<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: MatthewMcDonald</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MatthewMcDonald</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:52:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MatthewMcDonald" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many (most?) dealerships have a policy of not accepting more than a few thousand dollars on a credit card, they don't want to pay the fee</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:41:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514682</link><dc:creator>MatthewMcDonald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "DHS announces extension of Real ID full enforcement deadline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can get a non-driver id card from the same department that issues driver licenses in your state</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33871465</link><dc:creator>MatthewMcDonald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33871465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33871465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out MySudo. It doesn't _forward_ the calls and texts, but you can have multiple numbers that you can call/text with from the app.</p>
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<p>I don't know about the bankruptcy laws, but Germany's GMBH (similar to an LLC) requires 25k in capital to get started.</p>
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<p>The real downside is if you say something that isn't negative, that then gets taken out of context and spun in a way that makes you a target.</p>
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<p>The only way to get around your dependence on OAuth connections is to migrate off of them, one at a time.<p>My suggestion would be to get your own domain, get an email service that supports wildcard email addresses, and get a password manager. Start migrating your accounts one by one, until you no longer depend on your gmail account for OAuth.<p>It will be tedious, but for most websites you can update your email address in under a minute. Put a movie on and knock them out in an afternoon.</p>
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<p>I use them for my GitLab pipelines</p>
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<p>All it does is make me think that they aren't full time, and may not be committed. I also have questions about IP concerns.<p>These may not be serious issues, and they can be easily answered, but this statement is a distraction. You want your pitch deck to answer questions, not raise new ones.</p>
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<p>It's worth mentioning that this isn't just a case of people not being able to use the patch outside of AWS; the patch is actually impeding pgbouncer from implementing a similar feature:<p>> We'd like to rewrite such features for pgbouncer from the ground up but it is impossible to prove to the lawyer that the re-writing is not kind of "derivative works". I believe it is not what you expected, as an opensource project that derived benefit from the whole pgbouncer community.</p>
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<p>Signal was given $50M by Brian Acton (WhatsApp co-founder), I think they will be fine for a while.</p>
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<p>not to mention filing state returns</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 13:52:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20040142</link><dc:creator>MatthewMcDonald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20040142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20040142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's general purpose hardware; our rooms use an Intel NUC with USB camera/mic, and an iPad to control it. There's no lock in as long as you're switching to something else that uses standard stuff.</p>
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<p>We used appear.in for a few months, and paid for a premium "room". It was nice to just give someone a URL (no client or extension required). It could be better now, but we had a lot of problems with call quality.</p>
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<p>I wonder how much of that is related to Model 3 availability. To me, a high-end 3 seems like a better buy than a lower-end S.<p>If you expand your date selection farther back, it looks like the S price decline really started around July 2018.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if it would have been better on a supported phone, but in the past year I've had good coverage with an iPhone SE on Fi in New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.</p>
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<p>> I then spent ~1 year at a startup, as CTO - the experience sucked, and I consider it to simply be a big mistake.<p>What about the experience sucked? What was the mistake?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:45:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193923</link><dc:creator>MatthewMcDonald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FYI this was a credit _lock_, and not a credit freeze<p>> Unsurprisingly, the bureaus’ use of the term credit lock has confused many consumers; this was almost certainly by design. But here’s one basic fact consumers should keep in mind about these lock services: Unlike freezes, locks are not governed by any law, meaning that the credit bureaus can change the terms of these arrangements when and if it suits them to do so.<p><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/credit-freezes-are-free-let-the-ice-age-begin/" rel="nofollow">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/credit-freezes-are-free-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:07:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042288</link><dc:creator>MatthewMcDonald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "The End of Employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps I should have clarified; part of the reason that contractors can negotiate higher rates is because businesses are willing to pay more if they can avoid a long term commitment like keeping a person on as an employee.<p>If you are a contractor, then you are running a business and you will have to do things that an employee wouldn't. One of those things is negotiating enough to cover the time between contracts. If you aren't good at negotiating then your business will not do as well.</p>
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<p>Part of the reason that contractors have a higher hourly rate is to account for the time between contracts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:22:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666039</link><dc:creator>MatthewMcDonald</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewMcDonald in "In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, depending on where you're from. I was raised to show up at the start time for events, this is pretty common in the Midwest. If the host is someone you know, you'll often ask if you can show up early and help prepare.<p>When I was in California a few years ago I showed up to a party a few minutes before the invite time. Not only was I the only guest there for the first ~30 minutes, but the host clearly wasn't expecting anyone to show up at the given time.</p>
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