cactus2093

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by cactus2093 5y ago
Exactly what I was thinking, sure you have to pay health insurance and self-employment taxes but you can write off so many other expenses. You can write off computer purchases, even part of your rent or mortgage if you use an extra bedroom
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Why do basically zero companies seem to follow this? Banks and airlines are of course some of the most egregious offenders, but even tech companies like Apple and FB have complexity requirements on capital letters and numbers. Surely the lo
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by cactus2093 5y ago
This sounds like a really wild solution without a problem. The employee can just turn off their phone today, or put it on do not disturb, or simply ignore the texts when not working. The boss could say "you need to reply to these texts
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by cactus2093 5y ago
This has got to be a troll comment. On an ebike on the top assist levels you can pedal leisurely at ~50watts and get 300 watts of output to travel at 30kph plus, and tackle any climbs with no issue, while not getting your heartrate up all t
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by cactus2093 5y ago
The $2.4B loss is a write-down of their ownership in Didi which has nothing to do with the basic economics of Uber's operations.
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> But I'm also really not a morning person. I think this is really the crux of it, it's just a matter of personal preference and there's no one right answer. When I was younger I used to wake up later and I thought permane
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by cactus2093 5y ago
The trend I've seen in big tech is that microservices architectures kind of negate a lot of this benefit though. Yes, there might be SRE's who are on-call for existential company-wide outages, and ideally they have some general kn
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by cactus2093 5y ago
People talk about the messy USB-C standard, but I think there's another related problem that has nothing to do with any specific issue in the standard. There's just an inevitable economic trade-off with having a port that supports
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by cactus2093 5y ago
It's interesting that you call this having "very little to do with" the success. It's a philosophical argument, I guess. If there's boulder at the top of a hill and I give it a little nudge so it rolls all the way t
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by cactus2093 5y ago
You're right that Uber & Lyft aren't the same as taxis at the airport (where cars and people both queue up and are matched FIFO). They're the same as personal pickups, one car looking for one specific person. There's
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> Food delivery is very low margin and companies have realised there is pretty much no money to be made here as an expensive middle man Somebody should probably tell that to the millions of public market investors who have bought into th
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by cactus2093 5y ago
100% this. I think it's a good lesson that sometimes there are multiple decisions/outcomes which are good enough, and there is no one perfect choice. Some people will be happy if you go one way and others prefer the other way. But
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by cactus2093 5y ago
That's interesting. Are you talking about microSD in smartphones, or standard SD? MicroSD support would have actually made more sense to me than standard SD. But from what it looks like micro cards will still require a dongle of sorts.
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by cactus2093 5y ago
It's weird to sell the machine with a super high resolution 120hz mini LED screen though and then optimize the ports for the cheap $400 monitor market. You're right though the HDMI port might come in handy in random situations, be
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> All the ports you could ever want I agree with everything else you said and I think overall these machines will be awesome. I would disagree with you on the ports though, I think this is kind of a miss for Apple. They caved into some o
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I don't really see how it misleads the argument in a way that would be considered bad faith. But I do agree focusing on the $0 number does seem kind of arbitrary. A better metric might be percentage of the total tax burden paid by the
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I like this idea and this framing of it. A way I've put it in the past is that a postmortem is only really useful if you thought that you were already doing everything you could to prevent an issue of this type. In 95% of incidents I&#
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Yep outside of a few industries that have specific supply constraints (like semiconductors) the broad shortages are mostly due to the ports. They have zero room to absorb the additional demand thanks to the longshoreman unions having blocke
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by cactus2093 5y ago
It's interesting to me the way consensus seems to emerge on long-tail risks. Even just looking at the very technical crowd here on HN, I bet a significant majority would agree that nuclear power is a good idea and we can manage the lon
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by cactus2093 5y ago
As someone who knows very little about biology, I watched the HBO documentary about Theranos and am kind of still confused by some of the conflicting claims I hear. In the documentary, they focused a lot on the engineering challenges of the
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Wait until you learn about San Francisco
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Happens all the time, one story makes it to the front page and then people post other related stories about the same topic. It's also not just about McDonalds food, it's a business growth case study which is fairly on brand for HN
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> However, many people have also reported permanent hearing loss and tinnitus after contracting COVID Thanks for pointing this out. It's definitely sad that people are having side effects to the vaccine, but most of the discussion a
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Not only that, but if you ever have the option of buying a software license directly from the developer or through the Mac App Store, you usually get much worse terms from the Mac App Store. You'll pay the same price, but instead of ge
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> Workers would rather not move around. I really disagree. These junior engineers you're talking about are mostly in their early 20's (even if they're older and switching from a different career track, they're by defi
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by cactus2093 5y ago
I've done lots of things over the years, sometimes grown sales by millions of dollars, sometimes taken a brand new thing from 0 to 1 and get it out to the first users, and I've experienced the satisfaction of solving a problem for
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Most of this is true of any office job though. Oncall is somewhat unique, and that can be tough, but if it's particularly rough and there is nothing you can do to improve it that's a good sign to find another company (or perhaps a
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by cactus2093 5y ago
> it's such a draining profession I truly can't understand thinking this. I've worked in software engineering for over 10 years now, at a wide range of companies from tiny startups to large tech cos. We easily make 2 - 5x
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by cactus2093 5y ago
Counterpoint - nobody actually cares about traffic fatalities. Nearly 40,000 deaths a year in the US, and the majority of people get in their cars every day without ever thinking about this risk and go about their lives (or to put that anot
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by cactus2093 5y ago
The comment I initially replied to was spreading dangerous, scientifically untrue misinformation: "Vaccinations with current vaccines don't stop infections/spread at all". Snark can be a useful tool to call out BS. I spe

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