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timack··on Google outage – resolved
I cant even access my Google+ at the moment!
timack··on Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency
"Stable" do you mean seismically stable?
timack··on Is Twitter Down?
I can access specific tweets ie. this one from current HN homepage: https://twitter.com/ryan_caldbeck/status/1316730252295454720 but not my feed
timack··on Pixel 5
Same here in New Zealand ... I just see Nest Aware cameras.
timack··on SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading
True, but she wouldn't have had to lie to investigators if she hadn't tried to dodge the loss.
timack··on SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading
Martha Stewart was jailed for avoiding a loss of ~$45k USD.
timack··on Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931
327.55 K
timack··on Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
Not sure if this helps for your specific problem but have you tried the typography plugin: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin/
timack··on Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
"Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test" : https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...
timack··on Dealing with Insomnia
I used to have a lot of problems falling and staying asleep. The best thing for me was implementing a no caffeine after 10am rule - caffeine's half-life in you body is about 5 hours so if you have a cup of coffee at lunch time (12pm) you'll still have a quarter cup sloshing around inside you a 10pm when you should be starting to get ready to sleep. (Adjust times as to your preferred schedule - but as I have kids demanding food waking me earlier than I'd like every day so I need to be at least semi functional from 6am so working backwards I need to be asleep by about 11ish each night).
timack··on Lime and Bird are growing rapidly
> You literally walk around them, I don't see the issue.

It's not an issue for most people but I live up the road from an old folks home and often see the residents heading to the shops in their mobility scooters. If there's a dumped lime scooter blocking the footpath it completely stops them from using the footpath until someone moves it out of the way for them.

timack··on Lime and Bird are growing rapidly
This is hardly a'get off my lawn' comment. Because 'some' people 'derive value' doesn't mean they should be free of regulation.
timack··on SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment
Health expenditure per capita in the US is about twice that of Australia so it does appear to be cheaper overall.
timack··on Simone Giertz on her brain tumour [video]
She has posted on twitter that she is staying in the US for treatment.

https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/990983271705018368

timack··on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can’t
Just before Christmas I spent an hour in a ditch with a broken hip after cycling into a a sheep (I'm from New Zealand and they crowd all our roads and are a frequent hazard). I was in a rural location so I had to spend quite a bit of time on the phone with the emergency dispatcher, while in a not insignificant amount of pain, trying to describe my location in relation to various landmarks. The dispatcher was in a different part of the country and was unfamiliar with local landmarks so this was very frustrating. I found out later that there is a increased probability of complications (avascular necrosis) if there is a delay having surgery following this type of injury (I'll know in a few month if I need to go back for a hip replacement). Not sure if an extra 10 - 15 minutes it took to get a ambo to me would have helped, but I'd prefer the odds my way where possible! My parents were confused by how I wasn't able to send the dispatcher my exactly location over the phone.

Me after being picked up by ambos -> https://imgur.com/a/HJKWo

timack··on Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed
Martha Stewart's insider trading saved her ~$45k. At the time she worth around $600m. I agree, not rational.
timack··on Gitlab 9.0
http://www.skyline.co.nz/queenstown/restaurant/
timack··on The netscape dorm
Looks nuts.
timack··on 2015 Chromebook Pixel
The 'Buy Now' is giving me a 404 in New Zealand.
timack··on Geeking Out on the Logo
Yep, track is called 'Alive' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPKAwJKGSDc]
timack··on How to properly plagiarize a website
Kintek has just posted an apology, of sorts: http://kintek.com.au/blog/getting-egg-on-your-face/
timack··on Unpaid internships in San Francisco
Coming from a country with minimum wage laws I don't understand how you survive when doing an unpaid internship. Do you just have to live at home and sponge off your parents while you are interning? Or do you just have to get deeper into debt while you are interning? How long does it take before you start getting paid?
timack··on DWP - Services and benefits online
I like the way they apologise in advance to those with accessibility issues. That's a nice touch.
timack··on My First Year in the App Store
I thought the App Store had a rule that you couldn't submit an app that was essentially a 'book or a film' how did you get around that?
timack··on A Social Coding Experiment
It will just expand until it can read mail.
timack··on Ask HN: Is anyone making money from garbage?
There's an old saying from my Yorkshire roots, 'Where there's muck there's brass'.
timack··on My experiences in tech: Death by 1000 paper cuts
Substitute "partner" instead of a gender specific term and you won't offend anyone (hopefully)... except maybe the forever alone crowd.
timack··on A List of Bad Words from Disqus
I learnt that one from Red Dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Red_Dwarf_concepts#Smeg
timack··on A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist
The Atlantic have released at statement (of sorts) about this: https://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?rec...
timack··on Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors
"Their last round of financing almost ENTIRELY went to cashing out previous investors."

Sounds a bit like a Ponzi scheme.

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