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ptyyyon Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app

Let me lead off by saying I'm not a lawyer, but "House Lannister" is trademarked[0]. I would not be surprised if you receive a C&D notice.

[0]: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87704402&caseType=SERIAL_...

ptyyyon Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default

This reminds me of that image of how to draw an owl. People forget that everyone starts somewhere and there is no magical jump from beginner level code to production code. Having good, well-explained examples of the beginner and intermediate were incredibly beneficial to me.

ptyyyon America's Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.

> More conservative metros will at least build outward to deal with housing supply problems. Yeah, that's not really good for the environment, but it does help with prices. But not liberal cities: they don't want to build out OR up.

SF, NYC, Seattle, and Boston don't have more land to open up for development by virtue of their geography. Of course places like Dallas, Oklahoma city, etc. are able to build outward -- they aren't surrounded on multiple sides by large bodies of water. To build outward in SF, NYC, Seattle, and Boston they would have to recreate Waterworld.

ptyyyon America's Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.

Clickbait title and hyperbole aside, this is the same guy who published a piece declaring that he was unplugging from social media and continued to use Twitter. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php

ptyyyon First-class air travel is in decline

International flights generally have 3 (or lately, 4 with basic economy and economy plus) classes.

ptyyyon Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results

According to Glassdoor (which I realize is not the most accurate source), Blizzard Software Engineer median pay is $88,500 which is definitely peanuts in Irvine, CA. That's the rough equivalent of less than $60k here in Charlotte, which is below market rate for entry level.

ptyyyon Georgia’s 127k Missing Votes, Disproportionate to African American Neighborhoods

> (b) treason

I think you need to look up the legal definition of treason as specified by Article 3, Section 3 of the US Constitution.

ptyyyon Microsoft decides IE 10 has had its fun: Termination set for Jan 2020

I read this as IE11 and got prematurely excited. Good news though.

ptyyyon AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

As much as I would love to have the protections offered by GDPR, I doubt it would even make it past a committee vote. Telecom/technology lobbyists would exert maximum pressure on legislators in order the proposal to die. There's far too much money to be made in trafficking user data.

ptyyyon Please do not attempt to simplify this code

Seen from our offshore with regularity:

> Minor fix

> Showing 6 files with 171 additions and 203 deletions

ptyyyon EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/static/home/data/platform.pd...

ctrl+f EPA ctrl+f Regulation: The Quiet Tyranny

It's really not that difficult.

ptyyyon Make Medium Readable Again

Thank you for this. Next step: making it so that if I browse on a 2560x1440 monitor, the content uses more than only 30% of the window.

ptyyyon Twitter says it will judge verified users’ offline behavior

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

I don't see anything about Twitter in the 1st Amendment.

ptyyyon Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Off in iOS 11 Control Center

Don’t try to tell that to the iOS Beta subreddit on reddit. They swear up and down that there is absolutely no battery loss from having your WiFi and Bluetooth enabled even when not connected. To even question this is considered heresy.

ptyyyon Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech"

Yes and that will be made available to his defense team through the discovery process.