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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:35AM (#33119162)
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way.”. Søren Kierkegaard
Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:40AM (#32895443)
The profit margin’s of the energy companies are more important than the economy. Take UK with only 8% Russian imports, but prices have somehow doubled. Same story in the EU
What would you do if your only limit in life was your imagination?
I don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc.

Wrt to Search,

Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data is privatize.

You could run a hobby scale pagerank but for searching web it would be a needle in a haystack.

They have competition like yandex, nacy, baidu but are not for English web and not open source

Re:Ask HN: Solution for Distraction? on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:20PM (#32363052)
The book “make time” has many techniques
Re:Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover? on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:40PM (#32337354)
You can be successful, whatever success is to you.

If you have a dream, go for it. Don’t let age stop you.

There’s no law on silence. You could have neighbors blasting their music for hours. Good luck working from home