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by awillen 5y ago
In my experience on HN, people here actually really love hearing/learning about businesses outside of tech, particularly those that are introducing tech... agritech, etc. I run an ecommerce business, which is at best tech-adjacent (hon
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by awillen 5y ago
I agree - what I don't get is that you can generally only reverse charges for a limited period of time, even for fraud. He said he worked with Robin for two years, but probably only 120 days worth could have been charged back. So yeah,
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by awillen 5y ago
I'd say it can be useful, but that's not often the case (especially not to the tune of 1000+ words).
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by awillen 5y ago
I don't think it's as counterintuitive as it sounds - just because they're playing the game doesn't mean that they think it's right. If your options are to not be successful at SEO or to do the SEO spam thing, I don
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by awillen 5y ago
AFAIK the 2000 word essays in recipes are Google's fault - it prioritizes pages with a lot of content, so you have to add that junk to the top in order to rank highly. While I'm sure there's more going on behind the scenes th
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by awillen 5y ago
This is what I'm amazed that nobody seems to get - if the population of people infected by Delta is 80% unvaccinated (I'm making that up for the sake of an example), and the population of people infected by Omicron is only 20% unv
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by awillen 5y ago
My understanding is that they've studied people with 2 vs. 3 shots, both groups having received their most recent shot in a similar timeframe to account for that.
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by awillen 5y ago
I agree with you on the personal projects stuff and have also had that language struck from contracts (I've published a couple of short books on Amazon and had one contract that pretty clearly said my employer would be entitled to prof
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by awillen 5y ago
Why? It sounds like it's built on an internal platform, so there's no other use for it. Sharing it with other people at the company would at least improve his reputation with those people, which could be helpful down the line.
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by awillen 5y ago
Why would they have to pay you a cool sum of money for it? It sounds pretty clearly like you did it for work, so unless you have a very unique employment contract, they already own it.
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by awillen 5y ago
My driver's ed teacher gave me three pieces of advice: 1. Don't schedule your driving test right before lunch. 2. Don't schedule your driving test on a Friday afternoon. 3. Don't schedule your driving test on your birthd
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by awillen 5y ago
The nice thing is it's not an especially crowded space. There are a handful of treat mix products out there, and most are for baked treats (which we also sell, but definitely not at the level of the frozen stuff). On the frozen treat f
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by awillen 5y ago
Thanks so much - I will do that soon!
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by awillen 5y ago
Thank you!
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by awillen 5y ago
Thanks! It's dog treat mix - our most popular product is a powdered mix that you combine with water and freeze for frozen treats. I had pretty close to zero expertise. I was an enterprise software PM, so things like setting up Shopify
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by awillen 5y ago
Sure - it's dog treat mix: coopersdogtreats.com. Our best selling product is https://coopersdogtreats.com/products/pupsicle-starter-kit , which makes frozen treats - just combine the mix with water, pour into the i
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by awillen 5y ago
I did it, and it's equal parts terrifying and awesome. My company's going to do six figures of revenue this year, which is amazing, but I'm having to figure out things like scaling fulfillment and manufacturing that are entir
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by awillen 5y ago
This is a really great idea, and I love the business model of selling future design work after you've already given your customer a bunch of value for free. I'd honestly consider having a pricing tab in the main menu that explains
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by awillen 5y ago
I own an ecommerce company, and I'm using a huge (>$100M funding raised) company that's supposed to be a tech-enabled 3PL. It was a terrible choice, and their idiotically overengineered solutions are a big reason why. The most
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by awillen 5y ago
I think this is the bigger point - the difference between internal and external knowledge has become much less important because the external knowledge is always easily available. I have a friend who prides himself on knowing all manner of
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by awillen 5y ago
Chris Rock had a good bit about this a couple of decades ago with alcohol and marijuana. To paraphrase, if you want to figure out which is worse, just ask the kids if they'd rather have daddy come home drunk or stoned. Drunk daddy yell
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by awillen 5y ago
The problem is that you're not defining "dark pattern" reasonably. "You’re saying that as long as the terms are clearly communicated they’re not a dark pattern, aka unethical." You're saying that something bein
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by awillen 5y ago
Much, much smaller population. From OP: " So here is a more comprehensive data bank of 982 individuals across 14 publications." It's that, vs. the millions of employees in big tech. So first you're dealing with the fact
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by awillen 5y ago
What you're talking about is just clearly not the same point that I made. I said: "In general I don't think it's fair to describe anything as a dark pattern this is clearly communicated in a contract." You said: &qu
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by awillen 5y ago
Come on now, you have to know that's a gross exaggeration. It's arguing that no deal between two parties is unethical as long as both parties are clearly aware of all aspects of the deal and their consequences and neither party is
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by awillen 5y ago
In general I don't think it's fair to describe anything as a dark pattern this is clearly communicated in a contract. Same with "Here’s a similar problem with a different scenario: You sign a one-year contract with a SaaS pro
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by awillen 5y ago
The difference is that lawyers act in a structured environment with specific rules on how things should be considered - you bring up all the possible claims because if any of them get thrown out, it doesn't impact the others. It's
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by awillen 5y ago
It looks like the only person who described them as useless is the editor who wrote the headline, and they did it in an incredibly disingenuous (and grammatically incorrect way) by putting quotes around it. That implies that someone in the
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by awillen 5y ago
I had this exact thing with Portugal... the time changed something like two weeks apart, and we ended up spending half a day on each end just getting meeting times fixed.
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by awillen 5y ago
Yeah, it's this bizarrely shortsighted focus on making it an absolute priority that nobody takes advantage of us as compared to just prioritizing our own well being. We're not even good at being selfish :/

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