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How does this cost 9m£? I mean, sure, it was exploratory, but come on, how do you spend that kind of money on sealing some components, adding an alternator and some sensors? What am I missing?

Sorry, but sticking your head out the window is one of the greatest perks of going on a heritage train. That really IS about the ambiance.

@dang why is this flagged? Can we unflag it?

An oligopol often has some kind of moat due to anti competitive behaviour. E.g. the potatoe argument from the article, where McCain makes it hard to buy potatoes from anybody but them as they are part of a packaged deal.

Then, there is a switch to the most traditional of businesses with the most traditional business models. Who, the author argues, are engaging in price gauging. In the second paragraph he claims that apps cause this inflation

He is saying that the traditional businesses use an app that allows for a legal way of price gauging.

The last paragraph portraits a stunning lack of economic knowledge, as companies raising prices in line with inflation obviously would not lower prices after the source of the inflation is gone.

The author claims, that these companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for.

That sounds interesting. Are you thinking about a comment system build into RSS?

I am interested in potential future RSS capabilities. Would you mind a chat about that? If so, please drop me an email, see profile.

Not regularly blogging but from time to time: https://ph-uhl.com

Me: Hm, I just found the switch to turn the servers off, that power you...

BratGPT: A server error has occurred INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

Strange, I was bluffing...

I wonder what the thieve does with the car after stealing. Will you always need that Nokia to start it or is there some kind if aftermarket for counterfeit keys?

Last activity in the repository shows today for me. Why do you think it is dead?

Or not, that way GP learned something for life, so saves them time in the long run

Well, here comes the obligatory org-mode comment:

Org mode does most of that, too. And a lot more. And while you cannot use it in Github issues, you can in README files on Github.

I think stuff like this really comes down to getting used to and accepting.

I had the same views on code prettiers. I thought, aligning your code by hand makes you think about the structure. That you'd invest more time in making your code readable and thus it would be more readable.

When I first got to use prettier on a team and accepted it's value, the benefits I perceived were so vast, that my arguments seemed irrelevant in comparison.

Hoenstly, for production code, TS makes me sleep better. No matter how many tests you write, that one undefined object will get you at some point. TS helps to eliminate a complete set at compile time (as you know) and that's great!

Anecdotal evidence from my Haskell experience: If my Haskell programs compiled, they usually worked. Which is amazing. Powerful types for the win.

The ARR for BuiltWith is probably off[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10322265

Aren't there examples against this nowadays? E-Scooters are payed by the minute, even though not provided by monopolists. Mobile games with in-app purchases are very similar to micro-payments, too and power a whole industry.

The monopolist examples, like mobile and power companies don't translate well, as these companies provide services, that are continuously consumed, vs. one of purchases. For these companies, micro payments maybe don't make sense. But for lot's of other one of content, micro payments seem far superior over subscriptions.

To me, it feels, the article proves, that micropayments are crap if used for the wrong kind of products...

Also a paper on the topic: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00240

Sorry, but comparing Mozilla to the company that offers the about most visited website ever isn't exactly fair. Google had a lot of opportunities to push Chrome and they did. Doesn't really say a lot about product quality imho

I don't know about that. Precision is something desirable in science and engineering.

My experience is quite the opposite anyways, I often felt, English sentences lacked clarity that you could have in a German sentence

I'd be interested as well, would appreciate an email

Also, try www or something like that and you can see what the scammers were after... e.g. wwwgodady.com or wwwamazln.com

Thanks :)

No, didn't know about that forum, yet. Will post there.

Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, I agree, that sticking a number of results on the list could be beneficial.

About the save list: That is a feature, that I wanted to build, too, but decided to first see what the HN reaction to this project is. So, might come in the future :)

Sure, find good domains for your websites and businesses. It can be a source of inspiration at least, because you can see, what others have deemed good domain names in the past. You don't have to hodle them, you can use them

My suggestion would be, to not focus on that stuff right away. I know, this comes from the guy, whos website suffered the HN hug of death, but, look, I could bring it back up within 10 minutes.

My suggestion is, to build it as easy as possible, ideally with AWS or something like that, where you can throw computing power at it in a matter of minutes, when needed.

Build the stuff first, worry about scalability later, when you actually have proven that you need to worry about it. That's the lesson from my first startup anyways. We made the server slick and scalable, but in the end noone cared, because the product didn't meet demand. Don't waste your time on prematurley optimizing. Just my two cents :)

Hey, also posted it above, but here again:

Droplists are from namejet, domain cleaning is done by checking against zone-files from ICANN (that's why I don't currently check .tv and .cc domains as there are no zone-files by ICANN provided for them. As they are country specific, I would have to build custom solutions for them, which I don't want for a proof of concept).

Of course:

Droplists are from namejet, domain cleaning is done by checking against zone-files from ICANN (that's why I don't currently check .tv and .cc domains as there are no zone-files by ICANN provided for them. As they are country specific, I would have to build custom solutions for them, which I don't want for a proof of concept).

Thanks for the feedback.

Sorry that you found a registered domain. Because of how everything works, I can only make sure, that most domains are free, but there are some in ther, that might be taken. Also, .cc and .tv are not cleaned at all, currently. So there might be a lot more taken ones of these tlds.

Concerning the filters: You can search for one or multiple tdls and also exclude numbers or dashes, but only on desktop. Wildcards are not yet supported, but might be in the future.

Hi, I just upgraded the database, it should be a lot faster again

Yeah, the database is under too much load right now (should have chosen RDS t3.micro when posting on HN). Updating to a bigger instance right now, should be up in a few minutes again. Thanks for the feedback