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Re:They're Made Out of Meat (1991) on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @11:02PM (#47698840)
Brandon Sanderson (very prolific fantasy author) has a novella inspired by this: * Original: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/i-hate-dragons

* Extended: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/i-hate-dragons-e...

Re:Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing? on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:29AM (#33192361)
100 writes per second seems like a generous default rate limit. Presumably if my real traffic is above that I can ask Stripe for a higher limit
Agreed, we should also make sure to ban interracial marriage since same culture marriages are universal among all the countries in the world. I don't know of any thriving culture which frowns on same race marriage.

(Sarcasm if it wasn't obvious)

Re:Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset? on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:39AM (#31314590)
You can use protobuff without gRPC if that helps for your use case. Twitch has open sourced their HTTP1 protobuff client/server library: https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
Re:Rideshare operations are being suspended in California on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:37PM (#24225074)
Definitely not feasible to keep drivers on as employees legally. Some issues that come to mind that seem incredibly hard for uber/lyft to enforce but are mandatory for California employees:

* Meal & rest breaks

* Callback pay

* Split Shift premiums

* Reporting premium (if you show up to work, but less work to do than half your scheduled shift)

The only way I see this working is somebody started some "Driver Pool" company that employed drivers fulltime and then Uber/Lyft/Doordash/Grubhub/etc all use that company.