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by aquark 10mo ago
> locking in 4%+ yield Locking in 4% AFTER TAX yield ... if you invest the $300K and it earns 4% you still can't pay the mortgage interest with those funds
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by aquark 2y ago
I'm very disappointed with my Surface Pro tablet ... battery life sucks, resuming from sleep is really slow and the keycover needs to be disconnected and reconnected for it to 'remember' it is there. I've owned 4 Surfac
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by aquark 3y ago
We use https://www.enchant.com/ It works great for email support, haven't tried their chat features, but is the sweet-spot for us in terms of features and complexity. They have an API if you want to integrate, though f
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by aquark 4y ago
Do not use your own corporate domain for user generated content. Source: been there, done that ... there is no benefit to it and only pain. Have a separate plunk-emails.com domain that is used for all emails. Or even have a bunch set up an
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by aquark 4y ago
Any idea how CA handles (small) foreign companies hiring contractors in CA? Assuming they did decide to quibble about the classification what can they actually do to an entity that has no legal existence in the US?
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by aquark 4y ago
1/ Yes, and you also potentially incur taxable capitals gains at a time not of your choosing, which can suck.
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by aquark 4y ago
We've used https://www.enchant.com/ for about a decade for email support .. it's great, does exactly what is is supposed to and doesn't add a bunch of 'cruft' on top. Had to check our volume, curre
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by aquark 4y ago
What is motivating you to look for a replacement? We are evaluating grids and AgGrid is the front runner currently though really rather heavyweight for our use cases.
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by aquark 5y ago
Thanks -- appreciate the reply. As a future product option I'd love to be able to treat these as standalone terminals, so we can offer a web based POS app (running on a different device) and the phone as a payment terminal without havi
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by aquark 5y ago
Question for anyone in the know at Stripe ... does this make a iPhone work like the existing BBPOS WisePOS terminals and able to interact with a web app _without_ any code running on the phone itself (other than Stripe's) Or is it more
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by aquark 5y ago
If the teacher is moderately technical then they can gain a lot of flexibility by using OBS ( https://obsproject.com/ ) and its 'virtual camera' feature as your 'webcam' feeding into Zoom. Then anything yo
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by aquark 5y ago
Many services won't accept these 'virtual' phone numbers for 2FA. Last time I tried I couldn't assign a Twilio provisioned number as the second factor on a Google account for example.
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by aquark 5y ago
Thanks -- to clarify these are spam reports from the end users email host, ie the notification we get from yahoo.com, comcast.net, etc saying an email was reported as spam. So it isn't the user actually clicking through to our site vi
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Ask HN: How do you handle spam reports against transactional email
1 points by aquark 5y ago|5 comments
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by aquark 5y ago
Depending on the use case some providers will block voip sms numbers. I have been unable to set up a Twilio or voip.ms number as the phone# for a Google accounts 2FA
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by aquark 5y ago
I have no knowledge of the ROI involved here, but would love to understand this: Twilio is 0.75c to send a text. Is it possible for a spammer to generate >$75 per 10,000 people spammed? I've no idea were the SMS spams I've got
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by aquark 5y ago
We've run into this issue with replies to texts that the user sent first. Telecom spam filtering seems to be a ridiculously primitive and wide net. I can't imagine a valid use case for dropping a text sent to a number when that n
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by aquark 5y ago
This looks interesting and bears more investigation. One bit of quick feedback: the initial gif/movie is way too fast to follow if you don't really know what you are looking at.
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by aquark 5y ago
While not ideal, I think this is a great option. Microsoft (used to?) offer this for developer support and I remember using it maybe 15 years ago where it was a couple of hundred bucks to open a ticket but you got quick access to a real exp
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by aquark 5y ago
I have some custom code to convert CSV files downloaded from my bank to beancounts text format, but it is all dotNet code since that is what I know the text format is easy to work with
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by aquark 5y ago
Very true, and not only do print statements inherently serialized threads, they also change the timing so significantly that probably your bug disappears anyway.
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by aquark 5y ago
Your effort here is admirable, but I think you have chosen a very hard market to make an impact in. Some hopefully constructive feedback: Who is your target customer? A small business owner without a website? In which case listing featur
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by aquark 5y ago
If nuclear can offer sustained cheaper than average generation then the market would allow a long term fixed price contract — they shouldn’t need to sell their full output at spot rates. Consumers that want predictability could buy on these
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by aquark 5y ago
You can -- block the location request and click on 'Open Street View' to enter an address
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by aquark 6y ago
The dish currently draws around 100W steady state. For many off grid installations this can be a significant addition to the power budget.
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by aquark 6y ago
We are seeing all email to Gmail sent through sendgrid bounce with this error currently Email routed through SES is getting through though. This is going to be a mess to clean up due to automated blocking of bounced addresses
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by aquark 6y ago
I live rural, though not exactly the middle of no-where, but only option is a 10/1 fixed wireless service. I work full time at home (and run a SaaS company) ... with two young adult kids at home that last few months we have been burni
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Ask HN: Vendor Agnostic Email SaaS
2 points by aquark 6y ago|1 comments
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by aquark 6y ago
Fortunately their support was able to get back within a couple of hours (much faster than the 3-5 days listed on the page) and reactivated the account. Looks like a mis-fire of the automated suspension system which seems to be a huge proble
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Ask HN: Sendgrid account suspended without warning?
5 points by aquark 6y ago|2 comments

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