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by biztos 5y ago
I can’t comment on the legality, but when I was in a penny-pinching org in a big US company we just did these things outside the US because it was cheaper. COVID notwithstanding, UK might be a good option for you.
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by biztos 5y ago
I’ve never been to Algiers but having done a lot of walking in Bangkok, I like this metaphor. The fact that I love to walk in Bangkok proves that I am into Walking in a way more regular, more fit, longer-distance, better equipped walkers ge
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by biztos 5y ago
I used to be really impressed with European-style proportional representation, until I spent a lot of time in Germany. I still prefer it to two-party system, but the last German election ultimately came down to two wet-noodle candidates abs
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by biztos 5y ago
I wonder, how should content risk (for lack of a better term) be factored in? As a storage service you don't know what you're storing, generally. Maybe you're storing proof of extrajudicial assassinations, or hilarious Winni
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by biztos 5y ago
Offline until the paperwork all goes through. But sure some details. It’s in the Canary Islands so pretty far from “Europe” but not exactly hard to get to. In a village about 20 minutes drive from the city. Under a volcano but not that
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by biztos 5y ago
I just bought what will eventually become an artists’ residency, and we will start renovating it later this month. It will probably take about two years to get it started. The plan is to have a few artists a year come for about a month eac
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by biztos 5y ago
I just went through the process of buying something expensive in a "trustless" system in an IRL country. It was pretty painful and very expensive -- I paid $300 just to get a guaranteed check cut! Of course this is a trivial prob
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by biztos 5y ago
I like this and I bet eventually it will be standard practice for galleries to have something like this. There's a lot of money in the art world, and especially since the pandemic not everyone can travel to every show even if they cou
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by biztos 5y ago
I have more than 10 but I also agree. I’m not squatting, I have a plan for each one, and the threat of losing them would be a great motivator to actually build all these little projects! OTOH there would probably just be “not squatting” se
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by biztos 5y ago
How would this handle accessibility? 64-128K page size is perfectly doable in HTML today if anybody actually cares enough to do it. How much of the bloat in say an Amazon page is the JavaScript? Is there something about your protocol that
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by biztos 5y ago
When I worked at a company with about 5-6 servers and a couple fixed remote workstations, all the programmers knew all the IP addresses by heart, if there were names for anything but the www host I didn’t know them. Obviously doesn’t scale,
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by biztos 5y ago
I used to work at 5th and Howard back when Tempest was an anarcho-syndicalist bike-messenger journalists' coke den. We never exited towards 6th even then.
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by biztos 5y ago
In that case, it's even weirder -- for further context, Mint Plaza is at 5th and (more or less) Market, and there is a huge difference between 6th Street and 5th Street. Ah, SF, sometimes I even miss it. :-)
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by biztos 5y ago
Yes, I am in favor of improving it. It's just that if we're talking about 6th and Market, getting it anywhere close to what we think of as "gentrified" is a long, long game, especially in San Francisco. It's a leg
825.
by biztos 5y ago
This site is not viewable in Europe. But according to other, viewable sites: 1) This is a trial balloon, i.e. the Biden administration is considering this and will see what the reaction is like. 2) It only applies to families separated f
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by biztos 5y ago
For those unfamiliar with San Francisco: 6th and Market is a very bad neighborhood, and the idea of "gentrifying" it on any timeline you will live to see the end of, is laughable.
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by biztos 5y ago
Any helpful references handy, Batman?
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by biztos 5y ago
That sounds nice, but does your insurance cover treatment in the US? Singapore? I pay about 600 EUR a month and that only covers up to 3 months abroad (but abroad can be anywhere) — for longer trips I still do at least a “major medical” pol
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by biztos 5y ago
That reminds me of the old “120% time” problem at Google[0]. Sounds like your partner had a bad manager. Much easier to change managers than companies if your partner is/was otherwise happy with Google. Or, given the CV mojo of a Goo
830.
by biztos 5y ago
And yet, the one person I know who actually works there is the most liberal, Bernie Democrat, socially progressive, perfect-family moral beacon of all my San Francisco peeps. Except for the part about working for Zuck. Sample size of one,
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by biztos 5y ago
A third possibility is you’re a team in a larger company, and then it could matter a lot. I wrote a few things in what I’m pretty sure was correct, idiomatic, best-practices Python 3 and almost immediately I could see some familiar problems
832.
by biztos 5y ago
> signed a urinal and stuck it in a museum ...sort-of, but not really, but sure it's in museums now. More than one! However, this would have been the smallest of art-historical footnotes had Duchamp not then gone on to do the rest
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by biztos 5y ago
> See also: displaying unfinished sketches. Depending on the artist and the sketch, I'm quite happy to see it also. Sketches can provide a lot of super interesting context about other works. And sometimes they're quite good b
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by biztos 5y ago
It's true that some art -- and most big-P Postmodern cultural products -- require a lot of prior knowledge of their context in order to get much out of them, and I agree this is hostile to a general audience. But first, some of it does
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by biztos 5y ago
Meanwhile, in the eastern parts of the EU, it’s totally common to transact tens of thousands of Euros in cash, with lawyers preparing the contracts and observing the counting of the cash, especially for real estate. Less common but not exac
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by biztos 5y ago
Thanks for doing that footwork. Ever since I was old enough to pay income taxes (started aged 14) it has burned me that my “share” of my income is then taxed at various steps along its way to some other citizen’s income, where the remainde
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by biztos 5y ago
> The other major alternative is diet from aquaculture If push ever actually comes to shove, bugs are way more efficient than fish. The fact you can’t buy a soldier-fly larva burger even if you want to, makes me think we’re far from p
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by biztos 5y ago
Indeed I meant most other laptop manufacturers, who copy Apple’s designs almost as cravenly as do smartphone manufacturers. I’m a longtime MacBook user myself, and I do like my new Air, but I have two adapters plugged into it half the time.
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by biztos 5y ago
I don’t know really… yes Ethernet is nice to have but in 16 years of using an MBP as my “pro” machine in a big company I needed it like twice, 14 years ago. So yeah in principle, you’re right.
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by biztos 5y ago
The crazy thing here is that it’s not so hard to hit the standard set of “pro” ports — USB-C x 4 (new standard blabla) USB-A x 2 SD x 1 HDMI x 1 Phone/Mic I applaud the modular approach but Apple’s donglevision was the pure distillatio

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