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by robjan 5y ago
I accepted it because it's more convenient than dismissing the popup every time I want to send someone a message.
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by robjan 5y ago
There are still choices between finding ways to work within the system and making the best of the situation or completely giving up and resigning to the fact that nothing will ever get better.
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by robjan 5y ago
There is a very real difference between constructive criticism and simply complaining. In most cases, complaining and shutting people down without suggesting any possible alternative or improvement just makes the situation even less unpleas
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by robjan 5y ago
I've used ElephantSQL before. As long as you write efficient queries (especially avoiding N+1) and choose the right data centre it's usually reasonable for a small project.
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by robjan 5y ago
I don't think it's laziness, it's just delegation of a time consuming process. In a similar vein, most of us no longer wash clothes using a washboard, grow our own food etc. Modern society is pretty much built around us not d
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by robjan 5y ago
The risk is that if the price of STORJ crashes or even sharply corrects, many nodes could come down resulting in data loss.
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by robjan 5y ago
If anyone really wants it, it's available on AliExpress for around 5-7 USD including shipping to pretty much anywhere in the world https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005002998790310.html
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by robjan 5y ago
If the USD is hyperinflating then pretty much every other currency is also hyperinflating too. Check the other major currencies like Euro, GBP and JPY. The US Dollar is actually strengthening against these currencies and these countries don
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by robjan 5y ago
There's no desire to commodities finance work, but there is for tech
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by robjan 5y ago
It did. In this case the EU interchange restriction of 0.3% has been revoked
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by robjan 5y ago
The cost of handling cash is similar to handling a credit card transaction
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by robjan 5y ago
I don't think Mark Zuckerberg has broken E2E encryption yet. But yes, there is some metadata.
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by robjan 5y ago
Earth still needs the carbon, just preferably not so much in the air.
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by robjan 5y ago
You can't copy and enjoy my property for free, you can copy and enjoy an NFT for free. If you were to get the new Land Registry enforced you would have to change the law, in which case the blockchain is no longer needed since the idea
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by robjan 5y ago
Can't you go to a computer store for a similar experience?
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by robjan 5y ago
No, because everyone pays higher electricity bills while a small number of people benefit from selling their mined crypto.
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by robjan 5y ago
This is not good advice because WSB and superstonks generally advocate making highly speculative trades which are highly likely to result in losses. I would recommend Bogleheads[0], especially the wiki. It's not sexy but that's th
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by robjan 5y ago
The properties themselves lose value over time but the title or lease to the land under the property still increases in value exponentially.
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by robjan 5y ago
Anecdata, I know, but I've yet to find a solution as good as a whiteboard for brainstorming ideas / events / architecture collaboratively.
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by robjan 5y ago
Trades in a market are not zero-sum since the buyer still has something that can be sold for a non-zero amount
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by robjan 5y ago
A normal trade is not zero-sum
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by robjan 5y ago
Gluing things together has been what the majority of software developers do pretty much since the industry started. There are millions of us, it's impossible for everyone to be building something completely new. And outsourcing to poor
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by robjan 5y ago
It was a one off payment on iOS but a poorly enforced annual subscription on Android
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by robjan 5y ago
The accelerometer is used for displaying 3D and panorama images. Of course, there could be other usecases.
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by robjan 5y ago
If you don't like it, just don't upvote or engage with the thread. That's how moderation works on HN.
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by robjan 5y ago
They asked for me to send a selfie holding my Hong Kong Identity Card but no other bureaucracy.
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by robjan 5y ago
It's very British slang which is why many people are probably not understanding
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by robjan 5y ago
It had multiple meanings, one of which is quite offensive.
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by robjan 5y ago
In my experience, lack of meeting facilitation skills is widespread and one of the things that leads to these kinds of inefficient meetings where people are able to derail them from whatever the objective was. It's a very valuable soft
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by robjan 5y ago
Those are exceptional cases. It's pretty easy to see when someone is frequently slamming on the brakes vs. occasional being forced to due to external factors.

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