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by firefax 10mo ago
It's called "dollar tree" for a reason, historically prices were and are a dollar unless otherwise noted.
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by firefax 10mo ago
I had a clerk flip out on me a while back at a Dollar Tree because I wanted a charge for a dollar -- it rang up as 1.25. They rolled their eyes and told me not everything is a dollar, and I maintained that absent pricing stickers indicating
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by firefax 11mo ago
I always assumed he spoke to the airport about what sorts of music it enjoys, this method seems needlessly hostile to user research.
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by firefax 11mo ago
text.npr.org is another good low bandwidth site op
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by firefax 11mo ago
I remember people I knew at conferences who were extremely fond of Thinkpads due to being Linux geeks (at a time when it was harder to find hardware support for things we now consider basic features like wifi) complaining when it went from
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by firefax 11mo ago
>Ethics matter. I don't believe there's any life after this one, but I find myself ruminating on what I've done. In 2015, I had a lot of interaction with a startup incubator you know well, and ended up sitting in the discu
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by firefax 11mo ago
"Only" 6%? Bonds (a safe investment) are usually at ~2%. A conservatively allocated growth fund doing 6% is pret-t-y good.
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by firefax 11mo ago
Surprised we made it this far with no love for Firebird... err... Fire fox . (It's got tabs!)
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by firefax 11mo ago
Thanks for your input.
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by firefax 11mo ago
Someone from DE pointed out elsewhere in the thread this could be used to avoid paying ppl properly -- classify someone as "volunteering" to be paid a paltry sum with no pension contributions etc to work on tools that benefit for
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by firefax 11mo ago
But what's the alternative? Most people use either O365 or Google Docs. I hate that people are incapable of using Libreoffice and mailing documents around, but modern users are addicted to "the cloud", and it's my unders
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by firefax 11mo ago
I'm a big fan of Germany -- my most enjoyable vacation was riding around DE on DB, I've done some German language classes and read extensively about it's history. (I think people hyperfocus on WWII out of morbid curiosity and
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by firefax 11mo ago
It certainly had an impression on me in my younger days -- moving over to Firefox and later messing around with Knoppix and becoming an open source geek probably stemmed in large part from seeing all the "Install Linux, problem solved&
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by firefax 11mo ago
>What is “left libertarianism” supposed to look like? I find this concept baffling Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism
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by firefax 11mo ago
Left libertarianism is compatible with such views. Basically, libertarian on social issues paired with a preference for a decentralized economy, as opposed to a "tankie" (Stalinist) style centrally planned economy.
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by firefax 11mo ago
>Makes me wonder what percentage of today's HN readers didn't live through the Slashdot era. Please don't out me as a ghost parent
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Slashdot effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by firefax 11mo ago
>Site is down? They got Slashdotted ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
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by firefax 11mo ago
Well at least it is for one of us OP :/
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by firefax 11mo ago
> A lot of Reddit users have drifted over here, too. Bringing with them a culture of juvenile humor and unreserved antagonism. I'm sure it has made Dang's job harder. Did you mean "undeserved" antagonism? I think HN
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by firefax 11mo ago
I wish someone would colorize these.
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by firefax 11mo ago
I would consider this a form of doxing -- to retroactively share information that was nonpublic upon joining would be a serious breach of trust. Keep in mind things aren't always what they seem -- I remember a heatmap going up of where
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by firefax 11mo ago
Thunderbird, via the Enigmail extension[1], also was many folks first foray into applied cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigmail
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by firefax 11mo ago
>In all seriousness it really is kind of fascinating if this works where the more naive approach like "write me a play where the hero aerosolizes botulism" doesn't work. It sounds like they define their threat model as a &
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by firefax 11mo ago
Did the authors publish a chapbook or other collection of their art? > A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, > its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat. > To learn its craft, one studies every turn— > how flour lifts, h
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by firefax 11mo ago
Clippy for CEO!
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by firefax 11mo ago
Light up a big fat stogie.
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by firefax 11mo ago
If you want to type one handed, have you looked into T9? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
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by firefax 11mo ago
>I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now. Let's do it like Japan does, only one type of currency. And that currency will be the penny. One dollar note? No buddy... that's a one h
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by firefax 11mo ago
Let's pull back up the core line here: > it's not "unreasonable" to ask for patches along with bug fixes, but it is unreasonable to be mad if they don't So the ask (make a patch for your CVEs) is reasonable. It

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