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by markvdb 8y ago
Here's some info at least: * a rough diagram: https://github.com/FOSDEM/video/tree/master/hardware * the software running on them: https://github.com/FOSDEM/infrastructure/
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by markvdb 8y ago
We do at https://fosdem.org on our custom made video gear. That's 56 boxes in a crucial spot in our operation. We went out of our way to make sure we had plain vanilla mainline Debian stable packaged linux running on the Al
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by markvdb 8y ago
Affluence and status signaling using clothing: is there an inverse correlation? Any recommended scientific literature on this? Personal anecdata: * I notice a more relaxed attitude to mended clothes in my native western European country tha
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by markvdb 8y ago
Obligatory reference: Fred Dibnah, steeplejack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA
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by markvdb 8y ago
Don't travel. Or use a disposable laptop when traveling. Something like the Thinkpad x240 is rather sturdy, small form factor, with perfect linux support. Shouldn't set you back more than ~150-200€. Pull in whatever data you need
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by markvdb 8y ago
Wood is good. Straw is even better. Fire and earthquake resistance are two big advantages straw building has over brick, concrete and metal. Have a look at the wikipedia article [0] for a short intro. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by markvdb 8y ago
https://qz.com/1158107/the-german-postal-service-has-built-i...
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by markvdb 8y ago
"But any blue-collar coder will be plenty qualified to sling JavaScript for their local bank." I stopped reading there.
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by markvdb 8y ago
Hey Dan! Thank you so much for your work on the diy book scanner project!
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by markvdb 8y ago
Both your comment and the parent comment are right. How so? Two things: * Poor means less access to more expensive debt. Rich means more access to cheaper debt. * Rich means one can use debt leverage to grow one's assets. How does that
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by markvdb 8y ago
An inverse yield curve predicts lower interest rates in the future as longer-term bonds are being demanded, sending the yields down.
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by markvdb 8y ago
Very much off topic: 3.6l is >2 times more cylinder volume than useful in >95% of scenarios. Pick your favorite reason to minimise your crude oil consumption. Global warming and not subsidising oil despots are two good ones to me.
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by markvdb 8y ago
> "He emailed a picture to an expert contact who said it was part of a Celtic horse harness and dating from around 600 BC. Professionals should have taken over here. > Mr Smith, from Milford Haven, went straight back the followin
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by markvdb 8y ago
According to the World Bank[0], the US produces 75% more CO² per $1000 of economic output than the EU. The US should be able to reduce that inefficiency delta to just over 5% by cutting CO² emissions by 40% without any impact on luxury what
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by markvdb 8y ago
It takes a lot of mental bandwidth to think about lowering your own CO² emission. Still useful in terms of awareness though! Less driving and flying, less meat, low cost/high reward home energy efficiency improvements, ... are quite ob
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by markvdb 8y ago
Why should I have to pay for the state enforcing an artificial monopoly on a recording your (great grand)father made? The natural state is no such enforcement. Copying the original is essentially zero marginal cost. P.S. Pro musician here.
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by markvdb 8y ago
Somewhat off topic with respect to your question... A predecessor to the cello, the viol or viola da gamba, actually had more than markers: it had frets. Have a look at one being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0Yr
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by markvdb 8y ago
Belgium. Banking is one of the only services price competitive with other EU countries here.
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by markvdb 8y ago
Call me underwhelmed by all of this. I've never paid a cent for my EU € banking needs for twenty years. Decent web based banking. Real people in a branch a 5 minute walk away. Free SEPA € transactions, free debit and credit card.
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by markvdb 8y ago
> Can't say the same, my parents were ones of few people making 6 digits in early Russia. Mom working in one of first foreign banks in Russia as a de-facto CTO, and father having a trade company. Opportunities were there, no way to
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by markvdb 8y ago
One certainly could see continuity between this behavior in the Soviet era and the nineties. In the Soviet days, I guess not seeking connection meant a less interesting social position. In the post-Soviet days, if I hear my friends from the
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by markvdb 8y ago
Thank you for this comment. Useful analysis, even if a bit overly broad. One can only speculate how much for the former USSR this has to do with the trauma of the crazy nineties.
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by markvdb 8y ago
Working less is a choice many can make if prepared to take the financial and cultural consequences. Financially, the choice is quite accessible. For many groups in the Western world a bit less so than in 1970. Especially for us geeks, more
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by markvdb 8y ago
Freely sharing copies after a reasonably short state protected monopoly has expired does not equal stealing. P.S. I do feel for the difficult bit of history in your native country's past. Lots of friends and family from a small republi
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by markvdb 8y ago
This comparison is intellectually lazy or maybe even dishonest. One difference between a house and a recording is marginal cost of replication/reproduction: not zero in case of a house, effectively zero in case of a recording. Without
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by markvdb 8y ago
OVH better than the others in any regard? That's rather optimist speculation about a company whose incompetence almost lost my business its primary domain name... twice. Shame on me for not taking appropriate measures after the first t
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by markvdb 8y ago
The freedom to research would stay! If anything, researchers should have more freedom to research. An example. Imagine a researcher invents cheap medication that obviates the need for some kind of eye surgery. What would happen now? Surgeon
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by markvdb 8y ago
Healthcare and profit don't go together. This is just exhibit n° 31415926535897932384626433. What happens in the software world when you see twentyseven useless levels of abstraction? Exactly the same. You smell a rat. In my ideal worl
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by markvdb 8y ago
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/heindl-958931-hydra...
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by markvdb 8y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/13/reserve-c... gives you at least some idea.

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