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Comment · 5 months ago
A lot of people I know have multiple remote jobs. I guess, when you have multiple jobs mentoring juniors is just an unnecessary chore which you want to avoid as much as you can, since it takes precious time from doing “real” work.
Comment · 7 months ago
Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?
Comment · 1 year ago
Gold and Value producers reminded me of the Galt’s Gulch from Atlas Shrugged.

But I could not fancy this imaginary community to scale up to even millions

Comment · 3 years ago
> but, by constitutional law, nobody, not even the king himself, could put off their turn indefinitely.

I'm not sure that any real-life moral imperatives could be based on made-up story about obviously utopian society.

For me, immortality does not sound as a good idea even as a thought experiment. We already have problems with wealth and power imbalance. The invention of immortality would just deepen these problems exponentially.

Comment · 4 years ago
5 year's ago I've bought a 2-in-1 Dell Inspiron laptop.

2-in-1 functionality turned out to be useless and annoying in Ubuntu environment, so I almost never used it.

1 year after the purchase, WiFi signal on this laptop started to weaken rapidly. After disassembling the machine I discovered that the cable connecting WiFi module (behind the keyboard) and WiFi antenna (behind the screen) was torn apart as a result of lid movement. It was almost impossible to fix without complete disassembly of the laptop.

I was amazed how bad that design was. It was absolutely not suitable for frequent 360 degree movement of the lid.

It's ridiculous how easily they traded visual appearance (metal casing) for operational stability.

Comment · 4 years ago
Exactly
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You can use GitHub pages with Jekyll. Easy to setup and run, there are a lot of custom Jekyll blog themes available online.

Custom domain with private repo costs few dollars per month.

Comment · 4 years ago
Once made DuckDuckGo my default search engine in all browsers. Ended up switching to Google every time I needed to search in Ukrainian.

I like DuckDuckGo, but its inferior search quality for some non-English languages makes it unusable. Majority of people don't search in English.

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Comment · 5 years ago
Even if it turns out to be a loss for the majority of players, I am still happy for the creators that got a chance to monetize their work. I think Beeple truly deserves the fortune he made.

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