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by bluepnume 4y ago
I built fetch-robot ( https://github.com/krakenjs/fetch-robot ) to avoid dealing with CORS preflight requests. And the associated maze of request and response headers you need to use to negotiate in the preflight.
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DTC brands have a blind spot: vaulting(bluepnume.medium.com)
3 points by bluepnume 4y ago|0 comments
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Sure, but we can divert some of that energy to power wind turbines, which ought to cool things down a bit.
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Simple: it's the job of a good line manager to embed and ingratiate themselves well enough with those doing the engineering work, that at any point they can give a reasonable estimate for how long a certain thing is going to take when
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Ask HN: Is it just a terrible time to raise?
2 points by bluepnume 4y ago|0 comments
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by bluepnume 4y ago
This was my attempt to understand and implement the Y combinator a while back: https://gist.github.com/bluepnume/6973b6efb7d48edcbf19
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Love this idea. Hope you don't mind if I pitch this to our team.
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by bluepnume 4y ago
This is great. We're actually considering building a product like this at OneText. 1. You get a virtual card number to use for subscriptions 2. We detect recurring charges 3. We send you a text 24h before any refills 4. If you reply &#
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by bluepnume 4y ago
I love this model. I have a movie ticket subscription that does this too if I don't use the ticket.
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Yeah, with Amazon, it's always a step during the checkout, with a very small opt-out button. And it often advertizes itself as being more about free shipping than setting up a prime subscription. Pretty easy to miss!
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Subscriptions are out, refills are in(bluepnume.medium.com)
152 points by bluepnume 4y ago|237 comments
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Totally fair. But my goal would be to make it so you don't have to guess. If your response can't be automatically handled, it should fall back to a human who can do exactly what you need. Take a cart recovery: If I send you a link
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Honestly most brands so far are perfectly happy having a new number specifically for SMS. Campaign registration and 10DLC stuff is annoying but not the end of the world. Honestly, we prefer doing real-time messaging based on user events rat
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by bluepnume 4y ago
We've actually found a mixture of automatic replies, backed up by a human, is the way to go. 1. Do it manually 2. Automate the common cases 3. Goto 1 The other trick is to build good tools to make it stupid-simple for an agent to do th
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You don't know jack about SMS(bluepnume.medium.com)
28 points by bluepnume 4y ago|6 comments
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Right. They're not mutually exclusive -- hence the "both, either, or neither"
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by bluepnume 4y ago
If this compiles, <something> is an expression: let x = <something>; If this compiles, <something> is a statement: <something>; Both, either, or neither can be true.
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by bluepnume 4y ago
"Shut up and calculate" is misattributed to Feynman.
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Makes sense -- but if you're saying "the electron travels through both slits at the same time because it is a wave", then why can't we detect that wave simultaneously at both slits? At that point of measurement/dete
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Sadly it's not settled in large part because many physicists have stopped caring about more fundamental interpretations or explanations for QM. "The theory works, the math checks out, so we're done" -- and we're lef
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by bluepnume 4y ago
If I have entangled particles A and B, and then B interacts with and becomes entangled with particle C, can that interaction not qualify as an "observation" that collapses the wave function of A + B and de-entangles them?
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by bluepnume 4y ago
I take it you're a MWI fan then? Isn't the answer for why we "force wave-describing partial differential equations into a probabilistic model" because in our reality, when we look at an electron we observe something that
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by bluepnume 4y ago
Sentry went down? My only question is - how did they find out?
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by bluepnume 5y ago
You can certainly self-custody USDC -- but unlike Bitcoin, even if you self-custody you still have to trust that the USD backing the coin actually exists somewhere.
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by bluepnume 5y ago
What does that have to do with the original point? - Real estate has real-world use cases - Stocks have real-world use cases - Bitcoin has real-world use cases It's meaningless to describe any of these as pyramid schemes because "
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by bluepnume 5y ago
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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by bluepnume 5y ago
Bitcoin, just like traditional money, can exist as a non-blockchain ledger entry in bank's computer system. This is how most exchanges and custodial wallets work. The difference is, you can also self-custody your Bitcoin. Obviously wha
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by bluepnume 5y ago
In which case: do you think it's impossible for a bank to vault Bitcoin with the same level of security as traditional money?
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by bluepnume 5y ago
Literally the only way you can profit with real estate is if people keep buying in at higher prices. It's the perfect instantiation of a pyramid scheme. Literally the only way you can profit with stocks is if people keep buying in at h
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by bluepnume 5y ago
You don't like it because it's possible to lose? Are all of your other physical possessions immune from being lost?

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