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by biztos 5y ago
If blocking people is the problem, could you not take unlimited PTO in sub-week increments? Plus maybe a couple actual vacations a year near the holidays when people are all blocking each other anyway. Seems like the perfect intersection of
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by biztos 5y ago
I don't know how much it really counts as "like MailChimp" but Substack is relatively new, and seems to have found its way past the spam filters at least enough to get top-tier VC backing, so if I were trying to solve this pr
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by biztos 5y ago
I quit Facebook about a year ago and don't miss it at all, but I think I'd really miss Instagram, because about 90% of my feed there is contemporary artists, galleries, curators and critics. At the moment there is (sadly) no othe
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by biztos 5y ago
I ended up canceling a magazine subscription I’d done with Apple, because there was no way to use my Apple credentials on the web site. It was app-only, and the app was crap compared to the web version. I might resubscribe but… friction…
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by biztos 5y ago
Long-term American expat here. I know you're only trying to make a point, but racism is almost never the first thing anyone mentions, even if they're talking about America, which usually isn't the first thing someone wants t
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by biztos 5y ago
Postgres is very modern and MySQL is also... em... also modern in a different sense. ;-) I understood the question as: > What can those newer database systems that are not beholden to RDBMS conventions do for us that Postgres and MySQL
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by biztos 5y ago
I’ve been a Netflix subscriber since the DVD days, and for the last several years all the best shows I’ve found, I read about elsewhere first. Which is kind of insane, but I got used to it, and I will google around for interesting new Netfl
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by biztos 5y ago
YouTube was an absolute cesspit of copyright violation until (well after acquisition) it wasn’t. Move fast, break things, but I guess it matters which things.
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by biztos 5y ago
Sorry, no. Source: American traveling around Europe right now with my American vaccination papers. Getting Yet Another PCR test tomorrow, thank you very much.
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by biztos 5y ago
> or traveling to visit it Except during Covid, which might last forever. > No currency conversion needed either Except when you need to transact literally anything outside of the SEPA system, and then you have conversations and ban
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by biztos 5y ago
I wouldn’t say he’s not contributing, I’d say he doesn’t have employees. Same would be true if he has his “team” on 1099 in the US. Outside of any moral questions, the risk here is that the government may decide your group of happy startup
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by biztos 5y ago
Interesting, I didn't know payday lending was a thing in Spain. Delaying salary payments serves two purposes: first, to benefit the employer by keeping your money in their account longer; and second, at least culturally, to force y
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by biztos 5y ago
I don’t think review per se would be such a problem: just charge a per-upload review fee. That might weed out some of the creators who are not yet making any money and can’t/won’t invest in the effort, but is that really a bad thing
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by biztos 5y ago
This has been Apple's line for quite a while, but over the last ten years I can't believe Mr Cook has not come up with a Plan B, given that the volatility in US-China relations is much more likely to affect iPhones than most other
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by biztos 5y ago
It really seems weird to me that with all the countries that allow various forms of sex work, payment processing is still such a bottleneck. As I understand it, independent providers doing 100% legal work in their countries live in terror
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by biztos 5y ago
I think this must be the most overlapping possible Venn diagram of HN and OF, no?
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by biztos 5y ago
It's a fair question, but I think the answer is no: the questions are not the same. As much as Apple wants access to the Chinese market, it would (presumably) draw a line at some point where it would (presumably) have to choose between
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by biztos 5y ago
I think a lot of it is that everyone has heard of Zoom, and Zoom works pretty well for calls with a lot of people, so it became the default for group video calls. The “UX” in this case was “fixed” by being less crashy than the competition f
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by biztos 5y ago
Until recently I had a home-office contract in Germany. The contract gave them the right to relocate me, which seemed like a funny clause 15 years ago, nowadays I might worry about them actually doing it as part of some policy alignment.
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by biztos 5y ago
> "Cost of living" is personal I live internationally, and the cost of moving between countries on a regular basis pretty much negates the savings of the cheaper locales vs the more expensive ones. On the one hand, I don’t expe
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by biztos 5y ago
That’s not what the threat is supposed to be. The threat is supposed to be that all the engineers will step away from their keyboards and the ginormous money machine will grind to a halt. But since Google pays so much it’d be both really h
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by biztos 5y ago
…and the Apple employee in China will risk her career by flagging Winnie the Pooh as unobjectionable?
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by biztos 5y ago
I can think of excellent arguments for arresting people that are planning terrorist attacks using Signal. What I can't think of is why scanning everyone's private messages just in case they might be those terrorists is a worthwhil
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by biztos 5y ago
> long-duration battery solutions This isn't practical everywhere, but on the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) there is a wind-and-battery solution in the form of a wind-pumped hydro-electric station. In effect there is a big p
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by biztos 5y ago
I believe this is possible! Between my condo and my mall (a five-minute walk in Khlong San) there are two Sewen, one on each side of the street, and then of course the very first shop in the mall is… Sewen.
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by biztos 5y ago
My nearest convenience store in Bangkok is a FamilyMart, but sadly: not have chicken.
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by biztos 5y ago
I’ve been thinking about switching my main email to Fastmail from Apple, for portability in case the anti-power-user trend crosses my personal pain threshold. But if your worry is governments reading your mail, is an email company any safer
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by biztos 5y ago
I bought the M1 Air and yes, it feels like an iPhone, but sized as a retro-ish laptop and able to run a dev stack which Apple still won't let me do on my plenty powerful enough iPad.
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by biztos 5y ago
I got the 2TB drive so I can run out of even more disk space! ;-)
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by biztos 5y ago
In California you can get your shots without showing any ID, and in fact for my first shot nobody checked mine.

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