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by bwb 8d ago
I've talked to Dang many times about these posts, and never been an issue :)
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by bwb 10d ago
Ya just like NYT or The Atlantic or any of the sites, we have to pay for the servers, the book database licensing, etc. :) I don't understand; every page says the site is owned by my partner and me. We are building something really coo
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by bwb 10d ago
hah i know, his own man raised rates, he will probably send the military out to get Walsh
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by bwb 10d ago
Remind me in 6 months :) I'll be you; they are higher this time.
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by bwb 10d ago
Definitely the right move, 100% agree. I don't think that mortgage rates are going to go down; I think they will go up. Just my opinion. I also think oil is about to go up even more, maybe for multiple years, which is going to be infla
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by bwb 10d ago
Get ready for a fun ride my friends :) Fun ride = Oil is going up, possibly for a long time, which will have a big inflationary effect on everything. And it appears the USA government has lost the conflict it started and effectively given c
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France has 348 different taxes on individuals(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by bwb 12d ago|1 comments
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by bwb 12d ago
Of the 348 taxes levied by France, 243 are “low-yield taxes,” which collectively bring in relatively little revenue compared with the country’s largest tax categories. In contrast, employment taxes brought in more than €800 billion in 2024,
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by bwb 13d ago
nah, it is a race; nation-states are in the midst of a big upheaval. Nobody is going to give up a possible advantage.
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by bwb 14d ago
No in no way this is an ad, this website is built around a shared love of books and finding new ones.
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by bwb 14d ago
This won't work, China/USA are in a race. How do you create a treaty with binding provisions when you have such incompetent leadership in the USA?
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Gordon Doherty's favorite books about the fall of the Roman Empire(bookdna.com)
2 points by bwb 14d ago|0 comments
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My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them(bookdna.com)
9 points by bwb 14d ago|3 comments
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by bwb 1mo ago
I'm building Book DNA to help people get book recommendations from humans (mostly authors and experts so far in our early days). -> https://bookdna.com/ We started with the website, and now we are building a full ap
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My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes(bookdna.com)
284 points by bwb 1mo ago|126 comments
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My favorite books on how science won World War 2(bookdna.com)
1 points by bwb 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bwb 2mo ago
It is on my list as I keep hearing great things!
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by bwb 2mo ago
I removed all friends years ago. After I read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I quit, but I still need an account for a few groups I moderate. I think it has done more damage to this country than tobacco.
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by bwb 2mo ago
FB is built on rage bait, what else do they have beside cute videos?
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My favourite books to help you survive grief(bookdna.com)
9 points by bwb 2mo ago|0 comments
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My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit(bookdna.com)
21 points by bwb 2mo ago|4 comments
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by bwb 2mo ago
I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there. I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip every year. It has improved, and they do a ton of us
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by bwb 2mo ago
Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.
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by bwb 2mo ago
Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.
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by bwb 2mo ago
I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/ If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now. We are working on goodreads/st
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by bwb 2mo ago
I run two plugins to just invisibly make them go away, I don't care, they are a waste of my time :)
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by bwb 2mo ago
I live in Bordeaux, although thankfully out of town for the month. This is insane to watch, and friends say the city is full of smoke
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by bwb 2mo ago
oh gosh no, love books, building it for free. We are direct funded with premium accounts by authors and readers.
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Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
20 points by bwb 2mo ago|4 comments
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by bwb 2mo ago
I live in Europe, I can make an appointment with my dentist tomorrow. I was sick 3 weeks ago and just went on video conference at 6am with my PCP. Just to help out there :) This has been the case in every country I've lived in within E

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