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by astrocat 11y ago
"Think of H2Flow as an app for your teeth. The more Flow you take in, the more Sparkle Points you get! Get enough Sparkle Points and you're on your way to your first Aqua Badge..." (Parks and Rec)
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by astrocat 11y ago
Since the topic has also been making the rounds on HN, this was, as I recall, one of the issues raised with Gravity Payments and their $70K base salary.
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by astrocat 11y ago
>And sometimes being personally disrespectful yields better results. Which is, after all, what one wants out of a software project This is just as absurd as saying "And sometimes torture yields good information. Which is, after all,
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by astrocat 11y ago
>You do not exempt the basic income from the normal taxation rules I have a really hard time understanding the logic here... "Let's give everyone 11 dollars, then spend a bunch of money (enforcement does cost) to make sure all
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by astrocat 11y ago
What I think what most people count on is the inanely fast ACCELERATION of technological progress. The amount of advancement between 1930 and 2015 will be orders of magnitude less than 2015-2100.
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by astrocat 11y ago
Can someone elucidate why existing defamation laws don't cover this already?
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by astrocat 11y ago
Careful now, there is a BIG difference between conspiracy types and cynics.
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by astrocat 11y ago
I use Lyft exclusively. I've never touched Uber for probably the same reason as others - the brand/culture just feels... icky. I want a ride, not a chauffeur. To be fair though, almost every Lyft driver I've had says they a
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by astrocat 11y ago
I'm not entirely sure just how much Larry can do - it's really the 2% of the island that's state owned that includes the public roads. Hawaii in general seems like a great place to start a lot of "infrastructure 2.0&quot
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by astrocat 11y ago
You've basically made cash.me - which is run by Square (squareup.com). And I have to agree with patio11: pat yourself on the back for being as smart as the bright minds Square, have a beer, then pick a new weekend project :)
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by astrocat 11y ago
I certainly don't doubt there will some, but a battery stuck in the wall of your house isn't nearly as sexy and show-off-able as a sporty car.
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by astrocat 11y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this is pitched and what it's price point is... I'm still not convinced that energy arbitrage is profitable enough for individual homes given the current cost of the storage.
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by astrocat 11y ago
I completely understand the sentiment - 40% seems like a lot to be "burning" for the sake of the other 60. But it's helped me to think about this in a different context: think about the time you spend with your spouse. How m
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by astrocat 11y ago
>Personally I find the increasing emphasis on work as a way to derive personal satisfaction troubling. It looks like a subtle trap to me. A way to convince people to forgo time with their family, hobbies, side ventures and anything else
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by astrocat 11y ago
> On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I'v
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by astrocat 11y ago
As a designer who's been attempting to pick up some basic ops proficiency with apache over the past month or so, this looks brilliantly simple. Thanks!
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by astrocat 11y ago
Completely agree - it's an incredibly easy first step in understanding the abstraction of code -> results. I've actually had the privilege of walking a recently released inmate with 0 computer skills through the process of writ
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by astrocat 12y ago
Batteries are to devices what rockets are to space...things. So there's a trend here.
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by astrocat 12y ago
Might want to check some facts here. There is an Amazon Cloud Drive app for Windows and Mac that does syncing. It's not as advanced as Dropbox but it's about on par with the Google Drive app. Their online interface isn't te
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by astrocat 12y ago
I've always wondered this myself. The claim of "we're open source so you can trust us" has always seemed a bit off to me for the exact reasons you give - sure, you publish this codebase, but who says that's what yo
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by astrocat 12y ago
as automation increases, cars will likely become more computers than cars. And at that point I imagine the advances in computation and sensing will drive product refreshes. Even battery tech. Which all sound familiar... Sure some of it can
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by astrocat 12y ago
the average car ownership time is somewhere around 6 years[1]. It feels like 3-year leases are becoming more and more common so I wouldn't be surprised to see this number drop significantly in the future. [1] http://www.kbb
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by astrocat 12y ago
While that's certainly part of the dynamic, the overall picture is more nuanced. New tech became available - smartphones and tablets as well as much more performant laptops - that replaced desktop purchases. Every two years a new lap
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by astrocat 12y ago
I doubt this is the case. If anything, the reasons you give boil down to: "the core of the car - the moving vehicle bit - will become commodity" and when this happens, cars will become "cars" like phones are now "p
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by astrocat 12y ago
I've also heard that there's service-quality expectations at play: if the wifi is free and it sucks, you're still happy while the hotels that charge for wifi to simply reduce demand (congestion) in order to have a better expe
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by astrocat 12y ago
I completely agree. I'd guess at least 50% of my email is deleted immediately after reading and not because it's unwanted, but because it holds no long-term value. Inbox assumes that all email is better archived than deleted whic
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by astrocat 12y ago
Not my domain of expertise; can someone explain why this is problematic?
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by astrocat 12y ago
Saying things like "Now Techstars has lost complete credibility in my mind" is taking things too far and just being petty. Techstars doesn't market itself as some bastion of credibility to consumers. Yes, this a great exampl
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by astrocat 12y ago
This seems like something that's going to become more and more of a problem as services attempt to create ever more seamless integrations to create better user experiences. Has anyone seen anything in a spec or recommendation that addr

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