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by balaji1 4y ago
It's similar to TAM of a customer's wallet within a game - how much max value a user is to the company. Like LTV, "max customer value".
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by balaji1 4y ago
yeah seems odd this gets a second chance ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by balaji1 4y ago
what do you mean by "included in the pool"? is that a HN thing?
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by balaji1 4y ago
Haha true. I thought the commenter was exaggerating first. But maybe commenter is really serious and literally means it. So to his second point, does the employer get a tax bill because a worker is in a region? The employee might get an inc
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by balaji1 4y ago
The cost benefit analysis has to indicate what companies would do. Many companies think offices are costly; employees are happy and still very productive working remote. If Elon thinks great products can be shipped only from the office, it&
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by balaji1 4y ago
Sports should count towards aerobic right? It is hard to find partners and teammates as we age. So individual sports like tennis, squash, etc. Seen plenty of older folks playing those also. I think forms of martial arts are also fun and sus
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by balaji1 4y ago
I do feel the decline as I get older. A few reasons I believe are the reasons - - Too much information overload. I consume way too much info and infotainment that are not core to my life or work. - Not having enough time and bandwidth to wo
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by balaji1 4y ago
great examples... as farms are being abandoned in other places, maybe farming is undergoing consolidation to bigger farms that are growing by cutting into sensitive and more valuable forests, justifying the net effect that farmed land is go
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by balaji1 4y ago
The current mode of travel for most people is trying to maximize trips. Find the best deal for flights, hotels, rental cars, etc. Then cramming all the "must see" spots while hopping Ubers and bars. It is hard to switch out of thi
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by balaji1 4y ago
Agree to all your points except partial "nit" on the first one - Traveling slightly feels like an escapism thing for me. Volunteering and hobbies are perfect, but people tend to do the traveling more often, I feel. I think people
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by balaji1 4y ago
+1 to all of the above. Both parent commenter and I know, these are easier said than done (acknowledging it is hard to incorporate these, just in case) Start sleeping early also. Gradually build up to sleeping before 10pm. A friend once tol
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by balaji1 4y ago
hledger has a decent front-end web UI [1], it runs as a local server on your machine by default. The filter and searching on this view is quite good, and visualization is decent. We are able to add txns from this UI but I have never used it
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by balaji1 4y ago
> "please just stay in your lane." Well said. Most institutions and organizations need and would prefer turnkey long-term solutions.
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by balaji1 4y ago
that's my impression about hledger and the plain text format as well. So not going to try other tools also. Wife acceptance factor tho haha.. we will be fine as long as we never show the beautiful UIs from the YNABs & Fireflys.
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by balaji1 4y ago
The workaround for data entry I have in hledger are a few csv import scripts for various sources of txn info, but I still have to manually edit the imported data sometimes. So still would prefer something that can auto-import transactions.
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by balaji1 4y ago
how do Firefly or ActualBudget and the like compare to something like hledger?
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by balaji1 4y ago
this article has bought into a lot of narratives of doomsaying and the "real" causes of it. It complains about coal consumption in India and China, conveniently linked to a reuters article. > With China and India not even start
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by balaji1 4y ago
I think an old laptop in the home network would work well
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Home Assistant OS Release 8(home-assistant.io)
250 points by balaji1 4y ago|138 comments
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by balaji1 4y ago
are you unproductive if you are making income and you are doing enough at work to not cost your job. if you are pursuing goals, at work or otherwise, like a promotion, then you feel unproductive doing other things. it will come down to prio
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by balaji1 4y ago
no more hardline exits...
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by balaji1 4y ago
I have faced this before - A stranger dialed the number I wanted to call, put it on speaker and let me speak to my friend.
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by balaji1 4y ago
is there a simple way to detect blur? I want the iPhone to show an alert that the previous photo was blurred - I ended up with a blurred photo of text on a poster as I walked past it.
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Chrome extension for time tracking your browsing(chrome.google.com)
1 points by balaji1 4y ago|0 comments
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by balaji1 4y ago
a similar but smaller policy based simulation game: You are the government leader of a nation and a new pandemic is starting. The science is not clear yet. How do you manage as the leader? What policies do you set up? What research do you p
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by balaji1 4y ago
more trends that could benefit from more intentional long-term thinking - vegan meat-substitutes, lab-grown meat, DNA/gene editing [what else? would love to hear more from others]. In general, these trends offer nice openings for new
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by balaji1 4y ago
this is a good one. Plus some other comment that said, be kind to yourself.
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by balaji1 4y ago
for just the online consumption part, how about a specifically developed curriculum? Most of humanity goes thru school and college relying on the fact that the multi-year programs are going be worth it - and it is. Schools and colleges have
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by balaji1 4y ago
This push for EV seems to be very popular with all parts of society - gov/politicians, industry, influential investors - with potentially vested interests and the media also (any publicity is good publicity). At this point, any aggress
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by balaji1 4y ago
There are so many grocery delivery or pick-up options these days (depends on where you live), I find it surprising people don't prefer those. For most people, I would expect that shopping is somewhat of a boring and tiresome chore. Big

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