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by dotBen 3y ago
Given the implications of this technology I wonder how much development is actually being done "in the open". And therefore how close to a breakthrough we are, whether a breakthrough has already occured and we are being fed delaye
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by dotBen 3y ago
Not my kind of music either, but your opinion is subjective and completely misses the point of the story here.
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by dotBen 3y ago
BenGPT summery: "Hyper rich individuals and/or foreign investment funds buy reasonably profitable 'sin' business and do so by forming a special purpose vehicle just for this transaction which hides their identity. Said o
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by dotBen 4y ago
What makes this ADHD friendly? Also, as you prob know, there are multiple free/FOSS native taskbar based pomodoro apps that really get out the way, what is the advantage of using a browser based on?
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by dotBen 4y ago
Never used Acorn Archimedes then, I take it. Are you familiar with the origins of ARM? I was enjoying 32bit computing in 1988 (even if I was only 7).
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by dotBen 4y ago
I was at a tech event and I realized the 20-something I was chatting with didn't know what a floppy disk was. I had to explain it to him and he only got it when I finally showed him images on Google and he sort of got the concept. He
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by dotBen 4y ago
Should companies as big as Google not be allowed to buy startups? That's going to go down well here... /s
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by dotBen 4y ago
[from linked page] "Since the beginning, our plan has been to offer a free tier of Felt for personal use alongside paid tiers for professional teams. Starting in 2024, Teams and related features will be available only to paying custom
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by dotBen 4y ago
There is case law with WIPO on this issue which is in your favor, see https://swanturton.com/armani-v-ar-mani/
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by dotBen 4y ago
Calendly is the industry standard and works better than Google's which is weirdly implemented. Calendly as a company shouldn't exit really, Google should have had it wrapped up. Value of easy scheduling of my time is worth the mo
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by dotBen 4y ago
Pretty sure that’s better still. Nah, given their scale no one is probably listening to any arbitrary comment you sent it upon quitting, and from a behavior perspective they probably have no idea why you churned. Like I said, keep using a
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by dotBen 4y ago
Even at twice the price, the value of the collective Google Workspaces suite for most people is a no brainer. I pay more per month to the calendar scheduling SaaS provider I use than I do to Google - who provide the calendar plus email, dri
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by dotBen 4y ago
The play here was to get a higher %age of listening time in the app spent on free content (ie the long tail of podcasts). Use a few paid big names to create exclusivity and then funnel listeners to the freebies they don't have to pay
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by dotBen 4y ago
I am slowly decreasing my use of Spotify because of the way it’s pushing podcasts while all I want is music from it. Best thing to do is actually to pay for Spotify and use it regularly, but never touch the podcasts. They have metrics a
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Ask HN: Who uses their industry experience to do option trading?
5 points by dotBen 4y ago|1 comments
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by dotBen 4y ago
Well, it kinda started in 1994... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Plus !
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by dotBen 4y ago
It's all a layercake. Everyone enters the layercake at different layers depending on opportunity/privilege/luck/etc and the idea is to ascend the layers. Not everyone chooses to play, not everyone wants to play, but the
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by dotBen 4y ago
In FAANG/larger companies they outline the management track and the staff engineer track. It sounds like you simply want to do the latter - so no, there is nothing wrong or unusual with what you are wanting. The problem is those roles
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by dotBen 4y ago
Is there a cycling equivalent Couch to 5k app? Given the impact running has on the joints, it would be great to do a program like this with a bike instead. (Other than Peloton which obviously has a high entry cost and even their app-only ex
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by dotBen 4y ago
Say more
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by dotBen 4y ago
But that's not how laws work in reality. The police decide whether to enforce a law or not - eg whether to give you a speeding ticket or not. The district attorney will decide whether to bring a case to trial. Even the supreme Court, a
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by dotBen 4y ago
From their website: "Regardless of what is causing the issue, this shows why net neutrality is so important for internet users and online services alike." For the UK that ship already sailed given its enshrined in law that ISPs
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by dotBen 4y ago
Let's find some common sense here... This is one of those open ended laws that's designed to allow authorities to take action if a problem arises based on good judgement but most of the time you can ignore it it. If you use "
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by dotBen 4y ago
Are you familiar with FigJams?
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by dotBen 4y ago
If you want this functionality on a WordPress-powered site, which is one of the use cases stated, this is the industry standard way of doing this within the WP world: https://easydigitaldownloads.com/
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by dotBen 4y ago
I'd like to introduce you to Carl Icahn...
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by dotBen 4y ago
No, UK not only has no ID card but also doesn't have the equivalent of an SSN. The National Insurance number serves the same primary purpose as SSN, for associating tax payments, but it doesn't otherwise serve as a unique identifi
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by dotBen 4y ago
Tip: don't run Pi-Hole or any of these containers on a Pi, they're underpowered, flakey and now hard to get. I run several docker containers, including Pi-Hole, on a Lenovo ThinkCenter thin client which I run headless next to my
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by dotBen 4y ago
There are. Always ask for counsel to use NVCA docs. It's expensive because partner time for this kind of transaction is $1200-2000/hr and their juniors will be a fair %age of that rate too.
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by dotBen 4y ago
So, did someone else get the full $100k for reporting the vuln already or was that BS?

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