awillen

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by awillen 4y ago
Oh hey man - long time no see! I hope all's well.
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by awillen 4y ago
Oooh, I know this one! I spent about a decade as a PM in early-stage enterprise software companies (Box and Talkdesk, among others) and left in 2019 to open a dog boarding business! I found real estate, had plans drawn up, got permits, foun
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by awillen 4y ago
Why would they need to shoot them down? Porch pirates just take packages that are delivered while nobody's home... that model still works fine with drones, and adding a bunch of gunshots to it doesn't seem like it would improve th
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by awillen 4y ago
It's frustrating that he's so polarizing that everybody seems to oversimplify their discussions of him by reducing everything to one very narrow perspective. Tesla is a confidence game? Come on - Tesla is a company that has so muc
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by awillen 4y ago
The truth is that addiction, like all mental illness, is complex and unique to each individual. Diagnosing mental illness generally consists of identifying some number of symptoms out of a possible list - often something like five out of ei
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, this is tough because when the VP of Sales knows that one particular change will close the deal, they're going to push for it no matter what the cost. In reality it may be better from a big picture perspective to give a concessio
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by awillen 4y ago
Once upon a time I was the first product person at a now-decacorn, and my first task was fixing the billing system. It was quite the monster, and we ended up implementing a combination of Zuora and an internal system, as there were some par
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, my dogs both ate Purina One at the rescues where I got them, so I just kept them on that. Once my older dog got to about 6 years old, he started having loose stool, so I switched him to Taste of the Wild, and that's been better.
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by awillen 4y ago
Just Google "Can dogs eat x" - you'll usually find a result from AKC at or near the top, and they're reliable. Here's a list (but they also have more detailed articles that'll come up if you search for a partic
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by awillen 4y ago
I own a dog treat company and have written a bunch of "Can dogs eat x" articles for SEO purposes, and I can tell you based on the research I've done that some of this info is iffy. You've got cinnamon as being okay, but
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by awillen 4y ago
It's not about demand, though - it's about people being physically unable to leave and buy a car. It's not necessarily comparable to Europe because nowhere in Europe was pursuing the same zero COVID policy that China is, and
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It's perfectly relevant stylistically - he's talking about a time when things were scrappier and there weren't rules or established standards in his domain (pun intended). This isn't a manual, it's a paean to a time
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I don't really understand what you mean - it's not like others can just decide to aggressively come after them when it comes to fulfillment. It takes enormous scale to be able to do that. In every part of logistics, Amazon's
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by awillen 4y ago
Here it definitely depends on the types of packages, and my experience is very much in the 1-5 pound range - as you get larger, it's clearly more profitable. Still, however I ran the numbers, I just couldn't see Deliverr taking on
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by awillen 4y ago
I own an ecommerce business, and I recently moved away from my previous 3PL (third party logistics company, like Deliverr). In doing so, I evaluated a number of 3PLs, including Deliverr. For those who aren't familiar, Amazon Multi Chan
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by awillen 4y ago
This doesn't seem like an ad hominem attack at all. It's a criticism of criteria you're using to analyze DALL-E in this paper. You're talking about safety-critical applications, but nobody is expecting DALL-E to be used
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Meta's newest AI discovers stronger and greener concrete formulas(engadget.com)
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by awillen 4y ago
That's one of the things that makes nursing so ideal as a profession - you can start as a CNA and move up, but even at that level you can do things like work as a home health care aide (of which we are going to need so, so many as folk
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by awillen 4y ago
Oh yeah, it's an incredibly taxing job, but part of the reason they're so overworked is because we're already short on nurses (and for obvious reasons many are incredibly burned out from the last couple of years). That's
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by awillen 4y ago
I wish people would push vocational schools like they did college. We are going to need thousands and thousands of nurses in the next several decades. They're well-paying jobs that aren't going to be automated away in our lifetime
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by awillen 4y ago
That only works in one direction though. If opportunity doesn't exist, it doesn't matter if you set expectations that it does.
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by awillen 5y ago
This begs the age-old question - whose content is less valuable: the person who posts the substanceless comment or the person who replies to it with an equally substanceless comment pointing out that it's a substanceless comment? Ethic
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by awillen 5y ago
That is a helpful summary - thanks!
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by awillen 5y ago
Third on the front page and no comments about how this is a total misrepresentation and/or a huge leap? C'mon folks - this is where I come for due diligence on these kinds of things.
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by awillen 5y ago
If he were smuggling in food, sure, but I struggle to see how helping the North Korean government use crypto is going to lead to the people eating better.
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by awillen 5y ago
Guybrush: At least I’ve learnt something from all of this. Elaine: What’s that? Guybrush: Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. Elaine: A what? Guybrush: I don't know. I have no idea why I said that.
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by awillen 5y ago
SF is not a particularly large city relative to other major cities. It's not even the biggest city in the Bay Area (San Jose). Geographically, it's very small, just 7x7, and the amount of space where one can rent office space (esp
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by awillen 5y ago
Oh man, found my spirit animal. I tried recreating the same system on a white board next to my desk to save paper, but it just doesn't work without rewriting the list from scratch regularly (though I must have smaller tasks, because I&
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by awillen 5y ago
That's true, but it's not relevant here... we're talking about reliability.
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by awillen 5y ago
I just have to say that the links to the same table on Wayfair and Appliance Direct is one of the most concise, effective ways I've seen of describing the pain point that you're solving. Just looking at that has me 100% convinced

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