THJr

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by THJr 4y ago
This is something that always concerns me when I start a new project. I often want to handle as much internally as possible to avoid situations like this one, but large services often make things much easier in comparison (until they pull s
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by THJr 4y ago
I'm not too familiar with airline ticketing systems, if you don't mind could you clarify what you mean by your 70's ticketing system comment?
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by THJr 4y ago
The support for restrictions, as far as I can tell from polls, is mostly about expanding background checks. Even after a recent shooting support for additional gun control law beyond expanded background checks seems to be in decline (see ar
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by THJr 4y ago
In the U.S. this is often because someone can't work. When you're stuck in a poor area, job opportunities are extremely limited. Public transport is very limited, so you often can't get out of the immediate area to find a job
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by THJr 4y ago
Yeah, the biodegradable part of the article is more about paper vs. plastic in general rather than single vs. multi-use.
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by THJr 4y ago
If I'm understanding the article correctly the problem the author has is that single use paper bags, which are biodegradable and more easily recycled, are being banned in favor of reusable plastic and cloth bags which are considered si
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by THJr 5y ago
Thanks, that list really is awesome, will have to spend some time looking through it.
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by THJr 5y ago
Much appreciated, I'll have to check it out. I don't know if my family would be big fans of the link-aggregator style, but I may make use of this with some friend groups in the future.
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by THJr 5y ago
Maybe, the aspects for keeping shares to family only seem useful, but at a glance it looks like diaspora doesn't have an option for closed communities. Thank you for the suggestion though, I'll look further into it!
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Ask HN: What's the best self-host social media platform for closed communities?
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by THJr 5y ago
I remember an interview they did with some of the writers, and they were talking about how they included certain items (eg. room-size computers) to be silly and anachronistic, but others (eg. dvd players) to help relate things to current ti
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by THJr 6y ago
Not the person you originally applied to, but in my opinion this is most likely because corporations used to be extremely restricted in other aspects. Corporations were limited to operations listed in the charter they applied for and often
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by THJr 7y ago
There's a number of reasons, but as I understand the main issue is that John Deere is treating their tractor's firmware like the music industry was treating MP3's. They say farmers may own the tractor itself, and the hardware
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by THJr 7y ago
They could always head over to https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/ Then again, they might wind up posting a question about a compound fracture only for it to be closed as a duplicate with a link to something about an
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by THJr 7y ago
It's interesting to me that arguments about inheritance are one of the connecting factors across classes of wealth. I've known people that act this way over a $100 coin collection.
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by THJr 7y ago
I really hope they don't, but I could see it happening. The popular mods are probably also going to be seeing some issues from this. A little indie company from Prague might not draw enough attention to get DMCAs and lawsuits drawn to