Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — casenmgreen

casenmgreen

HN member
Joined
Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 6:54 AM UTC
HN karma
1,705
Public activity
606 items

About casenmgreen

Hello! little bit of something to let you know I'm really me :-)

Recent public activity

  1. story
    Substack reader support appears to exist only for billing issues

    I am subscribed to a newsletter on Substack. The newsletter has not been arriving by email (I can still read it on the site). I went to Substack Support. After ten minutes of diggi…

  2. comment
    Comment #47496569

    They're not a bank. None of the FinTechs are. Different culture. They don't understand accounts must always work .

  3. comment
    Comment #47496559

    I don't understand the question. Perhaps if I describe the problem a bit more - I had the app, the app worked, the app was updated, and by being updated, needed a later version of …

  4. comment
    Comment #47496532

    Sweden has been blocking offshore farms on the east side of country, where they would be fighting Russia. West side farms are fine. USA hardly has the same problem, and the current…

  5. comment
    Comment #47418286

    He died about ten years ago.

  6. comment
    Comment #47336254

    It took me about five years to get Revolut to return to me the funds in an account I could no longer access (Revolut overnight upped the Android requirement for their app, so I cou…

  7. comment
    Comment #47100539

    Having this problem with Amazon right now, trying to get a GDPR deletion done.

  8. comment
    Comment #47100498

    I tried to vote, by post, as I lived in the EU. The ballot paper arrived the day before the vote. It was impossible to return it in time, and indeed, when I checked, my vote had ar…

  9. comment
    Comment #47077882

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(essay) "In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should prioritize their conscience over compliance with unjust laws, asserting that…

  10. comment
    Comment #47067925

    I found 1984 much more bleak and awful than We.

  11. comment
    Comment #47067922

    "As only Orwell could, he marked the BBC as he left – almost prissily: ‘I feel that I have been treated with the greatest generosity and allowed very great latitude…on no occasion …

  12. comment
    Comment #47052153

    No. 1. News outlets look to sell stories - and so catchy headlines. Real value is optional. 2. I expect you could find a range of contrary views over the same time. I've read good …

  13. comment
    Comment #46905727

    I looked to see if I could find anything asserting 1984 was about propaganda at BBC - nothing. I found no interviews, no recordings - it seems what survives are his notebooks. Can …

  14. comment
    Comment #46377756

    I have a 12th Gen 13. No problems like that.

  15. comment
    Comment #46377742

    I can swap out my mobo for a RISC-V mobo, or ARM. Get away from Intel and management engine.

  16. story
  17. comment
    Comment #46210289

    Do we need to be skeptical of NIH because of Trump? or they're still okay? Also, remember - don't take D on its own. Always with magnesium, or you get harmed by it, for all that it…

  18. comment
    Comment #46181410

    If you work full-time, you are in most countries penalized by progressive taxation; you pay say 20% on the first NN thousand, and then it moves to 40% or something more on the rest…

  19. comment
    Comment #46181393

    It seems petty, vindictive and childish.

  20. comment
    Comment #46164739

    Having returned the address to the original address, the warning has gone away and it all seems fine...

  21. comment
    Comment #46160706

    How the mighty have fallen.

  22. comment
    Comment #46090524

    Well, I mean, on a contract I might make 60k GBP gross over six months, and it just sits in the account. The bank seems to get a fair bit of money in its accounts, for it.

  23. comment
    Comment #46090490

    It's not quite what it seems. I'd picked up a contract in the UK and relocated to the client and created a company for the contract. I then tried to get a business bank account wit…

  24. comment
    Comment #46087358

    I have to say, I am very tempted :-)

  25. comment
    Comment #46087350

    I had a chat with Support. I spoke to two people, as I had a first conversation, then after finished remembered I wanted to ask what "all funds in the account will be refunded" mea…