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by bjarneh 5y ago
Filing personal taxes in the US sounds like filing taxes for a company in other countries. A complete nightmare consisting of tons of forms that some bureaucrat dreamed up, which nobody really knows how to fill out correctly. Software exist
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I agree; it almost looks like some random heavy sea footage from an exterior camera in that "Deadliest catch" show.
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> On offline first applications, there is always exactly one state of the data across all tabs. Perhaps between tabs, but what about multiple devices/browsers?
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The BBC player was geo-blocked, but what a tragic story. I guess when you get that climbing-bug, it's almost like an addiction.
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What a great read. Has to be one of the few people around that was introduced to an extreme sport by his mom.
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> I've had those mold on the way home from the store. They can sense you've bought them..
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I guess these are all eaten by the same people, the Pringles people?
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Very interesting story. All the stories about Jobs it seems he got more "intense" if he didn't get his way.
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> if such a thing is even possible Exactly. The way Pringles taste; to go looking for "off brand" Pringles at lower prices seems totally nuts. I'm not sure if they are crisps, chips or just a horrid potato mix formed into
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> It's like buying off brand "Pringles" Does anyone make worse chips than Pringles?
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What a great read; interesting, informative and funny. Great examples of the concepts he's explaining - that make sense even for those of us with very little knowledge of these topics in advance. > with a user interface only a paren
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> My overwhelming impression is that despite all this, no one really gets rich on running restaurants. Simple napkin-math from when I was at the restaurant. I.e. multiplying the amount of people at restaurant by the number of days in a y
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> Wait, why is this like cruise ships? I It's a "luxurious experience" fueled by slave labor.
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The worst part about some of these 3 star restaurants, is that staff are often unpaid. It's basically what Americans call an internship, i.e. the only "salary" is that you can add working in a 3 star restaurant to your CV. I
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Can't go wrong with a square, timeless design.
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> 3) Product MVPs have a much higher degree of polish and companies wait much longer to launch The Airbnb story where they launched with no payment solution to get a feel for the market/product always fascinated me. Maybe those days
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I hope this is true
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> The application in question is very complex, so any kind of rewrite in another language is out of the question. I think I know what you mean. If a couple of guys quit, the company is in major trouble? :-) Forgot this: /s
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by bjarneh 5y ago
All these stories about power/sex abuse sound so similar. It always seems a ton of people knew and did nothing to stop it. Reading about this guy was like reading about Jimmy Savile or Harvey Weinstein.
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by bjarneh 5y ago
It seems Greek is Greek, even to the Greeks...
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So do I, but I'm not in charge :-/
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> but having written this and other anti-government sentiment, it’s entirely possible that they stop me at the border. I've seen "Border Control Australia", and if leaving the country is anywhere near as difficult as enter
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What an incredible piece of writing. If I could write like that; I'd be an author...
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> Most of the cost of a used car comes after you purchase it, though : ) Very true! French cars are certainly no exception to that rule :-)
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I've heard similar stories from my own country (Norway). I get the feeling that we only accept educations (as valid or similar to our own) if they are from a handful of western countries. People with education from poor countries proba
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by bjarneh 5y ago
The NASA images of space are colored black and white images, if I'm not mistaken. So artists are involved in NASA's images as well it seems.
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> "Don't be evil" is a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct, which it also formerly preceded as a motto. What misinformation? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
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When a company has to remove the motto "Don't be evil" You know something is not well
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Ten years prior to that the bad guys in "The naked gun" kidnapped and replaced a scientist to say it wasn't a problem.
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If we can get some AI bots to review these papers, we've come full circle.

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