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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
1. Pension bomb — as you see, is about to go off in Europe. Honestly, I would expect it to go off first in the US. They rely heavily on the stock-markets and have much higher payouts. Many employee funds may just implode (e.g. Illinois teac
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"much faster than say ext2" Mordsschnell!
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
Why not? http://www.iaauae.org/media-files/2007/10/16/20071016_Hitler...
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
Yeah. Because we know that post-soviet Russians are very happy people. Not. Source: I am there once a month.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"How's life in China?" "Great!" Source: I live there! This is the mistake you're making regarding stuff you have no idea of.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"What they aren’t good at is making people happy. See Hong Kong for the last 6 months." Wrong Chinese people are very happy. In some rankings they belong to the happiest people. Here they are medium range: https://www.w
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
I would appreciate an article about "The secret afterlife of Belgium Mail" The Belgium postal system ranks below Moldavia. It is a third world country and the postal system is dysfunctional. Now wonder Boris Johnson is leaving aft
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"I don't care if people sell clean, safe, reasonable things that are gleaned from a dumpster. That's waste reduction and a net good." I could agree with that but I am worried about foot items. Do you know why a Pharmacy
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
And since we are on it, if I had a wish I would wish a nerd password option for one time passwords based on regular expressions.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"This should not be a surprise, as this supports the NIST's revised recommendations (from June 2017!) that passwords should not expire [0], because it actually leads to less-secure passwords for this exact reason." THIS. 10 T
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/13518049608430230
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"the death of one is a tragedy. the death of a million is a statistic" Stalin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day" Stopped reading there. Google: "By the end of the first day, none of the assault forces had secured their fir
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
Meanwhile, in the late-twentieth-century phase of the arms race, the role of unpredictable chance increased. When hours (or days) and miles (or hundreds of miles) separate defeat from victory, and therefore an error of command can be remed
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
You don't want your family to use my setup. I breaks many things. A person not in IT is probably just fine if you install ublock Origin. Or you would have to train your family to use different browsers for different things and you want
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
Use browser plug ins * ublock origin * no script * cookie auto delete plug in, deletes cookies if tab is closed * (I use also I don't care about cookies for the EU cookies clusterfuck) * Canvas blocker * Privacy badger * Glyph detectio
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
We always had climate change. Not having climate change is the exception. Is it man made? Is it caused by CO2? Ist it getting warmer? Is this a good or a bad thing? Can we and should we do something about it? This are many questions and cli
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"The early 2000's were a period of especially low usability for Microsoft's products." Windows 2000 was actually a pretty stable system, considering MS previous standards. "user. Over several years, I tried to convi
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
No, it argued on a mathematical basis for this.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
I came across an article about DNA but did not had time to read it and lost it. It was about some ideas why DNA has 4 bases (and not 6 or 8). They also mention why 20 (?) amino acids. It was something similar to degrees of freedom. Not sure
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
The difference being made that people are willing to spend big on short term things but are stingy on things that they use a lot. Be it a keyboard, shoes, bed sheets or whatever. I just ordered a "new" keyboard. IBM Model M, space
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"you're not spending $1600 on a keyboard to improve your" Well, it is $1600 for a keyboard that you are using 8h a day for the next five years vs a $5 Latte that you are enjoying the next 4 minutes. You do the math.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
Ah, yea. Could well be. Nomad Capitalist likes it: https://nomadcapitalist.com/tag/georgia/ It has some advantages. I like Tbilisi (the capital) but in the end it is too far off the beaten track to be my base. I n
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
You don't know much about Europeans. You don't know much about businesses either. What sense would it make for a plumber business or restaurant to move there? None. What sense would it make for a high tech business to move there?
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
" (and am currently doing something similar on the Black Sea coast of a different non-eu country)." Would you mind naming the country? Thx
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
That is sad. Biggest advantage of a beeper over a cell phone? Privacy. The beeper just receives and does not send your location.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
If this is true then this is bad. I always warned that the F35 is a one trick pony. Can't fly fast, can't fly far, can't carry much load, can't dog fight, needs ton of maintenance and may or may not be invisible. By defi
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
"location as the fastest transfer hub" Not sure what this means. How is Helsinki better suited for this than Moscow to serve Asia<>Europe? Aeroflot is one of the most underrated airlines.
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
When was the last time you took a train from Paris to New York?
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by joyjoyjoy 7y ago
This was on HN last year but nothing has come out of it: http://www.ivelope.com/invite/RunItUpTheFlagpoleHackerSeaCha...

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