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by eruci 5y ago
I run a couple of businesses with .xyz domain (geocode.xyz , poidata.xyz ) Never had any issues with email.
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by eruci 5y ago
I suppose. I have a pretty good spam filter however.
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by eruci 5y ago
I'm still single founder for most of my businesses - although it has drawbacks. I've never looked for nor accepted funding. Freedom is my main motivation, and it is limited somehow when you accept money. And for complete freedom y
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by eruci 5y ago
I've built several successful SaaS/DaaS startups since I quit my last job back in 2005; mostly just for freedom. (money too I guess)
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by eruci 5y ago
The article about the pirate queen is behind a paywall. The irony.
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by eruci 5y ago
That's good news! Ideology is more malleable than religion.
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by eruci 5y ago
This is cool!
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by eruci 5y ago
I used it for a while, then after a couple of failures decided to whip up my own at https://geocode.xyz/myip Took me 5 minutes of work and exactly one line of code.
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by eruci 5y ago
This was my life even before the pandemic (Since 2005 I've worked in coffeshops, parks, in my car and in beaches nearby) with the only difference that coffeshops are closed at the moment and I'll have to make do with what is left.
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by eruci 5y ago
People are bored at work. This leads to politics at work - especially fashionable politics of the day. Same as with people who are bored in general.
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by eruci 5y ago
It is fun to see such a discussion - I've been working on my own implementation of de-obfuscating Mars Coordinates since January 2021 with very good results. And Yes, some curve fitting is involved. At the end of the day they may obfus
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by eruci 5y ago
50% tax? Where do you file taxes?
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by eruci 5y ago
https://3geonames.org/London-Oxford-Leeds can also be described as https://3geonames.org/LONDON-UAS
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by eruci 5y ago
I built a latlon<->word system using geonames as the source of the words. https://3geonames.org 146000 global place names in total. The first word is the name of the most important geographical location in the given area w
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by eruci 5y ago
The other dollar is included in the three dollars they got back. 9x3 + 2 = $30.
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by eruci 6y ago
My one man SaaS setup: t4g.micro (Free Trial) on AWS Ec2 - one mod_perl module + a bunch of python/perl scripts. ( https://poidata.xyz ). Startup costs so far=$1 (domain registration).
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by eruci 6y ago
Maybe.
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by eruci 6y ago
Maybe people are leaving church because they have started asking questions. Not the kind of questions religion 'asks', which are answers in disguise.
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by eruci 6y ago
6% is within the margin of error. We're spending so much time and energy to quantify various 'biases' ; only to find there is no bias. This is good. We're finally living is a post-racial society with no specific group di
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by eruci 6y ago
Agreed. These are fair points of consideration. In my case though, the main one to consider is speed of development.
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by eruci 6y ago
You can build anything in any programming language, even byte code/assembly if you're so inclined. What you end up using is the one that can do the job faster. I built a custom web store yesterday entirely in mod Perl in 2 hours f
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by eruci 6y ago
Incorrect! Greece did not invade Turkey in WW2. It was itself invaded by Italy & Nazi Germany in WW2.
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by eruci 6y ago
Self-censoring people, by default, never disturb the status-quo. That's why progress only comes from the fearless few.
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by eruci 6y ago
He's right! HN is next.
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by eruci 6y ago
Actually DeepL seems to be the best of the bunch. Here is another test: Input: 北京市西城区地安门西大街49号 DeepL: No.49, Di'anmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing Google: 49 Di'anmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing Watson: No. 49
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by eruci 6y ago
Comparing this to IBM Watson and Google Translate: Chinese Input: 古荡塘苗路华星现代产业园E座正门 LibreTranslate: Ordinary gate of the modern industrial plant of the Hyong Chung Chung IBM Watson: Ancient Slut Pond Miao Luhua Star Modern Industrial Park E
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by eruci 6y ago
Maybe a way to keep track of your guesses would make it more fun. You could also build a leaderboard on the best guessers overall.
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by eruci 6y ago
To add insult to injury, There are ads on perl.com about "Start programming with Python"
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by eruci 6y ago
They should enable people to vote vents up and down and to have a 'trending vents' feature just like twitter.
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by eruci 6y ago
It's always going to be a tiny number of people that'll be the principal cause of progress, along with the rest of us being reasonable enough and simply go along with it. Independent thinking is hard, that's why the majority

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