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by iamben 5y ago
A V60 dripper was one of my best purchases last year. They're about 8 quid. And even without a 'method' the coffee is still so much better than my Nespresso was. Furthermore - I thought I'd hate the faff, but it's a
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by iamben 5y ago
I assume as in "gone to the dogs" - meaning gone bad, got awful, isn't good anymore. Old expression, came from (IIRC) when human food went bad and was only fit to give to the dogs.
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by iamben 5y ago
> I was shocked by the 54% of younger people wanting to make money being an influencer comment Honestly, I think it just seems to most like the current 'easy money' route. I'm in the UK - I can remember reading an alarming
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'Irresponsible' London Underground Bitcoin Advert Banned(bbc.co.uk)
49 points by iamben 5y ago|86 comments
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by iamben 5y ago
Gonna be honest - I don't really understand any of this. IIRC the discussion the other day, where someone shared the terms, it stated they're buying the NFT not the copyright/rights to the video. So what does deleting it actu
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by iamben 5y ago
And yet now I don't know anyone with a 'novelty' ringtone. Even though it's ludicrously simple to choose a song or whatever else - literally everyone I know, or strangers whose phone rings - it's a vibrate or a ri
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by iamben 5y ago
There are better solutions than wordpress. But the ecosystem - developers, plugins and those capable of developing for it - is huge. Same with Shopify.
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by iamben 5y ago
Is it? Most people will still have a website of some sort to actually promote what they're selling. And if you hope to sell more than a handful of items a week, you have to start thinking about fulfillment and customer emails etc. Th
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by iamben 5y ago
Yeah, the whole book is pretty much about learning to do instinctively. You can pick up a second hand copy for very little. It's worth a read!
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by iamben 5y ago
That's a wonderful video. What a talent. Reminded me of a product I read about a while ago - https://www.bernell.com/product/STROBE/Vision_Therapy_BestSe... - the glasses flicker between clear and not so you
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by iamben 5y ago
If you haven't read it, "The Inner Game of Tennis" by W. Timothy Gallway ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inner-Game-Tennis-ultimate-performa... ) is worth a go. Whilst it's technically a tennis coaching book,
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by iamben 5y ago
I'm very aware of how it's used in practice. I stand by my point that this has miles to go before it's for "regular people" and you kind of prove it in your response. Sure, if you had cash to put into bitcoin and ho
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by iamben 5y ago
"Bitcoin fixes this, it gives regular people an escape" Really? It seems to have made a small group of early adopters very rich, a small group of insiders very rich, and a large group of people suckered into buying at 60k+ very po
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by iamben 5y ago
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006867
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by iamben 5y ago
Question to anyone that understands the legal 'play' here: is it the thing to say that it cost them 2,000,000 paying (I assume) streams, which feels ridiculously high? And then it gets bargained down or something? Because it seems
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by iamben 5y ago
I, for one, welcome my new MySpace styled HN... Seriously though, this could be a nicely elegant solution, especially if there was "suggested CSS to do X is, paste it below" or something.
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by iamben 5y ago
For HN, this really could be as simple as: html { background-color: #fff; filter: invert(1); } body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-of-type { filter: invert(1); } Yeah, you could make micro adjustments, but that adds a
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by iamben 5y ago
From my personal experience: If the bulk of revenue largely comes from finding new clients and doing big pieces of work for them (building an ecom store, website, whatever) get good at networking and sales. Then for every client you possibl
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by iamben 5y ago
"Your analytics aren't a useful metric for determining what a user wants to do or see." They're a pretty good starting point.
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by iamben 5y ago
I didn't suggest that was "good responsive design" and literally started my comment with "lots of people do it badly". The zoom out was a suggestion to fix the authors particular problem with sites that aren't
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by iamben 5y ago
Haha, no worries! :-) On mobile (Chrome/Android at least) you can tick the "Use Desktop" box and it'll display the full desktop site. You obviously have to pinch zoom in to actually read stuff (for the most part).
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by iamben 5y ago
Responsive design is great, lots of people do it badly. C'est la vie. Most are making practical decisions regarding time and cost. I can look at my analytics and see very few people actually looking at the site between "standard&q
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by iamben 6y ago
"custodians like banks" - so a bank then? Until she (eventually) gets all the same protections and benefits she already has from 'regular money' what reason would she (and many others) have to start using 'digital m
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by iamben 6y ago
At no point did I say any of those things. I did say that there is a prevailing undercurrent within the crypto space that government and fiat is bad and wrong and taxing people pretty much amounts to theft. And without some visibility int
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by iamben 6y ago
Yes, but most people don't keep cash in a box under the bed - they keep it in a bank. This means my elderly mother's house doesn't get broken in to on a regular basis by people trying to take her life savings. Furthermore,
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by iamben 6y ago
It's Vegas, right (or at least the image it wants to project when I visit as a tourist)? Clean streets, clean casinos, trouble infrequent and quickly dealt with, nice smells, free drinks, happy faces. Everything to keep you putting mon
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by iamben 6y ago
What would we do if this happened now? I think the Covid response has been quite something to watch. There's obviously been some pressure on governments to put their own citizens first, sometimes to the detriment of other nations. But
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by iamben 6y ago
But sadly the URL the NFT points to will probably be long gone.
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Ghosts – The Real-Time FMV Horror Game by Jed Shepherd(kickstarter.com)
2 points by iamben 6y ago|0 comments
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Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by iamben 6y ago|1 comments

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