oldtownroad

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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The article is fiction. The company launched less than a year ago. The founder claims that the company has had more than 100 clients, in less than a year? Pure marketing fiction — I doubt more than 10% of this article is true.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
An optimistic outlook is that we have the knowledge and resources to adapt to a changing environment without loss of life. A realistic counter to that is if we were able to utilise these resources and knowledge effectively then we wouldn’t
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Either you’re misunderstanding closet to mean a built-in wardrobe or… I don’t know what other explanation there could be. American closets (i.e: a whole room of 100+ square feet, dedicated to storage of clothes) just don’t exist in “normal”
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
You’re arguing that a younger audience would never care for what critics have to say, in which case, Pitchfork was doomed to die regardless of the choices they made: if you’re not bringing in a new audience, you’re dying, because of churn.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Audm was an article narration service which was eventually acquired by the New York Times. The service is now part of the NYT but still narrates articles across many publications — including the New Yorker.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
it’s trivial to avoid. Do not accept instructions outside of the standard instruction channels. The only reason this scheme works is because of bad processes, bad training or a culture of fear (where employees feel compelled to comply with
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Why are they a violation of the tourist status? A tourist is someone who brings money in to the local economy, that’s why tourists are coveted. If a person visits Japan for a week and spends $2000 on a hotel and $1000 on activities, why wou
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
That’s not true. The jurisdiction that your business operates in doesn’t change depending on where you’re located. If you’re running a business without a business entity (why?) then you can use a merchant of record service (like Paddle) whi
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
A digital nomad visa serves an important purpose: it allows someone to stay in the country longer than as a tourist. The existence of a digital nomad visa bolsters the understanding that digital nomads are allowed to use a tourist visa. A w
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I’m asking because I visit Japan on a tourist visa and I have never encountered this rule. I’d like to learn more about it from official sources. The purpose of a digital nomad visa is to allow for a longer stay.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Can you share the tourist visa regulations for Japan that say this? I haven’t been able to find any. Thank you :)
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
“The most similar existing status is usually used by tourists, does not allow work and allows a maximum stay of just 90 days” I don’t think that’s correct. A tourist visa doesn’t allow you to work locally but they do not limit working remot
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subdom...
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I mean small relative to big artists, not small in absolute numbers. If you have less than 1k streams you probably have less than 50 listeners which is basically nothing. A (relatively) small audience would be made up of tens of thousands o
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
People say this but don’t understand the reason artists don’t make much per-listener on Spotify etc. is because of their record deals, it’s nothing to do with Spotify. If you’re an independent artist you can live comfortably off of a small
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The music of today is built on the music of yesterday and so on and so forth. The top 100 of 1970 has very little variety when compared to the top 100 of 2023. There’s 5 decades of genres that have developed since 1970. Electronic music had
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
the top 100 is more varied today than it was at any point in history.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Don’t charge based on profile visits: you’ll punish people for utilising the service and you’ll create a negative experience when someone reaches that limit. People should choose to pay as an active decision to gain access to new features.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
We have so much lower hanging fruit to tackle first that doesn’t even require research: what’s the point in extending your miserable life a couple more miserable years? Adding a decade on to your life of extreme privilege is worthwhile, but
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The headline is technically accurate but miscommunicates the conclusions we should draw. The subjects sniffed women’s “emotional” tears but the control was an odourless liquid. Therefore what they actually validated was whether smelling som
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
He’s a compulsive criminal, he was able to continue committing crime despite being restricted from accessing a computer. He wasn’t confined to an institution because he did a crime, it’s because he has admitted that no matter what he will
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
OpenAI is more religion than company. Sam could be a deeply flawed leader and still have extreme loyalty due to what OpenAI has achieved under his leadership. The people at OpenAI are believers in a mission and that means they’re far more l
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
You’ll need an SSN to open most credit cards, it’s very difficult to get a credit card without residency. The business banks that specifically cater to overseas founders (like Mercury) make banking easy but that doesn’t extend to churning c
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I much prefer going through a self checkout but it’s a poor solution. The traditional checkout process makes sense because there’s a person involved, if no person is involved then there are much better solutions. Stores in the UK like Tes
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Addiction isn’t rational so the answer may be as unsatisfying as “people got addicted because they got addicted”. Many people addicted to real slot machines are addicted because you press a button and something happens, the fact that you ca
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The problem is more fundamental. As with Uber, WeWork is an evolution of a simple and well understood business model… but layered with some high-tech fantasy about being able to change the fundamentals of the universe. WeWork could have suc
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Twitter is not a tech company: their commercial output is not technology, technology is just a tool, Twitter is a social platform. Musk is not acting as a CTO, a CTO doesn’t set product direction. A CTO delivers for other stakeholders usin
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The question is whether Facebook’s use is likely to confuse consumers: software isn’t a category of its own, everything is software now, and this is different software — any context immediately distinguishes the usages (and there’s no reput
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
No inside knowledge but the “changed” account numbers sounds a lot like their banking partner (evolve) withdrew service with a few weeks notice, which would explain “temporarily” withdrawing cards too — as they’re linked to Evolve. I’d norm
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
That’s occupation, not ownership. Ownership can’t exist without a legal or cultural structure to enforce it. A human can occupy land and defend that occupation with violence but that does not mean they own the land. A society can exist with

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