webscaleizfun

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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
They push 10,000+ parcels like that a month, and send their shipping out to bid every year, helps to have big companies ordering tons of hardware from ya. 3 years ago they were on DHL which was great for DHL same day, I could order somethin
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
It seems by "Open Platform" they mean shoving all your data onto their chat platform, basically an open API. That definitely is not an open platform in my book, as you can't federate, run your own, etc.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
I see some of the upsides of both Slack and Gitter, but having used both I still find IRC or a Signal group much easier and more convenient overall. Perhaps its the familiarity, or that I find both to be yet another tab to have open/ap
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Definitely, you should be able to get a shipping price without going into the checkout, Amazon makes it quite difficult compared to Aliexpress & eBay when it comes to finding out shipping prices, to the point that I avoid shopping on th
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Why do hundreds of pregnant women die every year in the US, but significantly less die in Singapore, Greece, Canada, Ireland, etc? This shouldn't be a thing, and we shouldn't be this far behind other countries on this, its not an
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Dude, you can't even buy a crackerbox in Seattle for 300k euros anymore, a 500sqft apartment has gone from 270k euros to 400k euros in the past 2 years, and that is before the 4500 euros you'll pay to go to an "exclusive&quot
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Perhaps property value is in line then if 40k euros is an inflated price, I think 110k euros in Tacoma is a price too high for that area myself, the average income down there is around 22k euros a year for a working person [1]. [1] - http:
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Free shipping is a lie, but the average consumer thinks of dealing with shipping costs separately as pesky, and Amazon & eBay have configured their fees to charge you more on any extra shipping line item to encourage sellers to make shi
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
So overvalued property in the current economic context combined with unprecedented (for Greece) property taxes is making home ownership a burden? Plus the maintenance costs wipe out what remains of the value.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
With austerity feeding on itself as it has been for many years in Greece, the rental market seems to have become flooded with properties. If your citizens have no money, and your economy is shrinking in the double digits every year for year
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
What area are you in? Compared to Seattle/Portland/San Diego prices, 40k euros seems cheap for a 1963 670sqft apt. A similar house in Tacoma would run 110k euros right now, and it is a terrible location.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Well, you've got this amazing compiler that just likes to change things you write, they're known as politicians :P
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Its still extremely dangerous to give birth in the US when compared to Greece, our maternal death rate is 7x higher [1], on par with Iran, Hungary and Saudi Arabia. [1] - http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=2223
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Not every investment will be successful either, as any person with a basic sense of business will know.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Dude, grow up. You do not have to live under govt rule, if you choose to follow an ideology that would rather see government not exist, you can and should fully adhere to your ideology and move to such an area. They do exist in Latin Americ
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Go live where there is no government, its great to act so infringed upon by the government in the place in which you currently reside, but you do have choices. Not saying its a rosy picture to live in an area with no publicly owned infrastr
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Hey now, we need to get that oil out of the US and into a higher priced market ASAP, hence the need for a new pipeline and the removal of restrictions on the exportation of domestically produced oil. That way, these large foreign oil compan
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
That will just clog roads more, doesn't matter how much you mechanize it. Self driving cars will induce massive amounts of demand piled atop the latent demand that already exists for driving on nearly every arterial and freeway in citi
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
This is called induced demand, whereby something that is plentiful will be utilized since it was built. Commonly, people say "Build it and they will come!" which is all the more true for roads. Building a freeway or expanding it a
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
No, another candidate got it, he had a slightly better resume and went by the same name :P
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Seeing as how Google and other major content providers have moved to peering with consumer & business ISPs directly, and bought trans-pacific fiber and built datacenters all over Europe, Asia and South America to bring content closer to
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Makes sense, its easy to end up with a mythical man month type situation.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
There are a vast number of things that fit under the umbrella of tech that needs to be decentralized to give you full control over your money and information. What part of that stack are you working on? Blockchain currency, low level networ
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Interesting idea, but then you are essentially forcing everyone to go through their upstream provider or Google's DNS servers, since when DDOS attacks occur, smaller networks won't be in your 8000 resolver whitelist. Part of me th
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Now, your gonna probably call me crazy, but take a bottle of cheap wine and throw it in the blender before ya drink it, failing that, a mixmaster works too. Completely changes the complexion of the wine when you do this, generally makes it
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
There is still so much science to do related to food, we just do not have a good grasp of all the nutrients your body needs and what allows you to absorb those nutrients the best. One form of protein from a plant can have completely differe
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Different food items will have different absorption rates for the nutrients they contain when passing through your stomach, upper & lower intestine. For example, an apple may contain a small amount of iron absorbed at a rate of 20%, whi
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Yeah, need to mix whole food in there to keep your bowels functioning well & avoid having the flora in your intestines from dieing off.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
We can't actually quantify nor do we fully understand all the vitamins, chemicals & molecules in your average vegetable, or how they are digested and used in your body. It might be bad to peel a carrot prior to eating it, since you
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Did it sit in the trunk of your car for an extended period of time?

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