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by bwb 3y ago
I am curious, how many people were admitted to the golden visa program in the last 10 years? Does it really have a big impact?
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Ideas matter: How I stopped being a Culture Incel(writingruxandrabio.com)
2 points by bwb 3y ago|0 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
Shepherd.com, shift soft culture toward a respect of complexity and advocacy for science, democracy, and other key attributes for civilization and well being.
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by bwb 3y ago
Something is off there, I grew up cooking on gas, and previous place I had a nice Bosch 6 burner. The electric one we have is better and I prefer it. It is fast and never had issues like that.
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by bwb 3y ago
That might be a bit of propaganda from the gas industry over the last 50 years. I heard similar but when i dug into it appeared to be bunk… i cook on electric now and love it.
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by bwb 3y ago
That is very weird, I've spent a few months in France almost every year for the last 8 years and never had one bad experience. My wife speaks beginner French and not had any issues either. I know enough to order, please, thank you, nic
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by bwb 3y ago
btw all fixed now :)
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by bwb 3y ago
btw all fixed now :)
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by bwb 3y ago
Ya agreed, I would think taxing gig work to compensate for those things is a better solution. IE, you pay 7 euros an hour, on the backend you pay the government 7 euros to cover health care, pension, etc. This seems like a tracking problem
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by bwb 3y ago
Gotcha, so what is preventing these companies from forcing the uber/delieroo drivers to be freelance solo classification? IE, where are the teeth? The problem with saying "like x" is it requires court cases and means enforcem
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by bwb 3y ago
What is the difference between a gig worker versus a freelancer? Is this going to hurt your ability to be freelance? I would love to understand this better in the proposal as it wasn't clear to me how they define this difference.
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by bwb 3y ago
I enjoyed Children of Time, but I also was frustrated as the characters are a bit flat, they don't have any type of arc or change or learn in any way. The main character was interesting but the rest just kinda there. I loved the world
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by bwb 3y ago
Ya this is publishers :( I am working to fix this and have AI clean it up. Goodreads relies on an army of unpaid labor :), GoodReads librarians fix a lot of that type of stuff.
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by bwb 3y ago
Thanks :) Right now, I have two formats: The first is a 5 book list where an author/expert recommends 5 books around a theme, topic, or mood. I've got 10,000 of those on the website that I have done with authors over the last 2.5
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by bwb 3y ago
Sweet, how can I get in touch? my email is ben@shepherd.com if you want to drop me a hello :)
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Map of which States teach personal finance in school(visualcapitalist.com)
1 points by bwb 3y ago|0 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
Creator here: Translations are on my radar, and I will look at how I can identify translations as well to break them out into their own subsection of this list in future years (I think there is value in that). I don't know how to do th
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by bwb 3y ago
Awesome! Hey Ben, ya this is where I first launched in April 2021 :)
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by bwb 3y ago
Thanks! Everyone loves books for different reasons, it is something I am hoping to start peeling apart in future years. I find that Midnight Library is enough traditional sci-fi so it pulls a different type of reader. So you get a lot of no
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by bwb 3y ago
Ya I didn't test that at the time (more book meta data), that I will look at. I also might be pulling the wrong ONIX data and need to up my license and take on the full HUGE database of books rather than the API I am using.
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by bwb 3y ago
Creator here: I would love to expand and support books in other languages. But the technology challenges and costs associated with that are massive. It is on my radar but not something I can examine until I meet my costs on this project. I
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by bwb 3y ago
Something I am playing with is using ChatGPT to do emoji descriptions as a joke :). The results are quite funny.
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by bwb 3y ago
Ya, I tested it in the first year and it was worse than publisher data by a wide margin. I will take another look soon to see if it improved. And maybe I can use their data to augment publisher data and improve the overall quality.
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by bwb 3y ago
Thanks, taking a look now!
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by bwb 3y ago
userbob.com
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Django: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(salomvary.com)
4 points by bwb 3y ago|0 comments
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by bwb 3y ago
btw, if you are curious about the build process Márton Salomváry (the dev I work with on this project) has a great post here on his website: https://salomvary.com/building-shepherd.html And a more recent one about Django wh
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by bwb 3y ago
It definitely made the top 100 for non-fiction, 2 authors have picked it so far. And it is in the top for categories like business and biography: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/business?only-published
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by bwb 3y ago
Ya, the genre data I get from publishers is terrible. And I can't find any other sources. Many of the publishers mix nonfiction and fiction categories and I am trying to figure out how I can possibly fix this with AI checks and/or
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by bwb 3y ago
Thanks! I will work on a way to visualize a total list of the authors surveyed as that is missing. I also asked them for personality/expertise tags so I am going to play with letting you see book recommendations by those too. I do have

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