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Extra irony: I went to try Dogpile, but got redirected to some anti-something site (seems to not like my VPN IP) that wants me to do a Google Recaptcha.

People reference the essay, and in so doing they are referencing the whole essay, including the nasty parts. People doing this need to be aware of that; I suspect many are not. Bei…

More about Hardin's essay: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-t... > The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s m…

> But even if they were working on Pinboard, it's still a free service https://pinboard.in/faq/ What does it cost? Pinboard costs $11/year. Archiving accounts cost $25/year. Happy …

How do you know how simple it is for a CSR to offer you a refund? I don't. So I asked the CSR to please pass my request on to someone higher up. The response? Nothing. Zilch. Not e…

You already bought it. It's done. Your option is to cancel at renewal or not. This is technically true. In the bigger picture we should judge people and companies by what they choo…

According to OP, he was knocked down to free tier but not issued a refund. That is incredibly odd, given that he already paid for the service To be clear: The knocked me back to th…

I'm not surprised at all that a company doesn't want to refund you because of a political disagreement you have with them. What's important here is how they handled this. A company…

Dropbox is morally corrupt and support for them by HN users is disappointing. I wrote to Dropbox and said I wanted to cancel my account and get a pro-rated refund because of their …

Absolutely. The support for Dropbox here is disheartening.

Oh, very cool. Thank you.

Very cool. Props to you. I've a question that's not specific to this app but related to Web apps in general: When I think about installing a PHP (or Rails, for that matter) Web app…

Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227198

Wouldn't it make sense to create more interactive content so readers/users can try out the code as they go along? One upside to the days of paper-only was that I was forced to hand…

Do they let you carry that own or do they hold that until you get off the plane? The latter was my experience some years ago.

I tend to upvote helpful comments, especially if it's in response to something I said or asked. I like to also post a "Thank you" reply but I seems to recall some push-back on that…