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by danvoell 5y ago
I worked at a large OTA (Online Travel Agency) who adopted Affirm a few years back. I vehemently opposed it and told everyone I could up the chain of command. A vast majority of the folks who used it, are the ones who shouldn't use it.
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by danvoell 5y ago
Agree. Robotics get the bad rap because it can physically be pointed at vs. an AI in the cloud. Robots mostly take redundant physical labor whereas software is taking the cush jobs away.
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by danvoell 5y ago
Great Interview, enjoyed this a lot. Interesting to think about different points of supply and the communication systems. I deal with this obfuscation on a daily basis.
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by danvoell 5y ago
"I feel like I’ve struck on a magical treasure from the past" - dang I feel old. Recently got to dig into a MERN stack application. Seemed really easy to build but I still have no idea how the plumbing works. I'm using 5 appl
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by danvoell 5y ago
"what’s stopping a centralized player from duplicating the benefits of that superior solution at a lower cost in a centralized platform?" - This has been my strategy as of late. There are some real cool concepts being built. But o
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by danvoell 5y ago
Great idea. Good Luck!
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by danvoell 5y ago
Very Cool! Going to play around with this. A great way to make quick visual text games with my kids instead of via CLI which can be intimidating.
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by danvoell 5y ago
Never Split the Difference is another good book to read.
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by danvoell 6y ago
Thanks for posting, that was my question when I saw the headline.
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by danvoell 6y ago
"Part of the problem may be that wafer fab people and drug production people don't talk to each other much." - Another part of the problem is probably regulation. Water companies don't want to inadvertently bypass FDA re
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by danvoell 6y ago
Quick Fun! Not a smart guy. All 3 letter words.
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by danvoell 6y ago
Not at all trying to dehumanize anyone. Just don’t think pornography should be ubiqitous on the internet. A simple “adult models” would have been better. I don’t want my 7 year old daughter to search top paid models and end up finding this
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by danvoell 6y ago
“Models”
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by danvoell 6y ago
Also for Amazon, Walmart, CVS, Costco... Disallow white label products. They just learn about products, copy, undercut then crush them due to distribution. Its anti-competition and demotivates new advances.
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by danvoell 6y ago
Disagree. Agree with 100% with OP. Taxes are high, reinvest in your company. Taxes are low, transfer wealth to yourself. As an aside, just to make some peoples blood flow perk up. In 2020, if you have paid any taxes in the last 5 years, you
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by danvoell 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! I hadn't seen any of these before. I still think a search would help and/or sortable context would help. When I went to Angel.co I would either be looking for new (time-based) startups in my area (geography bas
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Ask HN: Where do you find new startups / projects?
3 points by danvoell 6y ago|4 comments
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by danvoell 6y ago
Would it be worse if they didn’t acquire it, but crushed it in the market? Obviously we won’t know.
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Revel moped used in fatal crash(cnn.com)
2 points by danvoell 6y ago|0 comments
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by danvoell 6y ago
Anything AMP related. Travel search (in the event they aren't hurting enough). Agree weather is an improvement.
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by danvoell 6y ago
Nope never heard of it. That is amazing.
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by danvoell 6y ago
Would be interesting to see what would happen if the tax were increased. Would there be a mass transfer before it went into affect? I wonder how the current age categories of wealth accumulation compare with previous generations.
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by danvoell 6y ago
This is awesome. We are big fans of WeDo and First Lego League. We might need to ask Santa to bring this early. For the kids, of course.
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Robot dogs enforce social distancing(bbc.com)
1 points by danvoell 6y ago|0 comments
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by danvoell 7y ago
I can understand the machine part, I also wouldn’t order machines or hire long term employees and would only take steps that help my immediate situation. I would hire temp workers and at a minimum be working 7 days a week. Add a pre-order
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by danvoell 7y ago
Something about this story doesn’t add up. If this were 99% of the manufacturers I know, they would be operating 24/7 right now. Call every available temp agency and load that place up. The only fathomable excuse is if they can’t get e
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by danvoell 7y ago
I think he wrote the book all our dads said we were supposed to read.
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by danvoell 7y ago
Gotcha, I guess my assumption was that they were taking on debt to improve value not buy new furniture :) Joking aside, I wonder how this is different than say late stage investor preferential rights? Debt would seem better to the company s
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by danvoell 7y ago
Can you expound on thoughts and prayers comment? wouldn't debt help equity holders? Or you think any value created by debt is going to be less than the cost of the debt?
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by danvoell 7y ago
No, I think he means he is in it so that he can buy a house with a long hallway. :)

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