freyfogle

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by freyfogle 1y ago
C'mon Jilles, as we say in Germany "no risk, no fun"
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by freyfogle 1y ago
Thanks, amigo. If you want to come by and show me how it's done, you are more than welcome. As it happens, yes, we were a family fo four.
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by freyfogle 1y ago
you can do a lot of things. You can live as a hunter/gatherer. The question is do you want to live like that?
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by freyfogle 1y ago
To my knowledge there are no rules against it, it is just a major and expensive plumbing project requiring redoing the whole kitchen. And so as a landlord why bother, you will always find someone willing to rent, no matter how unlivable the
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by freyfogle 1y ago
not seven, but yes, I had two small children at the time
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by freyfogle 1y ago
If you know where to look there are still a few old wall maps left in the Barbican that show the old high walks
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by freyfogle 1y ago
I lived there for three years, rented a flat. Living in the Barbican was fantastic, livign in my flat was not fantastic. I used to joke it was a time machine to 1965. There was not only no dishwasher, there was literally no space for a dish
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by freyfogle 1y ago
Possibly, but they only cover the US
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by freyfogle 1y ago
If you think that is a fair trade I would love the chance to talk with you and save you A LOT of money. Our experience (10+ years of offering a geocoding service) is that many people (of course depending on exact needs and use case) are sig
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by freyfogle 1y ago
> I suppose you can't please everyone. correct
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by freyfogle 1y ago
well the pricing models are per request, but just in easy to understand buckets (small, medium, large). Our experience is most people prefer this as they know exactly what they will spend, there is never a surprising bill. That said we do h
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by freyfogle 1y ago
IP geolocation is a different (albeit similar) topic than geocoding. See: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-ip-geolocation-differs-f...
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by freyfogle 1y ago
There is a list here (vs. Google) https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-switch-from-google-ma... though really the key difference is the fact that we use open data. Googles data is not open, this significatly restrict
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by freyfogle 1y ago
Hi, Great. The only real answer is you should sign up for a free trial (takes 2 min, requires just an email address) and test with your actual input data. Which language are you working in? We have SDKs for almost all (30+) and detailed tut
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by freyfogle 1y ago
I'm sorry but not surprised to read that you had a bad experience with positionstack. They have been unreliable for years, and worse yet unresponsive about it. If you still need geocoding very happy to have a conversation, or you can j
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by freyfogle 1y ago
Hi, Ed here, one of the founders of OpenCage. This comparison is a bit shallow to be honest, as it basically just looks at price. Of course price is important, but as someone who has worked on geocoding for 10+ years and helped literally th
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by freyfogle 2y ago
How many of the twitter followers are live humans?
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by freyfogle 2y ago
yes, of course. The question is have all the developers writing their own code to deal with zip codes also adapted?
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by freyfogle 2y ago
it is safe to assume nothing. Please see: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes... I write this as someone who grew up in the ZIP code 09180
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by freyfogle 2y ago
There are many problems with zip codes / postal codes but the biggest two we see are: a. Excel treats them as numbers instead of strings of digits and thus drops the leading 0 b. Developers make assumptions about postal codes based on
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by freyfogle 2y ago
Not enough people wanted to check in. Those that did were all of the same demographic. So lots of check-ins at bars / restaurants, none at "boring" shops., doctor's office, etc. Then, like any fad, checking in was no lon
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by freyfogle 2y ago
be the change you want. Start fixing your area.
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by freyfogle 2y ago
There is a whole fund full: https://calmfund.com And other fund with this same model: https://tinyseed.com
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by freyfogle 2y ago
As someone who is burdened with several thousands in filing costs every year (not tax, I mean the cost of paying an accountant to deal with the filing, which is required for all US citizens), because I have a non-US business, please fill me
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by freyfogle 2y ago
Obviously there is fraud everywhere. Still, I have a higher level of basic trust when dealing with a GmbH than someone who created their Ltd Co 3 hours ago. It's just a sign they are a more serious/stable business counter party to
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by freyfogle 2y ago
Oh for sure it could be much better in Germany, and I hope that rapidly becomes the case. Definitely digitization needs to come faster. My complaint is simply people imagining it is perfect elsewhere. Really that is not the case, no where i
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by freyfogle 2y ago
Hah! Americans have to file US tax whether they live in the US or not.
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by freyfogle 2y ago
I have lived/worked/banked in four countries (UK, US, ES, DE). Germany is not at the cutting edge, but it is far from the worse. The interactions I have had with bureaucratic systems in Thüringen have all been entirely fine. Frien
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by freyfogle 2y ago
I now have a German GmbH and had a UK Ltd in the past for 10 years. Definitely there is more seriousness/trustworthiness to a GmbH. I am not sure there are "countless" scams in the UK, but yes, in 10 years of commercial opera
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by freyfogle 2y ago
Really I think this is overdone. I fully appreciate Berlin is disfunctional, but in other regions (I live in Thüringen) things go quite quickly.

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