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France has 348 different taxes on individuals(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by bwb 3d ago|1 comments
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by bwb 3d ago
nah, it is a race; nation-states are in the midst of a big upheaval. Nobody is going to give up a possible advantage.
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by bwb 4d ago
No in no way this is an ad, this website is built around a shared love of books and finding new ones.
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by bwb 4d ago
This won't work, China/USA are in a race. How do you create a treaty with binding provisions when you have such incompetent leadership in the USA?
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Gordon Doherty's favorite books about the fall of the Roman Empire(bookdna.com)
2 points by bwb 4d ago|0 comments
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My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them(bookdna.com)
9 points by bwb 4d ago|3 comments
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by bwb 24d ago
I'm building Book DNA to help people get book recommendations from humans (mostly authors and experts so far in our early days). -> https://bookdna.com/ We started with the website, and now we are building a full ap
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My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes(bookdna.com)
284 points by bwb 25d ago|126 comments
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My favorite books on how science won World War 2(bookdna.com)
1 points by bwb 25d ago|0 comments
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by bwb 1mo ago
It is on my list as I keep hearing great things!
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by bwb 1mo ago
I removed all friends years ago. After I read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I quit, but I still need an account for a few groups I moderate. I think it has done more damage to this country than tobacco.
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by bwb 1mo ago
FB is built on rage bait, what else do they have beside cute videos?
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My favourite books to help you survive grief(bookdna.com)
9 points by bwb 1mo ago|0 comments
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My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit(bookdna.com)
21 points by bwb 1mo ago|4 comments
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by bwb 1mo ago
I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there. I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip every year. It has improved, and they do a ton of us
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by bwb 1mo ago
Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.
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by bwb 2mo ago
Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.
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by bwb 2mo ago
I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/ If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now. We are working on goodreads/st
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by bwb 2mo ago
I run two plugins to just invisibly make them go away, I don't care, they are a waste of my time :)
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by bwb 2mo ago
I live in Bordeaux, although thankfully out of town for the month. This is insane to watch, and friends say the city is full of smoke
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by bwb 2mo ago
oh gosh no, love books, building it for free. We are direct funded with premium accounts by authors and readers.
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Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
20 points by bwb 2mo ago|4 comments
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by bwb 2mo ago
I live in Europe, I can make an appointment with my dentist tomorrow. I was sick 3 weeks ago and just went on video conference at 6am with my PCP. Just to help out there :) This has been the case in every country I've lived in within E
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by bwb 2mo ago
How does this work with sunglasses?
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by bwb 3mo ago
Ah gotcha, ya that will be interesting to see, but does seem like a more likely life of 7 to 10 years is possible. I am curious on actual hardware failure rates due to heat etc.
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by bwb 3mo ago
Anyone got any good testing data? Surely someone knows rough failure rate from constant usage?
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by bwb 3mo ago
Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage? Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?
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by bwb 3mo ago
My son loves these books, I've read them to him hundreds of times :)
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Mark Warren's favorite novels about a child's immersion into wilderness(bookdna.com)
2 points by bwb 3mo ago|0 comments
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My favorite classic working-class novels of all time(bookdna.com)
3 points by bwb 3mo ago|1 comments

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