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This seems odd. My experience visiting India was of software parks that are 24h operations. Perhaps this was in the Mumbai sticks. The 50 phone lines and people coming to work in a…

If it's something your proud of having done, perhaps buy the .com or .io or whatever. Also, while the code is under an MIT license, is the name or brand?

Deng Xiaoping was not the successor to Mao. That was Hua Guofeng. An interim leader, but an important interim stopgap. I have no idea who N S Lyons is other than a substack author.…

There's a small minimise button located next to each post on HN. It's easier clicking that than making pronoun-filled replies that revolve around personal norms of commenting outsi…

The Goldman guy? UBS had similar? Perhaps. Try searching for these.

Requiring phone numbers for things is why I don't sign up.

Look at industrial economics and shakeouts. The advantage a first mover has is early access to innovation. With earlier customers and a slightly more mature product they're a step …

That a point exists is an assumption, and dimensions constructed.

Given you now live in the EU you could try exercising your right to account deletion.

The kids have no choice. It might happen, or even be compulsory depending on social system. Worth asking though. Your kids might end up at the equivalent of Aveling Park.

Bootstrap, live the good life.

My personal solution is to boycot companies that do this, and should they come up in conversation mention they arbitrarily block legitimate users from their services

Veering on a tangent, I've been pretty happy with Netim as a French (not just .fr) registrar and replacement for Gandi.

Indeed. > Is that understanding correct? I must have phrased these 4 words poorly. I'll try harder next time.

I was disappointed that the author hadn't done a literature review, even a basic one. Perhaps they're an expert and didn't see the need, but they didn't cite anything or provide an…

Surely it is not just anyone that a link is shared with, but anyone with the link? It's link-bearer open access to a partial document (an entire page) an author marks as not having…

One of the lemmas from this and simulation theory [1] is that we're not in a simulation run by a super computer, though it might be for us, but we're in a memory leak that's been l…

The irony of posting this on substack.

Is a monster saying they want someone dead alright? Not telling when or how, just suggesting to their subordinates. Where's your line of influence? With power comes, etc.

Turn it off and on again. Also try VSCodium.

99% of Nostr

As a privacy concerned user, I print Hacker News stories I'm interested in, and then POST replies. Though as my printer was made in Sweden, it sometimes just prints a page saying "…

Dreamweaver 3. It was downhill from 4.