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by gravitas 6y ago
Paul Krugman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman
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by gravitas 6y ago
Without having read anything but your comment: What about the actual vs. perceived wear and tear on the ships(?) transporting the goods, do they experience 5 days worth of repair/upkeep (fuel?) needs, or 5 minutes? Maintaining the tran
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by gravitas 6y ago
OPML (I am familiar) could be used as a basis yep, but it's a file format which is more akin to vCard, vCal and iCal - CalDav, CardDav and WebDav are the transport(?) layers (API layers, operational layers, call them what you will) w
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by gravitas 6y ago
For anyone unaware, the "enriched" and lack of iron being a problem is based on FDA regulations developed before WWII which is required by the FDA on certain foodstuffs in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by gravitas 6y ago
+1 to the Bookmarklet, it's what I use now for another service and it's simple and works (and can be hotkeyed in most browsers); I suspect the GP did not find the docs with the bookmarklet option as it's on the User Settings
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by gravitas 6y ago
> Browser bookmarks are actually not the same as the bookmarks I keep in LinkAce You are not alone, I currently use Diigo with the same needs; the Diigo bookmark list is massive, unwieldy, goes back decades - the in-browser bookmarks a
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by gravitas 6y ago
This fits almost any situation (explicit vs. implicit) and I'm a big fan - when mentoring I tend to say "yes that was the default when you looked today, how do you know it won't change tomorrow? If you want specific behaviour
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by gravitas 6y ago
I was curious as well, turns out they're using a non-standard parsing with a comment in the function explaining why: /* This uses a non-standard parsing (ie not inet_aton, or inet_pton) * because of legacy choice to par
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by gravitas 6y ago
I hit the 2000 HN post character limit pretty hard on this, had to delete all line items with "NONE - $0" in them and so forth to squeeze in all the data above. Pretend you see that in each item above. :) This was basically a de-b
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Laptop Component Prices from 1999
2 points by gravitas 6y ago|2 comments
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by gravitas 6y ago
I think it's just part of some generic category of strict blocking used by the hosted service - there's a lot of other stuff blocked, we generally don't get reasons as users other than it being the corporate security posture.
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by gravitas 6y ago
A .com will cost < $100 for 10 years at most registrars and as you've noted, this is for personal use (not company branding, e.g.) so the name is not that important. I'll posit that most folks know how bad the name squatting
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by gravitas 6y ago
While I only named .xyz above, my (enterprise) company blocks several other TLDs as well like .info, I'll check .icu when I'm back after holiday but would not doubt it's blocked. Corporate IT subscribes to some sort of hosted
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by gravitas 6y ago
To put an example to the other comments, look up the history of the XYZ domain - in a nutshell, they had a fire sale selling domains for pennies to gain market share. Besides normal people, three groups descended upon it: spammers, squatter
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by gravitas 6y ago
Neat! I added the top level RSS [1] to The Old Reader [2] and it pulled up just fine (validation), the title shows up as "xfer" by default but otherwise works fine for this reader. [1] http://freshcode.club/project
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by gravitas 6y ago
We used to use Freshmeat.net for this for a really long time, Slashdot moved it over to Sourceforge but then it died in 2014. http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/
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by gravitas 6y ago
> I don’t want thousands of dollars in my investments riding on the success of one single company Myself as well. For the private companies where I had options, most never worked out as being worth anything so not acting on them was th
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by gravitas 6y ago
I joke with friends that the internet was invented by porn coders - back in the 90s, porn companies would pay college kids to deliver more porn faster, cheaper (with perl). Before that it was porn BBSes doing the same thing, people would pa
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by gravitas 6y ago
> You can’t change the email on existing accounts however you can definitely delete it. I am an end user and cannot do anything other than email the shop support and hope. I am not a resident of EU or California, you might be surprised
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by gravitas 6y ago
Losing years worth of order history with that vendor? Having ghost accounts in a vendor database you can't delete, which has your previous order's PII (home address, etc.) tied to? The problem is not making a new account, it'
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by gravitas 6y ago
Since we're here talking about Shopify - nearly every small shop (1-10 person makers) I buy from who uses the platform could not (in the past 30 days): (a) change the email address associated with an existing account with history, and
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by gravitas 6y ago
Solutions like Owl are actually kind of nice, I have been using a similar one on my phone (AquaMail) for many years and it's worked out great. Thanks for the tip, might give it a shot - I see it's by the same author as ExQuilla wh
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by gravitas 6y ago
Firefox has a suite of `about:` URLs[1], one of them is about:performance which will show you the Task Manager (their name) which has a sort of CPU and RAM column. It even shows you when it's javascript on a tab chewing up resources an
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by gravitas 6y ago
I disagree - the feature they need is better calendar integration with Exchange based services and the Exchange address book (GAL). As a corporate user this is the Achilles heel and always has been for 20 years, like it or not Exchange is k
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by gravitas 6y ago
Yah, I do not defend it in any way - it's security theatre to me; they also wholescale block entire TLDs (more than one) under the same umbrella, block access (HTTP) to any domain less than 30 days old as well. It is in my experience t
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by gravitas 6y ago
I am but a technical cog in the machine my friend, while I know about what goes on in business and contract negoatiations I cannot comment on power dynamics. I would assume it's like any other negotiation - whomever has the greatest
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by gravitas 6y ago
My corporate overlord (~10k ppl) has a policy to place all incoming email from domains less than 30 days old into the Junk folder, it's a tier 1 rule which cannot be overridden or circumvented by user rules. No amount of properly confi
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by gravitas 6y ago
Arch PKGBUILD packaging is basically identical in design to RPM packaging, and can contain more than just s single build script (patches, pre/post scriplets in another file, etc.). Arch packaging feels familiar and "normal" i
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by gravitas 6y ago
I got that slightly wrong, it's 1099-INT for interest in income on checking/savings, 1099-DIV is for dividends only.
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by gravitas 6y ago
Both. Financial institutions (broadening this to cover brokerages as well) produce federally required documentation (it may be digital in 2020, automated) for tax purposes; the most common in my travels is a 1099-DIV (dividend payments) but

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