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by patrickk 6y ago
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:s26sz6...
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https://www.the-automator.com/excel-autohotkey/
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> don't go if you feel sick Sadly, selfish people will abuse this. They'll go even if they feel sick, likely justifying it as "but I already bought my ticket". Asymptomatic people will also increase the risk. > Of
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> Today your design has to be approved by many different people with veto power. I don't think that's it, at least for public buildings like churches, theaters, town halls, museums, and so on. After all, veto power doesn't
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> I think it would be too expensive now to build those same houses with handcrafted details. On a tangential question - I sometimes wonder why modern buildings are so boring . Postwar buildings in many European cities are drab and devo
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So TVs technically work today without wifi? That should be doable for most privacy-conscious people. Sick some literal tinfoil on the back of the TV where the antenna is to weaken the range, or block the TV requests on the network level for
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What happens if you simply don't connect it to the internet? Can't you just use it as a dumb TV? I don't have experience with a smart TV so I cannot say.
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The proposed European supergrid is also very interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4rg3UcsgI also worth a watch, trying to devise a different type of AC system
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> Maybe a nicer neighborhood This one is huge. Trying to afford a decent, spacious (non-luxurious) home with access a small garden, that isn't an hour+ commute from your workplace, is a true luxury especially in any in-demand urban
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There are manufacturers such as Huf Haus that make very high quality (luxury) prefabricated homes[1]. They feature all the modern fittings you could want, and they are installed in the factory not on site. There was an episode of Grand Desi
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Leveraged buyout is a dirty concept to me after what the Glazer family did to Manchester United[1],[2]. They basically turned the club from the number one team in England to something to milk dry and allowing rivals to overtake. They were e
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The 4 ways to spend money[1], in this case, spending someone else's money on someone else. Likely a procurement person with no IT knowledge, who never has to deal with the painful solution, but got wined and dined by the salesman. [1]
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Mash it into butter and put it on steak. Absolutely delicious. Or make it into a pesto.
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Traditional TV executives would never go for it. Even if they did, the inflexibilty of regular TV schedules would still be inferior to listening when you want. Plus as you mention they would have the discipline to not cut into it.
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His type of long form interviews would be simply impossible on traditional television (even though it's a podcast, I always watch on Youtube as do many others). He tapped into an unexplored demand that lives directly in the blindspot
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> I think early-stage VC’s should take a Keynesian approach and should invest more heavily in recessed periods. Why would they do this? They're not a charity. They'll only invest more if they think there's more returns to
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The Whig party's laissez-faire economic ideology and the belief that Divine providence was punishing the lazy natives[1] were major factors explaining why the famine was so severe compared to previous blights. [1] http://www
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A similar dynamic is at play with Celtic fans (historically Catholic football club in Glasgow) and support for Palestine. https://medium.com/@JohnWight1/celtic-football-fans-and-why-...
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Perhaps a counter trend will emerge from spyware appliances will emerge, where people will pay a premium for "dumb" TVs or fridges from privacy respecting manufacturers. I've read about people already trying to purchase displ
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Open source firmware works great for several devices that I use daily. My router- I'm using an Asus NT-16[1] with EasyTomato for several years, and it's working flawlessly. I know others are using Pfsense also, which seems to work
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I've also heard good things about TeamSpeak.
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Ctrl+F "Dusseldorf" http://www.peterfrase.com/2011/08/the-big-short-germany-and-...
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In a similar vein: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-python-bo...
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iPod Classics also refuse to die, I'm using a used one I got cheap on eBay. You can also mod them with open source software (escaping the clutches of iTunes), install a higher capacity battery, replace the case and install a power-sipp
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Almost any Casio to be fair. Although it’s an unfair comparison to cloud-tied devices in the article.
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Normally the first step to flash an SD card is to use Balena etcher, very easy to do: https://youtu.be/kWRx40Q8B_A (random YT tutorial) After that, you can indeed use SSH and the command line to install the software of your
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A decade ago my country was hammered by the financial crisis. I made the decision to stop actively seeking out the latest news, apart from skimming HN or Reddit and seeing headlines by accident since it was all negative, negative, negative
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If you ever get time, there a tons of videos on Youtube showing how it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc78nueDQ64 More pipe = more heat of course, so you can size it up according to your needs. If I had a pool

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