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Do you live in NYC? I do, and I don't have at all what I'd call "a number of good options" for internet access. In my area, there's two companies who operate similar to a monopoly (Verizon and Optimum), and regularly raise prices arbitrarily and often for no reason.

Based on climate predictions which always seem to be best-case, but end up as worst-case, it seems possible that the hothouse scenario could come to pass within my lifetime. I’m 44 years old. I have young children, ages 1 and 5. It seems entirely possible to me that they could die of non-natural causes related to climate change and specifically the hothouse scenario. The surreal thing is that nobody I know seems to be concerned about this. We live in a conservative neighborhood so anytime I bring up climate change as an issue of concern to any of our neighbors, I get blank stares. They prefer to talk about their pets. I feel like the protagonist in a sci-fi movie, the only one who knows that disaster is just around the corner. Is really possible that I will be present for the end of human civilization? Its not guaranteed but is seems increasingly possible, and up to now I never imagined I’d have to deal with something like this.

hfdgiutdryg any chance you can find the link to that submission? It sounds fascinating, and I couldn't find it via HN search.

For those in the ruby/rails world, there's a gem which does this (make it easy to switch between payment vendors) for you: Active Merchant (http://activemerchant.org/).

It's in the FAQ, under "When can I ask for a service to be cancelled?": https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/faq/

Reading to learn is not borne out by research as a good way to build and retain skills, and can just as likely create illusions of competence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect. Research shows it's far better to just start doing the activity. The reading should just be used to get you just to the point where you can start doing.