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by delhanty 9y ago
If there were a fork and the fork were to gain momentum it might be not be up to Linus. A project like this might attract new developers because it might be less intimidating than joining the Linux kernel proper. There would also be the at
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you for your detailed & useful clarification.
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by delhanty 9y ago
OK - I've read the paper on arXiv - can see that ethereum (for better or worse) has smart contracts layered on top where as bitcoin does. I seem to recall that there was another more fundamental difference at the blockchain level, was
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by delhanty 9y ago
Straight question: do you have a good link for the main technical differences between ethereum and bitcoin?
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you. Please make sure to address the following points: 1. Acknowledge the truth: the member accounts were life-time - it's not FastMail's legal option to unilaterally terminate them. 2. Domain sharing: I have domain associat
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by delhanty 9y ago
TL; DR; FastMail support is arrogant and inflexible. I contacted FastMail support: referencing this thread, explaining my situation, pointing out that the member accounts were lifetime and asking them to switch my (legacy) enhanced account
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by delhanty 9y ago
This is the bit that pissed me off the most. In their most recent email FastMail wrote: >We're now contacting you again to remind you that from 31st July, 2017 our 'Member' level plans will be discontinued. There is no re
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by delhanty 9y ago
From a business point of view, they are generally regarded to be a bad idea. See various comments on what is now the main FastMail thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357859 My point is simply this: FastMail un
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by delhanty 9y ago
Actually a lifetime (of my father) service contract is very much like an one particular investment, that is an inflation adjusted annuity. FastMail is no more free to terminate the lifetime service contract while my father still lives than
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by delhanty 9y ago
It's they way the world is unfortunately. For example, the fines in the UK for violating spending rules with respect to elections are small enough to be considered just another expense: https://www.theguardian.com/comme
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by delhanty 9y ago
>at least the Runbox staff don't come off as jerks. Yeah, that's my main actual service negative. The FM support staff are condescending, because they're the experts in email and you're just an ignorant customer.
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by delhanty 9y ago
This is do with the violation of EXISTING policies. LinkedIn in particular paid $13 million in 2015 to settle a class action lawsuit about their slightly misleading "Add Connections" feature. http://fortune.com/201
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by delhanty 9y ago
>it seems they would be okay with refunding the $15 to those that aren't okay with this. To that I'll quote what zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC posted just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14358874 >Now, I don&#x2
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by delhanty 9y ago
Good theoretical point! If this was about serious money, that's how my lawyer would argue it. But for $15 I'm not going to try that in a small claims court in the UK say. I've been there once and the judge was one of the mos
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by delhanty 9y ago
It was probably still worth it for Apple though to be able to dump the unlimited commitments ... ? Facebook, LinkedIn etc. have the same playbook when they play fast and loose with the privacy rules with respect to spamming contact lists.
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by delhanty 9y ago
As the submitter, I agree with all this. Sure from, FastMail's point of view my father is a bad customer. Not that he's even aware who FastMail are though ... But FastMail freely chose to make the poor business decision to offer
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by delhanty 9y ago
FastMail and you know it's not worth my time to take them to court for $15. Besides FastMail is in Australia, my father is in the UK and I am in Japan ... Also, would the court order FastMail to continue to offer service to my father,
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by delhanty 9y ago
As the submitter, their general service is good enough. Sometimes their server seems slow from here in Japan. Also, their support staff sometime seem complacent due to lack of competition. But it will probably work out for you if you go
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Moreover, lifetime service contracts sold for a one time fee should always be regarded with a fiercely critical eye: without recurring revenue, how is the service provider realistically going to be able to provide that service at a prof
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by delhanty 9y ago
Indeed! It's like if I'd invested $100 in Amazon at IPO, which is worth around $64K today but Jeff Bezos could now but my stock back for the original $100 as long as he offered me half-price on a new Kindle.
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by delhanty 9y ago
I submitted this in relation to a comment that I just made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357780 edit: removed text duplicated from comment - maybe that was against HN guidelines ...
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by delhanty 9y ago
I'm sure that's true. But then it's not my problem. FastMail made an agreement - $15 in exchange for a lifetime member account. Now they don't want to honour that agreement. And they've created work for me: What to
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by delhanty 9y ago
I decided to submit the link that I gave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357859 I'm not sure whether my chosen title follows HN guidelines - admins please feel free to edit
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FastMail lifetime member plans to be discontinued(emaildiscussions.com)
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by delhanty 9y ago
Tell that to FastMail, who have pissed me off by deciding to end-of-life the "lifetime" 16Mb member account I set up for my father with a one-time $15 payment. 16Mb is modulo zero these days, but it's enough for him - he just
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by delhanty 9y ago
TLDR: it took me 30 minutes to install the update for SourceTree for Mac - too long really. Any recommendations for the best replacement Git/Mercurial GUI on Mac? 1. Check for updates from existing SourceTree 2.0.5.2 offered me only 2.
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The five most pointless tech solutions to non-problems(theguardian.com)
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by delhanty 10y ago
The editor changed from Alan Rusbridger to Katharine Viner in summer 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/20/guardian-appoi... IMO, around that time the editorial policy changed noticably too
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by delhanty 10y ago
Surely it means that humans and (baleen) whales will increasingly be competitors for food such as krill? https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/bio... > Abstract ... Although this only re
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by delhanty 10y ago
John Deere (and Tesla too) are trying to have their cake and eat it too. If they want to license their technology then they should not be pretending that one "owns" the tractor/car when one "buys" it. If they were h

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