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by phpnode 3y ago
Yes it can take several months but it's also a well oiled process that's quite straightforward as long as you have the relevant paperwork ready to go and assuming the properties you want to buy are easily mortgageable (and you hav
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by phpnode 3y ago
In the uk. Do buy-to-let mortgages not exist in Germany?
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by phpnode 3y ago
It’s not impossible for someone to have 30 apartments by the time they’re 40. It’s a matter of convincing mortgage companies to loan you money, which is what they want to do given it’s their job. I know several people who’ve done this 100%
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by phpnode 3y ago
I think the answer to that question is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035853
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by phpnode 3y ago
I would bet that the Chinese manufacturer that cloned the design never had one of the original balls in their possession in the first place. They probably saw photos of the ball online, copied the design as closely as possible and googled
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by phpnode 3y ago
Subscription is a common model for things like this, particularly because it’s so easy for people to make direct approaches to the vendor, cutting out the middleman to avoid the commission/fees
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by phpnode 3y ago
There's this and a few other magical things in the client that give me pause, in particular: const [post, comments] = await query(({ get }) => { get.post.with.slug = 'new-pricing'; get.comments; });
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A Man Who Brought 1M CDs to the Worst City in America [video](youtube.com)
1 points by phpnode 3y ago|0 comments
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by phpnode 3y ago
I think this used to happen when files were transferred as plain text rather than binary, but I forget which transfer protocol was affected - maybe FTP?
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by phpnode 3y ago
your snark is obscuring any point that you might be trying to make here...
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by phpnode 3y ago
The clauses are common in the UK but I see them all the time from startups incorporated in Delaware. Maybe they're there for the deterrent factor. Also, hi!
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by phpnode 3y ago
I'm quite surprised by this, if only because of the regularity with which they appear in standard software consulting agreements.
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by phpnode 3y ago
MS and OpenAI certainly have non-solicitation clauses in their contracts. MS could afford the legal battle but isn't it better for them to wait it out and see what happens first?
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by phpnode 3y ago
about 1.5%, so a bit but not earth shattering (although that does represent about $40bn in market cap)
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by phpnode 3y ago
It is upsetting to hear the phrase “turn of the century” used to describe the year 2000. I know it’s correct, but it still feels very wrong.
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by phpnode 3y ago
The video makes the point that a single bag of cement costs €20 in an area where the average daily wage is €10.
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by phpnode 3y ago
Linux is the name of the kernel
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A brief history of counting machines(lcamtuf.substack.com)
2 points by phpnode 3y ago|1 comments
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by phpnode 3y ago
If you were the other side of that trade then you’re the victim. For everyone else it erodes trust in the market
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TypeScript Origins: The Documentary [video](youtube.com)
19 points by phpnode 3y ago|1 comments
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by phpnode 3y ago
https://archive.ph/jEwLn
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Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of Fox and News Corp(ft.com)
2 points by phpnode 3y ago|1 comments
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by phpnode 3y ago
ah out of memory, I'll try with a shorter track.
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by phpnode 3y ago
Just tried this and it seems to get stuck at the following step (for 20 mins so far) [WASM/C++ 18:07:24] Getting waveforms from istft [WASM/C++ 18:07:25] Copying waveforms
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by phpnode 3y ago
That proposal aims to allow type annotations as part of JS, but to do that the parser needs to know when a type annotation starts (easy) and ends (hard), the only realistic ways that can be done at the moment is explicitly supporting all of
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by phpnode 3y ago
this is exactly what I want from the Types as Comments proposal[0] as I think it's the only way that types can feasibly become part of the language. It's hard to imagine how all of the concepts TS introduces via special syntax c
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by phpnode 3y ago
users tend to be quite good at flagging most highly political stories, so they disappear off the front page pretty quickly but can still be found by those who really want to engage. The status quo is good imo
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by phpnode 3y ago
Mostly in the form of quotes from SEC lawsuits
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by phpnode 3y ago
When did @click and so on become part of HTML?
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by phpnode 3y ago
Microsoft actually laid off most of their IE developers after IE6 if I recall correctly, they had no vision for the future, it was finished, they'd won (for a while)

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