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queuepon Hyperapp – A tiny framework for building web interfaces

Haven't been using react because of the JSX, but is this really where we are heading? https://hyperapp.dev/tutorial#rendering-to-the-dom

Looks like som obfuscated JS-code..

queuepon The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries

Sure, you didn't mention hand-written letters, but hand-written letters is exactly what the agreement/law (in europe) was designed to take care of.[0] So I think you are missing my point.

It was definetly not designed to be abused by the world's biggest companies to be able to ship stuff for near zero cost world-wide. If you can't see how it's clearly being abused, I don't know what to say.

A trade union created in the late 1800's that made sense then, may need a change now. Although alot of damage is already made.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

queuepon The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries

I agree, I meant to write physical letters. And if it's of legal weight, they should be able to afford shipping.

The problem is not physical letters, it's the postage of goods across the world, being cheaper because of subsizidies.

queuepon The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries

How usual is it sending hand written letters in 2020? Even in poor countries, I believe people sending hand written letters across the world is very uncommon.

If you believe it's still neccessary to keep sending letters across the world a neccessity, well, then we could only allow thin letters that can not hold anything else than a written letter - no items, what so ever.

queuepon The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China and other countries

> It's simply free trade.

How can it possibly be free trade if one side is subsidized and one side is not.

This is a good thing, I hope same thing will happen in Europe, if it haven't already. The law/agreement in europe is to help people send hand written letters across the globe, and to help people from poor regions send letters ro the more developed regions on earth.

This was the case back then, now, the same agreement is used so that you can send stuff worldwide without any fee. That is NOT free trade.

https://www.svenskhandel.se/contentassets/5db334c2740b4b7ebe...

queuepon Show HN: Givemeguid.com – CLI/curl friendly GUIDs

This is what I use to generate guids with autohotkey: ::;guid:: guid := GUID() StringLower, guid, guid Clipboard := guid SendInput,^v return

GUID() { format = %A_FormatInteger% ; save original integer format SetFormat Integer, Hex ; for converting bytes to hex VarSetCapacity(A,16) DllCall("rpcrt4\UuidCreate","Str",A) Address := &A Loop 16 { x := 256 + *Address ; get byte in hex, set 17th bit StringTrimLeft x, x, 3 ; remove 0x1 h = %x%%h% ; in memory: LS byte first Address++ } SetFormat Integer, %format% ; restore original format h := SubStr(h,1,8) . "-" . SubStr(h,9,4) . "-" . SubStr(h,13,4) . "-" . SubStr(h,17,4) . "-" . SubStr(h,21,12) return h }