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by tschwimmer 3mo ago
Switzerland is probably the most densely interesting and scenic place in the entire world. Try telling this to someone in Iowa.
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by tschwimmer 4mo ago
Mondragon gets glazed on HN frequently. Just search and you’ll find many examples.
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by tschwimmer 5mo ago
Does anyone know how he is implementing country detection? I'm certain it's not GeoIP since my current IP address (and physical location) is different than the country it's showing me from.
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by tschwimmer 6mo ago
>It also means penalties are limited to fines and can't impact your driving privilege or insurance. If this is the case, what are the consequences of not paying the fine? I interpret your statement to mean that they can't preve
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by tschwimmer 9mo ago
Unlike other commenters, I agree that there are some (arguably significant) things to complain about. The first one is price - tickets are quite expensive. I frequently travel Zurich HB -> Lugano. This is 200km and costs a whopping 120+
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by tschwimmer 11mo ago
Tell me about it. Swiss air refuses to pay out 1800€ in EC261 compensation…
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by tschwimmer 11mo ago
I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some information was readily available. For example, there was an inbo
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by tschwimmer 11mo ago
You think bandwidth is free? -Sent from my 1T parameter LLM
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
I don't agree that a bad live demo is a 3/10. The recent demo showed me conclusively that the Meta Ray Bans are not at the quality level where I would buy them, especially not for $800. That's pretty much a 0/10 in my bo
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Tai Lopez became so famous he was immortalized in the cute rogue-like "Going Under" where he is spoofed as the "Hauntrepreneur"[0] https://going-under.fandom.com/wiki/Hauntrepreneur
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Strongly disagree with most of the consensus here to start with Player of Games and that Consider Phlebas is boring. I found Player of Games to be the much weaker book, with lots of heavy handed social critique and a generally quite stock p
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Car dealers are a scourge on Americans and a hidden tax imposed via poor legislation. They employ thousands and are generally very wealthy so regrettably they have become an embedded political entity. I don't know what the answer to th
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Thanks yeah, you’re right these are bad.
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
They're not going to build a 4 mile siding, which is the length that many freight operate at. At that point it's like building a second set of tracks.
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Can you provide a reference translation or at least call out the issues you see with this passage? I see "far far away in the [time period]" which I should imagine should be "a long time ago" What are the other issues?
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Fair criticism, but also this arguably would be preferable. For many use cases it would be strictly better, as you've built some sort of automated drone that can do lots of work but without preferences and personality.
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Honestly very impressive, even with LLM augmentation.
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
I am a "savvy shopper" and have no desire to buy components on Amazon anymore. Their stock co-mingling doesn't work for speciality computer components. I've received items marked as new that were clearly open box returns
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
foiled by the old em-dasheroo!
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
You're only considering braking, and for that case you're right. You're not considering acceleration, where EVs supply near maximum torque instantly when you press the accelerator pedal. This causes increased wear in tires, I
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
Check out Anubis - it's not quite what you're suggesting but similar in concept: https://anubis.techaro.lol/
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by tschwimmer 1y ago
TN self sponsorship is not allowed. However, it's not immediately clear to me that she would meet the standard of self-sponsorship as laid out in the law: >> A professional will be deemed to be self-employed if he or she will be
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
If you watch Come and See and are excited about war afterwards, you aren't smart or introspective enough that external media has a meaningful effect on your thoughts anyway.
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
One other question is: how accurate are the data sheets in Shenzhen as opposed to in the US? I can't speak to China, but in the US if you publish a spec for a component and then don't deliver within that spec, you will get sued, a
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
This has shades of Robin Williams’ bar rant in Good Will Hunting.
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
The banks are likely not holding the loans. They're likely selling the right to the cashflows to an investment firm in exchange for a lump sum of cash more than the value of the loan but less than the total interest collected over the
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Unlike MKBHD, James Hoffman has some slightly more objective credibility. He won some barista competitions about 15 years ago. He's been involved in the coffee industry (outside of being a content creator) for most of his life. As far
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
They are sick a lot. In the United States, chestnut blight killed 4 billion trees over 40 years. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_blight
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I mean, no. For many people the investments being handled may represent their life savings. It represents potentially decades of work. This isn't some SaaS where poor reliability means wasted time and maybe some money - the stakes are
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by tschwimmer 2y ago
I like the idea behind this business and like the value that you are providing. I'm a target customer because I'm sensitive to investment fees and have done lots of comparison shopping over my investing lifetime. Unfortunately, I

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