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by awillen 5y ago
The big problem here is that it sounds like you took an "if I build it they will come" approach, which is just never viable for this type of thing. The reality is that because no one is using this protocol, your pitch is a really
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by awillen 5y ago
This is all just shockingly short-sighted for a guy who started with an online bookstore and turned it into the Amazon we know now plus AWS, etc. This isn't a one-shot thing - even if SpaceX wins and lands folks on the moon, that'
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by awillen 5y ago
Right - that's the point. If it's a low priority crime, fine. I understand they can't track down everyone and prosecute everything. But the same crime shouldn't get vastly higher priority because the victim is a cop (sit
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by awillen 5y ago
Not LA County, but SFPD - I was hit by a car that ran a red while out for a run. Hard enough to knock me down but not break anything. I managed to remember half the guy's license plate before he drove away, so I called SFPD. An hour la
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by awillen 5y ago
It's like the time they raised their minimum wage to $15 but it was totally somehow evil, though.
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by awillen 5y ago
The best case I've heard is helping to reduce traffic to places that expect a large influx of folks at the same time. Concerts, for example - if you have a lot of these flying taxis, you can have people park in auxiliary lots that are
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by awillen 5y ago
It says that "Liveness detection will commence using a series of colorful flashing lights" - presumably that's designed to catch folks holding up photos.
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by awillen 5y ago
I think that's just the nature of pulling books from HN comments - a lot of those comments are trying to convince people of a viewpoint, so it seems unsurprising that this is the kind of list you'd end up with. Not good or bad, ju
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by awillen 5y ago
> Someone who defrauds you can always afford to pay more for advertising than someone who actually provides a service. This is just demonstrably not true. Look at the biggest advertisers in the world - they're giant corporations tha
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by awillen 5y ago
He seems to? How do you judge that? I feel like most people who make statements like that really mean "if I were given the choice between the two lives, I would choose Tom's over Zuckerberg's." That doesn't tell you
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by awillen 5y ago
Finding an excuse? He doesn't need an excuse. He's got the money/ability to raise the funds to do it. He's choosing to do it for a reason that's going to be generally beneficial, if it works, at least. That's p
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by awillen 5y ago
His unbiased opinion was clearly not that strong - he literally put the word "potentially" in parentheses in the first sentence you quoted. Then he specifically said that his opinions could change because the analyses weren't
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by awillen 5y ago
Yeah, I'm conceptually familiar with the action, but I can't think of a particular word for it. I don't use saunas a lot, though, so it's possible there is one.
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by awillen 5y ago
This isn't true, and the fact that you call it forcing people to get healthy shows you're missing the point. It's not about getting someone healthy, it's about getting them to a point that they are of sound enough mind t
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by awillen 5y ago
What is an infusion in this context?
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by awillen 5y ago
There's also the reason that dropping all restrictions means hospitals become overwhelmed (which we are currently seeing in some parts of the country). This means that quality of emergency medical care is potentially severely compromis
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by awillen 5y ago
I think the other stats in here are more interesting. It seems obvious to me that IT teams are forced to trade security for operations regularly - that's just the constant tension between security and usability. It's the job of IT
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by awillen 5y ago
You're literally giving examples of how his premise applies in real life. "Companies in theory only offer volume discounts when it makes commercial sense to do" - Encouraging more use makes commercial sense because it yields
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by awillen 5y ago
Okay, well that's still a very different scenario than just leaving your dogs loose and letting one get out when someone comes to the door.
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by awillen 5y ago
When people come to the door and you have loose dogs at home, you crack the door and say "one minute, let me put the dogs away," then close the door and put the dogs away. Or you just put them away before you open the door. It&#x2
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by awillen 5y ago
Yeah, I don't really see why you're getting downvoted here. The poster let one of his dogs escape his house and left another one loose while an appliance installer who didn't know anything about the dog was there. When I have
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by awillen 5y ago
What you get depends a lot on where you're looking - it's true that there's a lot of this clickbaity entrepreneur writing that's light on details on heavy on storytelling, but there's also a lot of great content abo
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by awillen 5y ago
Yeah, I don't get this criticism - obviously he could have gotten rid of whatever safety measures he wanted. Maybe people would have quit or there would have been issues with safety inspections down the line, but he clearly could'
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by awillen 5y ago
Right, and the classifications it provides are outdated for the reality of today. I didn't say that employers would try to reclassify their employees - I said that they would keep their non-exempt ones under the 32 hour threshold.
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by awillen 5y ago
"Today, Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labo
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by awillen 5y ago
Well since it's not a direct response advertising campaign, of course no one buys anything "in response to" it. I did repaint my bedroom with an accent wall that's just about the exact shade of blue that is their 2020 co
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by awillen 5y ago
Wow... this is maybe the best counterpoint I've ever seen on HN.
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by awillen 5y ago
You can employ a professional property manager to deal with the hassle of tenants. Your one property (or a few properties) being empty isn't moving the needle enough in terms of the price of real estate to make up the difference from l
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by awillen 5y ago
That's not a real situation that will arise, so it doesn't matter.
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by awillen 5y ago
So? There will always be someone worse or more harmful - that doesn't excuse the bad actions of anyone else.

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