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I recently bought tickets to a concert in France (I live in Germany) and ended up not being able to travel and had to resell my tickets. Apparently according to French law you are not allowed to resell a ticket above its face value and so I had to resell it through the same ticketing company I bought it. They allowed me to set a price with up to a maximum amount which was less than how much I bought it (by a Euro or two) to cover their fees. It was also possible to name a specific buyer who would then get be able to buy your ticket.

Maybe there’s still another way for scalpels to game this system, I don’t know, but I’ve been to a few concerts in Paris and I’ve never seen scalpels hanging outside the venue selling tickets, which would be the norm in Germany, so maybe the system does work.

I tried this with a project I’m currently working on with Claude to see how it compares to what I’m already doing.

I think it’s interesting and asked good questions, but that it would be more suitable for non-developers who really don’t know where to start. For me, it missed some of the aspects that that I was able to spec myself as an experienced developer.

I’m not going to use it myself, but I wish you the best of luck.

I want to know more about your uncle. I'm not on Facebook, but that would make me consider joining...

The Straight Story is not at all surreal, but rather simple and heart-warming, and somehow still somewhat weird.

I didn't even know what tinnitus was until someone told me they have it and explained what it was. I assumed everybody hears those noises.

I've had tinnitus since such a young age (probably genetic), that I don't remember myself without it. Mine usually doesn't bother me, I guess I'm just used to it (and also that it's not as bad.

Like other people here mentioned, I found that the best way to deal with it, when it does bother me, is to have another background sound that stops you from focusing on it.

I'd recommend trying to "listen" to Sleep, an 8.5 hour album by Max Richter written to be played while you sleep, although I also sometimes play it in the background during the day since it helps me switch off and focus on what I'm working on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(album)

Maybe it's me, but I think that approaching someone you've never spoken to and asking them out is creepy. Regardless of the setting. I would never go to anyone in the gym, or at the shops, or even at a bar and ask them, "hey, do you fancy going out with me?" as the first question.

You start chatting to someone, you gauge their reaction, the chemistry between you, and take it from there if you feel that there is interest from the other side as well. It's probably better if you don't even ask them out on your first chat or the first day.

I wouldn't think it's a career risk to start chatting to someone at work, unless you continue doing so even after they've shown signs that they are not interested in talking to you, and then they're definitely not interested in dating you either.

I'm a gay man, who goes out pretty often, and although we gays are much more direct with each other, I have never gone up to someone and asked "do you want to go out with me?" or had someone ask me that as a first question. That would be weird even for us, who are okay with going to the dark room with someone we've only met three minutes before.

TV's and PC's made my eyes bleed immediately. I'm a non-native English speaker and I can't help wondering if those are actually signs that it _was_ written by a native English speaker (US, or otherwise).

Sex with Emma and Fred

"The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1935 raised the age to 17, with more severe penalties under age 15, and disallowed a defence of mistake."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Hist...

Seems to be the perspective of his contemporaries as well.

Maybe that's really Netflix's business model these days: nobody watches anything, but it's a hassle to cancel the account, so nobody does it, so lets continue frustration our users, maybe they will stop visiting us completely while never really leaving us. Let's look at the bright side though, we're going to end up with a lot of nice thumbnails.

Not the poster of the original comment, but I just visited your website (I live in Berlin), I found it very informative, pleasant and readable. Well done.

I don’t understand anything about shares, so I’m wondering, what do people here think about this campaign?

"Currently there is no opinionated way to construct responsive layouts in Evergreen. In the case of responsive layouts you might want to simply use a div with a class name and use breakpoints in CSS — or potentially a CSS-in-JS solution."

https://evergreen.segment.com/components/layout-primitives

"stop thinking that filming once body is serious crime."

Firstly, the article is not talking about taking pictures of women on the street but rather in changing rooms and locker rooms, which is a crime. Second, even if you would be comfortable if someone took a picture of you naked without your knowledge and posted it online doesn't mean that other women and men are.

"Is it ok for the same woman to appear in both these news?"

Yes. It was her decision to pose topless in public, and it doesn't give anyone the right to spy on her in privacy and take pictures of her.

I don't know, how about we embrace mobile phones in gigs instead? Arcade Fire, for instance, asked the audience to turn their flash light on during their last song (don't remember which one it was) last time I saw them. It was beautiful from where I was standing at that moment. And there's also a video of Win Butler taking a mobile phone from someone in the audience and recording himself for a few seconds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpgyv6naF3M). I'm sure that someone with more creativity than I have could come up with an idea how to use mobile phones to enhance the experience to the audience and the performer, rather than just viewing them as an annoyance.

My alternative is believing that not all websites you log into pose the same risk to you and accepting some risk. This means I divide websites that require login into two categories:

1. I don't care if somebody gains access to my account

2. I do care if somebody gains access to my account

I use the same password for all the websites on the first category. It should be at least 8 characters long, consists of a made up word with some numbers and characters. Example: 7%Frifells. I drop the special character on websites that don't allow them in passwords and then it's a matter of failing to log in once and trying without it.

I use a different "xkcd" password (https://www.xkcd.com/936) for every website on the second one. Those are essentially catchphrases which I end up associating with the website I use them for. They consist of several words with numbers and special characters (using the example in xkcd, mine would be correctHorse?1batterystaple!).

So, I have to memorise about 8 passwords, all which make sense to me. In addition I have a password reminder file which consists of the website URL and the first two/three characters of the password. I don't bother adding completely unimportant websites from the first category.

If my password from category 1 gets compromised then it's a bit of a hassle to change the password on all the websites on the files, but no harm done. If a password from category 2 gets compromised then it doesn't affect the other websites.

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I wish a lot of websites would realise they can be password-less. Pinterest is a good example. I have never posted anything, they don't have any personal or financial information from me and if and the only reason I registered was because I wanted to search something there once, and they made me register for that. Same goes to Quora and many other websites. I think all those should allow registering without a password but limit the functionality of those accounts.

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Why not get plants that love water? Papyrus is one that comes to mind...

I guess you're right, and I did try to leave some instructions, but we have lots of plants and I didn't want it to become too complicated so I tried to group plants that need similar care together and highlight the sensitive ones.

I believe the friend is eager to learn and loves plants himself, but but maybe finding a friend who doesn't kill their own plants would be a good start...

People who _really_ like plants? I am one, and I wouldn't even call myself a hobbyist, just a person who likes plants a lot and doesn't mind having a routine of caring for plants, it's not like it's very difficult: all plants are watered on the weekend, a few are watered once more during the week. Yes, it also involves knowing how much water, but it's pretty much the same all year round (unless there are a few exceptionally hot days in a row during summer, then a bit more).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica is one example for a plant that has died after not being watered for a few days which let the soil dry. Over-watering would not do good either.

Sure, most plants will not die within a week, but a lot will suffer enough and will take months to recover.

As someone with plants and with a friend who looks after them when we're away, I understand this completely.

Plants need a schedule to do well and some are very sensitive if they get too much or too little water too often or too late.

A two or three of our plants died while the friend was looking after them in the past due to under watering (and we were gone for only about a week every time). So last time when we came back we found most pots were flooded with water, which to most plants is just as bad as not being watered.

It's only now that I think about how this small favour we ask of our friend can be stressful to him.

Yes. My boyfriend (who is not in tech) was so annoyed that he researched what it was that annoyed him and changed his default search engine to DuckDuckGo as a result.

On iPhone, I just searched for Snow on the App Store and found it. Android seems quite straight forward as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.campmobile...

While you can post your experience here and see what response you get, Hacker News is not exactly a platform for blog posts. Maybe posting your experience over at Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/AirBnB) and then linking here to Reddit would be a more successful approach.

Anyway, I'm intrigued to hear your story.

Currently the Play Store shows it to have 100 downloads with an average 3.1 stars from 7,979 reviews.

For those of you who are tired of matching socks after laundry but don't want to wear the same black socks all the time, I solved this issue by buying very colourful socks. Each pair is very different to the other pairs, so when it's time to pair them up, it's instantly obvious which socks belong to a pair.

Refurbished Macs have the same warranty as non-refurbished.

Metro AG owns Media Markt and Saturn[1], both sell electronics, including computers. Judging by their stores, most of these computers are PCs (although they do sell Apple computers as well).

Media Markt, is Europe's largest retailer of consumer electronics[2].

Saturn is one of the big retailers of consumer electronics in Germany, and have stores in some other European countries[3].

So perhaps Microsoft could have won that one, but at what cost? Pissing off one of their biggest retailers? I don't know for sure, but it seems very likely that Microsoft wouldn't want to do that and made the decision to back off instead.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store)

I don't know if disconnect.me is an exact alternative to AdBlock since I have never used AdBlock, but I like what it's doing and it's open source. https://disconnect.me/opensource