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by wsc981 5y ago
In 2016 I took about half a year off, staying in Thailand and working on my hobby projects. Was one of the best, most happy periods in my life. It made me more focused on trying to reach early “retirement” so I can work fulltime on my hobbi
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> We all know deep down that it's a BS ponzi scheme. I don't believe all cryptos are a Ponzi scheme. I don't feel that way about Ethereum or Bitcoin for example. Anyways, you shouldn't be so concerned about how to &
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by wsc981 5y ago
> It's also a bit ill-timed as Bitcoin is "now a fiat currency", if you go by El Salvador's wiki page It's probably timed right now by the Dutch CPB because El Salvador accepted BTC as a fiat currency.
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I agree as well. Also, luxury goods (yacht, private airplane, (maybe) jewellery, etc...) should be taxed much heavier than bare necessities (food, clothing). I believe some basic amount of wealth should be tax free (e.g. x-amount of square
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by wsc981 5y ago
> For me, after spending two hours listening to an interview with a woman who escaped North Korea, it might as well be. I think I listened to the same interview a few days ago. Most likely the Jordan Peterson interview with Yeonmi Park
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> It makes no less sense than a painting. Well, the high-end art market is kinda scammy, is it not [0]? I think it's pointless to pay millions of dollars for an original painting when a decent copy can be had for a fraction of the
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by wsc981 5y ago
Finland? It's a made-up country; it doesn't even exist: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/52f5ae/t... (j/k)
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The same happened in The Netherlands with regards to the F35 even though at the time several media outlets already reported that both the Eurofighter or Saab Gripen might be better choices. At the time there was a very popular right-wing po
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by wsc981 5y ago
In many free mobile apps, there's a very annoying dark pattern in ad screens. Often an ad is displayed, but close button is not yet visible. Often a timer is shown however in the top right corner of the screen. Only after maybe looking
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by wsc981 5y ago
When I moved to Thailand, I got into contact with a Dutch national of Jewish decent. We occasionally meet over coffee and have a little chat. When he was young, after WW2, he lived in several foster homes spread over Europe and managed by n
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> Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics. I never liked Windows NT aesthetics-wise. Personally I find the Windows Explorer ugly and I don't like the Start menu either. I was hoping Serenity looked a
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by wsc981 5y ago
It’s hard to read because it’s a video transcript of a Joe Rogan interview. In the actual interview his explanation becomes more clear imo.
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There’s this guy, Randall Carlson, who claims the great pyramid of Cheops is a scaled version of the northern hemisphere. If true, I guess it would mean the Egyptians knew the earth was round. https://sacredgeometryinternational.
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by wsc981 5y ago
Since the game is open source and developed with LÖVE, you can probably just download the source code, go into the root directory of the game and type 'love .' in a terminal. You need to have LÖVE installed of course. The game mig
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by wsc981 5y ago
In Thailand (and I imagine other SEA countries) there are plenty of condos without kitchen. But buying some food in a small shop or stall or some street-food is cheap enough anyways.
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I think it you want to feel respected as developer in Western Europe, you should be consulting. The best way to get a respectable compensation for your efforts.
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I've built a Swift library to generate 2D dungeon maps, based on Perl and Javascript code from Donjon [0]. The code is kinda ugly but it works and I think it is one of the nicer dungeon generators: https://github.com/wo
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SpaceX launching satellite Doge-1 to the moon next year(twitter.com)
4 points by wsc981 5y ago|4 comments
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A kibbutz can be a nice place to get ones mind in order I think. My brother was depressed at some point and didn't feel motivated anymore with his software engineering job. At some point he got so annoyed with his life and job that he
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> Are you saying that banks in Europe would prefer not to accept any deposits at all? Kinda [0]: > Germany’s biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG , have told new customers since last year to pay a 0.5% annual rate t
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Turning the “land of opportunity” into a “land of serfdom”(twitter.com)
2 points by wsc981 5y ago|3 comments
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> What do you think about Affirmative Action? Is it systemic racism or systemic antiracism? Racism of course. Since it’s selecting people based on race. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Activates Curbs as Cases Rise(bloomberg.com)
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> Genuinely curious, how do they know the phallic object was a mere amulet? The phallic objects are a bit too small [0] to pleasure ones self. Some of these objects also seem to have some holes, perhaps for letting a thread run through
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by wsc981 6y ago
Seems like this developer is planning to do [0] something similar to what Notch (of Minecraft fame) was working on before [1]. A 3D game (perhaps a shooter) that contains some programmable computer that can be used to interact with the envi
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>Because it doesn't work. Bitcoin works well in plenty of ways. Bitcoin just doesn't work very well as a currency, but that ship has sailed and it's ok.
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> Noone uses it to buy things and yeah maybe it makes sense in Venezuela but no chance its going to displace USD. Just this week there was some news that Iran was going to use BTC to work around some US sanctions. I am sure many countr
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> Does this allow me to finally test my websites in Safari? Nope ... but you might be able to using QEMU (I'm gonna assume you use Windows) [0]. --- [0]: https://dev.to/nicole/running-macos-on-windows-10-with-
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by wsc981 6y ago
It’s also convenient, especially for men that regard themselves as part of the MGTOW movement. Just the fun without any of the shackles. Keep more time available for your own hobbies and interests. If I’d ever separate from my current girlf
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by wsc981 6y ago
> I'm sure it's just a second language thing, Thanks for your comment and I fixed the typos in my earlier post. English is indeed not my native language, but I should have noticed this spelling mistake, since I use English mo

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