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by zigman1 3y ago
Younger generations really have it bad with how the market treats them as customers. I highly doubt they experience same level of joy as previous generations using gameboys and similar devices did. I honestly feel majority of the games at t
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by zigman1 3y ago
Sounds like talk in the kafanas
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by zigman1 3y ago
> post stuffed with stolen art and often heard but absolutely not working advice? But it gets you to the HN front page!
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by zigman1 3y ago
> and X will collect real-time information about what people are currently talking about I really well hope this won't happen. I don't want any observations or conclusions from the environment that is predominantly shitposting,
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by zigman1 3y ago
yeah I find all of this pretty strange, because Musk was very much adored by the left leaning people before he started his cultural war. Around 2016-2017 he was still the cool guy even on Reddit. I find this whole political circus slightly
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by zigman1 3y ago
I don't understand this view. you come to a foreign country to do business. This country has an established set of rules that you have to follow to do business in it. You arrive and demand something that is not following these local r
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by zigman1 3y ago
That's interesting to hear that it is so relaxed in Europe. I work in EU at a multinational with offices all around the world, and within Europe, we are not legally allowed to enter the offices in other countries. The reason is simply
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by zigman1 3y ago
I find people who love edginess to feel some sort of moral or intellectual superiority to the commons or people they often communicate (example, in high school where you really have a random mixture of all kinds of personalities). Definitel
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by zigman1 3y ago
The current CTO at the place where I work has multiple years of experience in tech within the banking sector. Ho once said that, if you'd be aware of the systems the banks are using, you'd keep your money in a sock.
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by zigman1 3y ago
A slave in the Roman empire/United States/Nazi concentration camps etc etc were also perceived as a tool. Do they deserve pleasantries? (no implication about morality of slavery but I intentionally selected examples where enslaved
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by zigman1 3y ago
Sorry, I am not entirely sure what you are trying to say... Unions are type of collective fight in form of strikes and bargaining, against exploitation and are the main tool within the class war. Actual battles happened because the ruling c
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by zigman1 3y ago
What are you trying to say? I can also cherry-pick one of numerous alt right people storming cities with guns and assault rifles, calling for violence.
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by zigman1 3y ago
> seized the opportunity to sneer at working-class people as bigoted, stupid and reactionary This is incredibly ignorant view which does not understand the trauma someone can endure when not being allowed or experience not only discrimin
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by zigman1 3y ago
I know exactly what you mean, but this kind of people were sold on a particular idea of what being a founder/entrepreneuer is. Just grind hard and make products and at one point you will make it. They see emerging trends as opportuniti
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by zigman1 3y ago
One would have thought that people within tech and all this "entrepreneurialism" would have a bit more of a rational and common sense, but it really seems that you can actually sell shit to everyone. I'm sad to see this shitf
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by zigman1 3y ago
Any other google news alerts you have running?
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by zigman1 3y ago
> - Follow cool people in the field. Any advice how to approach this?
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by zigman1 3y ago
> Build a quick landing page with a waitlist.. I scraped together a BuyMeCoffee page and wrote an extensive Reddit post about the app idea. That's a great idea, thanks for sharing
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by zigman1 3y ago
"Ain't Nothing But..." blues bar in Soho. Given the location I was expecting to be a bit too mainstream, but I was pleasantly surprised.
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by zigman1 3y ago
Yep, I agree. That's another thing that is fascinating at first when you start using earplugs. You actually hear the instruments better, almost as an isolated track
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by zigman1 3y ago
I'm not sure how common it is in other places, but in Belgium most of the bars and clubs have a visible screen which always shows the current decibels in the venue. Some of them have have free earplugs to take and concert venue have di
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by zigman1 3y ago
It took me only one gig with an earplugs to start using them religiously, carrying them with me at all times on my keychain, same way you mentioned. Once you put them out during a gig and hear just how LOUD the place is, is really a strange
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by zigman1 3y ago
I was visiting London by myself last week. Few people I know were busy so I couldn't meet them. In three free days I had, I went to coffee shops, restaurant, parks and a pub. Guess where I met new people. Not saying you can't in o
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by zigman1 3y ago
Therre is this amazing political theory book called The Dictator's Handbook [1] by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith which itself is a popularized version of their Theory of Selectoriat (i am not sure if it is a cortect translation) from Mes
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by zigman1 3y ago
If you are further interested, check out the difference in player development in basketball between Europe and US. In EU there is much more focus on the systems and team play from the early age, whereas in US, as soon as someone shows promi
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by zigman1 3y ago
I don't think he is that underrated? His blogs often get quite high on HN
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by zigman1 3y ago
I really hope not a lot of people does that. Looking for knowledge or guides i don’t want to be stuck with the worst part of the internet as what blogs have become. There’s a reason all of us are using site:reddit.com.
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by zigman1 3y ago
Exactly! I love when every so often a random "life-style" article comes up :)
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by zigman1 3y ago
> Communities and cultural focal points take time and effort to create, and hard to move. Thanks, I struggled to express myself in words about that, and this is spot on what I am thinking. Also it became a go-to place for search. I know
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I am also missing some context here

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