nicbou

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by nicbou 9mo ago
I had some success with batching. I have a daily report for my website, so that I can make sure everything is okay in one glance.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
The goal is to attract search traffic to your page, so that you can promote your product or your brand. AI is making this a lot cheaper than before because you don't even need to create the content, but it's also killing the overa
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I hope that this will result in people paying a premium for human curation and accountability, but I won't hold my breath.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I believe that this space was created with a purpose and a set of guidelines. Some news are off-topic in that space. You can't scream in a library and tell people they should just wear earplugs if they don't like it.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I'm Canadian too. You can tapk about these things everywhere else. There are political discussions that fit this website - as the ones you listed - but regular US news belong elsewhere.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I think that the current guidelines are very reasonable. Some news are relevant to hackers and foster the sort of discussions that make this website so great. Others are just regular politics.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
What good is awareness without action? Things happening across the ocean are just out of scope.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
What good is awareness without action?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
It’s unfortunate that American news slip into the HN feed, and that Americans get indignant when it gets flagged. I took so much flak for saying that I already know where to hear about US politics, and don’t need it forced into every unrela
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by nicbou 9mo ago
My experience with LLMs is that you can’t get them to clarify things by asking questions. They just assume facts and run with it. My experience with software development is that a lot of things are learned by asking probing questions inform
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I'm tying it to the Hacker News guidelines, if you care to look at them
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by nicbou 9mo ago
If you don't like my constant screaming, just get ear plugs
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Yes, because the flagging system works. I'm advocating for things staying that way
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I'm not ignorant. I just don't want it in my morning cereal when it's also everywhere else. Awareness of your country's politics definitely isn't the issue here. I am keenly aware of the US presidents' threat
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Here’s to the crazy ones
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by nicbou 9mo ago
For what it’s worth, I visit HN before my first coffee, and I am fine with not getting a faceful of US politics first thing in the morning. If I need that I can look in any other direction already. I visit this website specifically because
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by nicbou 9mo ago
They flag what goes against the topic of the website, and the HN guidelines. Not everyone wants every website to be about US politics, and that is not a right wing conspiracy.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Every thread about US politics has this comment, and the same response: this is not the right outlet, and some people feel like this content does not fit the topic of the website. If you are not American, it’s rather tiring to have every we
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by nicbou 9mo ago
This is such a perfect term for it. Thank you for starting my day with a chuckle. I feel validated. More about this weird phenomenon: https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Someone, somewhere has to put some information online for the first time. I am one of those people. This sort of thing was a problem before too. I had a few copycats myself. The difference is that those copycats competed on the same level,
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I'm not too fussy about the choice of words. I do the work, they use their monopoly to capture the value. There is no way to opt out, no permission asked. I had a bitter chuckle when Microsoft said that they might "lose social per
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by nicbou 9mo ago
These translations usually need to be certified, at least in Germany.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
The same is happening to a lot of website owners. You lose half or more of your traffic to AI summaries trained on your own content. The cost of producing original content is the same as before. It makes research harder too, since more and
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Isn't that Karl Marx's theory of alienation?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I was glad to boil it down to "it probably doesn't concern you, and if it does, you probably have an expert on call already". The entire topic of taxation is a tarpit. One important note: this 13.75x valuation is a worse case
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by nicbou 9mo ago
That's about right! It was meant to be a quick guide and it took me about a month to finish it because I kept coming across new issues. What got me to work on this was a related post on the German exit tax not too long ago: https:&#x2
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I think that the government could do this job really well if they wanted to. I'm just one guy working ~25 hours per week, if that. It really isn't rocket science, just empathy and good writing. The biggest problem is that the gove
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How to Leave Germany(allaboutberlin.com)
34 points by nicbou 9mo ago|21 comments
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by nicbou 9mo ago
But what would be the point? There is a huge difference between giving eggs to your neighbours and sending them to a breakfast restaurant in another state. A connection is made between you and the neighbors. A community forms around it. Wha
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by nicbou 9mo ago
> In Germany, the government recently decided that some minor applications to local governments must be answered within X days or else are automatically approved. I believe it was just a crazy idea that was submitted recently. The closes

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