ermintrude

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by ermintrude 11y ago
I had a bad stay with airbnb. I can't be bothered to repost the whole situation but their customer service was fucking shit.
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by ermintrude 11y ago
I use them all the time. I think they're fantastic. They make me so relaxed I almost cannot move. I relax in a very different way compared to when I meditate (with these it's a much more physical deep relaxation, but when meditati
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by ermintrude 11y ago
Solves a non-problem.
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by ermintrude 11y ago
Ha ha, great video :-)
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Ad blockers figure out native content, threatening new media economy(qz.com)
2 points by ermintrude 11y ago|0 comments
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by ermintrude 11y ago
That's exactly how some vaccines work. See: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/faq.asp "Most people experience normal, usually mild reactions that include a sore arm, fever, and body a
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by ermintrude 11y ago
It's about time we stop giving religious beliefs any special treatment at all compared to actual measurable evidence (e.g. inhumanely killing animals, mutilating/indoctrinating children, etc.).
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Best excuse ever(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by ermintrude 11y ago|0 comments
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Apparently not: "HMRC can prosecute tax advisers if they try to hide schemes, but has no sanction against those that create and sell artificial trading arrangements designed solely to dodge taxes." That's what she wants to ch
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by ermintrude 12y ago
At least it hasn't taken the Tories nearly a whole term to begin to address this issue... Got to say I agree with this http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4285739.e... (paywall). Summary:
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by ermintrude 12y ago
...and it looks like one's in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/
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by ermintrude 12y ago
I assume this is new as well given the 2015 release date...
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AWS Service Catalog(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by ermintrude 12y ago|1 comments
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by ermintrude 12y ago
PCI compliance.
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Baking everything into AMIs is the "right" way to go, but if AWS had a supported, hosted git server inside their network to push into, I'd rather have the speed of deploying from git, and only bake AMIs when necessary for sys
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by ermintrude 12y ago
"The next real step in this, and one that is really at the core of the microservices architecture, would be to cluster etcd and remove nginx completely" Nginx is useful to stop slow clients attacking app servers, so still a useful
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by ermintrude 12y ago
He claims he's building the first functional 3D printed house, but the Chinese seem to be way ahead: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27156775 . Still pretty cool though. I think this might be a
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by ermintrude 12y ago
I read a book once - I think it was the Gift of Fear (but I might be wrong) - that said that plane crashes often occur in clusters, same with other tragedies like mass shootings at schools etc. The author suggested this was because people w
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Because if you watch that film and believe Apollo went to the moon, the only conclusion is that light has different properties on the moon compared to Earth. I'd like to know what could explain, for example, their shadows lengthening s
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by ermintrude 12y ago
I'd like to see some refutation of the claims in this film (and not by the guy - physicist as I recall - in the film who just hand-waves say "well we know they went there and it can't possibly have been a hoax"): https:
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by ermintrude 12y ago
This is like: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/1341.html
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by ermintrude 12y ago
I picked up "The Founder's Dilemmas" and the first chapter tries to talk you out of starting a business by telling you that your business will probably fail, and you'd probably end up wealthier working for other people.
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Check out devpi ( http://doc.devpi.net/latest/ ). We build our projects as wheels with pip using devpi as a custom index, i.e.: BUILD_DIR="/tmp/wheelhouse/$PROJECT" pip wheel --wheel-dir=$BUILD_D
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Show HN: Self-destructing file storage(projemabox.strikingly.com)
2 points by ermintrude 12y ago|0 comments
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Unless you want to host a site for peanuts on S3...
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by ermintrude 12y ago
For now. If this spreads to being able to DRM images and text, or they use it on YouTube/whatever other video site, you will be affected. That's the real danger to my eyes.
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by ermintrude 12y ago
I've become good at understanding lecture videos played back at faster than real-time. Sometimes I can get up to 2x playback speed with VLC and still understand what's being said. It'd be so boring watching things in real-tim
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Sweet. I'm sold :-)
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Awesome idea. Will definitely check it out. Any plans for an android version?
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by ermintrude 12y ago
Cars...meh. One word: Dinner plates.

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