tomcooks

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by tomcooks 5y ago
HN why did you change so much? Did Yahoo! become an investor?
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by tomcooks 5y ago
You chose your username here and in most other places. You can even change it easily on many platforms. Your username doesn't require you to show your ID and have your calls tapped and traced towards your person. Do you want me to cont
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Opposite of my experience, helps you have the proper mechanical info to learn the basics, skipping marketing nonsense and mumbo jumbo. Knowing how to lift something heavy safely goes beyond the practice of strength training, it's a lif
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Starting Strength by Rippletoe Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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by tomcooks 5y ago
emojis mid text, emojis mid text, emojis mid text. pictograms, pictograms, pictograms, gu gu ga ga. also, this is going to make your address reputation plummet, if you enjoy convincing (often in exchange for a 30$+ commission) 100+ differen
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Why worry about mainstream crypto adoption to the point you want to remove the freedoms that brought you there in the first place?
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by tomcooks 5y ago
> Most designers will cringe at the thought of showing users a fallback system font. Explaining them that web is not paper, helps removing a lot of this childish behaviour.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
The "digital plaza" ownership and total control on one's own community is a literal 2.99 euro/month VPS running mastodon away. Shitposting one's thoughts by arranging pixels on a public forum is NOT a necessity, it&
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by tomcooks 5y ago
If there's a community that's going to hunt you down until they find the info they need in your ultraspecific, obscure, niche blog, it's metalheads. Open a quick forum and work on it, build SEO articles, ask people to share a
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by tomcooks 5y ago
This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating. Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers. If you want to get rid of nostalgia please spend 60 whole minutes making sense of HTML+PHP5.6+jQuer
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by tomcooks 5y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree with this defeatist attitude, which is supposed to magically lead to change more than actually planning and actioning chance itself. Nowhere in life change happens without trauma. Get good at trauma and you'll
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Update title to use "nowlight"
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Finally someone mentioning this, it's a gem of an article in a gem of a website
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Albania also has great sea, amazing food and welcoming people
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by tomcooks 5y ago
I'm all ears, if you want to explain how this is possible without breaking multiple laws and cross-country agreements
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by tomcooks 5y ago
In EU companies have to appoint a medical expert that checks worker's health (for free) upon joining the company, and routinely (1-2 times a year, depends on country I guess). Edit: Could be something that only companies whose workers
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Then lose your knife ok.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Wool is known to take longer to dry, while retaining isolation properties even when drenched
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Problem is that they're bulkier. Moreover, when you wash them, they take longer to dry.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Not in most European countries, where what matters is whether the blades are lockable or not
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Just put it in any small cardboard box and have it shipped as you would do with a small bag, then collect it from the baggage collection place upon arrival.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
This website has taught me so much about travelling when I was in my early 20s, and I've been living out of a backpack ever since.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
That's why "to galvanize" is a thing.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
It's not about left and right, it's about being a journalist that has done extensive research and can provide sources, or a spammy clickbaiter.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
UK is not part of the EU, and the Express is hardly a newspaper
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Finally some sources, thank you. Point b of chapter 2 seems to be the most interesting for this kind of discussion 2. Intelligent speed assistance shall meet the following minimum requirements: (a) it shall be possible for the driver to b
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by tomcooks 5y ago
A copy of a zero hedge article with little to no sources, in the homepage? Ok
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by tomcooks 5y ago
They can barely get them to pay taxes, let alone pay fines. Give it time and keep on avoiding sites which break the law
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by tomcooks 5y ago
I'm talking about CIA funds to get Italy out of the soviet area of influence (aka the Italian Economic Boom of the 50s), why would you pull the Roman Empire or the Renaissance out of your hat.
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by tomcooks 5y ago
Ask the American missile bases and navy stations in central and southern Italy, conveniently placed right in the middle of the medkterranean.

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