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by dismalaf 9mo ago
So you're just bragging now? Do you even have a point? Cool that you make so much, but for most people in most of the world, $100k is a lot. > I don't think the average person could handle the risk, difficulty of labor, and k
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Safe in what sense? As someone who's been daily running it since 2008, I'm gonna say yes anyway though. It's secure (one definition of safe) and no more likely to eat your data than any other OS. Still back things up though
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
"Exploiting" it means the mamas running the bar make more money... They're literally entrepreneurs. And if they don't want to serve foreigners they can always just have Japanese-only signage like many other places alre
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
You act like $100k/year isn't still well above average. Hell it's above what SWEs make in any country that's not the USA. But pertaining to this article, the key to tiny Japanese restaurants such as these snack bars is
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Iran literally funds Hamas and adjacent orgs.
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Maybe if Xi dies and the next guy is more reasonable. A lot of the animosity towards China is a result of Xi's authoritarian turn a decade or so ago...
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by dismalaf 9mo ago
Europeans will really do anything except confront Russia and China. A little history lesson: the US has defacto and dejure been defending Greenland since WWII (they've had a defence pact since Denmark fell to the Nazis). US bases have
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
What's a "project"? How about a Shopify store? A Substack or WordPress site?
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Dude when industry wide margins are considered it's net margin. Gross margin on food is typically 70%. Of course, that margin does still get eaten up by a million things and the business is still brutal but they're definitely ma
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Dude, there's a million regulations for food trucks. Not only do zoning laws typically still apply to them (of course it varies a lot by municipality) there's usually extra regulations on top of that (can't park within X met
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Delivery apps eat into revenue way too much. Also most ghost "restaurants" aren't small businesses, they're a second (or nth) brand for an existing restaurant.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Russia and Iran literally fund Hamas and a bunch of the Islamo-leftist causes in the west... It's not hypocrisy, it's that Russian/Iranian money and propaganda are the direct cause. Notice also the outcry over Maduro, another
583.
by dismalaf 10mo ago
It's as simple as: Iranians don't want a theocratic dictatorship that oppresses women and funds terrorism worldwide. Almost anything is better than Iran's current government so anyone who loves freedom even a tiny bit should
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Flathub has all the major browsers. Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, Floorp, etc... and Edge.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, Venezuela, Iran. All Russian allies. All in trouble/falling within a year. Probably a sign Russia's failing and/or the US actively working against them.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
> As a solo developer, you could manage everything. From idea to execution. Or at least, it felt that way It's still that way with Rails. Probably other stacks. Sad that the default nowadays is so unproductive that solo devs don&#
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Yeah I can't blame them. Just as I can't blame Nvidia for ripping off the hyperscalers. It is terrible for consumers though. The only positive is all the interest in Linux and software optimization though.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
You don't remember the initial hours of the war where Russia attempted to take over Hostomel airport and land commandos there? And Ukrainian intelligence stating that Zelenskyy was the target? No, Russia attempted it, failed, moved go
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
The US supported the Arab Spring not understanding that the public mob is worse than the dictators. No country that's not China and perhaps the most powerful NATO allies can resist US military superiority. Most of the states I listed
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Ok so you ignored the states I did list and focused on the tongue in cheek comment. Gotcha.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
> Which government was relatively moderate? Gaddhafi who threatened to slaughter the rebellious cities block to block on TV? Assad who did just that and gassed his own people for a good measure? Both of them were more moderate than ISIS
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Russia already attempted it, failed, and now are into the 4th year of their debacle. The US pulled it off in one night. The only thing it reinforces is the US' military superiority.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
The Arab world is different because the people are largely fundamentalist and there's many extremists while the governments are relatively moderate. So get rid of the government and all the extremists take over. Venezuela is Catholic
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
It's too bad. I was looking at it the other day, looks really interesting.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Enterprise.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Enterprises are the whales. Microsoft sells user management, Office, Copilot, Outlook, etc... all bundled together for more per seat per year than a consumer will spend or generate in the whole lifecycle of their device. Nevermind Azure.
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
With the way the economy is going (some call it K-shaped) it's more profitable to squeeze as hard as you can and extract as much as possible out of whales versus trying to have mass market appeal. Azure, Office and Copilot will sustai
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Unfortunately Google gave up on Dartium a long time ago...
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
Honestly, Ruby being "niche" helps prevent its enshittification... JS and Python are being turned into Java. Ruby is still a great language for individuals who want to do things as opposed to simply create slop so they can get a
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by dismalaf 10mo ago
What? Ruby has very little in common with C, it's just implemented in C... Ruby is more like Smalltalk and Perl had a baby...

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