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pieterhg
7y ago
I had that same question a few years ago and made a site to answer it (for myself and others) called https://nomadlist.com . Personally, I like cities with lots of nature in or around it, with low people density (not crowded), wi
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7y ago
Private group chats. Already happening now.
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8y ago
It's the Nomad Cost, which is the cost of living per month for a person living mostly from hotels/Airbnbs and eating outside. If you click the sort dropdown and select local cost, that's the cost of living for a local.
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8y ago
I made a site exactly to find these kinds of places called Nomad List. Here's mild (20'C - 30'C) cities with fast internet and many young tech enabled people there to socialize with: https://nomadlist.com/mild
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8y ago
I love FastMail. Multiple domain support, unlimited aliases and a fast mobile website. It's just really great.
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8y ago
Love this, but I'm getting an error: "DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues" Opened an issue: https://github.com/retroplasma/earth-reverse-engineering/iss...
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pieterhg
8y ago
Move your domains to Cloudflare.
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8y ago
I think you can't really consciously decide what you want to do with your life. Life happens to you: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots
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8y ago
I'm stupid but when I used to smoke as a teen in Netherlands it was NORMAL to throw them on the street and sometimes step on them. I imagined back then they'd biodegrade (eg rot). Obviously they didn't. Don't smoke anymo
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8y ago
Awesome work! And lovely to see Nomad List on the to do :D
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8y ago
This is 1980 in a time before OLED screens
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8y ago
Where is the video? (I'm on mobile Safari)
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8y ago
I make a site called https://remoteok.io where I collect most new remote jobs from traditional job boards, as well as have fully-remote companies post directly. You can also set up email alerts on there to get notified first whe
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8y ago
I use multiple data sets for safety and crime statistics. The safety scores are medians based on that data + crowdsourced edits by users.
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8y ago
It’s incredibly challenging. Imagine trying to collect 250-500 data points for 1000-2000 cities. And doing it consistently. I use data sets to seed with and then crowdsourced edits by site users to add to the data.
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8y ago
The data is cross referenced with other cost of living and quality of life sites and rankings and is about 85% similar, either higher or lower but not much. Lifestyles vary so your own experience can be subjective. What data points specific
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8y ago
I don’t use email because it’s a time suck for me. I spend most my time building things and the time I have left I want to spend with people I love, not answering emails. Most emails I’d get would be about people wanting something from me (
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8y ago
I made a site to let people find alternatives to Google this week called https://nomoregoogle.com
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8y ago
Hi, I made a site to do just this called https://nomadlist.com . Click OPEN FILTERS and click cheap living cost (<$2,000). I also have filters to find cities with universities and English speaking people. I have collected 1,00
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8y ago
Mostly cause it's another BigTech company
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8y ago
Fixed!
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8y ago
Sorry that’s a bug with vote processing because I received some vote spammers, fixing now!
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8y ago
I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com . The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are: - https://wego.here.com/ - https://openstreetmap.org/
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8y ago
Which one exactly? So I can edit/remove them from the list.
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8y ago
Zoho seems to be the one most commonly mentioned
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8y ago
Thanks, removed MixPanel. Any others you see that don't respect privacy?
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8y ago
Added those! Thanks :)
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8y ago
Thanks for the list, added a few of those incl. Zoho and Nextcloud!
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8y ago
You can add any you want yourself by clicking "Add Alternative" in the top right!
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8y ago
You were the main inspiration for this! Hope it’s okay I used the name! :)
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