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by flicken 5mo ago
The night bus service only runs the nights "before" Saturday and Sunday[1]. It's a small university city with 300k population (600k greater metropolitan area). [1] https://www.verbundlinie.at/en/customer-
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by flicken 1y ago
The Free State Project[1] had 20k libertarians pledge to move to New Hampshire, talking 15 years to reach the total number. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
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by flicken 2y ago
For that, you can use "spike filing". Place everything incoming you might need on top of a spike (or on top of a pile or in the front of a folder). The automatically sorts by traverse chronological order, making it easy to both re
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by flicken 2y ago
The "AAA" is a typo, they probably mean "AA777" for American Airlines 777[1]. A far as why the number 777 is amusing, it's gambling. The combination 777 is a jackpot on a slot machine, Additionally AA777 is a great
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by flicken 4y ago
The key phrase here is "target range"---it's not an exact number, but a range. The previous statement[1] was .50% lower on both ends of the range: > the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rat
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by flicken 4y ago
From their linked job description, there are a few countries that are excluded: > We are currently unable to hire from the following regions: China, France, Iran, Egypt, Russia
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by flicken 4y ago
It's an unintended consequence of the reduced (5-15% flat) taxes available via "regime forfettario"[1] which only applies to businesses with <65k income. Otherwise you have to pay much more (23%-43%) via the regular prog
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by flicken 4y ago
What prices are you seeing? For me in Europe, the single speed is only €240 cheaper than the cheapest Aluminum bike. €3990-€5200 Carbon €1590-€1990 Designer €1490-€1990 Aluminum €1250 single speed
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by flicken 4y ago
37signals hires outside the US, see their HN ad from June, 2022[1]: > The salary for candidates matched as Programmer is $165,410. The salary for candidates matched as Senior Programmer is $197,819. Irrespective of where in the world you
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by flicken 4y ago
> Ok now I am more curious. I looked at another company "Expensify" [1]. They actually want you to ideally relocate to one of their office locations :). So again, not fully remote anywhere in the world. I think employers say it
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by flicken 4y ago
SQLite does support multiple writers, they take turns: > SQLite only supports one writer at a time per database file. But in most cases, a write transaction only takes milliseconds and so multiple writers can simply take turns. SQLite wi
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by flicken 4y ago
Similarly, I got a "Zugang Steig B" (Entranceway B). Maybe adding a button to skip the question: "not really a street".
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by flicken 5y ago
America has low car ownership rates compared to western Europe, possibly due to income inequality. See this 2012 article. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/it... > The U.S. is
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by flicken 6y ago
https://standup.flicken.net/ After trying[1] multiple[2] alternatives[3][4], I built this to keep track of who speaks when and for how long at a daily standup. The question of "who's next?" is no longer aske
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by flicken 6y ago
Try this: lynx -dump -hiddenlinks=listonly https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-videos/ | grep youtube.com | perl -pe 's/.*http/http/' | youtube-dl --batch-file -
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by flicken 6y ago
Although https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ is meant for reformatting PDFs to view on e-readers, it does do a reasonable job of extracting text via OCR and storing as a PDF layer. The underlying engine can be either ht
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by flicken 6y ago
The article seems to summarize, but doesn't name, Alexander Zevin's book, Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52105758-liberalism-at-l... ).
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by flicken 6y ago
Working on a better way to edit calendar events: finding conflicts, grouping series of events together, etc.
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by flicken 7y ago
Yes, the intersection is alive and well without traffic signals. That's my favorite intersection in Graz, the five-way intersection of Zinzendorfgasse, Halbärthgasse, Schubertstrasse, Leechgasse, and Beethovenstrasse. The Google Maps
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by flicken 8y ago
Some coverage of Austria as well.
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by flicken 8y ago
Austrian version: http://fruitmap.at/
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by flicken 9y ago
https://slowgerman.com/
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by flicken 9y ago
Plus one for CBYX. The first two months are an intensive German course, so you don't technically need to have prior Germany experience (although it helps in order to be accepted). The last five months are for interning. If you take p
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by flicken 9y ago
+1 If there were a list of tasks that needed to be done, it would be much easier to pick up something in my spare time. The closest I can find to a task list is here: https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/issues&#x2
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by flicken 10y ago
Some of the control boards can be repaired, see https://youfixit.eu/en/ I did this after an electrical surge blew out a component.