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by Flimm 8y ago
According to the article, the new Venezuelan sovereign bolívar is pegged to a cryptocurrency petro, which itself is linked to movements in oil prices. I know the basics of crytocurrency, but I don't understand how this works. Could som
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by Flimm 8y ago
Could I have a link to your Django add-on?
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by Flimm 8y ago
I think we have lowered the bar for companies like Google far too much. Honestly, it would be reasonable to expect Google not to do any location tracking across any of their services at all, without obvious and explicit approval of the user
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by Flimm 8y ago
Actually, you can filter out explicit songs, but the option is only visible in the mobile app (I have Android). Once you turn it on, it also works on the desktop client signed in to the same account.
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by Flimm 8y ago
It's probably more the other way around: the Chrome team only felt confident to show a "not secure" indicator, because so many domains are HTTPS now, and there is a good free option to get TLS certificates.
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by Flimm 8y ago
This is amazing! I've been waiting for a game like this, even dreaming about making it myself, and now it just pops up in my feed! :) I can't wait to play with it some more.
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Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet(alistapart.com)
2 points by Flimm 8y ago|0 comments
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by Flimm 8y ago
The paradox you talk about is well-known. Property owners often don't sell their property even when it seems advantageous to do so, both for them and for the economy in general. This reminds me of an episode of EconTalk, interviewing t
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by Flimm 8y ago
He did read the policy. He also read the 94 page medical manual they later sent him, which presumably wasn't in the original policy. He found the reason in all those pages of text why he was eligible for getting his costs covered, and
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by Flimm 8y ago
Name and shame, please.
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by Flimm 8y ago
I suppose the argument would be that those companies launched in the USA first, were successful there, and then had enough capital and resources to launch in the tougher more fragmented European markets.
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by Flimm 8y ago
Previous discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16949248
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by Flimm 8y ago
Thank you for your reply, and for reading the article. The comment you linked to is dead, so I guess we were both right about that.
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by Flimm 8y ago
I didn't see anyone here say "you must not understand how HTTPS works!" or "Security is good, m'kay?". I'll take it in good faith that the comments you quoted are only missing because they got deleted sin
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by Flimm 8y ago
This quiz is based on the The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel, which is perhaps the best book I have read on the topic.
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by Flimm 8y ago
No it's not. Please don't turn HN into a joking competition. There are other websites for that.
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by Flimm 8y ago
You're right that the "anti-vaxxers" title is off-putting to many people. It's a shame that you choose not to look past that.
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Believing in climate change, but not behaving sustainably (longitudinal study)(sciencedirect.com)
3 points by Flimm 8y ago|0 comments
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by Flimm 8y ago
This looks amazing, I can't wait to try it out. My main problem with Thunderbird is that it doesn't have a conversation-based UI, but this looks like it does. Good stuff! (By the way, typo: "accessable" should be "a
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by Flimm 8y ago
Yes, I have. In a desire to change some bad habits, I stopped using alarms to wake up, and I configured my router to stop providing me Internet access from 11pm every day. I also put a sign on my bedroom door, saying "this is a phone-f
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by Flimm 8y ago
I used to love YNAB, but once I started needing real support for multiple currencies, I had to stop using it. I haven't found a daily driver replacement since, and I've tried around 10 apps. I even started writing my own, although
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by Flimm 9y ago
Do you have any useful commands like these that can handle multi-byte characters in UTF-8? For instance, handling the zero-width space U+200B, which in UTF-8 takes up more than one byte. I've got some custom scripts that do, I was wond
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by Flimm 9y ago
> This is because ️ is two bytes long ('\u2764\uFE0F' )! No, that's not bytes. You're counting code points. Because of the way Javascript works, it can't accept code points greater than U+FFFF, so it has to use s
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by Flimm 9y ago
I agree with you on "open source", that term was basically introduced by the OSI and people still stick to the OSI definition, but I cannot agree with you on the term "free", that word has a very long history of meaning
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by Flimm 9y ago
Does this offer any password-sharing features? Can you share some passwords with other Mozilla/Firefox accounts?
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by Flimm 9y ago
I like this part of the Ubuntu code of conduct: > Step down considerately > When somebody leaves or disengages from the project, we ask that they do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. They should tell people they ar
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by Flimm 9y ago
Don't forget https://news.ycombinator.com/best
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by Flimm 9y ago
Firefox 59 is the first Firefox release to support SameSite cookie attribute, joining Chrome. > Same-site cookies ("First-Party-Only" or "First-Party") allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakag
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by Flimm 9y ago
I was curious, and I did a search for "deleted:1 user:me" to see if any of my posts had been deleted, and six had, almost all of them I had deleted myself. For context I have posted around 200 posts on Stack Overflow. Being able t
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by Flimm 9y ago
I like everything about plain text emails except for hard wrapping, which looks awful on screens that are too small or too wide.

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