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sumobob2112on Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

I take off my robe and lower my wizard hat in respect

sumobob2112on A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall

Also a shoutout if you like Tasting History, he just put out his first cookbook, it is a fascinating read and great recipes

sumobob2112on Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies

really really really wish that they had kept a mac release on steam

sumobob2112on The United States Digital Corps

why not work with an innovative contractor supporting the government instead?

sumobob2112on Google Search Is Dying

Wow, I am glad I'm not the only one doing this, every single product thing I ever search is + reddit

sumobob2112on Foobar2000

too bad nothing like oink exists anymore, I remember being an early uploader of some interpol albums. Also people just had great music tastes, you could go to any genre and sort and find heavy hitters you didnt know, who were amazing.

sumobob2112on Foobar2000

Oink was such a great site, I remember feverishly following tutorials to rip my CDS in FLAC format with specific encoders just to boost my s/l ratio.

sumobob2112on Speaking Latin

Wheelocks would be my goto, you learn by reading authors, in the original translation.

sumobob2112on Age of Invention: Plague of the Sea

I'm surprised there was no mention of sauerkraut, I know it was a great way to keep preserved vitamin C on board a ship that would last for a while.

sumobob2112on Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes

The first sounds like the government is encouraging investment in capital infrastructure leading to growth. This happens all the time and its a non-story.

I cant speak to the tax burden on inheritance, I know debts and expenses are often paid out of an estate first however.

sumobob2112on Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes

The article also goes on to state that the depreciation has a finite time limit.

The actual headline: "Government providing depreciation that amounts to an interest free loan to billionaires in exchange for investing in capital assets" doesn't fit with the sensationalist nature of the piece

sumobob2112on Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes

"when owners sell their teams, they have to pay back the taxes they avoided by using amortization"

sumobob2112on 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)

Reminds me of the computer that they build in the three body problem: hundreds of horsemen act as the bus, and infinite amount of aliens either holding a flag up or down act as a massive computer to calculate the three body problem.

sumobob2112on Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists

true in some cases, but some set asides require the small to do a certain percentage of the business