lubos

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by lubos 8y ago
You reminded me my childhood. When I was about 6 years old, I'd be sent to the shop about 30 minutes before it opens. There was already queue in the morning of elderly people waiting for an hour or longer. Every single morning. Nothing
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by lubos 8y ago
I have Capisco 8106 for about a year now (previously Aeron). The nice thing about Capisco is there are quite a few ways to sit on it so you end up using different muscle groups during the day rather than constantly using just one. You need
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by lubos 8y ago
Lucky you. There are very few established businesses which can 100% squeeze themselves into the constrains of serverless architecture.
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by lubos 8y ago
Pure CSS would imply to most people no Javascript. Nice work though.
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by lubos 8y ago
So are precious metals near-infinitely divisible. Not sure what point you are trying to bring across.
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by lubos 8y ago
> governments are very scared of having a currency which they cannot control And for a good reason. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine as one of the examples. Bitcoin becoming a global currency
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by lubos 9y ago
That's probably the most expensive route you can go once you have any decent traffic.
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by lubos 9y ago
> Fair point. All I was trying to show was that currencies like the Euro or USD has greater than zero energy usage to create/distribute. How many cash transactions occur in the world in 1 year? The number must be over 7 trillions as
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by lubos 9y ago
According to https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption , Bitcoin is currently at 42 TWh. That's over 20 million tonnes of CO2. If we assume energy costs to produce annual supply of new banknotes and coins in e
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by lubos 9y ago
It's zero. Exchanging banknotes or coins for goods or services does not consume electricity. Can't believe this was "sincere question".
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by lubos 10y ago
They also paid GST and payroll taxes which would be hundreds of millions. Don't cherry-pick one type of tax as a basis for your argument.
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by lubos 10y ago
The sad thing is that while he was able to earn $1,500 per month, he apparently didn't invest into anything. No financial planning as if he can do this job forever. Sure he must have known stories what's going on and could prepare
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by lubos 10y ago
Maybe those VCs were not used to being told "no"
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by lubos 10y ago
I'm not a chair expert. All I know is that you don't have to drop $1000 on Aeron to get a great chair which will last a decade. Buro Metro is highly recommended ergonomic chair in Australia. 10 years warranty. I think I paid $250
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by lubos 10y ago
That's going from one extreme to another. Neither gives you value for money. There are many brands in $300 range which sell quality ergonomic chairs built to last. $700 you save you can spend on electric height adjustable sit/stan
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by lubos 10y ago
I'm currently starting one project on Node.js and just this morning I thought to myself. This is too hard. I might as well rewrite it in Python. The main issue for me is how Node.js is forcing you to have all I/O operations asynch
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by lubos 10y ago
I bought second-hand Gamecube a while ago. I just checked and I have a cable which plugs into analog port. There is digital port too. I assume the digital port is used by component cable which I don't have. Funny, I've never notic
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by lubos 10y ago
> Also going away are the company’s enviable working hours. Carson says he’s rolling back the company’s 32-hour work week, where he and his employees took Fridays off. Let me find his blog post about that 4-day week. Oh, there it is...
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by lubos 10y ago
Relevant: Profitable Until Deemed Illegal (2008) https://blog.codinghorror.com/profitable-until-deemed-illega...
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by lubos 10y ago
I've been using Eto for a few years. It's amazing toolkit. If anyone is working on cross-platform desktop app in C# which is meant to look "native" on each platform, then Eto is the best toolkit there is.
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by lubos 10y ago
That's uplifting news.
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by lubos 10y ago
Someone should finally break the rule and fire the guy who hired IBM.
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by lubos 10y ago
Not sure I understand this pricing implication. Did you run separate ELB for each domain name?
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by lubos 10y ago
This article claims USA will still supply combat system for submarines. > Australia may have awarded France a bumper contract to build its next generation of submarines, but its highly secretive combat system will come from close ally th
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by lubos 10y ago
The only one who kept the deal with Japan alive was Tony Abbott because of his personal friendship with Japanese PM. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries doesn't have an experience to build submarines overseas and there were significant risks l
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by lubos 11y ago
Bad example. New factory is an asset, not an expense. Therefore it will have little impact on profitability.
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by lubos 11y ago
Not just great words... terrific words.
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by lubos 11y ago
Do you need cooked dinner for kids every day? There are plenty of healthy meals which take 10 minutes to prepare and will do as a dinner.
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by lubos 11y ago
Windows 10 was their last release.
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by lubos 11y ago
How exactly is Scaleway (European company) related to some fraudulent bar bill in Las Vegas? And you didn't say what was wrong with their service.

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