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by AnonC 6y ago
> The author's substack earned a unsubscribe based on it. Stretching the author’s argument, you’re not abiding by the culture that the First Amendment and other laws have wanted to create, and you’re as guilty as xkcd in unsubscribi
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by AnonC 6y ago
The lack of a "Pricing" link on the homepage put me off from exploring further. Please at least add a link and a page for it even if it's free for now with the terms and conditions.
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by AnonC 6y ago
Google’s products and naming of products/services seemingly have had no discernible strategies at all. It’s as if people get bonuses for “new” introductions that replace the “old” and then they move on, leaving someone else to try the
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by AnonC 6y ago
Do you have any other recommendations for this? I checked out the link you shared, but was greeted by a screen-filling popup to sign up for something. I navigated back.
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by AnonC 6y ago
Understanding yourself in different dimensions would be at the top of my list. It takes a lifetime to do it well though. Learn to cook and prepare food, especially your favorite foods. Then you can make better decisions when buying packaged
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by AnonC 6y ago
Looks like some managed database and storage services are on the horizon, along with better analytics without tracking cookies, then caching improvements, etc. It also seems like new domain registration is still not on the (spoiler free) li
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by AnonC 6y ago
You’re still within the window of time where you can edit your original comment and clarify your position. I’m sure many people would agree on the point about the quality of Macs.
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by AnonC 6y ago
> Personally, I think Apple products are (now) crap, beautiful to look at, but with a UI/UX that has jumped the shark so badly that they are essentially useless. You’re right in criticizing Apple on certain things. But the alternati
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by AnonC 6y ago
Platform my foot! I’ve always thought of Windows as the annoying OS that gets in your way...then my company started pushing MS Teams and now I have two huge barriers in getting work done. What choice of words can I use for it? Dumpster fire
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> I frankly think Zuckerberg started out as a “good” guy. Nope. [1] He didn’t start out that way. He just kept misleading people quite well every step of the way. [1]: https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14&#x2F
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> These articles would be much more interesting if they included any suggestions at all for how to address the issues. Considering that it’s NYTimes, I’ve seen people questioning it because of the trackers it uses to track and profile pe
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I’m completely against Facebook and agree with the sentiment to break up the company, but the fact that you’re in touch with family and friends without Facebook says more about those people...it may not be the same for the GP or many other
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by AnonC 6y ago
I don’t know what happened with DuckDuckGo in the last one or two years, but I’ve had to resort to !s (startpage) or !g (Google) search most of the time. Even before that, it was never great for software/tech related information. It’s
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by AnonC 6y ago
> So not only does it blow me away technologically, but also that I got it as a free upgrade almost a year after buying the headphones! Being pedantic here: it is not actually free for you. The costs of improvements delivered through sof
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by AnonC 6y ago
I had a quick look at Zola sometime ago while looking for alternatives to Hugo (which is written in Go, but is also distributed as a single binary). But it seemed like Zola had fewer themes available. As a non-designer, having great themes
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by AnonC 6y ago
I too found the hosted Ghost platform expensive for personal use, and when I thought of self-hosting, I was discouraged from trying it by some people who know better. They said that Ghost's developers have focused on making it work on
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by AnonC 6y ago
A non-tracking search link with DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dark+skin+vitamin+d+minutes
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by AnonC 6y ago
Maybe the next follow up post should be titled “Why I don’t give any discounts” and explain all the factors that make it difficult, like considering which country a person is in and purchasing power parity, and how even that could not weed
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by AnonC 6y ago
I'm going to talk more on the technical aspects here, not about marketing or ads or sponsorship or affiliate revenue. I guess the simpler, though somewhat time consuming to decide on, way is to find a podcast media host depending on yo
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by AnonC 6y ago
I’m curious if your preference for environment variables is only for writing programs or for using programs as well. From a user’s perspective, would you prefer that common commands use environment variables to get options? For example, wou
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by AnonC 6y ago
> Bootstrap Icons are SVGs, so they scale quickly and easily and can be styled with CSS. Does this sentence actually refer to image icons in an implicit comparison? Or is there a lot more to SVG (for an end user who may not modify the
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by AnonC 6y ago
Tangent: I don’t have access to a computer right now to analyze this website more, but it’s blazing fast! Great work, author. I’d love to know more about the technology stack (seems like it’s hosted on AWS with CloudFront).
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by AnonC 6y ago
I did a quick search on Algolia for HN (hn.algolia.com) and found several comments in this thread and threads related to the recent Cloudflare incident. This could be a starting point in your quest. [1] I don’t have a blog post or article o
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by AnonC 6y ago
> On the other hand if every service you use has its own authentication... This would be a nightmare for the people managing any nontrivial system. There are good reasons to use something like Active Directory and tie systems and applica
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by AnonC 6y ago
I’m fully in support of surfacing attributes about groups who are systemically discriminated against (African American, women, LGBTQ, etc.). I also appreciate knowing that some business is local, supporting the poor and those not privileged
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by AnonC 6y ago
> I have my doubts Apple (or Tim Cook) is going to end up being taken down for committing perjury. But these Congresspeople will be making recommendations and/or introducing bills on regulating these companies, and my guess is that
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That act (verb/adjective) would be “collusion”, “fixing” (like prices), etc., and the companies called a cartel (noun). It is anti-competitive behavior because it reduces or eliminates free market competition, and is illegal (or at lea
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> The reason people frown upon the downvote is because we explicitly don't want people using it to express dislike. Who’s “we” here and on what basis are you able to speak for that group? It has been stated by pg himself a long ti
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by AnonC 6y ago
That comment brought a smile to my face after seeing so many memes with that phrasing. To respond to the actual question though, sometime after you cross 500 karma points, you’ll be able to downvote comments too (posts cannot be downvoted).
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by AnonC 6y ago
Why do I downvote? I downvote to do my part in making invisible the comments that I don’t want floating around here. Any voting system is meant for voters to help decide what’s important and what’s not. That’s the case with HN too. It’s a

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