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I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.

This is the same path we're on. Migrated to Crunchy a month ago or so to remove the major migration risk and are using Render to host an auxiliary service while our core application remains on Heroku. Haven't yet done any non-toy deployments on Fly.io or Railway but I very much like Render's Blueprints and environment groups.

The patterns aren't licensed for a single pair of shorts.

If you like this there's a meaty seven part blog series by historian Bret Devereaux about the mythology surrounding Sparta. It offers an account of what Sparta and the Spartan military was really like as well as how the Spartan mythos evolved.

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

> As others have said, I don't really get the fascination with LaTeX.

I have gone down this path with other types of documents (reports, proposals) not because I love LaTeX but because I hate composing and editing in Word, etc. Especially for long lived or repeated documents. Some of those tech clients might just prefer working with plain text for editing, source control, and/or version branching.

Capital One customer here! This is interesting to hear. Capital One's website is easily one of, if not the most annoying bank website I've engaged with in memory, inclusive of behemoths like BofA, regional banks, and a local credit union.

It would be convenient to have links included, however they seem to be discoverable by replacing the domain with "github.com" and then removing extraneous paths.

https://github.com/nealcaren/workshop_2014/ https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments/

> Many places require you to deprecate assets such as computers over many years, so the deductions are not all taken out of your profit the year you buy them

It's likely that in some accounting regimes you have to to this, but in my own experience with a small business in the US, multiple accountants have simply depreciated assets like our computers immediately. When I originally questioned this our CPA said we could depreciate it over several years but it wasn't necessary in our case (small enough [asset] value and lifetime) and not worth it.

As it stands I imagine if someone is spending $1,000 per year on "servers" these are non-depreciable cloud service expenses.

Don't forget that it's nitrogen fixing, too!

simonw published a searchable copy of this via Datasette: https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com

You can filter by state, city, zipcode, bank, business type, and search by employer name, e.g. https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/fo...

In the US you are required to have your drivers license while driving, but I do not believe there are any blanket requirements (since it would vary from state to state) that you must be able to furnish identifying documents at all times.

I think the reason GP and LP weren't defined is that they're abbreviations for common[ish] terms that apply to partnerships generally, not specifically to venture capital or finance.

My first real experience with sleep deprivation was when I was 12 1/2. My friends and I stayed up all night and sometime the next afternoon decided to go for a short hike. I made it down the street and then realized I was tired and said I was going back to the house. Next I knew I was sitting at the kitchen table with a Dr. Pepper in front of me, surrounded by my friend's parents and the rest of my buddies. Apparently I had been walking around the house talking to myself, and I still have vague recollections of being pursued by my 7th grade journalism teacher demanding that I name the world's oceans.

I try not to stay awake that long anymore.

Yeah, I think I've mixed something up.

I was [lightly] researching this a few weeks back and am pretty sure I found that the net effect of the final ruling was that for the purpose of enforcing regulations [any] city could mark tires, and that because it the outside of the vehicle on public property it was not trespass...

The court later issued a clarification basically upholding the logic of their ruling but stating that because the chalking was part of valid [regulatory] activities (below) the chalking is okay[0].

> Rather, we hold, based on the pleading stage of this litigation, that two exceptions to the warrant requirement—the “community caretaking” exception and the motor-vehicle exception—do not apply here. Our holding extends no further than this.

From the court's order[1]:

> Because we chalk this practice up to a regulatory exercise, rather than a community-caretaking function, we REVERSE.

[0] https://www.sixthcircuitappellateblog.com/recent-cases/sixth... [1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/17...

My mistake, he wasn't a US permanent resident.

He was merely a person residing in the US.

Khashoggi [resided in the US and has two US citizen children] (edit - was not a permanent resident).

He had developed standing in the US, including journalistic circles (he was a journalist, after all).

His murder and subsequent coverup attempts were ludicrously brazen.

It [almost certainly] involved the Saudi crown prince who has been courted by the president's children/advisors.

This wasn't a web service that was unavailable for a couple hours; planes crashed and people died.

I rather doubt any of this harms the contractor here in any way whatsoever.

Keep in mind with federal contracts that 'disadvantaged' is a designation, not an assessment. One of the main roles of these smaller contractors is landing prime contracts and subbing to larger contractors so agencies can meet their contracting requirements.

Here's the contractor's reported FY2019 payments: https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/8a0d6c8caefafefa8e9268b...

Are those SV companies aligned with the values they claim?

Given SF's reputation for feces-free streets this does seem rather odd.

Someone should invent a mechanism that "locks" the door in place from the inside so that this can't happen.

I noticed this when I was [briefly] in Seoul. It was a combination of individual and presumably municipally employed workers cleaning up trash throughout the city and private employed workers cleaning around larger commercial buildings. Outside of banks, too, I remember people hosing down and washing the sidewalks. That's something I haven't seen in the US (not with such regularity, at the very least).

I do this with Fastmail, including specialized subdomains to help me segment the addresses and then distinct email names for each sign up as necessary.

You can also do something similar with Gmail (and probably other providers) using "+" in your username, e.g. "myname+hackernews@gmail.com". This creates a unique email address that delivers to your Gmail account as if the "+<whatever>" were absent. This is more easily defeated if you're a moderately motivated spammer.

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Carrying a balance isn't the struggle, it's paying off the accumulation that is.

> There is something wrong here, this is not how it's supposed to work.

I totally agree.

Reminders sync when I create them and recurring reminders show up on every device, but I have to mark them complete on every single device. Sometimes they show up again right after being marked complete.

I've stopped thinking about it as "glitchy" and more "the new Apple way".

I think you could do worse than that diet, but this is a multivariate comparison. From the study abstract[0]

> Conclusion. Modifiable risk factors, such as physical activity, diet, smoking cessation and mid-day naps, might depict the “secrets” of the long-livers; these findings suggest that the interaction of environmental, behavioral together with clinical characteristics may determine longevity. This concept must be further explored in order to understand how these factors relate and which are the most important in shaping prolonged life.

It could be that the quantity red meat is solely responsible for their longevity, or has nothing to do with it, or plays some role with the many other confounding variables.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051199/

Not really sure how those ideas are all that similar to the TURN here. Those are long flying and involve tethering, but the flight systems are quite different and they're tethered to the ground.