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by brlewis 6y ago
If a domain is unavailable, does the query on namecheap still go to third parties? Is it possible for third parties to snap up an available domain they know has just been queried?
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Yeah. I'm concerned that a malicious actor might MITM their site and serve content that's less funny.
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I haven't started recording phone calls with companies yet, but when I started thinking about it, I heard "This call may be recorded for quality purposes" as giving me permission to record for quality purposes.
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Question for history buffs: What are some instances where you'd say, "Gee, I'm glad Presidential pardon was available"?
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Employers drive that phenomenon. They want teenagers available for work earlier in the afternoon.
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I think of Montessori as a smart middle ground between under-structured "child-centered" and over-structured traditional education. I've seen it explained as a triangle of child, teacher, environment, where the teacher spends
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Blue light bounces around the sky a lot so we see it in all directions. At sunset, when we look at the horizon, we see light that traveled through a lot of sky without bouncing away, so it's less blue. Who's Rayleigh?
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From the article: This work is an attempt to capture the “whole system costs” of an individual power plant. This could include the costs of enhancing the electricity network to connect a new power station, balancing supply and demand in re
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Is there no link to the post apart from the top-level link to the blog?
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That's not for sure. Low interest rates drive prices up or prop prices up. To find the ideal time to buy you have to know the future: if rates are higher than they're going to be, you can buy at a lower price now and then refinanc
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If I could reduce the spread of a disease by starting my professional emails with "Heyyyyyyyy" I totally would.
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Yes, this. Lighthouses are another good example. >This is an extreme example (because it's so exceptionally pretty) For a more pedestrian example, search for images of "letchworth state park upper falls". Note that photogr
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> An inhalation valve does less to protect other people, because the expelled air still has to go somewhere, and will just blow out of the sides of the mask. It could theoretically go through the mask material if it was thin enough, but
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Maybe you all can agree that insurance and lottery are the same in that only a fraction of consumers come out ahead, and are opposites in terms of smart vs. stupid.
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I think a link to your MUD would be on topic in this thread.
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You answered your own question. > Where is this coming from that only a small amount of protection is provided to wearer [...] public health authorities I clicked the HN link to your comments. I couldn't quickly find studies, just a
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Your comment assumes the entire purpose of a (nearly) sealed mask is to protect the wearer from incoming droplets or particles. I don't understand where this ignorance comes from; it's been widely known and repeated for some time
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> The lost protection against inbound particles isn't much... Why would it not be impacted? You'd be breathing in unfiltered air, and that's the main method of transmission. It would be impacted. You'd lose 100% of th
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> Cloth and non-medical disposable masks are not considered protective > anti-maskers threw enough of a fit about fairly comfortable ones How's this for a solution? Make masks with inhalation valves. You can find masks for dust
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When I saw the first statistic was US only I assumed the WWII statistic was also US only. Nonetheless, JoshuaDavid made a great speech. Favorited.
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Are taxes only for things that are bad for the rest of us? Perhaps the core question is, " do billionaires owe a larger portion of their success to society at large than regular people do? "
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> See also https://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1295283922117566464?s... . - I tried to ask @rabois for the source of a claim, and got crickets in return My twitter client shows a reply from him yesterday, men
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Does it distinguish between dev dependencies and runtime dependencies?
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Setting noImplicitAny should be adequate to address that. Java is getting type inference soon too.
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TypeScript is the obvious choice for an experienced webdev. It's worth spending extensive time on to get good. Learn generics and advanced types to the point of not needing to look things up.
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Then what's the section on "Threads" about in https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/news/NEWS.2... ? Threads * New variable 'main-thread' holds Emacs's main
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Yes, jump-to-definition will work correctly in both components. I've been calling emacs an IDE for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72895
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>> - extract method >I don't know what this is, sorry In emacs, try M-x tide-refactor. It's the "extract to function in module scope" option.
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> So imagine you are using something like React/Angular or other templates you want your IDE to understand this templates and not highlight the syntax as errors, if you use a function/object defined in a js file in a template y
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Using prettier-js-mode I don't worry about messed up indentation; any problems are fixed on save.

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