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by jonweber 2y ago
Part 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1938/08/crash-i...
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Crash in the Desert by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1938)(theatlantic.com)
3 points by jonweber 2y ago|1 comments
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Catholic Exorcisms on the Rise(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jonweber 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonweber 8y ago
Does GDPR have anything to do with this? None of their PII is posted. GDPR doesn't let you force anyone to delete anything about you from their site.
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Ask HN: Abusive-seeming legal threat from Semalt
10 points by jonweber 8y ago|19 comments
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by jonweber 10y ago
Stuff has caught fire at McMurdo multiple times - if it's not exterior, stuff inside the building is certainly flammable. McMurdo actually has their own 6-person fire department specifically because it's such a hazard. At the Sout
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by jonweber 10y ago
Really interesting read - I just accepted a position with the US Antarctic Program as senior computer technician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this upcoming summer season, and I'll be spending a good amount of time at McMurd
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by jonweber 11y ago
Google just started sending this around to publishers looking for feedback and suggestions. It works by allowing people to pay a monthly amount ($5, $10, etc) which is then used to purchase ad space on the Google Ad Exchange, showing either
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Google Contributor: See Fewer Ads on Millions of Sites(contributor.google.com)
10 points by jonweber 11y ago|1 comments
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by jonweber 12y ago
I've been planning to get everything off the shared hosting accounts for awhile. Is Digital Ocean a better deal than, say, AWS for hosting dynamic websites?
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by jonweber 12y ago
This is a great idea - unfortunately, some of the servers I need to back up are feature-poor shared hosting accounts where it would be difficult or impossible to run a script that serves this purpose locally.
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Ask HN: Trustworthy backup service?
4 points by jonweber 12y ago|7 comments
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by jonweber 12y ago
TickChek.com is a side-project I launched in collaboration with my university's wildlife laboratory to offer tick testing for Lyme and other diseases. We've grossed over $4k in out best months this last year.
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by jonweber 12y ago
I built a pretty thorough tax calculator tool at http://www.tax-rates.org/income-tax-calculator . Building it was a great experience, and I monetize it with ads and affiliate links during the tax season. It was certainly wor
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by jonweber 12y ago
Seems like this would work great for a single server, but it's alot of work to set up a backup system like this for multiple servers (including shared hosting accounts with limited / no shell access).
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Ask HN: What's the best backup solution for shared / VPS hosts?
1 points by jonweber 12y ago|2 comments
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by jonweber 12y ago
Most insurance companies don't cover tick testing, unfortunately. We've never had any problems sending ticks through the mail though. People usually send 'em in sandwich bags inside normal envelopes, alive or dead.
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by jonweber 12y ago
My dad got Lyme on the Appalachian Trail five years ago, and still has symptom flare-ups regularly. Lyme has a habit of converting anybody affected by it into an activist, which probably stems from the controversy over diagnosis and treatme