A while ago I ordered a 10TB backup drive for $80, knowing it was a pricing mistake. Amazon cancelled the order and gave me a $20 gift card. I believe whether or not the retailer has to honour pricing mistakes depends which country you live in (I'm in UK). Annoyingly, the $20 gift card wasn't applied automatically to the next purchase, as it was supposed to (maybe because it only applies to USA Amazon?)
(Funnily enough, the pricing mistake did manage to get the product to be the #1 best seller.)
For search, perhaps you just need to spend a little while with DuckDuckGo to learn what you need to type in to get the results you are looking for. If you stay logged into Google, then when you can't find what you're looking for on DDG, add !g to your query and it'll take you to Google. The point is you can switch gradually.
The author mentions that the asteroid has about 30 times the mass of Earth; I don't know if that is true or not; but I see no reason why this could be a problem. The fact that they can't find out exactly what the asteroid will orbit doesn't make it a problem. It's just not a big enough deal.
hncynic 1 minute ago
The first thing that came to my mind was the possibility for an asteroid on the moon or the asteroid heading to earth in 2020...
I'm not sure if I like this article, but it reminds me when my dad taught us how to run a solar system and think about why it is so dangerous to run our solar system.
hncynic 1 minute ago
I know I am a dumbassy kid but I am so glad to see such a small asteroid like ourselves is happening. I will do my best to support it
Excellent! Using the title "Show HN: about:blank"...
hncynic 1 minute ago
I really like what you do! It works great for me on Chrome though, so please make it work.
hncynic 1 minute ago
I really like the idea of a simple "blank page" that could be easily scaled up and then added to an existing page as a new tab rather than clicking on links at some point.
That way you don't have to have to manually edit pages to get the information you want to see, just click through to it.
You could also get something like this with the extension "Remove Blank page", which was my only use of it and made by others.
hncynic 1 minute ago
This is really cool. I think this would allow the user to change color of the site (I think there should be a visual indicator of how much time was spent doing this). This is an especially usable tool, I think
Labelling here, Norway, distinguishes between a 'best before' (best før), and a 'last edible date' (siste forbruksdato).
The second typically appears only on fresh produce, such as a sliced ham, that becomes dangerous as it gets older, in contrast to products like milk, yoghurt, vegetables, etc., which typically simply decline in quality but are not dangerous even weeks or even months past the best before date.
A vendor could be sued for that in the US, but not a manufacturer. Expiration dates have no legal meaning for manufacturers.
(A manufacturer actually was sued when, after encountering production issues, they recovered by simply relabeling the expiration dates on existing product. But the manufacturer won that suit decisively.)
In the UK, some supermarkets do this. At my nearest supermarket, they can have very large discounts (maybe 75% or more) when an item's expiry date is today, and occasionally they do increase the discount over time like you suggested.
Each time they change the price, they put a sticker with the new price and barcode over the old one, on every discounted item. The employee time required to do this is non-trivial. I imagine that in some places, stores would decide that it's not worth the effort, since a discount might not increase sales enough to match the reduced profit per item (especially in affluent areas where customers can easily afford the full-price item, and maybe turn their noses up at items near their expiration date).
[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/8/chimps-humans...