donkeyd

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811.
by donkeyd 9y ago
As a Netherlander, I agree. There are so many bad developers here, and that's from somebody who considers himself barely able. Also, as a developer you're expected to do lots of unpaid overtime while getting paid the absolute mini
812.
by donkeyd 9y ago
> you need to be online all the time, and you need to answer / participate / chat instantly When I work from home, I explain to my colleagues that I mute slack and check it once in a while. If something is really critical, they
813.
by donkeyd 9y ago
> They see the mistakes of millennials and older with social media and want nothing to do with it (and are thus nowhere to be found on Facebook, yet still on Instagram because it hasn't suffered the same problems yet). I have a hard
814.
by donkeyd 9y ago
$20m when? Since the value changes significantly each day.
815.
by donkeyd 9y ago
Possibly the 'hodl' meme doing its thing?
816.
by donkeyd 9y ago
Exacly! I have an FDM printer (~$300) and it's great to have it at home. When I design something, I can do a partial print at low quality to check for clearances within an hour. Then I can modify the design and print an optimized versi
817.
by donkeyd 9y ago
They're the type of person who don't understand the line between 'having the right' and 'having to exercise that right'. It's like those videos of American people being assholes to cops, or bringing huge g
818.
by donkeyd 9y ago
What's funny though, is that this often isn't true in the workplace. I worked at Apple for a while, an American company in the Netherlands and their way of giving direct feedback was tough for a lot of people.
819.
by donkeyd 9y ago
I visit Belgium quite regularly. I've also noticed that people never really greet each other in the streets, unless they're already familiar. In the Netherlands it's quite normal to greet pretty much anybody.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Waiters in Amsterdam are really the worst. I lived there for a while and have become highly appreciative of friendly waiters, which are apparently quite normal in the Netherlands, just not in Amsterdam. Side note: De Bekeerde Suster in Amst
821.
by donkeyd 9y ago
I am Dutch and I would also need a moment to process that request. I would never ask a guest to shower short because of the energy cost. Unless, of course, they stick around for a year and tend to shower for 2 hours each day. This is more a
822.
by donkeyd 9y ago
I'm not completely sure whether this is as relevant for racing drones as it is for surveillance/video drones. Racing drones often fly at a 45+ degree angle, so the thrust is angled more backwards than downwards. Also, one of the b
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by donkeyd 9y ago
They must have. No other car brand will ever have marketing material that compares to a Tesla being pictured while actually in space.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
> it's going to need to staff entire buildings with agents if it doesn't want to completely piss off a nascent user base That part from the original comment explains it though. I'm already pretty pissed at Google for them
825.
by donkeyd 9y ago
Exactly, 'investing' in crypto is best compared with gambling. But the internet keeps calling it investing.
826.
by donkeyd 9y ago
It's a lot easier for people to invest in Crypto that it is to invest in pretty much anything else. This causes a lot more people without any knowledge of markets to get in. Also, the markets are not regulated and many cryptos already
827.
by donkeyd 9y ago
Don't forget the big picture that lots of people lost lots of money in the last couple of weeks. People blow this off by saying that people shouldn't have invested money they couldn't miss, but those are the same people who k
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Yea, it's a shame. I couple of years ago, I ordered a pizza in BTC. It was odd, because the price of the pizza in BTC would swing up and down while in the payment time window. It was also cool. Now it's no longer cool, it's b
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by donkeyd 9y ago
I've shorted BTC a couple of times in an app (EU regulated) that allows CFD trading. Trading gets halted for a couple of seconds multiple times a minute when the market is very volatile though, so safely is a big word.
830.
by donkeyd 9y ago
Yes, it is, it's when a correction becomes a crash. At least in stock trading the sentiment differs greatly between the two. Most people trading BTC don't have a clue about trading though, though the market will be a lot less pred
831.
by donkeyd 9y ago
"1 BTC is still 1 BTC" seems to be a popular saying in the Bitcoin forums.
832.
by donkeyd 9y ago
50% down from its high in December. People are comparing it to previous 20-30% corrections, but 50% is very different. This reminds me of the Mt. Gox crash, but there doesn't seem to be a clear indicator of what's driving this.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Every time theres a crypto for which I can explain why the value makes no sense, there's another ten that pop up that are the next big thing, which they 'researched'. There's no way to keep up with this stuff. Just the f
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by donkeyd 9y ago
> How do I know which Crypto to buy into? > Read the Whitepaper. I've seen this interaction so many times now. It's great that people read these whitepapers, but what to they judge them on? They're often a one-sided tec
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by donkeyd 9y ago
> plane ticketing, only works well when limited to North America And when limited to text. I once saw a demo for a voice chat for ticket orders. It took a full minute for it to tell you the multitude of options for flying 'from the
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Fully private wasn't really the right description. What I meant was only accepting people she actually knows. In stead of anybody who sends her a friend request. She has a couple thousand 'friends' now.
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by donkeyd 9y ago
Yeah, it has, apparently: https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/c... The idea of a fully private social media profile actually scares my half-sister, since it would mean less likes on her
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by donkeyd 9y ago
> your TI calculator was a tinkerer niche that was similar to the openness and simplicity of early home computers It wasn't in the Netherlands. A graphical calculator was required for math and many kids learned at least some program
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by donkeyd 9y ago
My half-sister (13) got a new iPhone 7 for her birthday (which I find ridiculous, because expensive). I really feel like it's messing up her as a person. As soon as she holds it she's oblivious to the outside world. I took it away
840.
by donkeyd 9y ago
Because blockchain is cool. The other arguments, however true, are not relevant for 90% I've seen it be proposed for. It's mostly about buzzword bingo in large organizations, where people want to be 'the one who proposed [ins

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