jfil

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by jfil 6mo ago
On point 2: take a page out of John Deere's book, sell branded hats, t-shirts, toys and sell the movie license.
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by jfil 6mo ago
First step: stop reading reddit, and take a sabbatical from all news. Take HN with a huge grain of salt - for better and for worse, you're hearing outlier opinions here. Optional second step: none of what's happening in the indust
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by jfil 6mo ago
The big appeal of a wax seal is that the recipent had imprinted it with their own hands. Doing it at scale takes away the magic. Yes, for marketing, it takes advantage of that residual cultural significance of the seal - but doing it at sca
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by jfil 6mo ago
>>You'll need to look for your own individual scheme, ethics be damned This is remarkably similar to how workers in the Soviet Union got ahead. Your job provided a lot of ways to make money on the side, none of them were benefici
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Chained Library(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jfil 6mo ago|1 comments
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by jfil 6mo ago
As a Canadian, I think our government should do more to disentangle our defence and intelligence services from the USA's. But we also have to remember that much of the USA's current behaviour is being directed by a certain Russia
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by jfil 6mo ago
I think this "I will die" thought is one of the persistent fallacies that create stress for people who are unemployed (and keep the currently-employed quiet and compliant). Everyone should consider, will you actually die? And - th
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by jfil 6mo ago
Very wholesome! I find that using cheap paper, and basic supplies from the dollar store really gets rid of hesitation when making art. After all, you're definitely not "trying seriously" when you use low-end supplies...
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by jfil 6mo ago
This is really cool
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Does Baby Have Hat(jeremykun.com)
2 points by jfil 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jfil 6mo ago
I'm a big fan of Pastvu: go yo the "gallery" view, choose one of the "-stan" former soviet republics, set the date filter yo 1986-1996 and enjoy nostalgia from a parallel world.
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by jfil 6mo ago
Oooh, and if both the employer and the retailer is the same entity, then you have Company Scrip! Truly, between this and feudalism, our ancestors have already figured out everything that's going to happen to us in this century.
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A Beginner's Guide to Mischief(rawandferal.substack.com)
2 points by jfil 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jfil 7mo ago
This is why I alway bring a street urchin with me when I shop for groceries. I make sure he has a cellphone & wifi enabled. We carefully walk down the aisle side by side and the e-ink price tags start flashing. They usually settle on a
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Making and Machines(chrbutler.com)
1 points by jfil 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jfil 7mo ago
Whenever I think to myself "how did things get this bad?", I also force myself to think, "how did they get good, in the first place?" Today, we are building the Torment Nexus. But yesterday, we were building the Vietnam
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by jfil 7mo ago
The thing about banks: AML is for the small fry. The big money launderers walk in the front door as VIPs, they don't have to sneak around. A good recent case is how TD Bank actively helped cartels launder money. An interesting scenario
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by jfil 7mo ago
Ckuld be related yo this March 12 breach news from Telus: https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/12/hackers-steal-nearly-1000... Our Canadian oligarch companies (Telus, Rogers, Bell Canada) are not exactly top-notch
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by jfil 7mo ago
My sibling has spent a year looking for a dev job in the UK without success. Bear in mind that even with a work visa, employers are so conservative that they don't want to touch anyone with an unusual work situation. There is also an a
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by jfil 7mo ago
Here in Ontario, as of January 2026 it is a crime. There is a nice set of laws around job postings that kicked into effect.
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by jfil 7mo ago
I think more people should be aware of Unit 731. Japan has done a fantastic propaganda job, labelling themselves as the land of Pikachu and catgirls. But they've also the land of wild racism, WWII human experimentation and brutality to
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by jfil 7mo ago
Counterpoint: Sergei Korolev and Andrei Tupolev
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by jfil 7mo ago
Your sites are great, it was interesting to read about your experiences with Freemasonry. A lot of temporarily-embarrassed billionaires up in here.
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by jfil 7mo ago
> caring more about the artistic and craftsmanship side of life during the AI boom In the past, I did not enjoy HN, and did not participate. But over the last 2 years, I realized that there is a small group of artistic and eccentric peop
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by jfil 7mo ago
There is a trick that grocery companies use to reduce competition in an area: it's called "Restrictive Covenants" and it's a limitation they can place on a piece of land. It often limits what other tenants on the land ca
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse(matduggan.com)
7 points by jfil 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jfil 8mo ago
I believe Microsoft bought LinkedIn especially so they could have x-ray vision into all their competitors' sales processes
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Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city(harpers.org)
35 points by jfil 8mo ago|2 comments
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by jfil 8mo ago
I think one implication is that ad-driven tech companies are at great risk. In a political system where National Champion businesses are selected/assisted on the basis of bribery, advertising becomes irrelevant. Why spend money adverti
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by jfil 8mo ago
You can brew your tea extremely strong, and get a hallucinogenic prisoner's drink called "Chifir"

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