magthor

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Ashes Become Stones: The Science Behind Solidified Remains(blog.partingstone.com)
1 points by magthor 7d ago|0 comments
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Our Thoughts on What's Likely the Most Important Policy Decision of Our Lifetime(bridgewater.com)
1 points by magthor 10d ago|0 comments
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Immortalize Your Keepsake on the Moon(astrobotic.com)
2 points by magthor 3y ago|0 comments
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Roku Warns YouTube TV Customers That Service Could Go Dark(deadline.com)
63 points by magthor 5y ago|85 comments
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by magthor 6y ago
I was lucky enough to attend classes by Susan Eggers and Hank Levy in UW's professional master's program back in 2002. Not only amazing researchers but also great teachers.
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by magthor 7y ago
I just signed up for the $29/mo plan. I appreciate that I immediately received the June and July newsletters. In the July one, there is a good idea that is very relevant to my wife's business (she owns a chain of hair salons). Tha
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Postmortem of Recent Squarespace Outage(status.squarespace.com)
1 points by magthor 7y ago|0 comments
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by magthor 8y ago
Congrats, Arango! We recently ported a large rethinkdb app to arango and it has been a joy to use. AQL is awesome.
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by magthor 10y ago
In my view Florida would be better served by deregulating their electricity markets (as 16 other states/territories have done) and allow 3rd party suppliers to compete for business. Then consumers who want solar (or other forms of gree
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by magthor 10y ago
Hi HN--remember us? We were one of the finalists in the ApplyHN runoff back in April, a couple weeks after we first came up with the idea for Utiliz. Now we're live (launched last week) and have been busy signing up our first wave of c
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Show HN: ApplyHN finalist Utiliz has launched(utiliz.co)
3 points by magthor 10y ago|1 comments
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by magthor 10y ago
Lately I've just been throwing everything behind Caddy (caddyserver.com) in reverse proxy mode. This is all you need in your Caddyfile to get automatic TLS. It's genius. <hostname> { tls <your email> proxy / l
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by magthor 10y ago
Chatmasta, you are 100% correct. There may be times where the best rate we can find is publicly available but the service aspect will retain customers in this case, especially as we are charging a reasonable flat fee. However as we are a br
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by magthor 10y ago
Hi chatmasta, Kevin from Utiliz here. How did your business do? Splitting savings is always a hard pricing model to sell. Our unique angle is that we don't just switch customers to the best plan once, we remain their agent, track the m
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by magthor 10y ago
This is a good idea, I think we will do it. It looks straightforward with Twilio but let me know if you know of another good MMS API provider. Thanks!
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by magthor 10y ago
Great question. The answer is ‘it depends’. For example right now in CT the incumbent rate is 9.55 cents per kilowatt hour with Eversource. But you can get 5.99 c/kWh with Public Power for 8 months if you pay $39 enrollment, or 5.98 c&
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by magthor 10y ago
About the co-founders: Kevin (me) and Tom met in 2010 while working at Bridgewater (a large hedge fund) as a senior developer and technology manager respectively. As well as becoming close friends we often discussed startup ideas and commit
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Apply HN: utiliz.co – revolutionizing how consumers buy electricity
9 points by magthor 10y ago|14 comments
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Break-in at Vudu(vudu.com)
2 points by magthor 13y ago|1 comments