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Russia's war erasing Kostiantynivka's Soviet era mosaics(kyivindependent.com)
8 points by markvdb 7mo ago|1 comments
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by markvdb 7mo ago
Hours ago, OpenAI raised $110B.
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by markvdb 7mo ago
Depends on the species. For something easy to grow like oyster mushrooms, straw. Do decontaminate the straw. Cooking water or hydraulic lime water should work for that.
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by markvdb 8mo ago
VISA + Master just work _for now_. Debanking Nicolas Guillou[0] was a financial Greenland. Short-term negative-sum transactionalists are governing the US. Even if November stabilises things somewhat, the cat is probably out of the bag. Trus
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by markvdb 8mo ago
That's interesting. In Belgium the pre-integration Payconiq could not do that.
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by markvdb 8mo ago
> Music is about the human experience, emotions, mistakes, accidents, discoveries. Pro musician here. There's piles upon piles of human-generated music soullessly regurgitating stock patterns with inane lyrics since long before Alan
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by markvdb 8mo ago
> Ultimately the US will go down hill to become a Belgium. Sharing one's opinion in a respectful way is possible. Less spectacle, so less eyeballs, but worth it. Try it.
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by markvdb 8mo ago
OSS and FOSS are global, not American or EU or anything. The geopolitical situation is on another plane. FOSS can and will be used as a tool for strategic autonomy, for better and for worse. Why would one at this very moment look with suspi
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by markvdb 8mo ago
My fingers always ache when I hear praise for the company that through its incompetence nearly lost me my company's domain name... twice. Shame on me for staying with them.
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by markvdb 9mo ago
The original TV-B-Gone [0][1] was designed by the legendary Mitch Altman [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone [1] https://www.tvbgone.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by markvdb 9mo ago
The Mercosur-EU trade deal, the India-EU trade deal and this China-Canada trade deal. A pattern perhaps? A frantic search for reliable trade partnerships, or just random noise?
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by markvdb 9mo ago
Why would I trust these recommendations? Much higher quality dietary information is available from much more trustworthy sources than the US government du jour.
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by markvdb 1y ago
A clear view of WW II in all its complexity is important. The current tense geopolitical context makes that even more so. Have you noticed how the current head war criminal in Moscow is glorifying his WW II predecessor?
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by markvdb 1y ago
Some feedback: - Superb domain name. - I'd clean up less relevant bits as much as possible. The subtitle for example says "Share text and images instantly and securely across all your devices". I'd s/and\ images&#x2
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by markvdb 1y ago
- Asset inflation can be tackled with flexibility. The level of flexibility my acquaintance showed is not required. He bought a fixer-upper two apartment building with a garden in a livable small walkable eurozone city for 5k€. - The produc
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by markvdb 1y ago
> It's utterly insane that people need to work more and longer as technology increases productivity. A truly dystopian economic system. Keynes was almost right. He underestimated the ability of future generations to consume conspicu
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by markvdb 1y ago
> Do we not have ambitions to have people work less, enjoy what little life they have more? Isn't that something for the individual to decide, not the collective? Many derive from work a lot of meaning in life. If working is what ma
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by markvdb 1y ago
I've seen better publicity for a simpler life. Jacob Lund Fisker[0]'s ERE comes to mind. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lund_Fisker
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by markvdb 1y ago
Wouldn't it be easier for Harvard to move to where it can function as a university, instead of putting up with this? It's not entirely unprecedented. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Universi
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by markvdb 1y ago
I see 7k€ for 12kWp, retail, for a diy ground install set for our summer house. That's before 4k€ in subsidies. No net metering, and feedin compensation is capped at 0.02€/kWh. But at 3k€ net, who cares? Even with the low electric
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by markvdb 1y ago
Already happening in Flanders for those on dynamic pricing.
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by markvdb 1y ago
Solar has won the market's backing. Whatever Pennsylvania politicians decide, they better take that into account. In most places, solar is perfectly competitive without subsidies. Take my prosperous corner of the EU. No direct subsidie
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by markvdb 1y ago
Thank you for you interaction. > There is no “shortcut” to vast wealth, because if there were then everybody would be using it as the default and it would no longer be a shortcut. Absolutely. I was not writing about shortcuts to vast wea
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by markvdb 1y ago
Many a healthy above median earner is unaware of the privileged shortcut to capital class available to them. Spend a third of your income for nine years and you're there. Make that a quarter to finish in six years. Especially for dual
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by markvdb 1y ago
Not necessarily. A slightly different approach might become lower TCO in the medium term: - moderately overbuild solar - batteries for short term storage - natural gas for seasonal storage
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by markvdb 1y ago
In the country where the physical person making the request is located would be a logical solution. Not saying it would be a good solution, but that would follow the logic of most international fiscal law. Super hard to implement though.
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s/from Asia//
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by markvdb 1y ago
As a species, we're spectacularly bad at negative externalities. We are also very bad at anything very long term. We've hardly pulled off any physical project to last more than one generation recently. We barely invest in any. The
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by markvdb 1y ago
Superb publication for anyone into free/open source software. You could do worse than get your employer to get a group subscription...
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by markvdb 1y ago
This is about Finland. They have a rather well-reputed school system that delivers in both areas.

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