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by awillen 4y ago
I own an ecommerce company, I've used 3PLs, and I just can't see how you could have a meaningful market for this (and to be clear I mean the current product at openship.org, not everything that you're describing). It's b
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by awillen 4y ago
Abominable seems like a strong word for a couple of automated emails. I'd hate for you to see what email marketing software looks like...
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by awillen 4y ago
It's in the second paragraph of the article: "The approach has several advantages over terrestrial solar power, including the absence of night and inclement weather and the lack of an atmosphere to attenuate the light from the sun
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by awillen 4y ago
> There is the side note that they are owned by the same entity, but do regulators know that for a fact before they decide no to enforce penalties for what you are claiming is trademark infringement? Yes. Yes they do. Absolutely, 100%, r
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by awillen 4y ago
It's not fraud, it's pretty clear marketing. When there was a shortage of wings, they stopped selling those and started selling thighs. Thus, Thighstop. This has literally nothing to do with tax evasion - you really are not unders
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by awillen 4y ago
None of this is really relevant - Shopify is a paid service, has always been a paid service, and clearly markets itself as a paid service. Just because it's cheap for them to store information doesn't mean you should expect them t
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by awillen 4y ago
Why should Shopify store all your information if you stop paying them? You can export everything you need from your Shopify account. They never offer a free tier to anyone, so it's not like they trick with you a free service and then f
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by awillen 4y ago
It's the federal government, not a startup in your garage.
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Whatever developer takes this job will inevitably be able to quit and get another, high-paying job with fine WLB whenever they want. It's not comparable to indentured servitude in any way. There is absolutely a difference between offer
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by awillen 4y ago
If they're totally open about it, who cares? Whoever interviews will know what they're getting into and can negotiate accordingly. If they find some workaholic who's happy to put in 100 hour weeks in exchange for a healthy ch
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by awillen 4y ago
One thing that always bothers me about this is that interrupters are often seen as bad, while non-interrupters are seen as good. You hear this a lot in the context of engineering meetings - there's Tommy the interrupter who always shou
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by awillen 4y ago
Disagree on 2/3. Dull tasks are some of the best for robots - their attention never wanders, they never get fatigued, and their performance is always going to stay consistent. Dangerous jobs are already being given to robots - just loo
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by awillen 4y ago
Pretty much every major bank in the US issues credit cards, so you don't need to deal with a second company. For most consumers, there are credit cards without fees (the CC companies charge fees to merchants, but unless you're dea
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by awillen 4y ago
I think nursing will be the last job to get automated away. It's all about dexterity and human interaction.
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by awillen 4y ago
Nobody said good product or beneficial to the user - the discussion is about people's preferences. Many people have very strong preferences for crack over not crack.
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by awillen 4y ago
Why did you totally ignore the point that you criticized the responder for reading "should" when that is the exact word you used in your post?
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem is that Neumann walked away with an absolute fortune, leaving investors and much more importantly employees holding the bag. He operated with what could charitably described as accounting methods of questionable ethics. If this
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by awillen 4y ago
> Why does it benefit large numbers of others to have denser housing right here where my house is though? It benefits large numbers of others to have denser housing in any highly populated area, particularly those that are desirable. If
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, that's covered very clearly in the article: "Dad’s been generous to share what he does each day with us all. But let me be clear: all of the standard caveats apply to his approach. This is NOT necessarily a prescription for
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by awillen 4y ago
You're clearly wrong as it relates to the post you're responding to. This one data point is going to get him to engage in a behavior that's healthier than the one he otherwise would've been engaged in, which is clearly g
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by awillen 4y ago
I think the answer is that they can decide all of the things that you're saying here, and they can lobby to have the government enforce those decisions, because people are allowed to do lobby the government to do whatever they want. Th
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by awillen 4y ago
Sure, but we're talking about general adoption of EVs here, so it's more appropriate to use the much more highly adopted example than one that's relatively uncommon.
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem is that getting people to use electric cars is a practical, doable thing, where greatly reducing our overall car use is vastly more difficult. Electric cars aren't a distraction, they're a big improvement to an existin
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by awillen 4y ago
Why pick the VW ID.4 instead of a Tesla Model 3, which is a much more common electric car to own? Fast chargers for it are much more common and charge 0-80% in about 20 minutes.
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem with this logic is that a whole lot of products on Amazon (even those labeled as Prime) are fulfilled by Amazon for third party small businesses. I own one of those businesses, and getting Amazon to pay up when they screw someth
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem with what you're suggesting is that proving something improves longevity is really, really hard. If you want to find out if something's going to help people live longer, you have to study it for a very long time. And o
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by awillen 4y ago
I replied on this post about side hustles, and it led to a number of purchases (and that ultimately led me to invest more time into the thing, which is now making decent money): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930
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by awillen 4y ago
I just signed up for a trial. If it can replace my trusty notepad and paper, I can definitely justify $7 a month.
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I run an ecommerce dog treat company, and I typically send out about one email a week. I try to keep those to 50% or less emails that offer discounts, and I try to make the discounts product-specific, so people don't just get used to g
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by awillen 4y ago
How did you get those guests? I'm curious what your pitch is - it seems like a significant amount of work for them to provide pictures, identify their stuff and answer questions. Do they do it just because people love to share, or is t

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