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by beering 8y ago
That's a little different, because there was guaranteed money for just creating an app. If Microsoft took a 0% cut, it wouldn't be that different for app spammers - they'd still have to get people to pay for the app at some p
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by beering 8y ago
Zenni is the main online company in the US selling eyeglasses for actually reasonably prices. Downside is that you don't get to try them on before you buy them, and I'm not a huge fan of their styles.
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by beering 8y ago
I ended up with Warby Parker after decent experiences with Zenni. Warby Parker offers a home try-on service for free, where they ship you a pack of frames for you to try on (without prescription lenses). They also have a few retail stores.
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by beering 8y ago
Were the cofounders able to cash out shares previously? Maybe they took some chips off the table?
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by beering 8y ago
What's worse for YouTube? That news articles continue to be written about how they're ignoring a pedophilia problem, or some channels getting caught up in the algorithm? It sucks to be negatively affected as a content creator, but
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by beering 8y ago
Your local sleep doctor can evaluate your sleep apnea risk factors and prescribe a take-home test. Should be covered under insurance. I think you can DIY with a cheap pulse oximeter, but I'm certainly not qualified to say how to interp
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by beering 8y ago
> I'm yet to see a single case of an upside. It's a signal of coolness from inexperienced programmers. That's the value proposition offered by semicolon-free JS.
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by beering 8y ago
The steps of fixing your eyeballs in place and peeling back the cut-out flap require physical contact with tools.
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by beering 8y ago
I'm frankly surprised at the level of entitlement that you and others are operating under. Section 8 and 9 of the Spotify T&C is what you are looking for, btw.
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by beering 8y ago
I can't wait for tipping culture to end - it's just a way for service workers to be abused in a multitude of ways. I only wish more workers would realize that it will be better for them collectively to get upset at their employers
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by beering 8y ago
Unfortunately failing to build a billion dollar company often means ending up with a $0 company. Like the OP said, VC too often comes with the pressure to either succeed in a big way or pack everything up and go home. And when your liquidat
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by beering 8y ago
Both of you can be right. It's possible that Bezos saw the opportunity in taking advantage of their tech infra expertise and building that into a public product, but maybe it wasn't just taking what they already built and making i
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by beering 8y ago
You could probably order glasses from Zenni and have them shipped internationally. Even if you had to go through a reshipper, it should be a fraction of what you're paying.
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by beering 8y ago
I don't see how spinning off Stubhub into a separate company will "ruin what's cool and useful about [eBay]". The rummage-sale aspect of eBay has and will change no matter how they choose to restructure their conglomerat
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by beering 8y ago
How do you avoid forgeries on eBay? I've seen a good proportion of the listings very obvious counterfeits or fakes (e.g. search for "2TB SD card") and you have to have some savvy to tell the difference between genuine OEM and
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by beering 8y ago
Here's the scenario that the original reporter added: > if the update blob indicates a key other than the hardcoded one, it downloads the requested public key from the VLC update server over HTTP and does nothing further to verify
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by beering 8y ago
Author waits until almost the very end of the article to say this: > Put another way, if I never did any swing trading and invested all my money into a handful of diverse Vanguard or Dimensional funds, I would have gotten 8%-14% ROI from
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by beering 8y ago
There was some discussion about the methodology on Reddit, but I think there is some controversy over whether the methodology used to measure bias is sound. Basically, you're asked to categorize a series of items as quickly as possible
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by beering 8y ago
Despite replacing my iPhone SE with a newer iPhone, I have to say that the iPhone SE really hit a sweet spot - small and thin, but no less capable than the iPhone 7. My only gripe was that the fingerprint sensor was often finicky. Some of u
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by beering 8y ago
There's also some evidence that high levels of iron are linked to intestinal cancer.[0] So maybe the meat is just a proxy of iron. My takeaway is that the links between X food and Y disease are still largely a mystery. The correlation
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by beering 8y ago
The Containers add-on[0] for Firefox that Mozilla makes has satisfied my need for partitioning. It's on a per-tab basis and also lets you define certain domains to automatically open in a specific container (e.g. Jira always opens in m
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by beering 8y ago
Did they ever publish the rationale for why they used MongoDB in the first place? They mention having 2.3 million content items. If we assume that they have 100 DB entries for each content item, that's still only 230 million DB items.
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by beering 8y ago
I wonder if it can be analogized to a line cook (you) vs someone going to culinary school (your fiancee). In your day job you execute consistently and skilfully, but if you were put in front of a pantry full of miscellaneous ingredients and
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by beering 8y ago
AOL?
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by beering 8y ago
It also just doesn't make sense for Google to use Docker (or even Kubernetes) for their core infra. They've been the foremost leader in distributing containerized applications across data centers. Whatever they've already bui
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by beering 9y ago
And kind of like Linux, you have a patchwork of unsatisfying solutions. Mapbox isn't always cheaper than Google. They have not lowered their tile prices in years, for example. And on geocoding and some other APIs they give out poor res
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by beering 9y ago
There were at least two previous Bitcoin manias and bubbles. I remember a lot of hype when it hit $70 (from single-digit prices), and then again when it hit $1000. Both times people said it was a bubble, and then the bubble popped.
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by beering 9y ago
GP writes specifically about how the SEC "does not protect anyone's freedom or agency", which is a typical libertarian viewpoint. I.e. that the gov't shouldn't regulate anything about disclosures, published financia
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by beering 9y ago
The first website I've noticed that does this is Expensify. See their login page here, specifically the little light bulb by the password field: https://www.expensify.com/signin Is it an intuitive, clean design? Not su
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by beering 9y ago
There's butterdb (formerly known as fuckitdb) which is based on gspread. It made its rounds on HN and other sites a while ago as an abstraction on top of gspread.

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