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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Right? I don't understand how someone can read an article like this and have that reaction. An anecdote drives the point home a lot more than common sense. Also, what's this about driving blog traffic? He didn't work himself
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I think you're confusing life and medical insurance.
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It's a different symbol than the sharp, and I don't blame anyone for not knowing it's rarely used for that purpose these days. I had a web design professor who said its "true" name was octothorpe , and while variou
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I don't really agree with this article's assessment. If your question isn't clear, it's not possible to get good answers. If your question is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology you're using, t
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> Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers; Idaho doesn’t put undue restrictions and hurdles in front of potato farmers; and California takes steps to protect its farmers — because these industries are par
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Must be a bug or other error. US presidential terms end on January 20, so it definitely wouldn't be before then. According to Wikipedia inauguration is held on the 20, unless it's a Sunday in which case it's held the next day
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
What were you expecting to come up?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Believe it or not, having quality content that's presented simply with clean URLs is also a good search engine optimization.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Conflicted?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> As cost slowly rose I think you have a very liberal definition of "slowly." http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/23/this-chart-shows-you-why-a-lo...
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Of course, but there's a huge difference between making things for your own use and making them to sell to others, especially in this context.
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I feel like a lot of the commenters here didn't read the article. > Four Thieves Vinegar have created and uploaded the plans for the simple version, called the Epipencil. Also spring loaded, the parts are gathered over the counter.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
If the current price of the EpiPen isn't due to corporate greed, then why did the price used to be significantly lower?
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I'm aware, I read the post.
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I was thinking the same thing. Just a few years ago GitHub used to automatically "figure out" what programming language your project was in, and it was pretty bad.
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That's what RealNames does; it own the domains for a lot of common last names. trinh.com is one that comes to mind.
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Thanks for this writeup. You've given a lot of interesting thoughts and insights.
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Yes, that's it, and that's the key feature I was talking about.
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> Low-Income Adults Struggle the Most With Saving Money Is this really a significant enough conclusion to make a subheadline? It seems obvious to me that those who are living paycheck to paycheck (or close to it) would have trouble savin
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
I'm not sure I see how that's ironic.
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Even in countries with robust social security programs, I imagine many would see value in having more money than the baseline government benefits provide.
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I do it only because I find it useful to segregate my cash savings from the rest of my money. But you have a good point, especially because the survey asked specifically about savings accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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There was an article posted on here a few months ago about Google's version control system. One of the main features is that you don't actually checkout copies of every file in the repository; instead they're faulted in as yo
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lastname.com is the holy grail of domain names. You'd think with my fairly uncommon surname I'd be able to get mine, but it got snapped up in 1999 but some French construction contractor that's been using it to host a static
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
> - a series of swimsuit modeling and sexy emails from some lady to her boyfriend, followed by angry emails about his lack of attention Do you not correct people after the first wrong email they send you?
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I think one of my favorite things about Hacker News is that you can comment on a technology and have a nonzero chance of someone who actually had a hand in it piping in. Also, I realize now I forgot to mention domain hacks, which I think do
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Hell, even using an email address that's not a popular webmail host tends to throw people off. Mine is me@justinlardinois.com; I can't tell you how many times I've confused call center operators with it. I even had one think
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
A rare occasion where Betteridge's law[0] apples in a non-cynical way. .com was part of the zeitgeist of the late 90s and its cultural ties to the web and technology in general haven't faded since. Even using a .net domain makes y
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by justinlardinois 10y ago
Who at any point in the development of the internet ever expressed a goal to elevate discourse?
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Didn't the Micro just eliminate the link cable entirely?

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