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That assumes that each location receives enough sunlight to keep the server operational for at least twelve hours a day, which doesn't sound realistic for a setup with no batteries. Three servers spaced equidistant around the world mig
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Everyone else is dumping on authorize.net, but they're willing to work with industries that PayPal and friends won't touch.
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Reading Wikipedia's article has me questioning the information in my above post. According to Wikipedia, the name comes from it being manufactured from "cotton duck" (not because water rolls off it like a duck). Then a derive
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1. Therapy, therapy, therapy. If it's not helping, change therapists until it does. 2. Find activities that help you recharge. It took me a long time to understand that "having fun" and recharging are not the same thing. 3.
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Duck Tape is the brand name of the original product. "Duct tape" is the generic name that the industry settled on. ("Duck" refers to the water-resistant nature of the tape. Duct doesn't actually mean anything other
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Steve Jobs originally wanted to strip out the shell entirely and only support POSIX at the level of the C API. To this day, Apple acts like they've been strong-armed into providing support for the Unix utilities. I can understand the a
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There was a story on HN at one point about laptops that would immediately go dark when placed on top of another laptop. The magnet in the lid of the bottom laptop would put the top laptop to sleep.
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> Google, by thinking so short term, has knee-capped any developer and engineering good will for their platforms. I can't see that hurting their already-established products, but I'm seeing even non-technical users get increasi
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This have me a hairbrained idea for a browser extension that drops every web page you visit into a private Lucene database.
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On Chrome mobile, rotating to portrait mode made the navigation visible.
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It's a good plan until that person breaks some rule and gets you punished.
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Interesting. I could see creating a tier chart for the different levels of service with "monthly" and "annual" price columns, where the monthly column is crossed out for certain tiers. But I'm not a marketing person
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Or it could be people with unusual needs or lifestyles. Someone observing a kosher diet will buy different food from the mainstream. Someone with limited use of their hands will buy kitchen appliances that most people won't need. Incid
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I'd bet that Apple sees it as a loss leader for something else.
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I have a suggestion to solve this issue and the "low-paying customers aren't sticky" issue mentioned in another thread: Only make the really cheap plans available as annual subscriptions. Charging $3/month isn't ver
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Man, you've brought back memories from school when I tried writing recursive Java code that spawned a new thread at each recursive call. Suddenly, a program that used to execute in seconds pretty much locked up the whole workstation fo
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Not at all. "Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, an adaptation of that work." https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
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Having a favorites list that follows you across devices is nice. Being able to publish a publicly viewable playlist is nice. Also, on mobile that would require you to exit the app and move to a browser. Figuring out how to pull up a video f
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Seeing "office use" be more tightly restricted than general commercial use still seems strange to me. I can understand restricting retail use in areas otherwise zoned commercial if the area can't support traffic from, or do
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The issue seems to be the combination of more than 30% of the floor space being dedicated to reserved seating, and the Cafe charging for those reservations. What's more surprising to me is that an area zoned for retail restaurants is n
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I don't have firsthand experience, but anecdotally this sort of thing seems to be more common with government agencies and large corporations than small business clients. I suspect that negotiating it is a lot more complicated than j
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I think the author is trying to say that you're trading high fixed costs to get near-zero marginal costs per client acquisition. If you're only planning on working with half a dozen clients every year, the distinction is mostl
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> put rainy day money away into fungible assets. Savings accounts probably aren't great Could you elaborate? Do you feel that the returns on savings accounts are too low? What do you recommend instead? (I'm not looking for a v
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In the sign example, just imagine that the customer made the misspelling in the original order. The sign maker probably isn't going to throw in free services to fix the customer's mistake.
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The author is discussing intercontinental data transfers. Not many organizations have a WAN that can cross oceans without hitting the internet.
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Not a color expert, but every color encoding scheme is going to have a slightly different gamut. Meaning, CMYK can encode colors that RGB can't, and vice-versa.
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My first knee-jerk reaction to your post was the same as the people who downvoted you: Here's another person incorrectly implementing a process, and then blaming the process when it fails. But, real talk: Automated testing is borderlin
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The PS2 was capable of Real-Time raytracing (2019)(neogaf.com)
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"Oldest" in the sense that it has existed (as far as we can measure) in it's current form longer than any other species. You can't say that a species is as old as it's ancestral species, because you're talking
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It's enough of a problem that there's special needles made specifically for puncturing a fish's swim bladder and relieving the pressure: https://gillz-gear.com/blogs/news/39139841-smart-anglers-und..

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