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by nulbyte 6y ago
To GP's point, your initial reply said: > SARS-CoV-2: strain of SARS-CoV GP was pointing out that this was incorrect, and you just made that point by stating it yourself. Assuming you are intending to engage in the conversation and
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by nulbyte 6y ago
> The point is making it more expensive for malicious actors. Malicious actors don't care about expenses nearly as much as benign ones do. So the point ought to be, if you want me to fix something, tell me what's broken.
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by nulbyte 6y ago
Oh wow. I stand corrected. They should really nix that; well intended, I'm sure, but fairly egregious.
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by nulbyte 6y ago
From GP's link: > Multiple GPG keys can be specified...
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by nulbyte 6y ago
> In contrast, Stripe collects also data from webpages that are not payment pages. Like recaptcha, whether the Stripe code is included on a given page is solely up to the author of that page. While I may tend to agree with OP's requ
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by nulbyte 6y ago
I don't think they even need to ask. The way I read the terms, they already had it, so I think they are angling to put themselves in control unilaterally and one-up Twitter. Disney's terms have prohibition on "offensive"
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by nulbyte 6y ago
Yes, weekly. The $600 from the fed is new in response to the pandemic.
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by nulbyte 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Can you not continue writing code while moving to another bank? Did itnfor a no profit last year. Wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Mainframes have been having a moment. Or, perhaps more accurately, certain enterprises are finally waking up to the fact that firing all those mainframers wasn't the best idea for the long-term. The current problem isn't the lack
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> I self-hosted my website on 56k Some can barely afford a cheap prepaid phone to make occasional calls, let alone a landline to tie up 24/7. Even then, running a web server is not trivial for most of the general public, a dial-up o
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> everyone has a fast enough connection Only if by 'everyone' you mean 'not everyone.' Broadband is far from universal. > The decentralized web is everyone hosting their own webserver from home. Only of by 'de
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> For performance, cobol typically requires a server round trip every time the screen changes. Round trips aren't the problem. Waiting for IO is. CICS solves this by not waiting for IO. It dumps the screen and moves on. Then it beco
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Arguably, the plugin and resolver "resolve" domains under the top-level domain idk. However, the primary service provided is not DNS (which is not offered at all via the plugin), but HTTP redirection. DNS, on the other hand, serve
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by nulbyte 7y ago
It is available to all customers[1] with a supported device (plan doesn't matter, but I suspect prepaid customers are more likely to have cheaper, unsupported devices). [1]: https://www.t-mobile.com/customers/mobil
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> And US sanctions as written do not allow us to provide commercial services or services which could be used commercially to sanctioned countries. This statement is so wide-sweeping as to be patently false. Some sanctions target specific
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by nulbyte 7y ago
But maybe it does apply. Isn't the registrant listed as WhoisGuard? So, shouldn't WhoisGuard be responsible for providing the contact information? Hence Facebook sued Namecheap. I think Namecheap is doing right, and I think Facebo
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Companies aren't anonymous in the US. Corporations must have registered agents in each state in which the corporation is registered, the name and address of whom is public in order to facilitate service of process. LLCs in most states
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by nulbyte 7y ago
They can, yes, but not much of a middle finger.
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Not cancelled, declined. The rider can't rate the ride because it was never scheduled in the first place. From the user's perspective, they're still waiting for the app to find a driver. They revised it in 2017. > Moreover
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Declining can adversely affect the driver's rating. How it does so, and the imolications of that rating, are unilaterally decided by Uber. There is no negotiation; as a driver, you either agree or you don't drive for Uber.
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> Don't DST in practice make school start an hour later parts of the year? It's about half and half, when you consider the school year starts in daylight saving time, switches to standard, and then switches back. I don't s
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> Any way you slice it, you're just pushing the problem around to different places. There isn't a problem. There are many problems. Changes in strategy don't have to solve them all. It is entirely reasonable to prioritize
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> So, I wish Georgia, Florida, et al would just give Congress a big middle finger by switching to permanent Atlantic Standard Time. Maybe then they'd realize how silly this all is. States can't unilaterally adopt a different ti
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by nulbyte 7y ago
I believe this to be a case of telephone (no pun...scratch that, pun definitely intended). That sounds plausible, so the CSR probably believes it and regurgitated it. But chargebacks do not signify immediate fines (or else a merchant would
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> But my main point was that you need to still think carefully about how you're going to store your data... I think this is true, but doesn't quite reach the point GP is making: speaking correctly is also important. Calling par
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> I am the only one that sees trouble ahead with name? I saw this and instantly thought it was related, before it dawned on my that they wouldn't post to HN.
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by nulbyte 7y ago
> Why would he contact the buyer outside of Amazon? You can't sue the buyer by serving Amazon.
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Some merchants certainly are. And in GP's case, PayPal might be playing the role of merchant, since they technically took the payment. I wonder if they just offer refunds to avoid having to accept chargebacks as such.
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by nulbyte 7y ago
Most of the medium to large banks have that option. Many partner with Zelle because it is not bank specific, though I once had a credit union account that let me do ACH transfers to other accounts. But as you point out, there's also Pa
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by nulbyte 7y ago
I gave up on cable and eventually live TV for similar reasons. I would rather read the news than be subjected to someone's sensational idea of news, which I now call olds because it's just the same thing rehashed over and over. Th

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