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Re:Interview with Paul Graham on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:45AM (#22483252)
At what point does this logic stop? I see it all the time to justify taxes, but I'm sorry I think there is an upper bound of justifiable tax and a 40% exit tax certainly seems egregious.
Re:A Map of Mathematics on Friday February 14, 2020 @02:36PM (#22329549)
Does anyone have suggestions for good books on the history of Mathematics?

Hacker News can't fetch submission titles

I was poking around at the "fetch title" function on new submissions because I wanted to use it in a personal project and I found that fetching the title of a HN submission won't work.If you put a url from a HN thread like "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13069841" and click fetch title you will get "null value not allowed" as the title.HN uses this to fetch titles:...

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I always find it slightly funny that there is a movie [1] about working at Google and a big part of the challenge is how they handle support cases.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/

Any other great apps on F-Droid?

I'm using all of the above except AdAway and:

- Orgzly: Org-mode brought to your phone. I use it for capturing TODOs and push notifications for reminders.

- Revolution IRC: IRC Client

- Syncthing: Syncs files between my computer and phone. Mostly used for .org files

- Goodtime: Pomodoro technique time-management

- Loop Habit Tracker: Track habits (reading, exercise, etc.)

- Slide for Reddit: Reddit client