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by LargeWu 7y ago
If you're buying from Shopify powered sites (which is not always transparent) or platforms like Etsy, the sellers never get your credit card number.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Shopify is only $30/month for its basic plan. I can't imagine a situation where somebody with a successful online store would be sweating that $10. I also can't imagine a store that would be successful at $20/mo on WooCo
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Passing the taxes down to the consumer is the whole point.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
That's OK. Nobody is forcing you to take the train, you're just being expected to pay for the environmental costs of your decision to fly, should you choose to do so.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I think there is a very good argument to be made for nationalizing drug production in the USA, at least for generics. The idea that private companies have the power to gouge people just for the privilege of staying alive , in the name of p
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Having a great manager is inversely correlated to how many times you ask yourself "Why the fuck are we doing this?"
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I just don't use it, and somehow I'm doing just fine.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
"GraphQL and Apollo is not at fault for people writing bad code who mix patterns and ideas that shouldn‘t go together." When you say this, I hear "Apollo and GraphQL are fragile technologies that don't play well with oth
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Based on Uber's history, they'll probably cook up some scheme to fraudulently register combustion vehicles as electric or find some other shady way around the regulation.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
"Veganism is all about thwarting disease by cutting out harmful dietary choices" That may be a side effect of veganism, but I hardly think that's the central thesis of that dietary and lifestyle choice.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
1. We have a lot more data now 2. We have a lot more publications now, that publish continuously, and those writers have to write about something.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Instagram is a big shell game. Most of the likes and follows these so-called "influencers" get are from other wannabe influencers. If I can like your stuff enough, maybe you'll like and follow me back. Even if a fair number o
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by LargeWu 7y ago
There's a pretty wide canyon between "has a monopoly on a phrase" and "drops from long-term #1 to virtually unlisted overnight". Moving up and down organically in search is normal and to be expected. Suddenly going
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by LargeWu 7y ago
There are always going to be competing interests and tradeoffs. Stopping the train is expensive, in terms of time. If one wants to be most accommodating for those with physical issues, then the cost of that is slower or less frequent trains
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by LargeWu 7y ago
There's been a lot of pushback on Minneapolis's 2040 plan, but ultimately I think it's a step in the right direction. Most of the objections are from people living in quiet, mostly single-family neighborhoods who don't w
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by LargeWu 7y ago
There's an argument that it's only technical debt if you're paying interest on it. i.e., it is costing you something: time, pain, preventing improvements, etc. Consider a financial instrument that is interest only on a perpet
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by LargeWu 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w A pretty good talk from Railsconf a few years back. The debt metaphor can be thought of as two axis: planned vs unplanned, and low vs high interest. If you explain to the stakeho
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by LargeWu 7y ago
But to what end? The end result of all this for me has been that I simply quit Twitter. And here's the thing: I generally agree with them, but it's so annoying I can't even engage with them anymore. So sure, maybe they'r
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It's not just that. Timelines are generally unavoidably toxic. It's not going to stop people from retweeting things and then shouting about it, or writing condescending, smug threads starting with "We need to talk about ...&q
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Twitter mostly proves that a lot of people are not happy unless they're outraged.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
My point stands. Uber has been a public company for all of 5 hours now, and their stock is a few dollars less per share than it opened, and everybody is freaking out and wondering what it all means. It's not about planning out 10,000 y
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Because of short term thinking. Nobody cares about what will happen beyond the next election cycle, the next quarter, the next iPhone release. A bit more long-term thinking would not hurt anybody.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Counterpoint: Podcasts can have an immediacy about them that the written word can't compete with. I'm not talking about the long-form "Serial"-type or magazine "This American Life" style podcasts. Those are ver
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Calling XP "working together" is extremely reductive. And pair programming is only a small part of it. When it was introduced as a methodology, it was a pretty radical departure from widely accepted development practices at that t
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by LargeWu 8y ago
By that metric, cricket is the most popular sport in the world, because it's the most popular sport in India, even though it's only widely played in a few countries. It's the question of mean vs median. When talking about wor
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by LargeWu 8y ago
To your second bullet, I think those beliefs are much more prevalent in so-called Evangelical denominations, and less so in mainline Protestant denominations. As a Lutheran, for example, the notion that any Christian would be relegated to h
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by LargeWu 8y ago
They were ISO's, I only knew how many shares I was granted, but by the time of the exit, following several rounds of funding, it ended up being around 0.02%.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I worked at a company for roughly five years, that sold for 250M. When I was hired I was like 4th engineer, but by the time I left I had 2nd most seniority in engineering. Exercised my mostly vested options when I left. I got mid-5 figures.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
That's pretty much how my schedule works out too. The only thing is, by the time I get my kids to bed around 9 or so, I'm so exhausted, mentally and physically, that investing time in my side business is just not gonna happen. I w
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Well, I think everyone is pretty sure that there is no intelligent alien life in our solar system, since everything we can see is either a rock, or ball of gas or ice. The only things we can detect outside the solar system are stars and may

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