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Re:Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:30PM (#24094416)
While I don't subscribe to the QAnon related conspiracies, I feel even more strongly that Facebook is a bigger threat to society as it stifles discussion and dissemination of apposing ideas if they are not compliant with their policy.
Please don't buy the hype. I'm going to guess that almost everyone would agree with preservation of environment and wildlife. But the drilling in northern Alaska is not what one may think. Drilling sites have small surface foot prints and reach out via horizontal drilling. Additionally, oil exploration on the north slope of Alaska has been going on since the 1960's with a remarkably good health, safety, and environmental responsibility record. Look at their record and what they've been doing. It may be a rare case, but Alaska's north slope environment has not been harmed by exploratory drilling sites.
Re:A Swede who created a $400K Indiegogo-scam on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:25PM (#18621812)
Unfortunately, back in 2014, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign for DreamQii PlexiDrone 8 blade drone. It has not shipped, though they've been in a state of almost shipping for about two years. Lesson learned. DreamQii raised over US$2.2 million.
Re:A Swede who created a $400K Indiegogo-scam on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:16PM (#18621725)
Unfortunately, back in 2014, I contributed to an Indiegogo campaign for DreamQii PlexiDrone 8 blade drone. Still not shipping. Almost shipping for the last two years. A costly lesson.
Re:PostgreSQL Exercises on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:19AM (#15884441)
First, I appreciate the work you've done. Great stuff. Thanks.

Second, I don't imagine these topics fit well with the exercise based course material, but they are of interest to me:

Window Functions, Logic in the database vs in the code, Serialization, Normalization vs Denormalization, Object Relational Mapping, Concurrency & Transactions, Triggers

Re:Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:00PM (#15640527)
One request :)

Please consider a Fully Dead Edition. It would give access to all the digital content, but include a paper version of the book. Thanks!

Re:Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:40PM (#15639958)
FYI. My attempt to use your gracious Offer Code on the payment form of the Full Edition, did not apply...
Re:Introducing HelloWorks on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:15PM (#13996656)
As a satisfied HelloSign customer, I've been waiting for what seemed like an obvious addition to your product for a long time. Single forms and agreements are fine, but having those conform to our internal process flow makes for a much more useful tool.
Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? on Sunday February 26, 2017 @11:30AM (#13738021)
An alternative to Bloomberg Terminal, on the research side, is Tiingo, an amazing financial data portal. They ask that if you use it, you pay a minimum of $7 per month, though that is not currently enforced.
Re:Uncovering bad guys hiding behind CloudFlare on Saturday September 03, 2016 @01:25PM (#12420053)
While the author has a point, I use CloudFlare because i believe, to a large extent, it protects me from criminal or nafarious activity.
Re:Docker for Mac Beta Review on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:38AM (#11569669)
Thank you. snowmanak
Re:CloudFlare's New Dashboard on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @08:34PM (#9455920)
We too have been a very satisfied Cloudflare user.

Although analytics is not the reason we use Cloudflare, it's interesting to note that in their new analytics, the primary metric for measuring traffic has changed from page views to requests. Since Cloudflare is the source of serving the pages, it seems like it would have the greatest opportunity for capturing accurate pageview counts. I wonder what the story is behind the change.

If only Yosemite would do the same.
Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card on Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:39PM (#6735377)
This looks like a copy of GEODE, a failed Kickstarter project from iCache in 2012.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1404403369/geode-from-ic...