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by wsc981 6y ago
I believe the same is pretty much true for The Netherlands, which might not be a surprise. The pensions in The Netherlands might actually be better arranged for now, but it's likely at some point that the EU will (indirectly) try to ga
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by wsc981 6y ago
I remember seeing some study that showed much less social mobility in Europe compared to the USA. Many families in Europe that were wealthy hundreds of years ago are still wealthy to this day, whereas in the USA one (used to?) see much more
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by wsc981 6y ago
I just have a weekly budget set to 11.000 THB. This money is used for food, small trips, clothing, groceries, etc... (10.000 THB is about 333 USD right now). I pay my health and car insurance once a year and also health insurance for my gir
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by wsc981 6y ago
I don't like the way the site is trying to force you to use the mobile app.
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by wsc981 6y ago
> Maybe I'm just extremely lucky but I've never worked with anyone who would put in the effort for this sort of thing, even if they really disliked the person. I wouldn't be surprised if that kind of behaviour is endemic
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by wsc981 6y ago
I expect BTC to reach at least 50.000 USD value by end of 2021, but could be much more.
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by wsc981 6y ago
Well, instead of a liability, it could also be a feature. A mechanism that allows people by choice to reduce consumption, thus lowering their ecologic footprint.
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Hidden Mathematics – Ancient Knowledge of Space, Time and Cosmic Cycles(youtube.com)
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Map of Chinese global investment footprint(twitter.com)
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Interview with PlanB on Bitcoin (English Subtitles)(youtube.com)
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by wsc981 6y ago
Yeah I encountered this issue yesterday while working on my personal site and favicon. Extremely confusing. Firefox proofed to be much more useful for testing the favicon.
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Max Keiser: Bitcoin Price Bet Is a One-Way Move with No Top(youtube.com)
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by wsc981 6y ago
> US e-Dollar. Or FedCoin as George Hotz called it recently in a Lex Friendman podcast [0]. P.S.: I thought this was an entertaining podcast, George is a funny guy. --- [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4
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by wsc981 6y ago
I wonder if we’d really see something like this on the iOS Facebook app. I’d guess that would make a lot of people way more hesitant to use Facebook: https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1339174301564604418?s=2...
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by wsc981 6y ago
Tesla could open a factory in Thailand the get rid of Thailand's import tariffs, and perhaps this would also make export to other SEA countries easier and cheaper [0]. Anyways ... do you believe Tesla will be gone in the future or do y
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by wsc981 6y ago
While I kinda feel the same like you ... I have a 3.5 year old daughter now and if she later wants to become a prostitute or work in porn, I'd support her. There are some people that really enjoy this kind of work, for example check ou
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by wsc981 6y ago
> Great. Just one more reason to get off the current financial system. Be careful what you wish for. The replacement might be worse. Seems we're moving towards a system with Central Bank Digital Currencies in which people own accoun
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by wsc981 6y ago
> What does "free as in beer" mean? In what way is beer free? I believe another (perhaps simpler) way to say this, that should be understandable by English speaking people, is "free as in gratis".
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by wsc981 6y ago
I thought the book by K.N. King was a great introduction to (modern) C [0]. Easy to follow, nice questions at end of each chapter including a few challenges. ——— [0]: http://knking.com/books/c2/index.html
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by wsc981 6y ago
The 10 scripting examples video in the article states that to increase your chance of winning the game, you need to have the best players on your team. Apparently there's some online market where players can be bought and sold. The the
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by wsc981 6y ago
I played the Mac version with my brother. We would often dogfight over the AppleTalk network in our home. My brother would often, possibly always, win. Here's [0] a video of the Mac version, seems to have much better graphics than the
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by wsc981 6y ago
The Ninja code section seem to have been largely based on this classic article, which I personally found more humorous to read: https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code?fbclid=IwAR1...
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by wsc981 6y ago
Perhaps for emulating some big-endian processors (using QEMU or something similar), there's probably a small speed benefit here?
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by wsc981 6y ago
But if you look at his video, he does say governments might attempt to ban crypto, but it would be hard to totally ban, since other governments might adopt cryptos. For an effective ban all world governments have to work together on this,
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by wsc981 6y ago
> If you want to hedge against inflation, I suggest TIPS and maybe a bit of gold. I need to read up on TIPS, haven't heard about that before. Yes, gold is a decent option as well. However I view Bitcoin as digital gold and it has
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by wsc981 6y ago
I see Bitcoin as a hedge against the USD and EUR as I feel the currencies will be in trouble in the coming years. I see Bitcoin as a store of value. Keeping some of my assets in Bitcoin keeps some of my assets out of the hands of government
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by wsc981 6y ago
> Even for me, I'd be fairly annoyed with a gift to a charity I don't think is very valuable (looking at you, Make a Wish). I'd be very hesitant for people giving money on my behalf to charity as well. Many charities see
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by wsc981 6y ago
I never played ToD, but recently I looked at some movies of this game on YouTube and it's really quite impressive how comprehensive this game is on the low-end hardware of the day [0] --- [0]: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by wsc981 6y ago
Honestly Xamarin is pretty nice these days if ones’ aim is to share a lot of code between iOS and Android projects while still being able to provide a native experience.
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Sublime Merge(sublimemerge.com)
2 points by wsc981 6y ago|0 comments

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