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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Most (all?) of the major hosting platforms will throttle you on a per-hour or per-24-hour basis. If you can trickle each newsletter out over several days, you could go that route.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
If you like selfhosting, then self-host the CRM and data-management side, but outsource the mail transmission. You can selfhost MailWizz ($59, as I recall, on Code Canyon) or use Mautic (free) or Listmonk (ditto). Transmit via Amazon Simple
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
This is a solvable problem if there's political will to solve it. Much of the uncertainty and cost of a new fission plant is tied to regulatory, permitting and litigation costs. No one's suggesting eliminating regulation, but the
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Politicians, at least in the U.S., really don't have the power to move agriculture development elsewhere. They can make the water more expensive / less available to encourage movement, but that's about it. Viewed through that
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Off-topic but: Love your product. Use your product. Thank you for a great product.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Term limits are possible with a congressional vote; an impeachment process already exists, and the only time it was invoked against a Justice was 1804. Don't mistake politicians' unwillingness to do something for an inability to d
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
While your points about the evolving (and currently manipulated) definition of freedom are good, I still can't fathom swapping it for democracy, were such a swap possible. Under absolute freedom, I'm subject to the law of the jung
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Citizens United, whether you agree with it or not, builds on several previous SCOTUS rulings around campaign finance. To suggest that the rules (or lack thereof) completely changed with that ruling is to misunderstand the history of campaig
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Been a generalist self-employed consultant (non-I.T.) for 20 years. Some suggestions: * To do well, you'll need to learn how to consult -- your skill set and the skill set of consulting are two very different things. * Even as a genera
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
^^ This. One of the biggest ways to boost billings is to be consistently -- even relentlessly -- easy to do business with. That applies to billing and time tracking as well. Tightly scope, fix a fee against that scope and set your rate high
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
That's called inclusionary zoning and exists in many large markets. There's no evidence that it broadly helps but it does further turn housing developme t into a political pawn. https://www.mercatus.org/publication
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I think three things can be true simultaneously: * 4Chan can be a pretty rough neighborhood on the Internet * Neither New York nor DC politicians can do much about it without running smack into 1A issues. * Reporters love to write "Som
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
> So not only do I need to pay more taxes for the US government to fund almost double my states pro rata aid to places like West Virginia and Mississippi, but... (snip) Wouldn't the most effective solution be to reduce the number of
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
At least for the design system, the answer is yes. The US Government Design System: https://designsystem.digital.gov/ Don't have the URL handy, but California has an amazing design system as well.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Counterforce vs. countervalue strategy. A limited nuclear exchange would almost certainly be counterforce, and focused on things like military targets and ports. A larger exchange would become a countervalue exercise focused on economic tar
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Agree, and let's also remember that these are wholly voluntary situations. Unchecked power is a pretty big charge in a situation where the student can (Yes, at a cost) always walk away.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Prospera's minimum wage is higher than the Honduran national minimum wage.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
:::Helion's $500m funding round has entered the chat:::
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
It's hard to take the author credibly when he trots out the trope about 91% marginal tax rates and 50% corporate tax rates. Yes, they existed. But those numbers don't matter. What does matter is federal revenue as a share of GDP,
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Nice and clean. Not going to work for everyone, but that's true of 100% of the other note-taking/knowledgebase apps, too. Since I suspect a lot of people would use this for todos as well as notes and linked knowledge, the ability
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
I'm no apologist for the oil companies but: Why is this surprising? Demand for energy is rising; demand for premium-priced energy covering the reduced efficiency and new capital costs of greener technology is not rising as quickly. In
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Ooooh -- you named off two of my use cases. Can you talk a bit more about how you're using it for content creation and marketing?
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Yep -- love the software, but the lack of a kanban-style board in the free edition means we'd jump to their paid plan. Not a deal killer (the plan is $435/yr at our small size), but a sense of pig-headedness has me looking at othe
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Ask HN: Open-source project management for non-software projects?
9 points by gwbrooks 5y ago|8 comments
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Without debating Project Veritas specifically (I'm not a big fan), I will say that SourceWatch itself is extraordinarily biased. That doesn't make them bad automatically but, like most sources of information, it makes them a bad s
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Meta-mistake that covers most small clients: Don't do business with people who are writing you a check out of their own pocket. Prospects that have a professional manager and a budget are a lot less hassle than Ed and Enid, who have to
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Did this as a team member (the poachee) a few times; did it as a manager (the poacher) a couple as well. As a team member, it wasn't about disliking my current team or workload; it was a way to get an out-of-band salary increase withou
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
I have sympathy for the author's plight. But his proposed solution -- forcing CenturyLink to sell its networks to local government if they don't change their ways -- is one of the worst ideas I can imagine.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
Grow funding of the nonprofit I lead by at least $400k. Delegate or die trying. Dial back the reflexive urge to self-host or home-grow every aspect of my personal and professional tech stacks.
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by gwbrooks 5y ago
It's the parish policy at many Eastern Orthodox churches in the U.S. that a member (which is to say: Someone who can vote at the annual meeting) have a pledge form on file.

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