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by dpifke 4y ago
TreasuryDirect doesn't have an API, so there's no way to implement this without storing your users' TreasuryDirect passwords. How do you protect those passwords? With reference to https://www.law.cornell.edu/
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by dpifke 4y ago
Interestingly, TreasuryDirect's terms of service are codified in the Code of Federal Regulations: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/part-363/subpart-B From a brief reading, having a third part
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by dpifke 4y ago
If you were to pay a lawyer for this, they'd most likely give you back something based on a template from their library—it's highly unlikely they'd be drafting it from scratch. So it shouldn't cost you more than an hour
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by dpifke 4y ago
Yes. California requires non-residents to file & pay income tax for any days worked in the state, regardless of where you live or typically work: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d&
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by dpifke 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September I think moderation gets exponentially more difficult, the larger a community is. There's probably something in the legislative history[0] as to why that particular n
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Ask HN: Have you commented on HN about a court decision without reading it? Why?
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The decision talks about this. The law does not allow for damages, only injunctive relief. So any negative consequences from enforcement would be fleeting, potentially stayed while the actual case or controversy worked its way through the
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by dpifke 4y ago
The Court talks about this in the decision[0]. It makes a strong argument that striking down the Texas law before it's ever been enforced makes no sense, because all discussions of its benefits or harms are in the hypothetical realm.
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by dpifke 4y ago
No need for a government-sponsored forum, when smaller forums are explicitly exempted from the Texas law. The law at issue still allows forums with 49,999,999 or fewer users to discriminate based on political viewpoint. It only says sites
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by dpifke 4y ago
The decision[0] gives different logic (quoting from page 85): If a firm’s core business is disseminating others’ speech, then that should weaken, not strengthen, the firm’s argument that it has a First Amendment right to censor that speech
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by dpifke 4y ago
I think pages 2-8 of his whistleblower report (the executive summary) are pretty clear and precise. If anyone commenting on this thread hasn't read his report already—the actual report, not just stories about it in the press—I would s
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by dpifke 4y ago
Twitter is high profile, but there are a million businesses most have never heard of that have a similar lack of information security. There are not a million businesses under FTC consent decrees because of past security breaches. (Perhap
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(Title was modified for HN to make it less clickbait.) The crux of the story is that the procedures into two closely-spaced runways in Denver result in an unacceptable number of TCAS[0] false alarms. Pilots are disabling TCAS because they
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FAA asks Denver airlines to stop disabling collision-avoidance alerts(coloradosun.com)
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dang has said that HN doesn't outright ban TV news sites like CNN, despite being against the guidelines[0], because they do occasionally surface interesting stories. But every example of that I've seen has essentially been blogspa
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by dpifke 4y ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.
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by dpifke 4y ago
It's not quite what you're describing, but you can join Open Invention Network for free: https://openinventionnetwork.com/
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Ask your manager for advice and/or assistance. This is a) what they're there for, and b) someone who will have more insight than random people on HN into the specific circumstances/company culture/politics/etc.
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They are per-customer accounts. This is how they explain it when you enable the feature: https://pifke.org/ftxdd.png
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This is about their direct deposit product, which is offered through an FDIC-insured bank, Evolve Bank & Trust. (Same bank that holds accounts for other fintech startups, such as Mercury.) It works as follows: When you sign up to enabl
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by dpifke 4y ago
Or a man who claims one thing publicly and whose wife signs his name to the opposite privately. It's almost as if spouses aren't always of one mind when it comes to politics.
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by dpifke 4y ago
It's not Zigbee, but for anyone looking for a smart thermostat that doesn't rat you out to "the cloud," Honeywell makes a Z-wave thermostat: https://www.honeywellhome.com/us/en/products/air
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by dpifke 4y ago
For anyone following along (unlikely), press@markronchetti.com replied with a photo and asked me to upload it for them (sigh). I did so here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Ronchetti_Heads... ...and requ
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File history says it was deleted due to the uploader not having rights to it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarkRonchettiNM.png Most likely it was taken down due to a notice from the copyright holder: https:
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by dpifke 4y ago
Photos need to be Creative Commons licensed; Wikipedia can't just use ones from a random Google search. The image for Mark Ronchetti was uploaded by a user who shot a video of him in 2020. Since they created the video, they own the co
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by dpifke 4y ago
A killfile that lets me automatically hide stories from a list of domains. (The site as a whole doesn't want to enforce "if they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"[0] but I personally would like to, e.g
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by dpifke 4y ago
Correction: https://beancount.github.io/docs/index.html , not https://beancount.io , the latter is a hosted solution I have no experience with.
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I use git-annex: https://git-annex.branchable.com/ Repositories are synced (via essentially `git push` and `git pull`) between my laptop and desktop and home server, plus encrypted offline backups on two removable drives wh
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DARPA invented a communications network that could survive a nuclear war. Instead, everyone uses Gmail. If any other source of spam was so resistant to receiving abuse reports, they would be blackholed by everyone. Thanks, antitrust enforc
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by dpifke 4y ago
Cursory Googling returns two Terraform hiera providers, borh last updated in 2020. Are you using either of these, or something else? https://github.com/ribbybibby/terraform-provider-hiera https://github.com

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