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by yardie 4y ago
Possibly the opposite! The Euro drop in price has made it competitive for US companies to hire engineers in Europe. The only con is the difference in timezone. Central/South America still has that advantage.
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by yardie 4y ago
Worked there as well and our son was constantly haranguing me about wanting to move back. Had to sit him down and explain what my compensation after taxes were and the cost of living compared to the US. He only remembers France as where his
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by yardie 4y ago
Amazon Fire Stick with the Aerial Views[0] (Apple TV Screen Saver) app probably the best thing on TV since GoT. [0] https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews
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by yardie 4y ago
Printing press. The pressman that operated the largest press quit, fired, no showed, or whatever. Margins are already thin so losing just 1 press can be pretty devastating. A pressman, even a trained one, has to be trained since each machin
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by yardie 4y ago
Well I knew of it but didn't know anyone who actually had one. The Powerglove seemed more practical with actual controls and buttons. And I saw it in The Wizard [1] But while looking for more history on it I came across the LaserScope[
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by yardie 4y ago
My NES came with a catalog of all the Nintendo products, games, and accessories you could get for the NES. So if you were into gaming and were Xennial, GenX, elder Millenial you probably heard of U-Force. Unlike the Powerglove, it wasn&#x27
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by yardie 4y ago
I volunteer as a CERT (community emergency responder, green helmets) and this is how we're trained to relay information to the incident commander. It's been eye opening to see how much you can do with just a weekend of training. A
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by yardie 4y ago
Yes, when you pay off a car loan the bank closes the account and your available credit line goes down as well. So your drop in credit age and credit line makes your credit score to go down.
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by yardie 4y ago
They don't even want the cash anymore. I spotted a SUV at a good discount. Called in to verify the price, "yes, thats the price." Went to the dealership and hello that price is only available with dealer financing. The car wa
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by yardie 4y ago
Yeah but its even higher in the US, 15% now[0]. Globally, 2000s MacOS global share wasn't even 2%. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...
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by yardie 4y ago
> the people who used slide rules in their professions and were willing to pay over $50 to re-experience the nostalgia of playing with one again are now all dead. The price of collectable cars is also affected by the age of the collector
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by yardie 4y ago
I tried to do the same a year ago. None of the dealers responded with a quote. All of them required me to come in before they would even consider discussing a price. Dealers have gotten savvy to internet pricing so there isn't as much
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by yardie 4y ago
When Winamp was popular Macs were <5% of the market. I hope they release a version for macos. I don't think the current developers own the IP to Macamp.
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by yardie 4y ago
Well now I feel slightly stupider for clicking on this fearmongering rag of an article and giving the publisher an extra CPM it most assuredly did not deserve. So Apple is highlighting the new safety features in their watches and phones and
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by yardie 4y ago
Their satellite phones are absolutely ancient and look like 90s era Nokia. If voice was their competitive advantage you would assume they would invest heavily in keeping the equipment current. Looking at their service plans[0] I don't
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by yardie 4y ago
While I wish it was Iridium I guess it sort of makes sense. Out of all the GMDSS satellite provider Globalstar had the weakest offshore coverage. It appears they focus on the probably more popular land based coverage rather than true global
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by yardie 4y ago
Also featured in Westworld, the RICO app [0], an Uber for criming. [0] https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/RICO
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by yardie 4y ago
The city of Flint, MI didn't have a water problem until the governor took control of the budget, appointed a special administrator, who promptly switched that city over to a polluted water source.
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by yardie 4y ago
Are you looking at the chart correctly? Those states have the widest pay gaps with Utah ranked the highest.
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by yardie 4y ago
Probably better to use spread spectrum radio. Stations can be mobile and move to minimize tracking and interference. Fiber is fixed and the link can be severed with $20 bolt cutters.
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by yardie 4y ago
It went from $30 PCI card with a $10BOM to a <$1BOM chip directly on the motherboard.
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by yardie 4y ago
Just a reminder that the north and the south have always been in contention since the very founding of this country. We have a bicameral congress as part of the great compromise between high population northern states and low representation
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by yardie 4y ago
> A third contractor I knew was trying to do two jobs at the same time. I mean this literally how contractors work. Unless they were taking your IP and using it for another company I don’t see the issue.
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by yardie 4y ago
I've attended the HN London meetup and the HN Paris meetup that was sponsored at the time by Github(?). Met the engineers from Mindgeek, loads of fun learning how they store and classify petabytes of video.
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by yardie 4y ago
Let's do it! There is a biweekly happy hour at the Freehold, Wynwood on Wednesday nights.
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by yardie 4y ago
Peace and stability is how we are in this mess. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Western Europe did nothing, to keep the peace. Russia was emboldened to continue the campaign to annex the rest of Ukraine because they knew no one was going to
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by yardie 4y ago
How did Germany buy US LNG for the last 50 years? They certainly can't buy it now they since they don't have the terminals to receive the ships.
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by yardie 4y ago
Just get a raspberry pi, the cheapest will do, and you now have Airprint.
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by yardie 4y ago
> a small-ish Welsh mountain pony I thought it was a goat at first.
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by yardie 4y ago
It's been scrubbed! Hydrogen leak in one of the H2 lines. Bummer!

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