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by acwan93 6y ago
> I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music. Or fitness, or messaging, or movies, or TV shows... Every platform nowadays is a way to lock you in. Strava makes exporting data exceptionally difficult and has API rat
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by acwan93 6y ago
It’s also the need to monetize everything in your life. The “hustle” life, glorifying entrepreneurship, and the need to “advance your personal brand” were big statements made when I was in college. This was right when LinkedIn, Instagram,
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by acwan93 6y ago
I didn't really believe this back when I was driving a BMW and Honda daily running CarPlay, but now that I'm on the Model 3 I'm hitting lots of software bugs on the Tesla head unit that would've never passed even the mos
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by acwan93 6y ago
It's honestly very reassuring knowing that hitting $1M ARR in 3.5 years is considered a massive accomplishment. This is speaking as someone who's trying to move an older software shop from a one-time on-premise cost to SaaS. Fortu
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by acwan93 6y ago
I can’t help but think that eventually we’ll hit the “Big X” of brokerages if this consolidation continues, alongside the acquisition (mergers?) of TD Ameritrade and Charles Schwab. Assuming we have an active FTC soon wouldn’t this lead to
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by acwan93 6y ago
Makes sense to me. I just find it hard to believe that TV manufacturers will release software updates for older TVs, but then again I haven’t gone shopping for a TV in nearly a decade.
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by acwan93 6y ago
True, that makes sense. I guess my personal preference would be to keep my TV as just a display and hook up an Apple TV/Chromecast/etc. to it for those features.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Genuine question: what kind of updates would a dumb TV possibly need?
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by acwan93 6y ago
I remember hearing this back in high school: Bachelors are the new high school diploma, cause “everyone” has a diploma Masters are the new Bachelors, cause you need one to live a comfortable lifestyle PhDs are the new Masters, to stand out
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by acwan93 6y ago
If they have enough resources. When everyone is busy working on the revenue generating products for the company, taking time away to work on internal network infrastructure immediately becomes a cost center.
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by acwan93 6y ago
> Tell them the truth - even the cloud has outages, but it is certainly more "convenient" to have hundreds of engineers work on fixing an outage at global scale, and all you have to do is wait for it to start working again - th
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by acwan93 6y ago
I just finished convincing old-school management to move to Office365/Azure/Teams after we've been doing everything on-premise, saying we can reduce our maintenance and increase in reliability since we're a small operati
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Unlikely. EDI was introduced around the 70s and is still used today with no signs of going away. Those documents are being transferred over FTP. I’m working on trying to abstract away retailer and sales channels’ methods of communicating wi
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by acwan93 6y ago
And wildfires.
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There's also Detroit, MI and Windsor, ON, which is the only land border crossing where you go south into Canada and north into the US.
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by acwan93 6y ago
There's a number of irregularities between the US and Canadian border. Johnny Harris, who used to (still is? seems unclear) film the Vox series "Borders", did a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvv
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by acwan93 6y ago
I'd say it's a mix of increased savings due to near-term economic/political uncertainty, and the fact that large-scale events (conferences, sporting events) that typically bring activity are also cancelled. While e-commerce d
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by acwan93 6y ago
Isn’t the reason why inflation hasn’t increased despite the Fed’s spending due to the low Velocity of M2 Money? The Fed’s data indicates that since the 2008 recession, the exchange of money from one party to another has decreased, only to t
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by acwan93 6y ago
Reminds me of this I heard/read somewhere: When you're young, you have the energy and time, but no money. When you're middle-aged, you have the energy and money, but no time. When you're old, you have the time and money,
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by acwan93 6y ago
It feels like how I treat junk food and snacks: I’m welcome to have as much as I want, but I have to go out of my way to get it every time. Never stock up, which in this analogy would mean never install the native app or subscribe to newsle
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by acwan93 6y ago
I agree with this mentality. I was at a FAANG company as well, and some of the projects I worked on had a small impact on the company but a huge impact on a certain group. 4% of a billion users is the total population of Canada. Now that
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by acwan93 6y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted, but I share the same sentiment with you. My first road bike was also from a Sports Basement and got nothing but top-notch service. They certainly got my repeat business. Bike snobs are probab
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by acwan93 6y ago
Counterexample: The University of California system, which prohibits considering race, sex, or ethnicity in admissions due to Prop 209 passed in 1996. The UC system has a sizable Asian population as a result (and my personal experience), bu
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by acwan93 6y ago
Loosely quoted by Iris Chang in "The Chinese in America", when times are good Asians are glorified for being the "model minority" and have all the privilege that Whites have, and vilified as foreigners when times are bad
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by acwan93 6y ago
>1) great promises of future business if you helped them now. Business which not only never materialized, but later on as you learned from other sources, they never had any intent to work with you on. I've heard this too many times
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I read somewhere that the Model 3 was intended to be fully autonomous, which was why the interface and look of the car is as spartan as it is. When the autonomous tech ended up not being there (no surprise), Tesla kept the look of the car a
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by acwan93 6y ago
Same here in Los Angeles. I think only the Bay Area is available during the beta, and then the other cities will rollout in the fall when iOS 14 GMs.
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Tangentially speaking, what does say about Bay Area housing? Anecdotally, I used to look at Google's performance as an indicator on South Bay housing prices.
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Reminds me of how someone went to Target to buy an iPod for her daughter, found it full of rocks and exchanged it after getting her refund rejected, only for a replacement iPod from another Target to also be filled with rocks. https:/
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by acwan93 6y ago
$1000-2000 seems like the price point I was expecting for a full offline solution. It does seem too high for the mainstream market when 23AndMe kits are going for $99 despite all the privacy concerns.

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