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by markvdb 5y ago
A wheelbarrow full of cement mixed with the highest worth coins used to be a popular wedding day present over here.
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by markvdb 5y ago
> I think it’s just any old products are less intricate thus more repairable. Often so indeed. I suspect it was not just old products though, but also something to do with a different alignment of incentives. Why would a Soviet car have
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by markvdb 5y ago
I see this, and it makes me think of an idea that has spooked my mind again and again... Please allow me to for for one moment ignore all shortcomings of the USSR and its products. I do realise that for some of you, this must be quite a str
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by markvdb 5y ago
The HN audience, friendly as it is, is probably not your best advisor on these matters. Your accountant or tax adviser should have advised you about this ages ago. Either improve communication with your current accountant or fire him and ge
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by markvdb 5y ago
I presume you mean Mikrotik?
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by markvdb 5y ago
In my experience as a westerner, the '80s and early '90s are subjects better not discussed. The exception are close friends and family, and then only when the subject comes up. That, or funny exotic stories from the '80s. Ran
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by markvdb 5y ago
I have read your comments about income, spending patterns and dreams about a simple life in the Mediterranean. You've played the money game smartly and won. You just don't seem to realise that yet. You've described fear of po
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by markvdb 5y ago
wget -S ?
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by markvdb 5y ago
Large movements, high volume, in currency not stock. The powers that be know the direction. How difficult could it be for them to make piles of money out of this? How difficult would this be to cover up? I'm not very familiar with the
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by markvdb 5y ago
You sound motivated to get your third vaccination early. Did you know that it has been possible for any EU resident to get a booster shot in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen since two weeks at least, without an appointment? This might also hold
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by markvdb 5y ago
> Seems like you are talking about social inequality (a zero sum game) vs poverty (a non zero sum game) The two are not opposed. There is significant overlap significantly in many ways, even in the way government treats the very definiti
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by markvdb 5y ago
Poverty is not just about absolute purchasing power adjusted for location and time. There is also very much an unspoken social context, sometimes even codified into law. In 1970, obviously nobody expected you to own a smartphone because it
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by markvdb 5y ago
6.4l engines, 13 mpg. Three good reasons why one rarely sees these in my native Flanders region of Belgium: - one-time vehicle registration tax: 11.4k€ or about 13k USD - yearly road tax: 6.5k€ or 7.3k USD - fuel cost: +- 52 USD/100 mi
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by markvdb 5y ago
Has there ever been serious research on the safety of "contagious vaccines"? I'm thinking of strains of problematic infectious diseases engineered to be super mild in terms of symptons, and relatively contagious. Ethical prob
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by markvdb 5y ago
The latter mostly. Antwerp went through challenging times right after its heyday.
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by markvdb 5y ago
The article's description of Antwerp's heyday made me think of current-day Singapore. For the sake of the people of Singapore, I hope their future will follow a different path!
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by markvdb 5y ago
Shit, I didn't know that! Serious face back on. Have you ever seen a concise word for algorithmicly-drowning-people-in-shit-on-social-media-because-profit?
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by markvdb 5y ago
I have a friendlier reading. Social media algorithms amplify whatever is most profitable to amplify. Unfortunately, amplifying sh t flinging turns out to be the most profitable. Social media companies have encoded this preference into their
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by markvdb 5y ago
High voltage dc interconnects? Importing Danish wind energy is one of the projects supposed to keep the lights on after an exit from nuclear in Belgium.
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by markvdb 5y ago
> The politicians know a law mandating a vaccine is a non-starter A vaccine mandate is a non-starter only in the current poisonous US political environment. There is historical precedent for vaccine mandates in the US: polio. What else a
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by markvdb 5y ago
While your premise sounds sound, not all of your examples do. As an example, you might be positively surprised about the role of some of the catholic clergy in Nazi Germany and outside of it. Which was something completely different from th
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by markvdb 5y ago
> That's an average of about 230 watts. How do you get that low? That's not considered low here. That's slightly below average. > An idling iMac with Intel processor is around 70 watts, according to Apple. We don't
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by markvdb 5y ago
Cool to have a residential backup electric power generator. The monitoring system also looks interesting. I wonder if the author could shed some light on the reasons for this technical choice though, because my back-of-the-envelope calculat
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by markvdb 5y ago
It's trickier than you think from a legal perspective because of the peculiarities of French history.
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by markvdb 5y ago
This place is not just a museum. It is also a place of worship. As long as nothing of historical value is damaged any further than the devastating fire has already managed to damage, it stands to reason for the catholic church to have a lar
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by markvdb 5y ago
The PeerTube developer community is super friendly and helpful to new developers. I contributed some minor improvements around a year ago, minimally touching several sides of the projects: - documentation for the SAML plugin - translation t
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by markvdb 5y ago
pip install yt-dlp In ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf, add the following line, preferably near the top: script-opts-add=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp That should hopefully solve your issue.
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by markvdb 5y ago
> Why does a bridge have to benefit the local community? Why not eg the wider community? This was written in the context of maintainability. I'm obviously not opposed to infrastructure benefiting a larger community. Imagine two equa
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by markvdb 5y ago
> we on the other hand can maintain the stuff we want to last a long time. That we don't do it, e.g. infrastructure with the particularly bad maintained bridges in Germany, is not the materials fault, or the original designs fault.
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by markvdb 5y ago
I chose a similar path on our place, but went a bit further: - cat5e cable to about every sensor or consumer to be automated, star topology - central Olimex esp32 gateway running esphome - some i2c multiplexer boards - old thinkpad running

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