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Re:Ask HN: Is it finally time to quit? on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:02PM (#21064589)
Thankyou. I had forgotten that when I posted. The US is my main target market and it is the quiet time of year.

Ask HN: Why did Facebook disable my account?

Posted by thrownthrow on Thursday July 25, 2019 @08:13AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I signed up for an account, filled out a few details and literally just hours later, tried to log in and account was suspended. I had to send a photo for verification and 24 hours later was informed my account was disabled. To dispute the decision they want me to send a legal document as ID. I'm not prepared to do that so I guess that's that?

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Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:29AM (#20212265)
I was going to suggest to anyone interested in VMS to head over to the deathrow cluster but unfortunately it's now dead. https://deathrow.vistech.net/410.html
Re:How to parent more predictably (2018) on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:40AM (#20174182)
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. A thinly veiled insult perhaps?
Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:30PM (#20159245)
Huxley
Re:New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It on Saturday June 08, 2019 @06:06PM (#20135486)
3 times in 3 years with 10 to 20 companies each time plus cramming on top of that! Sounds exhausting.
Re:Ask HN: Should I quit my job? on Monday May 27, 2019 @05:15PM (#20025303)
6 months. General advice is always n months, however that advice is so generic as to be meaningless.
Re:Blue-collar workers who become white-collar later in life on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:09PM (#19949730)
From what I've seen of exorcisms on TV, they certainty do look exhausting.
Re:My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:22PM (#19923902)
I use GNUcash for business too, but use git as storage/sync instead.

Also a simple fast tool with some handy little reports and graphs is http://homebank.free.fr/en/ We still use this for our personal finances.

Re:Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw th... on Saturday April 06, 2019 @04:32PM (#19592852)
By consensus of the Joneses.
Re:They resent the fact I’m not a robot on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:17PM (#19257957)
I had a similar experience working for a food distribution wholesaler in Melbourne. We rode pallet trucks and time pressure was so intense that there were guidelines on the number of steps where it was more efficient to walk next to the pallet truck rather than ride on it. I couldn't keep up and lasted all but 2 weeks. This was 25 years ago and it's disappointing nothing has changed.
Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share ... on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:23AM (#19152235)
We need a version of Godwin's law for slack.
Re:Six Degrees of YC Separation on Monday December 31, 2018 @03:10PM (#18796676)
Did you use the word in error or is this another example of the trend of start-ups using verbs to replace nouns?
Re:Will it be snowy holidays in your region? on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:44AM (#18724082)
Yeah, nah, yeah. In the middle of stinking hot Australia, so probably not.
Re:Fibonacci Plant Rules (c. 1980) [video] on Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:20AM (#18405563)
Around 1980 seems right. This was an Australian science show for children. Loved that show.