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by blunte 5y ago
Additional notes since people are graciously providing replies and suggestions! :) This is unoffensive, professional level paintings of nostalgic things like typewriters, telephones, gas cans, shaving brushes, etc. None of it should be at
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Perhaps Etsy is a good choice. It will bring some accidental business in, plus it will provide a seller system for listing/showing items. Marketing isn't really a concern. He can post a photo/link on his Facebook periodical
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Thanks for the suggestions. It's actually my retired father's works to be sold. Thus far he "only" enters (and frequently wins or places) in state and national competitions, and a few times he's had gallery showin
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Ask HN: Selling framed physical art online
35 points by blunte 5y ago|28 comments
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Was TFA satire? I hope so, but I fear it was serious. Hey, you know how to make a million dollars? Start with 10 million. If you absolutely must start with nothing but a master's degree, just get high paying jobs and don't spend
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by blunte 5y ago
Question for you OS geeks: did we take the good things learned from BeOS and implement them in Windows/Linux/macOS?
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But Meta is Facebook, right? I find it impossible to believe they would not still be connected internally somehow; after all, Facebook doesn't have the best track record keeping walls around user data.
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Ask HN: Got an idea, but how to find parner(s) and SMEs?
6 points by blunte 5y ago|4 comments
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Concert tickets, graphics cards, game consoles... apartments and houses... If it can be scalped, it will be. I'm not sure if the people who like to say "free market" would consider this a negative or a positive.
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Oh man! I've been a lifetime member for ...wow, two decades indeed!, and I have saved hundreds of your pictures. These have been my favorite desktop backgrounds almost exclusively (although I now make some generated art which sometim
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It adds more complexity to relationships, but it can also keep families/friends closer because they have more shared goals. There are some cultures where family businesses, where most members of the family work and participate, are the
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Fortunately this supply chain is less at the mercy of global transportation woes. Now, provenance may still be an issue...
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I have to wonder about the glide ratio. All those fans will probably create a ton of drag. If for some reason you have a complete power/engine(s) failure, that thing is likely to become a lawn dart. At least with a helicopter you can
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by blunte 5y ago
That's beside the point. The point is that when looking to see what jobs are available, the Linkedin job list is worse than useless.
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It doesn't matter if they regulate it or not. It will happen in secret. It is a foolish hedge, as the nuclear race was. Fortunately, despite the Deepminds and such, outside limited games we humans still have the upper hand. And us t
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by blunte 5y ago
With respect to the Linkedin Jobs search feature, TopTal lists the same long list of positions for every major city. This pollutes the search results so badly that they become useless. https://imgur.com/h8vOXGA Additionall
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I have worked remotely for most of the last 12 years. That allows me to isolate myself better (to focus), and it allows a bit more flexibility to work when I'm in the flow. But I'm an unstructured (or so broadly structured that
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I predict that this will be the new normal for a while, until the myriad problems it causes really surface. As with other backdoors, these will leak important data and ultimately become priority attack vectors to steal or corrupt data. Of c
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by blunte 5y ago
I am not exaggerating when I say that TopTal entries are 99% of the results when I filter for contract. Of six pages of results, there were three non-TopTal entries. For this reason, Linkedin job search is utterly useless. Out of anger on
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Ask HN: Current good websites to find freelance/contract work
2 points by blunte 5y ago|8 comments
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In my lengthy career, most of my jobs have demanded significant and intense amounts of effort and attention. With very few exceptions, I have certainly put in 6+ hours of focused work on average per day. If I were your manager, we would ha
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by blunte 5y ago
Regardless of the reason for the misspelled stickers, they are so prominent and visible that any (western?) employee to saw the boards should have noticed. At the very least, there should be some QC human or even automated visual software
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I was following and accepting the summaries until the Bitcoin pitch.
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I have had an M1 Air for months, and my eyes have not felt any worse than when using other laptops. I find the display to be very nice. Aside from one dead pixel, it’s a joy to look upon. The only thing that seems to tire my eyes is my iPho
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Isn’t that the point? We have lost our way a bit and forgotten some of the things learned in the past. Now we need reminders, and how to apply forgotten thinking with our modern tools and libraries.
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I was curious how the musicians, even with the goggles on, might not recognize the old instruments. I would think the physical touch sensation and especially the smell would give it away. Just as an example, with saxophones it’s immediately
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I think you are focusing on one side comment. I don’t believe that was the summary. Up to a certain point, volume is useful as it makes it easier for the listener to hear more detail about the sound. It doesn’t simply mean that louder sound
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by blunte 5y ago
As I sit here by the beach in Phuket, I dread returning to the Netherlands. Nature, sun, water, and good food all encourage me to be active. I’m way, way healthier than one month ago at home. Regardless of the mechanisms at play, life in a
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You could say the same about US and EU.
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Like profit (measured only as money left after expenses), productivity is not the only important measure. What is traded for productivity? Who gains from productivity increases? It would certainly appear that over the last 30 years in the

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