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by bit_logic 6y ago
There's an easy fix, they just need to serve ads from their own domain. Give up on the click tracking, go back to the way ads were handled in paper newspapers and magazines. They didn't have tracking and still made a lot of mone
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by bit_logic 6y ago
What frustrates me with restaurants (especially the small business mom and pop ones) is that they are not adapting to this situation. When I go to their websites (sometimes they don't even have one), I want to see two things: * A way
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by bit_logic 6y ago
What I dislike the most about the modern web and the unnecessary use of SPA technologies is how unreliable and error-prone it has made sites that really need to be simple and reliable. For example, banking websites, utility websites, gover
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by bit_logic 6y ago
Many of these oil countries and companies are lacking in vision. They could survive and even thrive in a post-fossil fuel world if they would invest now and see oil as not just fossil fuel, but a means of storage and transport. The key wea
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by bit_logic 6y ago
Google is running a free service and have limited resources for customer support. I think everyone understands that. But why can't they make better use of that support using algorithms and data analysis? For example, they probably ge
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by bit_logic 6y ago
It seems there's a simple solution for this, paid customer support. Why doesn't Google have an option where someone can pay $50 (or some other set amount) to get assistance? This would immediately filter it to only legitimate an
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by bit_logic 7y ago
Whether you like leetcode interviews or not, can we all please agree on one thing: no more writing code on anything but a computer. I think this really explains much of the mystery of the 20 years of experience engineer who can't pass
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by bit_logic 7y ago
It's too late, lasting damage has been done. This redesign made me seriously look at DDG and I'm impressed with what I found.
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by bit_logic 7y ago
A VAT alone would be bad for consumers. But the VAT is being used to fund a UBI of $1000 per month for everyone. So even the worst case of the full 10% is passed to consumers (and this doesn't happen in other VAT countries, it's
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by bit_logic 7y ago
The article has this near the end: Perhaps AI algorithms are just getting started, and in the coming years they will automate health care, education, retail and other industries the way machine tools once automated the assembly line. If th
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by bit_logic 7y ago
It doesn't have to be as extreme as 100% remote. Most office jobs would be ok with a 3/2 split between in office and WFH. And everyone doing those days WFH would make a massive immediate difference in CO2 and other air pollution
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by bit_logic 7y ago
For coal, maybe the focus on climate change and CO2 is the wrong way to fight this. Tell people to reduce coal to reduce CO2 for climate change and you will get a strong split along D and R lines. Tell people we need to reduce coal to red
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by bit_logic 7y ago
Even with easy leetcode, there's still a lot of issues. If a company must do leetcode, it should be like this: * Both candidate and interviewer enter the room. * A small script randomly pulls a leetcode easy question from the website.
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by bit_logic 7y ago
This is basically a page to help with recruiting. A lot of companies do this, long detailed posts about career ladders. Then sometimes a short bullet point list about "good work-life balance", "competitive compensation&quot
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by bit_logic 7y ago
Maybe we don't need the batteries if the synthetic fuel tech becomes good enough (there are companies working on this such as Prometheus and Carbon Engineering). Could it be possible for California to become a major oil producer state
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by bit_logic 7y ago
It's clear if you're aware of environmental policy in the US. There's a big fight right now between the federal government and CA just to keep a modest target of 50 mpg average for cars by 2025. Climate change discussion he
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by bit_logic 7y ago
The discussion so far is about work/life balance, productivity, etc. And those are very important and should be discussed. However, I think the climate change impact is underappreciated. An example with some numbers I picked to keep
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by bit_logic 7y ago
This is the part of climate change that the media has really failed to talk about. It's always about sea level rise, but that doesn't make most people worry enough (just move or build levees). The real impact is that the climate
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by bit_logic 7y ago
The major issues with their hiring process have been known for a long time, look at all the HN/reddit discussions, blogs, twitter posts, and many others. The impact of their poor promotion/incentive structure is very publicly vis
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by bit_logic 7y ago
When considered from a purely carbon reduction POV, long range EV like Tesla are actually worse than short range EV+ICE like Volt, Prius Prime, etc. Some reasons: * A PHEV with good EV range (such as 40+miles) will cover most commutes. Al
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by bit_logic 7y ago
Are you going to open a few "carbon neutral" gas stations? It might be great for publicity and marketing to open a few in dense urban areas with high gas prices (like LA and SF). Look at what the Apple and Tesla stores did for t
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by bit_logic 7y ago
Learning a language requires immersion. That's why classes with other students are more effective than flashcards. VR has potential to really make a difference here. Imagine you load a VR level. It's a busy outdoor market in Ta
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by bit_logic 7y ago
I really hope this is successful because this would make a difference for climate change much quicker than transitioning to BEV cars. BEV cars are better overall, but there just isn't enough time with the rate climate change is happe
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by bit_logic 8y ago
$68M doesn't seem like much compared to the billions of capital available. Lyft can burn 1 billion per year but a crucial technology like this for climate change can't get even half of that? Society's ability to allocate ca
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by bit_logic 8y ago
Passion doesn't equal competence. It doesn't matter if they're passionate about doing interviews, sometimes that even makes it worse because they think they are raising the "hiring bar" but instead doing a really b
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by bit_logic 8y ago
Disagree with this, this is why the industry is filled with junior engineers doing ineffective algorithm whiteboard interviews. Hiring is too important to leave to engineers who don't want to do it. Generally they will do a bad job b
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by bit_logic 8y ago
Does Apple Pay and Google Pay work anywhere I see the tap symbol (looks like a rotated wifi symbol)? Or they must also display the Apple or Google Pay symbol? I've seen places that just have the tap symbol and wondered if I could&#x2
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by bit_logic 8y ago
The problem with commingling is counterfeits. Counterfeits are often not easily detected by the customer without significant effort.
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by bit_logic 8y ago
Tesla tried battery swap and abandoned it. If even early adopter Tesla customers won't accept this idea, it's very unlikely the mainstream will.
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by bit_logic 8y ago
This was really shortsighted. PHEV is currently the best technology. I think the push for full EV is premature for mass market. It works for niche cases like Tesla, but not something that can be truly mainstream. With current battery tec

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