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by markvdb 6y ago
Bought 2ha of fertile land in a remote area forecast to be positively affected by climate change. Rebuilding the holiday home there. Nice to have now. Dirt cheap insurance against so many things going south elsewhere later. Quite a few thin
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NASA – Astronauts return to earth from space(youtube.com)
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by markvdb 6y ago
A lot of Apple's non-US profits were/are in Bermuda. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement .
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by markvdb 6y ago
> The way I look at it is, right now, even if you want to reduce your emissions, it's really hard to know how to get the biggest bang for your buck. This is absolutely true, and it misses an important point: lowering emissions not y
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by markvdb 6y ago
Lwn.net is without any doubt the greatest free and open source publication in the world, to me at least. Very high standards both technical and ethical. I highly recommend subscribing! P.S. I am a subscriber, but otherwise not in any way af
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by markvdb 6y ago
Pro classical guitar teacher here. Thank you for your great work! I see some wonderful potential educational uses for this. If you'd like further feedback, please don't hesitate to get in touch!
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by markvdb 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
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by markvdb 6y ago
Non-US tenured teacher here. I'd have to do something very, very, very wrong before I'd ever have a snowball's chance in hell of getting fired. Most if not all of my colleagues and I have worked incredibly hard teaching remot
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by markvdb 6y ago
Let's say you're putting a group of twenty-five random sixteen year olds together without a live coach. What could possibly go wrong?
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by markvdb 6y ago
Everybody obviously pays for copyright enforcement already through general taxation. Look at orphan works for a prime example of how this is less than ideal.
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by markvdb 6y ago
There's a real cost to government and society enforcing the copyright monopoly for the copyright owner. So why not have the copyright holder pay for upholding copyright? Imagine differential pricing for enforcing copyright on a work de
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by markvdb 6y ago
Related question: what bank would you go with for a super simple euro zone llc? The requirements are simple: - a proper EU based IBAN - SEPA bank transfer - SEPA direct debit - proper customer support - proper web experience - debit card -
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by markvdb 6y ago
Here's a masterpiece almost unknown outside the Latvian community: A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469785/
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by markvdb 6y ago
In a lot of jurisdictions, the same goes for the actual sheet music. Even a lot of facsimile editions - literally photos- of the sheet music claim copyright to the "creative work" embedded in making the photo. The result being tha
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by markvdb 6y ago
Scaling a stream is really easy using free and open source software if it's just broadcasting. rtmp backend, reverse proxy web server and hls. Done. Scaling live interaction with really large numbers of participants is problematic both
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by markvdb 6y ago
My 9 years old X220 has been running for 2 hours of light use. Its battery status indicates about 3:45 hours left. This admittedly is with the 9 cell battery, but still rather good for a second hand laptop I bought four years ago...
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by markvdb 6y ago
Hi! You mean just pick up from the browser, then publish stream to 100k+ people? That's not too difficult... If you're ok with introducing a little bit of latency, the easiest way forward is webrtc to rtmp conversion. You could ea
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by markvdb 6y ago
You may want to read the wartime letters of the German writer Heinrich Böll. A rather unique perspective on WWII by a conscripted soldier who would later become a Nobel prize winner. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He
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by markvdb 6y ago
Thank you for the answer. You might want to make that even clearer in the documentation of the FOSS project.
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Is this an open core offering, or something 100% FOSS? Seeing a "pro admin panel" screenshot made me a bit confused. You may want to make that very clear.
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If the police officer is suffering from PTSD, a mental illness, and it originated at work, the police department as their employer should look into other options first before firing the unfit officer. Treatment combined with appropriate wor
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by markvdb 6y ago
> I think that it's unlikely that exposing individual consumers to such highly variable pricing will induce much change in consumer behavior. It's just so much to think about, with absolutely tiny potential cost benefit for the
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by markvdb 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_organ
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by markvdb 6y ago
Obligatory Blackadder quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD2iYSKHHzo P.S. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Not entirely off topic though...
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by markvdb 6y ago
Some childrens tv series did actually gain recognition on both sides of the Iron Curtain. One example I remember as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colargol . Here's a sci-fi one that as far as I'm aware
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by markvdb 6y ago
I suspect you're missing somethingindeed. Of course, BNP's general counsel sounded submissive. His company entered a plea deal in the US. The issue at stake is how extraterritorial the US legislation is. Should the US government b
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by markvdb 6y ago
The US have a long track record of using soft power and extraterritorial law to punish foreign states and companies, including supposed allies. The two most interesting cases where high profile European companies were targeted had something
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by markvdb 6y ago
You'd have consumed about 0.45 l/km of kerosene per flight km per passenger. Calculation based upon [0]. That means you'd need to offset CO² emissions of about 1.11 kg CO² per flight km [1] for yourself. [0] https:/&#x
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by markvdb 6y ago
Watch Solaris [0] by Andrei Tarkovsky! It's an amazing Soviet era sci-fi movie. While the controls in there are obviously fake, it's interesting to look at how the director and his team imagined a space station to look in 1972. h
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by markvdb 6y ago
How do you even fact check a powerful cognitive dissonance generator? Because that's what Trump is. Trying to fact check that kind of person makes no sense. The man himself makes no sense, and he knows. He's a troll and also the U

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