@bender@twtxt.net It cost what you mentioned here too, but they had a special discount, and the shop gave 20% discount for all the gear we needed (since I bought the bike + gear for two persons), so all in all I got a really good deal on it. Also interest rate is locked for 3 years (low rate) so that was also a good deal.
I just took the longest time I could on the loan, to have a low price each month, and then i just pay extra whenever I can to get it payed down faster.
Luckily the Marlyn, my son, and my daughter all fit the same gear, so the 3 of them share that, that saved a lot of money too :)

When i met Marlyn (before we had kids) I asked here to go on her first trip with me (I had a bike before I met her back then), and we went on a 2 week ride from Norway to Italy and back (venice) through the alps and all that. Was super fun, and I think it’s pretty cool of her to say yes to a 2 week trip as passenger :)

Can you save money with BYO storage on laptops and phones?
Samsung’s Galaxy A55 only has 128GB of internal storage – tiny compared to other phones. But a good quality 256GB card triples the storage for about $30. ⌘ Read more

Apple Promotion Boosts iPhone Trade-In Values for a Limited Time
Apple today launched a limited-time promotion that increases the trade-in values for select iPhone models in the United States when customers buy a new iPhone.

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The promotion lasts from today until June 3, and means anyone trading in their existing iPhone 11 or newer will get more money knocked off the price of a new iPhone. As you can see fro … ⌘ Read more

Good money, good vibes: Why Gen Z doesn’t care about work perks
Free lunches, gym memberships and gimmicky thrills are no longer important to young professionals, according to a survey. ⌘ Read more

GNOME Publishes Annual Report: Still Losing Money
The GNOME Foundation hastily published report after damning article from The Lunduke Journal on their finances. More from The Lunduke Journal: http://lunduke.com Watch the video on Lunduke.Locals.com: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5613959/gnome-publishes-annual-report-still-losing-money ⌘ Read more

TikTok local profits surge as potential ban looms
New figures show TikTok is a money-making machine locally, despite mounting political and regulatory pressure. ⌘ Read more

go-money 實現貨幣運算的金標準
在進行金融領域的軟件開發時，貨幣值的精確表示和操作至關重要。由於浮點數帶來的精度問題，傳統的處理方式經常導致數值上的細微誤差。針對這一問題，go-money包提供了基於 Go 語言的解決方案，實現了 Fowler 的貨幣模式。本文將深入解析go-money包，演示其具體的使用方式，並通過豐富的示例讓您掌握如何在 Go 項目中實現精確的貨幣計算。起步：安裝 go-money————- ⌘ Read more

@adi@twtxt.net (I would not object to someone wanting to throw FFRDC-class money at P9F, if you’ve got a lead! ☺)

in the matter of political voice in the US money is speech and therefore companies use their “free speech” to donate and gain access to politicians. Therefore companies are people. Thanks a lot “citizens united”

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained?ref=foreverwars.ghost.io

in the matter of political voice in the US money is speech and therefore companies use their “free speech” to donate and gain access to politicians. Therefore companies are people. Thanks a lot “citizens united”

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained?ref=foreverwars.ghost.io

Mark Cuban says to focus on money instead of following your passions
In emailed comments to Fortune, Cuban advised against starting a business on the basis of passion, urging workers instead to remain eagle eyed on money and building wealth. ⌘ Read more

#TheMoment a man climbed up and down Mount Kilimanjaro backwards
Britain’s Ben Stewart conquered Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, while walking backwards, all in a bid to raise money for charity. ⌘ Read more

Olivia Rodrigo donating money from tour to her women’s health initiative
Olivia Rodrigo is donating money from the profits of her global tour to her women’s health non-profit. ⌘ Read more

Albo’s major housing promise under threat
One of Anthony Albanese’s major election promises is in doubt after the Greens announced plans to kill Labor’s Help to Buy scheme unless the government meets its demands. ⌘ Read more

We derive pleasure from anticipation, so ensure there are a number of things to look forward to. If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right [pdf] | Hacker News

Переиздание Hitman: Blood Money вышло на iOS и Android — с механиками из последних частей серии
Порт для Nintendo Switch выпустят зимой.

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@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I feel like this is a bit of a common pattern? Company builds an awesome product, makes it free for a lot of users, then create additional features and paid plans, makes a tonne of money. But then later decide they need to make more money, so focus on converting the free users to paid users. Hmmm 🤔 Surely this can’t be the only viable business model? 🤔

Переиздание Hitman: Blood Money с механиками из новых частей выйдет на iOS и Android уже 30 ноября
Порт для мобильных устройств можно предзаказать за 15 долларов.

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@prologic@twtxt.net I only use it so that family that follow me can see the images I post.
I do not browse around and spend time there, just check what family and friends have posted.
But still - makes me mad that they put that tracking infront of a paywall like that.
Hate putting money in zuckerberg’s pocket.
Same with VR - you need a meta account to use the oculus.. and you get full screen notification inside the VR headset if you do not use that.. Luckily there is a trail going on in Norway now..

https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/meta-case-brought-to-the-european-level/

https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/temporary-ban-of-behavioural-advertising-on-facebook-and-instagram/

I acquired a new, fancy domain for a new side project. A site with tips on how to save money on purchases is something I would like to start. The search for a CMS reminds me of why I built GoBlog: all available options are not optimal. But GoBlog also isn’t optimal for this project for various reasons, as it shouldn’t be a typical personal blog. And now I have this really cool domain and question my plans. 😅 ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: Funding
As promised in our ‘State of Snikket 2023’ overview post, and teased at the end of our first update post about app development, this post in the series is about that thing most of us open-source folk love to hate… money.

We are an open-source project, and not-for-profit. Making money is not our primary goal, but like any business we have upstream expenses to pay - to compensate for the time and specialist work we need to implement the Snikket vision. To do that, we need income.

T … ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]

The post Release Radar · July 2023 Edition appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I got some cash that I will put aside for a rainy day. I initially wanted to buy a kickbike for the dog with that, but he should not be pulling too much until next year’s fall, so I decided not to buy that now.
I’ll put the money aside for next year.
Other then that I got a new harness for me that I use for the dog, we’ve had one but this one is more solid and fits better to my size. That is super useful - and will last for many many years.
Also got a new hiking jacket, cotton jacket, green, outdoor type jacket, that is also something I really wanted, since I do not like those synthetic jackets (sweat too much in that). Also got some chocolate from my kids (Which I love). So I’m very pleased with the gifts :)

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net I honestly dislike web3 platforms, and especially blockchain social media.
It’s just filled with people trying to make a dollar. That is always the focus on those blockchain based social media sites. I like what I can host my self, no money or tokens \ crypto involved etc.
Tried nostr for a while, but I cannot get into that either. Only reason it’s popular is because of jack (that’s just my opinion), and they are always pushing bitcoin lightning network there - and I get tired of that pretty fast.

I’m curious. How many people truly believe blockchain social networks are the future?

NFTs, tokens, monetization, revenue…

I’m sorry, but how are your random social media blabbers worth any money?
Unless you’re Shakespeare or Einstein or some philosophical or scientific genius, I don’t see why anyone would want to read your posts, let alone cash out some “crypto” from some “wallet”.

And that applies to most people. Sure, your lifestyle and your thoughts may be interesting. But who’s going to start paying to view what’s going on in your life?

As if likes, upvotes, hearts, and subscriptions weren’t narcissistic enough, let’s make people think someone wants to pay them with crypto to view their random posts online.

@prologic@twtxt.net haha, money goes out fast. but its nice too see some savings grow a bit.

Major Open Source Projects: How much money do they actually make?
Comparing the revenue of some of the biggest names in Free & Open Source Software. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net The good thing here at least is that you get back on your taxes if you loose money, so that helps a bit, and if you buy mining gear you can write some of the cost up as well etc. So it’s a pretty nice that they have done it that way here. The only downside is what I mentioned already - the complexity of filing it all.

can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, apparently it was a bit of old new (according to twitter), but still - looking forward to have a risc-v desktop system. :)
Hopefully it’ll not be too long until something like that hits the market with a price that I can pay for it.
I do have 2 risk-v devices already, one mangopi (like a raspberrypi zero), and one HiFive1 Rev B (like a arduino).
The Hifive rev B was a waste of time and money for me - but I bought it anyways, too ‘embedded’ for my liking, so not easy to make things work on that. The mangopi is perfect, got all my desktop stuff set up on that running debian.

Wish Interpretation
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i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests

Breaking: Google hires John Connor to fend off ChatGPT threat
“I can take down ChatGPT, no problemo,” stated Connor. “This’ll be easy money.” ⌘ Read more

how much money do I need to pay you for you to take a pill that makes you insane?

The Vikings need to dump Cousins. IDK why anyone would throw guaranteed money on an NFL QB that took a knee when he needed to spike the ball.

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s called “cgod” and it isn’t written in C or Go? I want my money back…

I also like Gopher more than Gemini. The problem Gemini is trying to solve is better solved by just writing static HTML 4.01 pages.

@xuu@txt.sour.is proof of stake = people with money get more money. It accelerates the wealth inequality problems that are already plaguing us. Crypto has even worse wealth inequality than fiat currency systems, which is 100% predictable.

Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.

No more GitHub Copilot for me
I was an avid user of GitHub Copilot during the technical preview phase. Apparently, as many as 1.2 million developers used Copilot. But now Copilot is out of beta and suddenly costs money. ⌘ Read more

when you convert all your money into assets stored on the blockchain while you go into cryopreservation in an underground bunker—literally crypt-o-currency

Yesterday I ordered a blanket for an incredible amount of money, more precisely a weighted blanket. Now I hope that it will be delivered quickly and that it really has the positive effects that are being advertised. Although I can usually fall asleep quickly in the evening with a sleeping mask and earplugs, I never manage to sleep through the night, I am never woken up by the alarm clock because I wake up earlier. In the morning I feel tired almost every day, sometimes even the whole day, which then also limits my c … ⌘ Read more

Winning MONEY with AI – Understanding Algorithms & Predicting March Madness with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more

I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.

Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
A percentage of all sales (and re-sells) goes directly to Haiku and PCLinuxOS. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I think this is awesome. I’m proud to be part of this.
Annnd… I need to learn go. No money here, but at least I would make some cool PRs (or MRs?)

Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more

a bunch of money in celestial futures: long on angels, but the bulk put into ein sof

On the blog: Explaining Cryptocurrency https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/16/crypto.html #rant #programming #money

status-acquisition more anti-inductive than money-acquistition?

Making Free Money off Credit Cards
While I’ve done a video on this topic before ( PeerTube, YouTube), some people asked me for more information, so here it is.

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In America, people are so notoriously dumb with credit and money that credit card co … ⌘ Read more

Only Use Old Computers!

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If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.

If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more

Don’t save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving. - Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s Best Money Advice | Work + Money

Got my kakebo for 2021, in 2020 it really helped me with saving money.

If you’re right about this, how could you make money with it?

Money makes people happier than psychotherapy. 52 things I learned in 2020. This year I edited another book, worked… | by Tom Whitwell | Fluxx Studio Notes | Dec, 2020 | Medium

Probably career suicidal (never admit it in your application) but honestly the thing I’ve found helps is just not caring about work at all. It’s like the equivalent to acceptance in grief. Get the day done, look forward to the weekend, when you book time off make sure to book the following Monday. I’ll do the job as best I can for as long as I’m paid but if you think I’m here for any reason other than money to pay the bills you’re completely delusional. Survey: The average worker experiences career burnout – by the age of 32 | Hacker News

It’s bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.   — John Sweeney “Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated”*… | (Roughly) Daily

One reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs. The Illusion of Certainty | Hacker News

You can just say that a person it a slave to the extent of their desires/attachments. You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News

the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.

Email icon https://www.topic.com/the-hidden-history-of-holocaust-money

Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with dodgy Uber code texts - unlike kinds https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text

Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/

Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)

Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.

Ep. 20: Yasha Levine on Right-Wing Dark Money & the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-20-yasha-levine-on-right-wing-dark-money-the-electronic-frontier-foundation/

How Money Affects Elections | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

tired: refering to bitcoin as ‘fake internet money’

Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html

pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.

A Political History of the Future: The City & The City - Lawyers, Guns & Money http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/05/political-history-future-city-city

‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job

Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money | Jacob Siegel https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Hot take: if you have more than one user or you’re taking money from anybody, ‘break things’ should not be part of your motto, unless your job is literally demolition.

Thursday is the appropriate day to make sacrifices to Compound Interest. Use a gold altar cloth. Compound Interest prefers sacrifices in the form of burning dollar bills, but twenties will work in a pinch. If you cannot make money, store-bought is fine.

Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Ama… https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/

Russian Money in Silicon Valley - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545483/

The Dumb Fact of Google Money - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/the-dumb-fact-of-google-money/538458/

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God http://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

Decentralized PayPal should be a thing. But money is probably not hackerish enough.

Shanzhai Archeology: defying our standardized technological imagination – We Make Money Not Art http://we-make-money-not-art.com/shanzhai-archeology-defying-our-standardized-technological-imagination/

@dave@davebucklin.com Where did you leave it? Love their faq: “Where can I buy a PirateBox? There are some things that money can’t buy, and PirateBox is one of them!”

@dave@davebucklin.com Where did you leave it? Love their faq: “Where can I buy a PirateBox? There are some things that money can’t buy, and PirateBox is one of them!”

@peio също така за слушане: NPR Planet Money, BBC The Compass, BBC More or Less: Behind the Stats, Freakonomics Radio

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📚 Finished reading Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know by Michael K. Salemi

📚 Finished reading Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know by Michael K. Salemi