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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dmerrick; my proof: https://keybase.io/dmerrick/sigs/IERAlCnLpxTmcDRxGNfYDn2Hf8o4KuZ2uQC0nyW0YdE ]
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dmerrick··on SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, misses booster landing
It's pretty annoying for people on devices without unlimited data
dmerrick··on New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase
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dmerrick··on Polyphonic overtone singing explained visually (2014) [video]
Because she can dress however she wants
dmerrick··on Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?
I was with you until you mentioned you don't use IRAs. Tax advantage is important!
dmerrick··on Half-Life: Alyx
[citation needed]
dmerrick··on Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
Sounds like you played during launch, and didn't play after that
dmerrick··on Every Noise at Once
My friends' band is in there as "Boston metal". Cool stuff!
dmerrick··on IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
You could sell your crypto to someone for cash
dmerrick··on Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
*Sir Jony
dmerrick··on The internet is an SEO landfill
I checked out his product and I can see his predicament... a lot of other services do the same things. He's just doing it in a simple way (with what appears to be a very sane pricing model).
dmerrick··on AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
You might be surprised how often this is the case
dmerrick··on Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
I just want to give a mention to ChessNetwork on Twitch[1].

I watched many of the games of this series live via this channel, and it was great how the commentator had his own board to demonstrate the next few moves and explain the players' thinking. It was really interesting and relaxing.

https://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork

dmerrick··on Paper Airplane Designs
You are moving the center of mass of the paper. Imagine balancing a pipe cleaner on your finger, should be pretty easy, right? Now add a bend and see that you have to reposition the pipe cleaner on your finger
dmerrick··on Gruen transfer
Here's an excellent episode of an excellent podcast about this:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/

dmerrick··on Wine 3.0 Released
Grats to the Wine team!

In all my years of computers, few projects have impressed me as much as Wine. It still feels like it shouldn't be possible, and yet, it works wonderfully.

dmerrick··on Ask HN: What is the Bitcoin price level at which miners will leave?
Not exactly.

If a large percentage of miners stop mining, the difficultly will be adjusted so it's easier to mine Bitcoin. The difficulty is tuned such that blocks are solved every 10 minutes, regardless of how many miners are working.

dmerrick··on How the Apollo Fire Propelled NASA to the Moon
Agreed, this movie was excellent
dmerrick··on A “right to repair” movement tools up
Didn't know this, and I have one of these. They're expensive but worth it, and even more so know that I know this!
dmerrick··on iPhone 8
They did mention in the keynote that they worked with photos, as well as professional maskmakers and makeup artists to prevent this
dmerrick··on Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
Just chiming in to say that I was able to freeze all three online yesterday. No calls needed!
dmerrick··on Ask HN: How does Facebook know what I buy on Amazon or vice versa?
You can change this by going to your Amazon Advertising Preferences page[1]

More info here[2]

1: https://www.amazon.com/adprefs?ref_=ya_advertising_preferenc...

2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2017/02/12/how...

dmerrick··on Show HN: tttfi – Middleware for IFTTT
Wonderful idea. So wonderful, in fact, it makes one wonder what is taking IFTTT so long to offer up similar functionality.
dmerrick··on Threadless is shutting their iOS app down next week
Threadless has an iOS app?

I don't mean to be snarky, but I love Threadless and I had no idea, so maybe that's why they're shutting it down.

dmerrick··on Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
Written in Go!

https://github.com/keybase/client

dmerrick··on Sinatra 2.0 released
Grats to the Sinatra team!

Sinatra is one of my all-time favorite libraries. To me, it is the ideal microframework for rapidly prototyping websites and APIs

dmerrick··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
I couldn't stand it. It tasted bitter and fake to me. I have colleagues who swear by it though.
dmerrick··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
I love the cacao, its sweetness is tremendously useful to me as a replacement for desserts and unhealthy snacks.
dmerrick··on Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
I'm trying out Blue Apron right now. As far as packaging:

    * 1 big box
    * 1 "bubblewrap" cooler bag
    * 2 huge ice packs
    * Misc. plastic bags for produce
    * 3 small paper bags for "extras"
The box and the refrigeration setup are definitely wasteful (even ignoring the environmental cost of shipping it), but the packaging on the produce is pretty minimal.
dmerrick··on Apple releases iOS 10.3
I'm excited about exposing to app developers a way to ask for ratings. Specifically, the ability to opt out of them.

I think this doesn't address the real problem though, which is that ratings reset after every app update. This means that app developers have to constantly ask for reviews, which is exhausting as a user.

dmerrick··on iOS 10 Security White Paper [pdf]
Perhaps this has changed recently, but the last time I tried to use Uber without "allow location access even when not using the app," I was unable to call a ride. Instead, I was given instructions on how to enable that setting.
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