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ItMayWorkTryIton They're made out of meat (1991)

Brandon Sanderson (very prolific fantasy author) has a novella inspired by this: * Original: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/i-hate-dragons

* Extended: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/i-hate-dragons-e...

ItMayWorkTryIton Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?

100 writes per second seems like a generous default rate limit. Presumably if my real traffic is above that I can ask Stripe for a higher limit

ItMayWorkTryIton Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says

Agreed, we should also make sure to ban interracial marriage since same culture marriages are universal among all the countries in the world. I don't know of any thriving culture which frowns on same race marriage.

(Sarcasm if it wasn't obvious)

ItMayWorkTryIton Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset?

You can use protobuff without gRPC if that helps for your use case. Twitch has open sourced their HTTP1 protobuff client/server library: https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

ItMayWorkTryIton Rideshare operations are being suspended in California

Definitely not feasible to keep drivers on as employees legally. Some issues that come to mind that seem incredibly hard for uber/lyft to enforce but are mandatory for California employees:

* Meal & rest breaks

* Callback pay

* Split Shift premiums

* Reporting premium (if you show up to work, but less work to do than half your scheduled shift)

The only way I see this working is somebody started some "Driver Pool" company that employed drivers fulltime and then Uber/Lyft/Doordash/Grubhub/etc all use that company.