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last_responderon Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website

Just signed up. I like the simplicity. I currently use Cloudflare pages for my personal site and I like the idea of using this in stead since I can fire up anything I have a make a quick post. Price is in a good spot for my taste. Quick question -

- Do you have any plans for sub-pages? I like to keep my resume / CV handy on my personal site and don't really see a way to do this cleanly.

- I don't see a way to edit or delete a post.

- Posts with images see to show the raw filename like [[img111.jpg]] . Will there ever be thumbnail previews?

last_responderon Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources

>5, Amazon runs the platform that creates the games - EA

"The Games" - No. Some games yes. The people I game with pretty much despise EA and look at them as the company that buys up smaller studios and destroys the culture.

last_responderon Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert

Large cites with lots of people perhaps?

last_responderon Let’s Not Have a Beer

>However, selecting a beer dispenser as a prize implies that “everyone drinks”

Just like selecting a purse as a prize implies that everyone uses a purse? I think he is overthinking this. Just as I would give the purse to someone who can use it he can do the same with the beer dispenser.

last_responderon Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story

I thought the Musk / Twitter deal was DOA a long time ago.

last_responderon Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies

Ah yes, Lopht Heavy Industries. Indispensable tools at the time.

last_responderon Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms?

It is hard for me to fathom that this article was written around such insignificant numbers .

11/19 Monks

8/25 Commoners

One bad meal could swing those numbers and adding to that the monks were more communal than individual families so more likely to affect them all.

last_responderon Delphi still exists and is actively developed

So in your opinion, this should be avoided? Looking to try something new ( old ) and this got me excited but your comment has soured it a bit for me.

last_responderon Insider Trading in Cryptocurrency Markets

How does that work? Just saying something does not make it true.

last_responderon What I Learned at Clubhouse

>It will never scale to billions of users because you’ll never get that many people interested in the idea of eavesdropping in live voice chats.

Billions on one topic? I agree. Millions on one topic? Sure that is possible. Just look at talk radio ,which is still alive. Many shows had listeners in the millions and still do,