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Show HN: Calmscroll – A Library of Paragraphs(calmscroll.com)
1 points by amadeuspagel 10h ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Calmscroll – a reader that shows the current paragraph in the library(calmscroll.com)
6 points by amadeuspagel 6d ago|0 comments
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by amadeuspagel 6d ago
Humans don't live by the clock. People in Spain and Poland aren't awake at the same time, merely because they live in the same timezone.
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by amadeuspagel 7d ago
> Mercator is the most-widely used projection (Google Maps uses it, for one), but it was created in 1569 during the age of exploration. It's mostly good for sea navigation. Any straight line drawn on the map represents a constant co
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by amadeuspagel 16d ago
It's hard to think of a name worse then "spotify" itself, but fast "fastpotify" may be it.
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by amadeuspagel 18d ago
> Almost nobody objected to my characterization of Google and Bing search results, but people told me that I was wrong about Kagi. Paying for a product makes you defensive, especially if there are free alternatives.
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Functional Finance(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by amadeuspagel 19d ago|0 comments
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Uniwidth Typeface(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by amadeuspagel 21d ago|0 comments
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Parallel worktrees running all services on local branch domains(github.com)
2 points by amadeuspagel 25d ago|0 comments
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by amadeuspagel 2mo ago
> This seems to have happened in history; ideas proposed by lower status folks were less accepted until higher status folks reintroduced them > For example, Richard Stallman’s software concept wasn’t accepted until rebranded as “open
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by amadeuspagel 2mo ago
The most important thing I remember from Impro is that we all have habits we adopted as children that we still use as adults, even though they no longer work.
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'We Were Simply Animals'(equator.org)
2 points by amadeuspagel 2mo ago|0 comments
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Is There Any End to the Atlantic's "End-Ism" Fetish?(newrepublic.com)
12 points by amadeuspagel 2mo ago|6 comments
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
As far as I understand, the US taxes its citizens whereever they live (the third alternative I mentioned).
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
> My first company, Freshflow, is valuable enough that walking out of Germany would trigger a massive six-figure exit tax, on gains I have not even realised, purely for the privilege of leaving. Without this "exit tax", every f
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
A summary is always an expression of distrust: I don't trust the author not to waste my time so I need a summary. It's strange that a website would offer an AI generated summary of a text that it paid someone to write.
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
That's not a problem with the squiggles as a user interface, but with the software assuming that you speak only one language.
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
> The approval of draft rules by the economic committee of the European Parliament comes after three years of wrangling between the ECB and banks, which have been concerned about deposit outflows and lost revenues and sought to limit the
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
Could these things be turned interactive? Like a parallax effect when you move your mouse?
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
> Sadly, I don't know anymore what kind of web service that was. I don't know that either, but I remember there were websites specifically for that purpose, where you could look up a file extension and what program to open it w
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
I didn't know that but now I did it.
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
You're right to point this out, but it's still more annoying because you now have to remember that consciously, rather then seeing and feeling that you can just move your mouse to the edge.
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
This scratches the same itch as same.energy and pinterest, but looks better, with everything cut out, with unique shapes. Truly, every page is its own image. I love wikipedia, but I don't see why this idea should be limited to it. Why
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
Blaming immigration for not finding an apartment is very different from blaming immigration for not finding a job. Jobs appear almost automatically (if some basic economic conditions are met), apartments have to be built and permitted. Blam
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
The map in which the entirety of germany is yellow and the legend says that yellow means "exercise a high degree of caution" while the surrounding countries are gray, is awfully misleading. The map for france looks the same[1], wi
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by amadeuspagel 3mo ago
> Like the author is making a big deal that they think scope is more important than type. I may tend to agree, but I think the difference between "fix(compiler)" and "compiler fix" is not exactly a hill I'd be wi
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by amadeuspagel 4mo ago
I walked 20 minutes to a brick and mortar toy store to buy some bouncy balls recently. It was a chain store though. That's not sad to me, because I'm not emotional about whether chain or independent businesses do any better in a g
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by amadeuspagel 5mo ago
When I think of companies that make cheapness cool I think of IKEA, Primark, Ryanair and Fiat, not Apple and Porsche. The Macbook Neo and the Porsche 968 are cheap only compared to other products by the same brand and they are designed not
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by amadeuspagel 5mo ago
A distro making your project the default doesn't give you any responsibility.
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by amadeuspagel 5mo ago
Life is about habits. The pandemic interrupted many good habits people had--going outside, doing sports, meeting people--and many people haven't restarted these habits, in part due to a collective cold start problem.

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