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Re:Attacking My Landlord's Boiler on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:57PM (#43786877)
No, it was basically free.
Re:Attacking My Landlord's Boiler on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:57PM (#43786870)
You would regulate temp by opening the window.
Re:Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro? on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @08:24AM (#40716971)
I am still amazed at how one can return a used device a month after buying it. It would not be possible where I grew up. And still, when I hear, "I have returned it," I am like, "What? You returned it just because you did not like it? And it was not broken? Wow!"
Re:Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:46AM (#39300833)
What do you mean you are returning it? It has been used already.
> Americans spend billions of dollars on stuff they have forgotten about

How can you forget about something when you are getting an SMS / Push notification the second they take your money?

Is this not true for the US?

How can you return a working product that you used for 30 days?
This is possible only in the US, I think. In most of the world, you cannot return a working device that you just decided you didn't like or want.
Re:How to Pay Professional Maintainers on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @09:43AM (#30765977)
Had to use VPN to read this from Turkey :-(
Re:Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year on Saturday December 11, 2021 @05:46AM (#29519971)
It is interesting that this site is blocked from Russia. I've tried using VPN and going there from different countries and yes, it's only from Russia.

  Access Denied
  You don't have permission to access 
  "http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm" on this server.
  Reference #18.14645e68.1639219418.12814b8e
Re:Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles? on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:51AM (#26455406)
How is it possible that he is returning used and perfectly working kettles? Is it common in the US that you can return something that is not broken and was used just because you dislike it?
What is a distributed compute platform? It's the one thing they are not explaining :-(
Re:Things You're Allowed to Do on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:20PM (#25530508)
Бутчер is one of the best steak houses in Moscow, Russia. Steak is not $100. Here is the menu: https://butchersteak.ru/en/menu/
Re:US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @03:05PM (#24711495)
24$ for 5x3 ml in Russia [1]

> The final, net prices paid for insulins are likely to be significantly lower than manufacturer prices in the U.S. because rebates and other discounts often drive down the price paid by individuals in the U.S.

Here in Russia price can only go up from manufacturer’s price. Simpler world.

[1] https://redapteka.ru/catalog/lekarstva/endokrinologiya/sakha...

Re:When good ideas make bad business on Saturday January 04, 2020 @05:17AM (#21954055)
Company that made Doppelganger-like product is flourishing. They are selling it`s product to governments and other companies for ton of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
Re:Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:18AM (#21639596)
Seems that your IP is blocked in Russia. Had to use VPN to check your site out.
Re:Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard? on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @10:36AM (#18757757)
I am using raindrop.io and I am pretty happy with it.
I've subscribed in January, but received only one email from you (Issue #1).
Re:Introducing Conduit – open-source service mesh for Kubernetes on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:44AM (#15861922)
What is service mesh? Seems that I need some more info to understand what is this for...
Re:Couple turns to viruses to beat back superbug on Saturday April 29, 2017 @03:07PM (#14228176)
Doctors routinely prescribe phages when they think that antibiotics would be an overkill or if they don't want any side effects from antibiotics.

Here is the list of phages that are sold in Russian pharmacies: https://imgur.com/a/vkEJo

Re:Couple turns to viruses to beat back superbug on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:24PM (#14227912)
Phages are being used in Russia. Right now two types of phages are sitting in my fridge.
Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:43AM (#14096131)
Is it safe to swim with one day only contact lenses and goggles?
Re:Is Sugar Killing Us? on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:17AM (#13158126)
No access.
Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @12:37PM (#12044203)
> Next up is runtime.scanobject. That function does several things, but the reason it’s running during the chat server’s mark termination phase in Go 1.5 is to implement finalizers.

How did you know that?

> We emailed back and forth and the Go team was very helpful with suggestions on how to diagnose the performance problems and how to distill them into minimal test cases.

Can you give us the link?

Re:Show HN: What every browser knows about you on Saturday April 02, 2016 @02:55AM (#11410546)
They do that on Android too now.
Re:Introduction to x64 Assembly (2011) [pdf] on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @09:08AM (#10783300)
Link is not working.
What is tick?

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