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Ask HN: What are the best places to sell domains?
I'm sure many people here are familiar with registering a domain for an idea you're super pumped about only to forget about it a few weeks later. At least a few times.. or maybe few dozen times. =|

Anyway, I've got quite a few names just laying around that I've accumulated over the years and have absolutely no plans for most of them.

Any popular marketplaces you could recommend? Not expecting to make a killing, just figure it's about time to save $5-$30/yr and maybe recoup some of the sunk money for domains which I have no plans for.
Kubernetes is fantastic if you're running global-scale cloud platforms, ie, you are literally Google.

Over my past five years working with it, there has been not a single customer that had a workload appropriate for kubernetes, and it was 100% cargo-cult programming and tool selection.
Does that mean the Mediterranean is filling up like a bathtub?
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Which says a lot about the situation we find ourselves in, I guess.
I'm personally glad that Kubernetes has saved me from needing to manage all of this. I'm much more productive as an applications engineer now that I don't have to stare at a mountain of bespoke Ansible/Chef scripts operating on a Rube Goldberg machine of managed services.
The heirs get the stock at etc step-up basis after estate taxes, which are considerable in the $100m+ realm...
Hayes Raffle on that paper eventually ended up at Google leading AR UX. So just because you start with silly ideas exploring things as a student doesn’t mean you aren’t learning.
Very little of the water used to grow hay and alfalfa actually ends up in the hay and alfalfa to be exported. Most of the water ends up in the atmosphere via evapotranspiration.

The amount exported is something like 0.005% of the evapotranspiration amount.

Here are some numbers [1] for Idaho crops. There might be some differences in Utah but they should be in the same ballpark.

> Not much water is exported with alfalfa hay. Potential irrigated alfalfa hay yield at elevations near 4000 feet is about 7.5 tons/acre. Hay harvested at 12% moisture removes 240 lbs water/ton hay, or 1,800 lbs/acre for a normal crop of alfalfa hay per year.

> Evapotranspiration (ET) is the primary use of water by alfalfa and averages about 36 inches/year (900 mm) at Kimberly. The ET at peak periods of 0.4 inches/day (10 mm/day) can reach 4080 tons of water per acre and 45 tons per acre per day.

[1] https://www.uidaho.edu/-/media/UIdaho-Responsive/Files/cals/...
But we aren't talking about necrophilia. It is about people who may work in an environment that is 95% Democrat being attacked as racists
or whatever because they have a different political view.

The issue isn't exactly about free speech but discrimination. And this happens in a million other ways too: being overweight, having a certain accent, being shorter than average. The fact that people have to resort to a "free speech" defence is indicative of the problem. And, of course, there will be "consequences"...no-one doubts that are consequences for not being like other people.
> I don't know how iOS state of things is, but in the past Swift runtime was required to embed as well (you could avoid it with Objective C, but that's so out of fashion).

This is no longer true on iOS and hasn't been for at least a couple years.
Insane that it even detects and deletes the source code. This needs more exposure.
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We had a pretty bad experience with our company as well, being bounced along nearly half a dozen sales reps (each of whom insisted on having a meeting) before actually managing to get a quote, which was ludicrously high for the one or two features we wanted. For anyone who IS looking for MongoDB enterprise, just use PSMDB (https://www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-...) instead. OSS version of all the enterprise features of MongoDB.
> I agree that people should have the right to choose death, independent of the rationality of their decision

I don't think that that there is an ethical imperative to allow people to carry out irrational decisions. I was trying to say that, if someone with depression or another chronic mental illness decides they would rather be dead than alive, then after we determine that decision doesn't come from a passing[1] delusion, then we should give that desire the same weight we give to people with other chronic conditions. We all have the right to choose, after a time, that we do not want to live this way.

I also think that having a global standard for "rational" v.s. "irrational" is difficult enough that I think drawing strong lines tends to do more harm than good. So, in practice, I suppose I support people who "irrationally" wish to end their lives, but only due to the impossibility of determining what 'rational' means for each of our subjective perspectives.

[1] Whatever "passing" means - it is not an easy question.
Yep, we are planning on hosting in other AWS regions as well. For pricing, let's discuss offline because it'll depend on a few things. Can you fill out the Contact form on our website (https://epsilon3.io/contact), and we can take it from there?
Stone tools worked by humans are all important. It's not easy to distinguish Neanderthal from ours, or anything like that, or modern from ancient, but it's vastly more likely you'll find an ancient stone tool than a modern version. Very few people are making them, and even fewer are leaving them out on the ground.
We won’t know the depth of your guilt (or innocence) until a full investigation is concluded. Your “peers” are also suspected child predators.
Regulation is to approve the sale to specific national governments. Not just a genetic you can sell or not permit.

Lockheed Martin is not going to sell to China right ? So saying say for example sales of weapops to Saudi Arabia used to kill civilians in Yemen is not supported by U.S. does not hold water. US also absolutely is responsible for any weapons being sold to countries with questionable government and human rights practices

In both cases they are complict and responsibile for failing to regulate adequately. Israel is additionally responsible as they are also shielding the company from being sued.
They do use them, but only in a narrow fashion. A lot of people have tried to make default kernel wide static analyzers but they are mostly not useful.

And it's because the kernel does a lot of non-standard things, mostly because it has to. It is not a normal program.
You don't make a company out of a bunch of workers in a field though, do you? People underestimate what good leadership it worth - sometimes even people who I later see worshipping Lisa Su (She's not a chip architect, she lets the chip architects fly - Bada bing Bada boom AMD is up however many gazillion percent).
That is the romanticized version. The history of man is exploration, expansion and exploitation. Destroying everything nice in its path. We destroyed other species, our own species if they looked different, and finally we have all but destroyed the planet. Rather than staying on that path maybe a better approach for humanity is compassion, kindness and helping each other out.

Having said that, I'm totally okay with billionaires spending money on such activities as it puts money back in the economy. The more the better.
“ For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.”

Or… you could not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
> tax revenue isn’t collected.

If you completely ignore estate taxes, this would be true.
thanks, that's the whole idea, to level the playing field for the general public so everyday people can also benefit from options trading
It is now on its status page: https://status.gitlab.com/
Part of me wonders if the same group of people trying to take away the wealth created by others have both not created much of their own and stand to inherit a lot from their parents.

I don't know - but I have a hunch that a lot of these voices are often trust fund kids, or kids of wealthy parents. It'd be an interesting paradox if they're suddenly against policy that may affect their inheritance.

Currently though inheritance is protected up to fairly extreme monetary amounts (in the US anyway) so the change would have to be fairly dramatic.
You’re not wrong, despite Wittgenstein’s Brown Papers, his criticism of Golden Bough—-people continue to refuse to acknowledge the limits of knowledge.

Here’s an author theorizing on why people go to festivals TODAY, instead of the obvious answer that they’re a fun social game he creates this entire abstract theory about worship and religion.

https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/girard-series-part-1-th...
This is blatantly wrong. The Earth's climate will naturally enter a significantly higher temperature climate attractor within 50 million years and will be completely inhospitable to known life in less than a billion years. The oceans will have completely boiled away, even from the poles, within 1.1 billion years, as the sun continues to increase in luminosity [1].

And this is the most optimistic scenario, assuming no gamma ray bursts, bolides, or super-volcanoes strike first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
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> Eventually, that, too, came to an end. On the basis of sediments and computer models, researchers think a tsunami originating off modern-day Norway around 6150 B.C.E. devastated Doggerland with waves at least 10 meters high. Soon the landscape vanished as global sea levels continued to rise.

Ah, another explanation for one of the many "Great Flood" myths.
More like find one that isn't. I bet you can't :-)
> who, today, can write or optimize assembly by hand? How about understand the OS internals? How about write a compiler? How about write a library for their fav language? How about actually troubleshoot a misbehaving *nix process?

But developers should understand what assembly is and what a compiler does. Writing a library for a language you know should be a common development task. How else are you going to reuse a chunk of code needed for multiple projects?

Certainly also need to have a basic understanding of unix processes to be a competent developer, too, I would think.
It depends on the country but "zero support" is absolutely not the case in the U.S. My stepmother was receiving more money in unemployment than she ever earned as a receptionist. My mother received hero pay and bonus checks as a grocery store clerk.
That... actually sounds like a very interesting idea.
> there are plenty of existential risks which can't "follow" anything, or happen to more than one planet simultaneously.

If the most salient risk was a large meteor striking Earth, you would be right, changing locale would have solved that. But almost all of our current existential risks are anthropogenic, and specifically risks based on our current lack of ability in being do multi-agent coordination at scale. Without solving the game theory of the entire class of those problems, they will follow us to any planet we go just fine.

> does living on two planets eliminate all existential risks? no, and nobody has claimed that.

Your implication of a strawman is a strawman itself. I am not arguing on the basis of a two-planet-solution's non-exhaustivity.

I am arguing that assuming a change of locale as the principal solution to our inherent perennial problems is not a risk-free position. In fact I find it actively harmful as it distracts us from proper root cause analysis and makes us chase after old men's peter pan dreams instead of our need for growing up.
If you want your MVP to be publicly available and your corporations ops/sec to be on board with your plans then Kubernetes is an answer as well. Even if your MVP only needs a single instance and no scaling. Kubernetes provides a common API between developers and operations so both can do the job they where hired for while being in each others way as least as possible.
The freedom to speak without fear of punishment, which can clearly only be protected by increasingly extreme anonymization measures
FTA:

> In her suit, Viola acknowledged writing most of the posts

I'm as pro-free-speech as the next person, but looking at the evidence[0] I frankly don't understand on what leg Viola is hoping to stand. If I understand this right, she's claiming she is the person behind the truthseeker username on Gateway Pundit, but that she didn't write a specific comment that was entered into evidence as being written by truthseeker? How does that not scream lying to evade responsibility?

Also, IMHO, the repercussions on her job are not really relevant to the suit. Had Benton outed her for spamming pictures of unicorns, her job would've been just fine. It's her own alleged content that got her into hot water with her employer. Benton has no control over her employer's actions.

[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59725194/8/4/viola-v-be... (page 5)
This isn’t purchase of a capitalizable asset, it’s renting as an operational expense ;)
That doesn't make sense though, each dollar doesn't exist in a value vacuum, so you can't ignore the impact of uneven distribution. If Jeffery wants to own the entire town, he can (and then he can get loans against his property to continue funding operations). At that point it seems pretty inane to argue that re-distribution hasn't happened - money is a proxy for economic power, and when you give one person a larger percentage, that's redistributive. Maybe the other people in the town can still buy groceries, but now they're competing with the baron for things like land, and baron Jeff will always win, if he wants to, with all that extra money.
Whoever once the $WORK stock it will be replaced automatically with 26.79 in cash and 0.0776 Salesforce shares per share.
> So rather than being like systemd, which adds some complexity and also takes some away, Kubernetes only adds.

Here are some bits of complexity that managed Kubernetes takes away:

* SSH configuration

* Key management

* Certificate management (via cert-manager)

* DNS management (via external-dns)

* Auto-scaling

* Process management

* Logging

* Host monitoring

* Infra as code

* Instance profiles

* Reverse proxy

* TLS

* HTTP -> HTTPS redirection

So maybe your point was "the VMs still exist" which is true, but I generally don't care because the work required of me goes away. Alternatively, you have to have most/all of these things anyway, so if you're not using Kubernetes you're cobbling together solutions for these things which has the following implications:

1. You will not be able to find candidates who know your bespoke solution, whereas you can find people who know Kubernetes.

2. Training people on your bespoke solution will be harder. You will have to write a lot more documentation whereas there is an abundance of high quality documentation and training material available for Kubernetes.

3. When something inevitably breaks with your bespoke solution, you're unlikely to get much help Googling around, whereas it's very likely that you'll find what you need to diagnose / fix / work around your Kubernetes problem.

4. Kubernetes improves at a rapid pace, and you can get those improvements for nearly free. To improve your bespoke solution, you have to take the time to do it all yourself.

5. You're probably not going to have the financial backing to build your bespoke solution to the same quality caliber that the Kubernetes folks are able to devote (yes, Kubernetes has its problems, but unless you're at a FAANG then your homegrown solution is almost certainly going to be poorer quality if only because management won't give you the resources you need to build it properly).
Nitpick: in the wet areas of the country it's not that we want green landscaping, it's that it is almost impossible to not have green landscaping because of how much rain we get.

Lay down a layer of rock landscaping over landscaping fabric around a home in suburban Minnesota without maintaining it (e.g. by aggressively applying weed preventer and weeding it) and in 3-5 years it will be covered with native prairie grasses and weeds growing between and around the rock.
Sure but Bezos’ heirs will certainly blast past the exemption on the estate tax, which exists specifically as a backstop against this type of situation. They will pay taxes on most of what they inherit.
> The underlying issue for the university is whether she can effectively teach Muslim students when she thinks they're "scum" who should be deported.

The article says that she denies writing that exact comment and that is in fact part of why the lawsuit has been permitted to go forward.
A flat price certainly does not mean no more people want to buy it, or even that a significant number of people no longer want to buy it
Um. Wow. That's bold.

...Surely you mean "ALLEGED illegal and possibly criminal activity".

...And surely you mean "ALLEGED undeniably illegal activity"

...right?
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Germans also have been somehow ok with paying bribes: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-siemens-executive-plea...
https://www.dw.com/en/ex-siemens-manager-pleads-guilty-in-us...
In the 90s, those bribes would have been tax deductible in Germany: https://archive.is/Eit0f
How to make developers want to hit their deadlines with quality? Startup land.

There was no feedback loop that rewarded developers to meet the estimates. Stock options weren't an option, and I didn't want them to do a sloppy job just to hit the 'deadline'.
AviSynth+ [0] is one of the most mature libraries around. It's performant enough to run live (usually), though I don't imagine it's heavily optimised.

[0]: https://avs-plus.net/
No. They're all bullshit.
I think the difference here is that in this case, there is a tangible record of what was said outside of work, rather than a story about how someone said something outside of work. I'm sure there are countless examples of employees wishing that whatever their crazy coworker said after work was recorded or written down somewhere so they could report it, but that wasn't the case until social media came along and gave everyone a chance to post things online. In the example, Frank probably wouldn't have kept a written record of his opinions precisely because he knew it'd probably get him in trouble if anyone else found it.

This doesn't really answer your question of "why does it matter," but I bet that if some of the crazy individuals you worked with had posted their opinions somewhere that people could see them, they would have been fired too.
thx for your comment, jargon is indeed preventing everyday people from benefiting from options trading..
You can set BBEdits icon to be TextWrangler, for those who are nostalgic and don’t know.
But this is not a vaccine, it does not prevent you from getting it and spreading it, its advertised as preventing symptoms from being as bad. It reduces the chance you get/spread it too, but does not prevent.
> as it puts money back in the economy

That's the rich people hoarding cash theory.

They don't hoard any cash. All of it is invested in the economy. Even "cash" deposits in the bank are, as the bank loans out a multiple of those deposits.
If you move to Premiere Pro and After Effects, you can automate almost everything that you might want to edit and or composite.

Both have their own scripting language based on JavaScript and After Effects also uses plain JS.

There are also a number of paid plugins which provide varying levels of no-code automation. For example there is one which connects to Google Sheets and creates a new AE comp from each spreadsheet row, replacing text, images from URLs, changing dimensions of objects, etc. all based on the values of the spreadsheet cells.
> because the people asking for the estimates don't actually know what the goals are

And this is the real problem. People who know how to build & design products should be able to explain the goals of what they're asking for. If they don't then either you need to move or you need to get them moved.

One of the first things I tell new engineering managers is that an easy hack to is to always be asking yourself "what am I trying to accomplish?" Whether it's an emotional conversation or writing a document, if you can't answer that question then you probably shouldn't be moving forward with whatever you're about to do. And if you're writing a document, make the very first section "The goal of this document is..." because as you write you can constantly ask yourself "is what I'm writing accomplishing my stated goal?"

Communicating your goal also helps your team - if they know the goal then they don't act as automatons following directions, they can make actual decisions on their own.

If you know the business goal of what you're building then you have a better shot at getting the requirements and tasks correct, which gives you a better shot at giving a good estimate. I've worked with a number of product managers who had no real goal behind what they were asking for. I refuse to have the team start building things until someone can explain why we're doing it and what we're trying to achieve.
A bathtub that significantly evaporates over its suface, yes, sort of.

- ed. Less bubbles.
To be an engineer, you need the ability to dive deeper into these abstractions when necessary, while most of the time you can just not think about them.

Quickly getting up to speed on something you don't know yet is probably the single most critical skill to be a good engineer.
Not quite. You're trying to shift what I'm talking about to ignore the issue.

The owner is under paying for the labor and the customer, in turn, is over paying for the labor.

This is due to information asymmetry.

The employer is only paying the legal minimum, in the case of tipped wages in the U.S., $2.13. The employee is expected to make up the rest of the federal/state minimum wage in tips. But that's what they're incentivized to do. If you've got a short sighted view of finances, you may think that if you manage to cut costs, that always translates to extra profit. And if you're paying a dime more than minimum wage, you can cut that cost. (Also, this is why a lot of restaurants fail, most people who run them shouldn't be running a business)

The customer is obligated by social pressure and what not to tip for the service provided. However, people in the service industry are cagey about how much they pull in, actual effort required, etc. in order to get people to tip more and more. Originally, tipping was around 10% and now we see people trying to promote the idea that a baseline tip is closer to 25%.

So the customer has no clue as to how to price the labor that's been provided to them and it is in the servers' best interest to exaggerate as much as possible to get the most tip possible. That's what they're incentivized to do.

And inbetween it all, you have the servers. Who don't want to let go of the tipping model because they can manage to get paid better than what the actual service would be worth in a fairer market.
Yes, in practice there are more tax sidesteps via foundations, etc. But the step that wipes the capital gains liability is as described.
Seconding this recommendation,my DT990s are the most comfortable headphones I have ever owned. They are the only pair I can wear for most of the day and feel no fatigue.
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If you're using the word "ethnicity" as a proxy for race, then no. But "ethnicity" doesn't just mean race, and GP may well have been using the word in that manner.