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by acabal 8y ago
Shameless plug, the free Standard Ebooks edition of the Legge translation: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laozi/tao-te-ching/james-l...
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by acabal 9y ago
Yeah, but the Starter Plan starts charging an additional fee after $1MM (yearly? total?) revenue. So it's not grandfathering in at all, we just get shunted to the temporarily-free plan that everyone else has to start on. Edit: Since my
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by acabal 9y ago
Yikes, I've been using Stripe subscriptions happily for a few years and now I'm upset to see they're going to be charging a fee. It's unclear if the fee starts at $1MM total revenue or $1MM/year. $1MM/total wou
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by acabal 9y ago
I enjoyed the movie, and assumed much of it was dramatized. For me, the most memorable moment in the movie was when (IIRC, it's been a while) Kroc tightens his grip on the quality control at the restaurants, and introduces disposable b
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by acabal 9y ago
I also use pass, it's great. For Firefox integration I use passff which has been working really great for years: https://github.com/jvenant/passff
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Appeals Court Says It's Okay to Copyright an Entire Style of Music(techdirt.com)
171 points by acabal 9y ago|66 comments
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by acabal 9y ago
Sure, and now Backpage is being prosecuted under current law, which is how the justice system should work. Do we really need another law to tighten the stranglehold on the entire internet , when current laws were apparently already enough
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by acabal 9y ago
You received the injection? Can you share some more details, I'm very curious.
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by acabal 9y ago
I run Scribophile, one of the largest writing communities online, as a one-person business, though I have a ton of help from our volunteer forums moderators. The story is pretty unimpressive... I had the idea back in the days when web 2.0 w
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by acabal 9y ago
Oh I certainly hope usage of buses doesn't decrease. One person hailing an Uber takes up an entire car's worth of space on the road: 4 seats, an engine, and a trunk. One person riding a bus takes a single bus seat on a vehicle tha
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by acabal 9y ago
Yeah, but on WebOS it was a little different... the home screen was actually the open app list, and the app launcher was accessed from that home screen; compared to iOS, which has the app launcher as the home screen, and the open app list a
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by acabal 9y ago
Man, WebOS was truly excellent. I had a Palm Pre back in the day and to this day there are moments when I'm using Android and I wish I was using WebOS instead. It had such a natural interface for multitasking too. Unrelated to WebOS, b
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by acabal 9y ago
I remember just a few years ago, I got a new phone and was interested in replacing as many Google apps with OSS maps that I could. (K9 instead of Google's mail app, etc.) Naturally I turned to OSM instead of Google Maps. But I was real
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by acabal 9y ago
The project I run, Standard Ebooks, has all of Seneca's dialogs available for free for your ereader: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st... If you're interested in Stoic phi
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by acabal 9y ago
You can search metmuseum.org itself and they have a filter for public domain paintings. (Use the search bar at the top then after searching click the "The Collection" tab, and the filter will appear.)
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by acabal 9y ago
One of the huge pluses of electric cars (besides the obvious elimination of humanity-threatening climate change gases) is that cities will be less choked with car exhaust smog. Living in a major US city, whose air is quite clean compared to
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by acabal 9y ago
I've been running one of the largest writing communities online for many years now, and the first thing I always tell writers when they say they want to self-publish, is that after the novel is done, then your work is only just beginni
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by acabal 9y ago
At this point, given Amazon's increasing reputation for selling knockoffs, I would rather trust big-box stores with any purchase more than $50, or on anything more complex than a coffetable.
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by acabal 9y ago
I think that says more about the sad state of the living situation we Americans have engineered ourselves into over a few generations, with suburban sprawl and car culture, more than anything. If we think about it even just a tiny bit, it
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by acabal 9y ago
It's likely they haven't flown under the radar, but rather the record labels have negotiated a deal ahead of time, or maybe even the same label owns the rights to both the new and old songs.
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by acabal 9y ago
I always found the prepper mindset a little curious. It seems to me that any kind of major disaster that would totally knock out reliable access to food and aid for 3-6 months (i.e. something worse than the recent hurricanes, more along the
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by acabal 9y ago
Shameless plug: anyone interested in reading On Liberty on their ereader should check out our free edition at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-stuart-mill/on-libert... It's an excelle
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by acabal 9y ago
Awesome project! I see you're using ebooks from the project I lead, Standard Ebooks, in your front page screenshot. Glad to see you're liking our work, and keep up your own good work! Drop me a line if you need any help with epub
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by acabal 9y ago
You can download Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for free at my project, Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation... The translation is good and Meditations is one of my favo
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Here’s How Far the World Is from Meeting Its Climate Goals(nytimes.com)
2 points by acabal 9y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 9y ago
I'd also like to add that not everyone (cough cough) uses or wants to use Twitter. Please, please, please also include a plain email address or a contact form so that everyone can get in touch with you if necessary.
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by acabal 9y ago
IIRC, that's is already accepted by most scientists, as the Paris accord takes in to account CO2 sequestration as part of the solution to limiting warming to 2 degrees.
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by acabal 9y ago
I've thought about this a little too, and ultimately I think it comes down to our culture in the US, and the human individual's tendency to view themselves as inherently good. Most (all?) other countries seem to have accepted clim
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by acabal 9y ago
I've been using a Razer Blade 14" as a daily work computer for several years now. It's been running great, and I've frequently recommended it in previous HN threads. The best part is that it runs Ubuntu almost flawlessly
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by acabal 9y ago
It's so crazy to me that everyone in vulnerable places--Tokyo and Houston in the article for example--are happy to spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to put a bandaid on their local climate change problems. It seems like they a

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