having the TV blink on every press of the membrane keyboard while copying programs out of the manual, which had a funny smell[0]. Once my brother and I got Commodore 64's, we could see the golden age receding -- the Super
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by biztos 5y ago
You probably know people who know people who are good lawyers, but you might not know which. So ask everyone you know. As for paying, there are some law offices that offer startup-friendly packages and are probably good enough to get you g
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by biztos 5y ago
Sort of O/T but why the free tier for your service? I would think everyone with a legitimate need for an audit trail is a paying customer, in fact would prefer to pay so there is a contract around the audit trail, and “free tier” would
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by biztos 5y ago
I grew up without mangoes but now I live in Thailand and have fallen hopelessly, permanently in love with them. They are available all year, but varietals and prices vary wildly when it's not "season." There are also great ma
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by biztos 5y ago
Pocket supercomputers, meat-like fake meat, addictive virtual dystopias, two-way wrist radios…
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by biztos 5y ago
> Completely different crowd, though. I find these differences fascinating. I used to work out at one of the top bodybuilding gyms in Europe (I’m not a bodybuilder but my trainer was) — and none of the hardcore members would have been c
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by biztos 5y ago
Totally off topic, but TIL about DAU whilst forgetting what would abbreviate Daily Active Use(rs) and trying out the search things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Acquisition_University
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by biztos 5y ago
Just wait until you pick up a fashion magazine. (Seriously though: for many types of magazine the ads are the larger point, and the editorial content insofar as it’s not itself a sophisticated ad — cf. Vogue — is there to stimulate your min
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by biztos 5y ago
Meanwhile in Europe, Ryanair advertises its pre-order food service as the legal way to fly (mostly) unmasked. I’m as masked as you can be while also drinking wine, i.e. mask on between sips, but there’s a lot of bad faith on many sides here
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by biztos 5y ago
I almost bought that one, but who wears e-people anymore in 2022?
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by biztos 5y ago
I agree he’s been a good steward of the graph — even people who hate Facebook and don’t use Facebook are actually using Facebook! — but I suspect he needed Sandberg to turn it into the big money.
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by biztos 5y ago
It’s a great story, but I don’t understand how the insurance company is relevant to the finders. They found it, it’s theirs (you just said) so the insurance company… wants to pay above market value for nostalgic reasons? Incidentally there
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by biztos 5y ago
I’m sorry your experience has been negative, and I realize people are more on edge almost everywhere than they were three years ago. I haven’t noticed much change at HN, but then I tend to skim over the reactionary bits, and when I myself f
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by biztos 5y ago
You probably already know this, but "an EU entity [for] hiring" means very different things for EU citizens than for permanent residents or visa holders/seekers. Since the EU is not an immigration union, as a permanent reside
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by biztos 5y ago
I don't think the parent is suggesting the police be militarized; rather that they could look to the US military's experience in combatting organizational racism and improving both professionalism and cohesion. The US military has
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by biztos 5y ago
I agree, in the same way that Raytheon is "not America," but my interpretation of the parent comment was that the cosy relationship with the government made it effectively the same thing from the point of view of companies defendi
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by biztos 5y ago
Granted, a state actor can (depending how important the state is to your business) compel you to not counter their attacks. But that isn’t really a question of technology, and the parent comment was, I think, suggesting it’s an unrealistic
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by biztos 5y ago
Which is precisely why I asked the other question: > why should we expect that doesn't extend to non-state actors?
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by biztos 5y ago
> defend itself from state-funded hackers Doesn't it matter which state? Sure, for US, Russia, China this is probably just true without nuance. For someplace like Israel (small but highly motivated and strong in both espionage a
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by biztos 5y ago
I'm a little older, and I also do leetcode for fun/practice and find I get a lot out of it. Have not done a leetcode-style interview yet, and might never do, and might not pass if I do do, but just as a scratching post for your
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by biztos 5y ago
I think the suggestion is for something more like the Bar Exam. At least in California, you don't have to go to law school to take this exam, and if you pass it you are just as qualified to practice law as someone who did go to law sch

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