trh0awayman

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by trh0awayman 4y ago
> They may have a different taste, but that taste is no better or worse than anyone else's. This is often repeated like it's some universal truth. Enjoying a film (or anything) doesn't mean it's great - this is a ver
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
My point wasn't to denigrate people for having poor taste or whatever. I don't care what people watch. And I'm not one to talk - I sometimes think of buying one of those McMansions from McMansion Hell. But my point was that
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch - including their age - and the reality is that 99% of people have horrible taste in just about everything. They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible fil
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
Spiral is one of my all-time favorite albums - and the opening song is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-0Z5D7eRh8
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
Star Citizen is the pretty much one of the only visionary MMOs since the mid 2000s (except for maybe Darkfall). I first read about it on Hackernews years ago - and ended up doing a deep dive on starcitizen_refunds. I watched a bunch of tho
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
I suggest trying Lagrange https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
At least where I live in Europe, it's almost impossible to not pirate. The government has strict controls on media and so it's impossible to even get access to most movies. Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming sites have be
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
In my opinion, this never goes away and you can only learn coping strategies. I never had this issue with classwork though, but checking my email/dealing with DevOps problems/filing taxes. For me, I can see when I'm getting
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
We'll look back on homelessness the same way in 100 years
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
Can anyone in Germany use this as an individual? For example, I have an office job. If I write a song/comic book, can I just start using this platform or do I need to do some tax nonsense/form a company?
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
I've witnessed the opposite problem in Berlin. Parents, and the general public, seem underprotective of youth. I used to live across the street from a primary school and the kids (no older than 10) would come out and smoke at recess i
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
A purple mold seems to be growing in my tank and all my fish died.
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by trh0awayman 4y ago
You have to call a "restore" function, according to their docs. I'm not sure I understand the use case, but perhaps it's just for structured user-only data.
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This just reminds me of The Last Psychiatrist's description of narcissism - everyone fulfills a "role" in a "game", the result of being unable to truly love others and unable to fully comprehend a self outside of on
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Three Arrested After Disney Squashes Club Penguin's Most Popular Knockoff(gizmodo.com)
6 points by trh0awayman 5y ago|1 comments
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
Can you talk about this a bit more? Or have any guidance? I'm in Germany and wanted to do this with my cofounders, but couldn't wrap my head around the legality. Don't you also have to maintain a German presence basically? A
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
There used to be a search engine in the mid 2000s that was just like this. It was called ChaCha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I think it's interesting how different people view status, like the "Harvard Professor or Homeless guy?" quiz that used to get passed around. I grew up in one of the last WASP strongholds in the US and the more money you had,
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
A tax ID is not a company. I've started companies in both countries - the burden and costs of starting and running one in Germany is far higher. In the US, I can start selling muffins, wooden furniture, whatever to my friends, family,
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
With GDPR, it is seemingly illegal to host anything in the US, though (or anything with PII) - so that is one (forced) upside to these types of services.
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I think that's because there is no real "open signup" for starting a company here, either. It's not like people here are legally allowed to try out a business before officially starting it - that would be highly illegal
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I understand where you're coming from - that companies of this size should be able to afford native English translators, especially if they're internationally facing. But I think that most people (in the international business com
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I think some hobbies work really well for the format. At one point in my life, I was interested in chicken breeding. I could see that being really easy to capture in TikTok format. I'm also a long distance runner - so that's a p
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
That's true, but I wasn't really addicted. It felt like I was forcing myself to use the app, which I was. I was trying to see what people were talking about (like Karpathy in this post). I wanted to test the app. I uninstalled
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
In that regard, I guess you're right that it was a success. In the 2 - 3 months I used it, it was probably for around 10 - 20 hours total. I was probably shown plenty of ads in that time and now they have a vector of my interests sit
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
TikTok is vastly different between regions, even when you set a preferred language. I'm American and live in Germany, and have tested it in both. In Germany, I get tons of those low-quality videos where they copy/paste something
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I found the opposite. People kept telling me how good the algorithm is, etc. I believe all that is a complete myth now, potentially spread by TikTok itself. I installed TikTok as a test and found that it's garbage. If I watched it f
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I really like this balkinization of the web that is happening. I think the web has become too centralized. Having different programs, protocols and standards will lead to a rethinking of everything. Computers have become Chrome machines
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I understand that it's related to taxes and that it's not exclusive to Germany (that's just the one I'm most familiar with). But there are better ways to do this that don't involve the government or my employer. T
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by trh0awayman 5y ago
I would say most people don't agonize over it because most people don't follow GDPR here in Germany. I think more and more people are slowly complying, but certainly in the last 3 years no one has cared. I personally believe GDPR

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