dinamic

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by dinamic 4mo ago
A lot of people I know have multiple remote jobs. I guess, when you have multiple jobs mentoring juniors is just an unnecessary chore which you want to avoid as much as you can, since it takes precious time from doing “real” work.
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by dinamic 6mo ago
Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?
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by dinamic 2y ago
Gold and Value producers reminded me of the Galt’s Gulch from Atlas Shrugged. But I could not fancy this imaginary community to scale up to even millions
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by dinamic 4y ago
> but, by constitutional law, nobody, not even the king himself, could put off their turn indefinitely. I'm not sure that any real-life moral imperatives could be based on made-up story about obviously utopian society. For me, immor
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by dinamic 4y ago
5 year's ago I've bought a 2-in-1 Dell Inspiron laptop. 2-in-1 functionality turned out to be useless and annoying in Ubuntu environment, so I almost never used it. 1 year after the purchase, WiFi signal on this laptop started to
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by dinamic 5y ago
Exactly
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by dinamic 5y ago
Absolutely not. Proof Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Alive Facebook page with 3 million followers: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/
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by dinamic 5y ago
No, it's not! Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Alive Facebook page with 3 million followers: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/
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by dinamic 5y ago
You can use GitHub pages with Jekyll. Easy to setup and run, there are a lot of custom Jekyll blog themes available online. Custom domain with private repo costs few dollars per month.
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by dinamic 5y ago
Once made DuckDuckGo my default search engine in all browsers. Ended up switching to Google every time I needed to search in Ukrainian. I like DuckDuckGo, but its inferior search quality for some non-English languages makes it unusable. Maj
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by dinamic 5y ago
10 EUR per tile? Shouldn't such maps be in public domain already? It's odd how differently countries treat their cultural heritage. Poland, for example, has published a lot of archival materials in public domain [1]. But this is n
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by dinamic 5y ago
Even if it turns out to be a loss for the majority of players, I am still happy for the creators that got a chance to monetize their work. I think Beeple truly deserves the fortune he made.
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Show HN: Paspartu – preserve stories behind your photos(github.com)
6 points by dinamic 5y ago|1 comments
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by dinamic 5y ago
In fact, it wasn't. Just a regular distant village in Carpathians. I guess the main motivation to return was that his wife and kids stayed there.
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by dinamic 5y ago
My great-grandfather was traveling to USA for work back in 1912. He came back after 6 years and settled in his village becoming its head. Almost everybody in my family knows this story and it's indeed fascinating, because at that time
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by dinamic 5y ago
There is a beautiful video by Kurzgesagt. It makes a similar point and I feel better every time I watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14
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Why Men Don’t Live as Long as Women (2017)(nautil.us)
1 points by dinamic 5y ago|0 comments
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by dinamic 5y ago
Fast fashion is a vivid example of overconsumption, and planned obsolescence would be a good example of overproduction. Regarding person's "needs" - I believe they are endless up to the point where person can afford them.
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by dinamic 5y ago
Despite loving such projects, sometimes I have a feeling that concentration on recycling shifts attention too much from the real causes of waste pollution, such as overproduction, overconsumption and lack of investment in biodegradable mate
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by dinamic 5y ago
Here, in Ukraine, we usually try get rid of the soviet legacy and I’ve never heard about anybody collecting soviet books. They are filled with communist propaganda and are not fun to read. The thing is, they were printed at a massive scale
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by dinamic 5y ago
I’ve never understood what’s the point of giving a lecture nobody except you can grasp. IMHO, It could be justified only by the novelty of topic discussed, otherwise it’s just a waste of everybody’s time.
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by dinamic 5y ago
I remember one mobile operator in late 2000s charged for a call only after first second. So we used to call each other, saying something really fast and hang up to not get charged.
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by dinamic 5y ago
This story makes me wondering whether Wikipedia has any means to defend against possible malicious foreign campaigns carries out by non-democratic countries (Russia/China) to discredit western personalities, society and institutions.
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by dinamic 6y ago
While you are certainly able to discuss few ideas or sing a song multiple times, life is one and only and your are limited in the ways you can experiment with it.
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by dinamic 6y ago
From project's FAQ ( https://thesifter.org/Home/Faq ): Q: What is not in the Sifter? A: It does not contain the texts of books or recipes. Seems to be a bit useless without it.
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How Amazon Mechanical Turk got its name(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dinamic 7y ago|0 comments
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Tree of Life(onezoom.org)
3 points by dinamic 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are there any nice free tools to build a family tree?
5 points by dinamic 7y ago|4 comments