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by n_ary 3y ago
Using Munich, a city entirely non-representative of the rest of the country is a bad idea. Munich in my experience feels like a modern post—current Germany entirely.
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by n_ary 3y ago
The primary issue of language is that, the large movers and shakers strictly enforce the language in upper level and so it flows down and below. For the smaller shops who opens their doors to speaking common language(English), the quality o
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by n_ary 3y ago
OSS is a mess in EU. In Germany, signing a FTE contract also entails implicitly that, if I produce something over the weekends, my employer has legal power to claim it as their IP. If I probably contribute something to some open-source proj
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by n_ary 3y ago
Disclaimer: Unpopular advice. Seek out local folks who wants to go online selling their tupperware, tobaco, small services, books, photos, small mom-n-pop coffee/fastfood shops etc and offer to build them a site they can maintain. Then
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by n_ary 3y ago
This is the best approach moving forward. I also had a similar incident where I received a wrong shipment object from eBay and promptly returned it on same day. The seller issued a refund in a nonexistent PayPal account(I owned that e-mail
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by n_ary 3y ago
The article touches a lot of interesting points, but often the novelty (and the shiny pay) is the main attraction point. For me, I just figured out that am good at it and enjoy it when I was doing some embedded work for six months. Before t
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by n_ary 3y ago
At least, I find it similar to(or slightly tolerable with images disabled) the previous emoji packed sentence trend.
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by n_ary 3y ago
> "growth at all costs even if it means no profits" It is kind of virology technique, you grow and generate adequate hype at a short-term loss, so you can gain a long-term market domination(or even a good fractional slice of th
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by n_ary 3y ago
Slight nit-pick > Earning $5-6k working on an assembly line in a city where rent is around $200-300/month isn't worth it… Did you mean 2000-3000/month? Even in beautiful heavenly EU, majority of the people I know, pays bet
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by n_ary 3y ago
The sort of have other revenue generating products. From top of my head, they have firefox relay, vpn, a cooperation with pocket(getpocket_com) and I see some more test products. They are trying but once you offer people something for free,
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by n_ary 3y ago
Let us not forget the immense paperwork and everything that entails, while I read that one can simply pay few hundred dollars in US and start their own business tomorrow.
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by n_ary 3y ago
Indeed there are. I pay high premium to alternatives, which has monthly cancel options. Some of these cost me > ~35-40% long-term, but it reassuring that, if I am suddenly in misfortune or tight spots, I could rapidly rid myself of some
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by n_ary 3y ago
Sadly, the most shady ones will not accept anything that is not one of the gmail, outlook, yahoo and some doesn’t even accept custom domains, only gmails! There is a lot of cheap (and even free) APIs that can accurately guess when you enter
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by n_ary 3y ago
> The web would be a very different place if people felt OK paying for the value brought into their lives by services that are free today I believe to contrary. A lot of services paid-only doesn’t have a decent customer support even and
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Ask HN: Is DNO Legit?
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by n_ary 3y ago
Market is same as before, here in EU, but people just got a bit more cautious and economy is not exactly prospering with the war and inflation. Hence, a lot of risk aversion and tightened purses. Also, due to sudden spike in interest rates,
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by n_ary 3y ago
Off-topic rant: >> voided me of all hope that humans would somehow manage to ‘solve’ the wave of misery that is rushing towards us. The general tendency of human(each generation) is to bid it safe and hope that their generation is not
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by n_ary 3y ago
If you can cite some sources, I will be very interested to read all about it. I trust Proton with most of my crucial e-mails(bank, insurance, govt services) and use a cheap alternative for personal things. If it is really a NSA honeypot, I&
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by n_ary 3y ago
The irony of this behavior is that, Discord’s own support channel for non-paying users are only e-mails and there are no actual discord channel to report discord issues. Disclaimer: To best of my knowledge. I tried reporting bugs but it was
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by n_ary 3y ago
Unfortunately, I have yet to find a place as such in EU. In my 11 years of career, I have yet to see myself or my team ever stopping. While I hopped several jobs, everywhere is same, super ambitious people working non-stop and then get ster
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by n_ary 3y ago
In Germany, we have this nice NINA app, which updates live warnings from city(as well as several cities for huge disasters) from fire, smoke, heavy storms, bad weather, WW2 bombs blocking & evacuation etc. This is really effective compa
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by n_ary 3y ago
Nice! Can you share the prompt you used ti generate the n-gate style summaries? I tried a very many times but I get something like “as an AI model I can’t blah blah” response.
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by n_ary 3y ago
Somehow, this BlueSky reminds me of Okuna(previously Open.social). It was invite only, very enthusiastic community iniviting only handful sane(non-ar eh le) people and everyone was suggesting good features. Founders were committed to non-ad
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by n_ary 3y ago
Off-topic: it is not yet [global scale] because it is only available in US. Here in EU, I still get “not available in your country”.
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Disclaimer: Entirely layperson opinion. We already had AI in our daily lives, such as translation, object recognition, voice assistant, spam filter, fraud detection systems and a lot more. Most of these are old and boring and yet deeply emb
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by n_ary 3y ago
Off-topic: > Where is a filter to hide fake reviews on Amazon? While it[1] doesn’t hide, it can generate some insightful information about fake reviews for me. Disclaimer: Not affiliated, only a happy person using FakeSpot since this yea
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by n_ary 3y ago
Honestly, getting started with k8s is easy. Get started with minikube on local desktop. Once you get the feel for it, try configuring a multi-node cluster using k3s on DigitalOcean or Hetzner and eventually using managed AKS/EKS/G
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by n_ary 3y ago
Also applies in Germany. Infact, every contract I have(had) includes a special clauses “40 hours per week, not including any lunch or break hours…”. However, I see my colleagues spending 2-3h each day on coffee/lunch break and doing ac
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by n_ary 3y ago
Usually, every country has a group of local “payment-gateway” services/vendors. They are similar to stripe but local. They should have support for credit card payments and additionally local/regional payment systems(e.g. alipay, u
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by n_ary 3y ago
Sadly, more and more, releases these days means U.S. only. Here in Germany, App store tells me, not available in your region or country. That been said, Bing-App is pretty good so far, waiting to look at openAI one. Far too many fake ones m

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