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by markvdb 7y ago
I'm sorry if I made you feel like I wouldn't welcome all well thought through input. That's certainly not the case. I love outside the box thinking!
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by markvdb 7y ago
Looks like yet another warning sign of dirty work afoot. Do you have a strategy to deal with economic black swan events? I'm looking for reasonable, affordable measures that could shield my partner and myself should black swans ever st
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by markvdb 7y ago
Because you want to instill fear. As an employer offering shitty jobs, you probably want to make it 100% clear to your employees that they can easily be replaced. "Humiliating and dangerous" can "help" instill fear in pe
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by markvdb 7y ago
The solution to this designing web pages to last will have huge overlap with the missing layer of services on top of free and open source software. If that ever gets kissed into existence...
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by markvdb 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeftinghe
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by markvdb 7y ago
The 0.01% of liquid net worth concept is useful. The rest of the article is not very useful. The higher one's liquid net worth, the more differences in priorities and consumption patterns.
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by markvdb 7y ago
Mondragon [0] is often seen as the most successful large scale cooperative. Don't know if that was exactly what you were asking for though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
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by markvdb 7y ago
No llc-like protection available from children! Imagine you have a Martin Shkreli-like figure for a child. Don't let the fear of that be your only guide deciding to have kids or not, but know the risk is real. Seeing close friends bitt
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by markvdb 7y ago
Getting a sim card using social engineering is easier and safer. You go into shopping street in front of a cell phone shop, explain you're a foreigner in distress. "Sorry to disturb you, but could you please help? I just lost my p
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by markvdb 7y ago
We're building libre streaming hardware for https://fosdem.org . Our current approach is using the Allwinner A20 processor. Investing quite a bit of work in a free driver for the h264 encoding block on there (cedrus vpu). I
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by markvdb 7y ago
Enlighten me as to which HDMI "streaming box" I can install (mainline) Linux on. Bonus points for a model where the h264 encoding hardware block is supported.
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by markvdb 7y ago
Latvia received EU subsidies of 2.76% of GDP in 2017 [0]. It contributed 0.69% of GDP, for a net EU contribution to Latvia of 2.07% of GDP. According to government posters pasted all around Latvia, EU support constituted about 12.8% of gove
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by markvdb 7y ago
...to remove the Swiss bank secrecy, and keep the US bank secrecy...
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by markvdb 7y ago
The highest boat lift in the world was in Belgium until recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A9py-Thieu_boat_lift
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by markvdb 7y ago
Friends and I paid him a visit when he was already living on borrowed time. It was what he really wanted. I fondly remember the July 2005 party we had at his Molenbeek warehouse after defeating the EU software patents directive. His 4am Af
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by markvdb 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoWmDxVEog This was in 1987(!) in the then Latvian Soviet republic. Complete punk. Openly mocking the entire Soviet way of life. Whoever well-informed could see the USSR was falling apart ve
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by markvdb 7y ago
For good reasons or bad, but... machines don't strike. That on its own is a very good reason to fully automate the metro.
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by markvdb 7y ago
All of Norway... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway#M...
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by markvdb 7y ago
I guess it's a question of differences in taste. Anecdotal evidence: I actually like the sight of wind turbines at the horizon.
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by markvdb 7y ago
MikroTik? P.S. Zero affiliation to them.
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by markvdb 7y ago
Tech is one sector in which some eastern EU people strike it rich without connections to the oligarchs. One example from Latvia: MicroTik CTO Arnis Riekstiņš [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikroTik
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by markvdb 7y ago
Have a look at what we use at https://fosdem.org [0][1]. In terms of software, a crucial component is voctomix [2], using it as a headless video mixer. Another invaluable component is nginx-rtmp [3] for streaming. We made a heav
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by markvdb 7y ago
Read "Letters from the war", by Heinrich Böll. It's a Nobel prize winner's real daily correspondence as a young soldier in the Wehrmacht, with his future wife.
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by markvdb 7y ago
"Pulling out" has not been proven to be a reliable birth control method, even in that situation. It's also quite shocking how little research there seems to be on the subject.
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by markvdb 7y ago
Warning: somewhat off topic comment to follow. I've noticed reverse anecdotal evidence when I saw cars with ridiculous 6.5l engines in the US and Canada. It's amazing to me with my western European background how energy inefficien
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by markvdb 7y ago
Indeed. It won't replace the need for inner city car based transportation infrastructure, but it can shave off expensive peak car load.
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by markvdb 7y ago
The Velove Armadillo is a containerised last mile delivery cargo bicycle especially appropriate for dense city centers. Its use is being expanded in Germany and the Netherlands, by DHL, the big German carrier. https://www.velove.
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by markvdb 7y ago
I'm from western Europe, but I've lived in one. Some of them are quite comfortable really and well-built. The layout of mine was quite smart. Lots of sunlight inside, lots of green around it. City centre, close to everything. Chea
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by markvdb 7y ago
Where does this come from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Affairs
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by markvdb 7y ago
Depending on how capital intensive the plant is, this might still be cost competitive with intermittent low, zero or negatively priced green electricity.

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