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by vlod 4y ago
Haah.. I thought you were being funny, but it's a real thing [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
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by vlod 4y ago
They told us: - Roswell was a weather balloon - The yeti was a weather balloon - The lockness monster was a weather balloon I don't know why they're building the suspense up. We all all know they will after all said and done, say
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by vlod 4y ago
What? The link goes to archive.is showing the cache captured nytimes article. I don't see it going to any .ru sites.
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by vlod 4y ago
This might be a good time based on the discussion of this thread: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725047
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by vlod 4y ago
Non paywall: https://archive.is/uzOL6
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by vlod 4y ago
Maybe discipline [0] is another way to look at it. [0] "Screw motivation, what you need is discipline." https://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need...
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by vlod 4y ago
I'm doing consultancy (mainly becz I haven't found a startup that I'm interested in joining) and I'm find the hourly rates (in the US) are really low (below FTE). Not sure if it's because of all these layoffs or jus
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by vlod 4y ago
From [1] https://github.com/iced-rs/iced it says: "Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Web)"
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by vlod 4y ago
If they are looking for paths going forward, I hope they investigate what PopOS is doing with rust (COSMIC) [0] and Iced [1] (cross platform ui library). [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Desktop-Iced-Toolkit [1
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by vlod 4y ago
FYI He was on the Lex podcast [0] ~3.5hrs [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0
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by vlod 4y ago
How about a bike shed [0]? from twitter Massimo: [0] https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1623295579542659072
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by vlod 4y ago
I hate that I can't trust Amazon any more. Now I have to double check what I paid for my last order and then look on camelcamelcamel.com to get a price history to see if anything fishy is going on. (Sometimes I see prices are jacked up
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by vlod 4y ago
>I said that many people working minimum or low wages have college debts; I did not say that “one can only get a minimum wage job with a college degree.” I was trying to be subtle and I thought it was obvious. It's (mostly) down to
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by vlod 4y ago
I've always thought that a good metric is that if you had to leave the US in a real hurry (not sure if it would make a difference, but for e.g. Yellowstone is going to explode), do I have enough liquid to charter a private jet to somew
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by vlod 4y ago
Lots of people talk about investment basics below (FIRE is a bit crazy for me, but worth evaluating for the underlying message). For me it's about respecting money and saving like social security will be next to useless by the time you
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by vlod 4y ago
I think it was on Howard Stern [0], see video. [0] https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/quentin-tarantino-makes-h...
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by vlod 4y ago
> who probably has tens of thousands of dollars of college debt. > Makes you wonder whether unregulated capitalism is as amazing a system as it's made out to be. Huh? You're saying one can only get a minimum paid job with a
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by vlod 4y ago
I found "Blindsight" via this [0] video. I'm planning to read "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin" after that (also from that video). Might be worth checking out for some ideas. [0] https://www.yo
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by vlod 4y ago
After numerous attempts at getting through Snow Crash (pretty good), finally finished it last night. Next is Blindsight by Peter Watt [0], which looks interesting. [0] https://smile.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp&
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by vlod 4y ago
I'm trying to understand the numbers. The media seems to be distorting them based on their bias. Average salary in the US is around $55K (single filer). They would pay (IRS tax bands [0]) around 22% as well as payroll ~ 7.5% (self empl
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by vlod 4y ago
Sounds like a blast. We've been thinking in moving to Thailand and was curious what the expat situation was like. Do you have problems finding expats and making friends there?
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by vlod 4y ago
Look just accept that all "meat" in the future will be vegan. i.e. "Taco Bell Is Vegan in the Future" Article:[0]) according to the movie 'Demolition Man'. :)_ [0] https://www.livekindly.com/tac
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by vlod 4y ago
I dunno, maybe my brain is wired differently but this sounds like fluff. Maybe I've been fortunate that growing up, I've had stoic figures in my life and through their beliefs/actions solved problems through grit and hard wor
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by vlod 4y ago
Okay sure, but this seems kinda janky, no? I have to go to a cafe, hand some stranger some cash for btc and sit around for what an hour with them, so it can clear/propagate.
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by vlod 4y ago
I would like to get into crypto (for transfer, not for asset speculation) but can't understand the point of using a decentralized ledger and yet using these centralized exchanges which control the on/off ramps. Isn't the whol
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by vlod 4y ago
Any specific reason? Personally I used to be a die hard mac user, but then I realized most of the time I just use vscode, firefox and terminal, which could be done on any platform (I chose linux and never looked back).
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by vlod 4y ago
>my feeling is that if you don't see the benefits of types, then programming isn't for you. Maybe it isn't "types" that is the problem, but the way types are implemented in TS. I never had these problems in Java
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by vlod 4y ago
Although I agree with you, I'm curious how this translates to your full time job (assuming you have one)? I find most companies don't do JS any more (TS experience is a requirement)
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by vlod 4y ago
I use TS as standard now (because every job requires it), but I dislike it immensely. I've used static langs like Java and GoLang and prefer them over TS. Heck I even like ruby-rails more. Since I'm fullstack (TS on FE/BE), i
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by vlod 4y ago
This was for a v.large investment bank. There are most likely other departments, but HR generally manage all of the trip details and are the front for the employee. i.e. to save the employee wasting a bunch of time talking to X number of de

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