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qkls··on Middle-aged men for rent in Japan
You can become a not-a-foreigner in many European countries if you are white and speak without an accent.

On the flipside, you can be classified as a foreigner even if you'd live your whole life in the country but aren't white.

qkls··on People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
Probably yes, but on a longer timeline. Humans don't need other mammals to survive.
qkls··on Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium
Looks is an opinion but at least it ages better than most materials. Old leather belts or watchstraps look fine after many years of use.
qkls··on Productivity
Darwin contributed on a more global scale.
qkls··on Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
The judgement of history is always that those people needed to be killed, because winners write the history.
qkls··on Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook
SMS isn't cross-platform and costs money.
qkls··on China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...
qkls··on The Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
The problem is that LinkedIn wanted to let some bots in (e.q. Google) but not competitor's.
qkls··on Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
Google doesn't _need_ to recognize this because it's objective isn't to show you the best result but just a good enough result to keep you using Google.

A search engine that only gives you the best result wouldn't even need the search results page. And that's where Google likes to sell ads.

qkls··on Freelancer.com has ruined my life
I think Frondo is saying you should just change your example niche from Food trucks to something like barber shops that are small businesses with the same problems but usually directly benefit more from software and internet presence. A website with booking calendar is a clearer benefit than "just" web presence.
qkls··on “Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
You certainly don't need caching for an interview test. And if you want to add tests, how many do you think such an app needs? One to check that data goes in and second that urls come out should be enough to know it works.
qkls··on Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities
They use a static thumbnail image that is changed to a gif/webm when it loads.
qkls··on It’s time to give Firefox another chance
Google doesn't officially tell that Chrome tracks you more than other browsers do, but an ex-Google employee has said that "Google definitely uses Chrome user data and can track every click within it". https://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/ex-google-employ...
qkls··on It’s time to give Firefox another chance
It's a benefit that it's not owned by a company that collects your data to sells ads.
qkls··on Ask HN: Web developer and looking for a career change, what are my options?
You can copy and maybe extend your texts from HN and Reddit and post them to your blog.
qkls··on Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
It's always good content
qkls··on Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
I use cash mainly for convenience at yard sales and crowded bars/events in Finland. There's not many situations you'd need cash if you live in a big city, even yard sale transactions can be made with mobilepay.

It's mostly older people using cash anymore.

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