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by bcassedy 4y ago
I haven't canceled yet but am considering it. They have a few problems for me - They don't make it easy to discover content. They still have quite a lot of good original content that isn't promoted and a slew of third party t
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by bcassedy 4y ago
It's not pocket change for people early in their career. An early engineer in a series A company could easily be getting 10k+ in options
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by bcassedy 5y ago
It isn't just processed food. Fruits and vegetables are declining in nutritional value as well.
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by bcassedy 5y ago
I think this is the main issue. I graduated from a bootcamp 7 years ago and even back then it was becoming clear that despite admissions clear preference for people that would be successful regardless, there were those in the group that wou
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by bcassedy 5y ago
Those penalties must be really harsh if Pepsi is electing to sell Dasani, a Coca-Cola product.
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by bcassedy 5y ago
"People pretty much couldn't go to space" "Well actually Richard Branson went to space. That puts a big hole in your people pretty much couldn't go to space argument now doesn't it!?" The example of a sing
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by bcassedy 5y ago
Is your counterpoint really that FDR was able to go places in public? He notoriously hid his disability with a combination of canes, braces, and family members to hold him upright and even simulate walking. He also had a tremendous amount o
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by bcassedy 5y ago
What sorts of problems are caused by power supply issues?
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by bcassedy 6y ago
This isn't how residential pricing works. End residential customers typically don't pay these increases
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Why are you lumping Hey in with the rest of these folks? They are orders of magnitude smaller and have some of the most customer friendly businesses around with Hey and Basecamp.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Words only have meaning because of the way people use them. See how the meaning of "literally" has changed in the last decade for an example. To most people the term gamer does not precisely mean "one who plays games." T
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Ah yes. All those game devs with their lofty salaries and excellent working conditions.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Likely because they count mobile games in these figures but people don't count them when talking about gaming on a dating profile. Virtually everyone you know probably tried Candy Crush, Pokemon Go, or flappy bird. Most of them probabl
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Sure and if they believed consumers value that, they wouldn't object to competing with alternative payment options.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
It sounds like you're enjoying what you're doing so this doesn't necessarily apply to you, but the suffer now to enjoy life later mentality assumes you'll make it to your 50s. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed so we should
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Ah I see. What I meant to express was that based on the fact that there appears to be a higher preponderance of child abusers among the rich and powerful, it's unlikely that actions they take are actually "to protect the children&
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by bcassedy 6y ago
I've spent a lot of time in Vegas and while it does get old it takes a lot longer than a weekend. There's clubbing, lots of high end dining, shows galore, Red Rocks for hiking and climbing, each casino on the strip is a spectacle,
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by bcassedy 6y ago
There are only a few hundred people in Congress. Even if all of them were partaking this still wouldn't be a societal impact level issue.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Child porn is a serious problem in that it is abhorrent. I have not seen any evidence that it is a serious problem in that it has significant impact at a societal level. These bills are not being introduced to significantly reduce child por
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Yeah I've had good luck with Best Buy.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Walmart's online store is a mess of 3rd party options now too. I went looking for hair clippers at the start of the pandemic and all I could find were no-name brands offered by third party vendors on their website.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Ehh there's a really pro ycombinator slant and ever notice how any yc announcement, hiring notice, or article quickly hits the top? They're getting a lot of value out of that stuff that helps with the VC side of things.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
You mid-foot strike while walking? When I wore barefoot shoes, I could mid-foot strike while running but doing so while walking always felt extremely unnatural and I couldn't adopt it.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
AHK was how I got back into programming. I wrote some scripts to help reduce RSI playing online poker and then later when I worked in a call center wrote some scripts to automate dialing my phone and macros for basic notetaking. A clunky as
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by bcassedy 6y ago
If you liked Ishmael, I recommend reading The Story of B. Its subject is very similar to Ishmael but I feel that it does a better job of portraying how the us vs them is woven into the very fabric of civilization. It's also a very ente
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Their 2020 revenue will likely be less than a quarter of that. And 2021 might not be much better. They have a struggle ahead.
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by bcassedy 6y ago
Is Quora really big outside the US or something? I find it difficult to reconcile their scale challenges with the fact that I don't know a single person that uses Quora outside of when the come up in google search results.
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by bcassedy 7y ago
Right, but he also then has a lot more incentive to keep costs down and the power to enforce some requirements and controls to keep costs down.
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by bcassedy 7y ago
Even when you're insured this happens. I had a woman come into my ER room and demand payment of my full deductible. They ended up refunding me 2/3 of it about a year later.
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by bcassedy 7y ago
I think it's interesting how the perception of Amazon is changing. Even my parents who are in their late 60s are avoiding Amazon because of counterfeiting and poor production quality.

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