tomcooks

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by tomcooks 7y ago
"We are living in America, Amerika ist wunderbar"
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Much like my sibling comment, things have always been pretty fast and reliable in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK, and the Netherlands. I literally do these things everytime my privacy, just like I'd do with any other right, is viol
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> I can go on and on. We need some actual ethics, and regulation as a fail-safe for cases where the former doesn't work. Or become an EU resident and use their brilliant data-handling privacy laws
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by tomcooks 7y ago
EST! EST!! EST!!! The explanatory video alone is a gem, the fact that this extension is open source is a juicy bonus, the coziness factor is sky-high. From a person that doesn't install any extension ever: great concept, amazing execut
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Unlike company, law is equal to everyone. I respect the law, and the lawmakers should work for me. The ROI calculations are to be budgeted and accounted for, otherwise why am I being taxed?
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Nothing better than this kind of explanations to get convinced to try something, genuine passion seeps through your words. You might just have fixed a couple of problems with your tool, thanks!
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Big fan of their Ukranian folk album "Chi no Hibiki Higashi Yuroppu wo Utau", it's a jewel for programming (apart from THAT track). It's precisely via Gamelan, which led me to Akira OST gamelan sounds, that I've dis
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> This is cool, but what makes it "music for programming?" Marketing. /s
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Nothing better than Gamelan, the album Degung Sabilulungan vol. 2 in particular[0] The repetitive, gentle sounds put me into a high efficiency mode without putting me to sleep like most ambient. [0]: Youtube: https://www.youtube.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
When under the table payments are the norm obviously no one would give you an incentive. I would agree with you in a place where everything is cleared in books, like the stereotypical northern Europe.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Most European laws that help the general public, such as free healthcare, a sane amount of maximum work hours and the right to a minimum guaranteed standard of life are the direct result of this approach. Strikes do wonder, and so does refu
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by tomcooks 7y ago
In most EU countries they do, it's included in the final price. To find out whether the VAT money goes to the state as VAT or gets "forgotten" in the merchant's pockets is left to the student as extracurricular work.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
HA! The fault is, like in other southern European countries, of banks that steal 1% to 4% of EACH transaction, on top of the 0.1-0.5 maximum transaction cost mandated by the EU. > If governments don't have income then they can'
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by tomcooks 7y ago
The way I see it is that the government wants Greek nationals to use electronic payments for at least 30% of their expenses, to aid tracking. This does NOT mean the government wants Greek nationals to spend at least 30% of their income.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
OSMand+~ is a much faster smartphone client, that cares about your privacy and doesn't spam you with ads. You can find it on osmand.net, the F-Droid repository and the Play/ios store.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Most street drug dealers use bicycles, EU and abroad. More freedom of movement, no license nor plate.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
curl qrenco.de/yessir
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Because ASCII is an American-centric standard that needs to die, in favor of more inclusive standards? Unicode is already not common enough, last thing that IMHO is needed are _more_ programs that don't implement well accepted, well te
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by tomcooks 7y ago
I wonder why a LA times article has been linked, when Merriam-Webster's own website has a whole section dedicated to this subject[0]? Blah. [0]( https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-ye... )
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Country and language in a single drop-down menu, because in 2020 it's improbable that people born outside of a country speak any other language than their native tongue. Right?
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by tomcooks 7y ago
It's not an "English speaking" thing, nor "trashy". Moreover, that is not a paper; it's a blog article written with, and I quote the website's colophon, "Academic rigour, journalistic flair". Or
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> Truth be told the whole front-end ecosystem relies on those servers being available, so in their absence any development everywhere would grind to a halt There's a world out there of LAMP/LEMP stack web developers that wholeh
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by tomcooks 7y ago
It's sad that in the US Latin is taught with an anglophone accent and spelling (of vowels in particular)
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Lukesmith.xyz I believe
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by tomcooks 7y ago
Rate.sx for crypto
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> I rarely have the faintest idea of what it is that I'm typing in. I suggest checking out Like Smith's beautifully assembled video guides, whom I think has done a lot for newbies by releasing comprehensible content while minim
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by tomcooks 7y ago
FERT FERT FERT at the bottom of that cover is the motto of the House of Savoy. Also known as "Frappez, entrez, rompez tout!" (Break in, enter and break everything) among a certain french extreme music fringe.
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> AMP gives little guys, the ones starting blogs and trying to grow, a shot at freedom of speech. > AMP is one of Google's most anti establishment services You're either writing satire I don't get, or work for Google. H
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> Nothing else before AMP helped. Why do you think those developers will suddenly wake up and start building lightweight web pages now? Instead of ad bloated, video playing monstrosities? This has been an ongoing trend since ever, Viz. Y
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by tomcooks 7y ago
> I can think of 5-10 incredibly annoying non-standard Craigslist UX elements off the top of my head. Yes?

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