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vachi | 5 years ago | on: Danes Get 20-Year 0% Mortgages

The key term here is Danes, not residents of Denmark, but individuals who are born or naturalized Danes, even many of the naturalized ones do not get the same rates. By default Danes get ~5% downpayment where none Danes get ~40%.... yay

vachi | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

Hey, yeah its a super good list. As others have pointed out, it really depends on what you wanna do with the picture. A few of my favorites are Stocksy and Cavan. On the more user generated side you have eyeem and 500px. And on the high high end you have getty. Check out Haystack.im and let me know if its helpful.

vachi | 9 years ago | on: Save PBS. It makes us safer

PBS news hour has 390k subs on youtube and does 50k views on their nightly 50min. Compared to other news networks this is not too shabby. So yeah don't worry they have many other ways of getting to viewers.

vachi | 9 years ago | on: The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

He did my Masters thesis from NYU Poly, actually everyone in our department for like 30+ years was getting done with him. It was an experience that I would never forget.

vachi | 9 years ago | on: War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933)

Must read. Was told to read it by a former Army pilot. Been telling everyone to read it since.

Reading the comments below, I come to understand that many are missing the point of the essay, or speech as it was intended originally.

For modern readers, Butler's words are not to be taken directly but in context. Butler's point is that war is a racket. That is it. Funny right. If you are to ignore all the details about the casualties and who said what and who did what, you are still left with the essence of the speech. War is a racket. Repeat after me :) If you instill the mindset that war is a racket then all the pieces fall into place. It becomes very clear that war has no regard for human life. That it is detached from reality of life and death.

"Eliot A. Cohen, an official in the George W. Bush administration who is now a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University, said that Mr. Obama’s trips to Walter Reed may have been the reason, and that future presidents should avoid such visits.

“A president has to be psychologically prepared to send people into harm’s way and to get a good night’s sleep,” Mr. Cohen said. “And anything they do that might cripple them that way means they’re not doing their job.”" -- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/politics/obama-walter-r...

"they’re not doing their job" --- their job being what?

Be smart, war is a racket, and suggesting a president should not be worried about the lives of the people he harms is fucked up. Additionally, presidents should visit hospitals in Syria maybe. Maybe then they will not make the same actions.

vachi | 9 years ago | on: Dear Al-Jazeera: thank you for doing the right thing

i dont think its fair to accuse and scold scrollytelling. On their homepage they have a tech section where they state: "Our software is built on top of the Open Source version of Pageflow. We are committed to giving back to the community, which is why we are active contributors, and have open sourced our software too." and they have put a lot of their software up on github.

Yes, this is very similar to Wordpress companies. However it is still their source code, and scrollytelling's webpages are better... dare i say.

vachi | 10 years ago | on: Mass FTP Crawling

So right, it is not his responsibility to inform and educate, however his article is a great tool for the ones that do want to educate and help companies in NL.
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