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otherwise we obviously wouldn't have been here.

American Express is a very special card that typically comes with annual fee that is very much worth it. I would never book any hotels, buy plane tickets or signup in any form of membership with any other card because I got burnt way too many times with Visa and MC is even worse. Also that's why businesses typically do not like AE because how easy it is to dispute the charge.

But to add - I discourage you from using chargeback as a feature to stop future charges. Most banks will report it to your credit bureau - you won't see it in form of points being withheld BUT it might be adverse for you when you try to get a loan, etc. My mother disputed way too many things (memory troubles at her age) and they did not renew her CC after expiration date and MasterCard told her she is not eligible for card with her excessive CB ratio.

As funny as it seems, I am glad nobody thought about it as a true way to prevent cross-zoning like with ridiculous unhelpful initial DVD discs/players Zoning where you could only change your zone 5 times which btw wish someone sue player makers for that.

Its just a matter of reversing the tape content, but I could imagine zoning south versus north hemi, so Australia VHS would not work in Europe :) I mean it would work but you would watch in reverse :)

I think lately results of chat went downhill. I got used to asking "are you sure about that" after each chat answer to my question, and to most of the time the answer is "you are right, here is how I was wrong".

"A Wuppertal Schwebebahn monorail train arrives at the Werther Brücke station in Wuppertal, 1913."

Somewhat off topic, but stuff like this always leads me back to this reconstructed video from 1902. It feels like you almost there. I cannot fantom all these people walking peacefully now are dead, and they never heard of silicon circuit, let alone internet or an iPad. Worth watching once or twice a year it always makes me appreciate my life just few inches more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfPyx_678g

created in 2014 with 54 karma?? You should be posting much more - I am sure you have some great ideas to share with all of us.

"...Lynn was recently awarded the rare IBM Lifetime Achievement Award, given to individuals who have changed the world through technology inventions."

After the way they treated her, I wouldn't accept it.

The closed social network for just my family with simply ability to share pics of my kid and are stored encrypted remains on my list... I thought when I have kid this will motivate me, now I am so busy with my son that I don't have the time to program it. Anyone can recommend any simple app that will allow me to share pics in very small group of people and have robust control over who sees what etc?

What? she was fixing strollers?? ask her to STOP immediately and pray none of the customers will sue if the stroller breaks and child is hurt in the process. Your little sister has no idea in what kind of trouble she might be and could be criminally liable and state attorneys do not play nice when it comes to neglect of children wellbeing. Unsure which state this is in, but most have 5 years statue, so if she stops selling today she should be in clear by May 30, 2029. Please pray for her!

If that was his real stance, and someone who does believe in up and down, I think he is burning in hell for being in position of power to stop, but went on to kill innocent people.

Also in subject of death row, recently watched rather good movie based on true events: Trial by Fire. Interesting how that case was based on pseudo-science and even thought the governor knew he still let Cameron to be executed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_Fire_(2018_film)

less than quarter mil number, that's very very early on! mine is over 3.8 million, and I created it relatively early on considering I was living in Europe :)

I think I remember my number because back then when you had to reinstall software or put it on new machine you always went by your number, instead of your email or username. That's why I think I still remember it :)

flagged?

Honestly I always take "This call may be recorded" as two way consent :) one time someone was referring to person with hard to pronounce name and I said "that's fine I will play it back". Person responded: "wait, are you recording? I didn't give you my consent". To which I said yes you did, when I called your line answered with announcement that this call can be recorded. He wasn't too happy :)

Solar_System/The_Moon

The pile can be downloaded here.

404 Not Found nginx

825 GB is a great candidate for torrent use, whatever was under that broken link better be a torrent magnet.

Sorry but what is "Deepthroat" - I only found p0rn underneath, what is the "Deepthroat" story you been growing up with? Obviously aware of DB C.

in the real real far future you don't need his head, but maybe a single hair or a bone? Assuming every DNA cell keeps all memories or perhaps like a chicken running with a cutoff head maybe if his hands to be reconstructed, given enough time over a keyboard he would finally "twich" a password? Just thinking out loud...

I could ignore the Eastern European staff members even though the majority of clientele is in the USA but how the heck I see the same UI issues, bugs, weird empty "warning" popups and glitches that I seen some 12 years ago today, that just boggles my mind.

No it is not. As someone who has been using basically every registrar out there, I can tell you DynaDot has one of best prices (at least first year) but just about year ago they had nasty problem with their DNS servers (all 3 !) and all my sites with domains hosted there were down, 100% in the dark. Ultimately they fixed it and apologized but going through their forum you could see this was constantly happening and many people were upset. I never heard of domain registrar all 3 DNS servers going down for close to 10 hours straight. Big red flag in year 2023.

I moved out to what I consider being extremely stable and easy to chat for help registrar located with staff in USA (contrary to namecheap) that is NameSilo. They are usually $1 more expensive but who cares? I still register with DynaDot sometimes when I see real good deal price wise but if I want to use the domain for live project I transfer it to NameSilo.

I'd even go out of my way and say that undecillion of IP addresses ought to be enough for anybody.

That was a turn off for me personally. While I think more expensive per user (but free for up to 150 emails per day without your own domain name), ProtonMail has "Proton Bridge" that works wonderfully for me on Windows 7/11. It gives you what the name suggest, its a bridge between your cloud encrypted emails and sets up local SMTP that you can connect any program to (I have Thunderbird and Outlook). Haven't had any issues at all.

> storefront in a mall

rent for "storefront in a mall" > any revenue you would make even if your door never closed 24/7

Thank you for this story - I was this close to get aboard and ask all my 42 employees to get one, now we will move forward to researching different solution.

So your assumption is everyone going to Moon or Mars is a saint. And if so - who set the standard? Pope? President? And then what do we do if they become not-so-saint? Drag them back to Earth?

The whole idea that some sort of better type humans will travel to another planet is frankly ridiculous. We don't learn from our own mistakes - see WW1, WW2, current state of affairs. If anything, we would most likely destroy Mars and Moon much faster than how we wronged Planet Earth.

Its interesting to think if only people not waste their time, how productive they would be. Then you realize how hard it is to get successful in life in terms of work, how every single idea and product / service has so many competitors, and you become glad that so many people don't do anything but waste their time :)

Came here to say the same. And clicking on the globe does not stop it. Then trying to zoom and you can't but the globe image is too blurry/low res to read what's on it. Don't get me even started on scrolling...

You NEVER want to admit you were wrong. See: Donald J. Trump.

Its politics. Good luck trying to convince someone in larg corp they don't need Oracle with other open source databases out there. There is just too many people in line on both sides that job and salary and bonuses depends on the deals to continue, no matter how terrible, expensive, or useless they are.

> CEOs are professional communicators who have reached the highest level of the craft

Elon Musk has entered the chat...

It is somewhat different. AirBnB founder Nathan Blecharczyk was not shopping around, but rather at some point he was the largest spammer in USA, where even FBI was interested in his dealings. Interestingly, the 3 articles I was able to find on this subject some 5 years ago (and posted to HN at some point) from major news outlets, are all gone now.

I think hurting your own business versus being a scumbag scammer will get you much different treatment, even from PG.