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by dcosson 10y ago
I've had this a few times too. I assume it's a driver trick to drive in the wrong direction so the rider has to cancel, pay the cancellation fee, and you don't even get to rate the driver in that case so it doesn't affec
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by dcosson 10y ago
> tamed through more responsive (agile) dev practices Sure, for a given project, you can make it more or less complex by taking different approaches. But there's some lower bound on essential complexity and when the product itself r
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by dcosson 10y ago
This is a pretty crazy macroeconomic view to take, that you've known some stubborn landlords therefore rents across a city will never come down. Look at the numbers of how many jobs have been created vs housing units created in a place
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by dcosson 10y ago
It seems riskier to employees if that were the case - if you get laid off or tired of one company in one of these small regional centers and there's only say 5 companies total to choose from, chances are you'll have to uproot your
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by dcosson 10y ago
I understand what people are saying, and I'm offering a contrary opinion, that I found the site useful as-is and I'm glad it was posted despite the fact that HN's rules on not allowing links to include any extra context are l
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by dcosson 10y ago
I'm surprised to see so many negative comments. It's a super straightforward UI, you click on stuff to see how your browser treats that ssl (mis)configuration. This is a great resource, thanks for posting.
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by dcosson 10y ago
> for jobs where the service makes a significant difference, a service charge or tips seems reasonable. I'm skeptical of even that. There are lots of jobs with a large range of quality in industries with no tipping, and the market e
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by dcosson 10y ago
Kind of seems like you're trolling here but in case you're serious - it's odd to quote the middle of the docs and then complain that knowing nothing about the space you don't understand a given line. Did you try the firs
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by dcosson 10y ago
I think the point of the comment was as kind of an upper bound. For instance if drivers made 100% (or more) of what the passenger pays, then Uber would be obviously not breaking even. At 65-75% it's feasible that at a certain scale Ube
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by dcosson 10y ago
I also hope this will improve the privacy/permissioning story for gmail add-ons. I believe currently any extension has full access to the page meaning they could read all your emails. For some of them that's obviously required as
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by dcosson 10y ago
It can be particularly annoying to get groceries if you live without a car in certain parts of a city - maybe the nearest full grocery store isn't super close so your options are to walk home 20 minutes with heavy groceries or try to t
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by dcosson 10y ago
That's durability (data loss) not availability. Here's [1] their official SLA. This outage so far brings them to less than 3 nines of uptime this month (43.8 minutes) but still more than 2 nines (7.2 hours) so it sounds like every
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by dcosson 10y ago
I think you're more protected in the browser. On iOS any app can access the clipboard without having to ask for any permission. The encryption scheme on iOS is nice, but for how much of a game they talk about privacy Apple had the oppo
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by dcosson 10y ago
Agree that it's a shame that it doesn't really feel like they're owning up to how bad it was. But I wonder if it will just mostly go away. Luckily for cloudflare this is a pretty random sampling of people around the country a
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by dcosson 10y ago
You could replace a single chunk with your malware. Then it could be any size and the rest of the chunks could be the legit content. I don't know much about video codecs, but this assumes there's some way to break out of the playb
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by dcosson 10y ago
I don't follow point 2, batch processes can definitely take advantage of scaling on demand. You can spin up a huge cluster, only pay for it for an hour while training, and then spin down to just what you need to serve requests for your
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by dcosson 10y ago
I would phrase it as: AWS prioritizes building blocks that support very high throughput and avoid leaky abstractions at all costs, and they're happy to push forward as long as these criteria are met. IMO they really succeed at this goa
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by dcosson 10y ago
Or uses stripe which hides your real card number from the merchant. The annoyance of adding a card is one thing but fear of an app developer getting hacked and exposing your card doesn't strike me as a very strong reason.
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by dcosson 10y ago
There's such a range of olive oils, but I think it's roughly the same price for a similar quality. It's just kind of hard to find. This is the one I buy (it's been prime before, looks like right now it's not) so $0.
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by dcosson 10y ago
Good point on PUFA, that was probably worth making it into my conclusion too. In my home cooking I've started using macadamia nut oil (similar profile to olive oil, it's high in monounsaturated fats) in place of vegetable oil. You
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by dcosson 10y ago
Some important differences, as I understand it: - polyunsaturated fats are the category that includes omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids. Even further, omega 3's can be ALA (from plants) or DHA (e.g. salmon) variety. Omega 3's and in
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by dcosson 10y ago
I just moved to a new, big building in SF that has literally all of these things. This is the new market rate housing that Yimby groups are fighting for in cities, it's being built. At least part of the issue is a chicken and egg type
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by dcosson 10y ago
But to be fair if you enable both you're paying for 3 servers total instead of 2, you can't read from the HA standby. (I'd imagine there are reasons not to do that anyway, but you don't even have the option of making tha
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by dcosson 10y ago
The same old service as before is an ongoing cost for everyone - loans are taken for municipal projects that the city pays back with taxes, pipes break and have to be repaired, if there's a natural disaster outside funds will repair th
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Fixing work culture to support remote work better is likely the key instead of tech and tools. To take it even further, is work culture even broken? It seems to me like there's already quite a lot of remote work (at least in tech)
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by dcosson 10y ago
Agree, it's absurd that housing costs in these cities have been growing many times faster than GDP, wages, you name it for 20-30 years. Now the second that the housing markets soften a bit and we might actually have a chance of catchin
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by dcosson 10y ago
Maybe I did misunderstand. In that case I would think that buying locally raised, organic, grass-fed beef would be a more comparable alternative than wild salmon (Though neither is sustainable enough to replace the current levels of beef co
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by dcosson 10y ago
Source needed. But seriously, antibiotic resistance is a population-wide problem and you personally not eating meat won't protect you against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Not to mention the idea that red meat specifically causes adve
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by dcosson 10y ago
> if cars could actually communicate with each other, rather than have to rely on their own cameras, to determine another vehicles position. I wonder how useful it would actually be though. I don't think you'd want to involve s
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by dcosson 10y ago
This is neat. My biggest complaint with Amazon these days is there's just so much noise on the site. For any given search I expect like half the results not to be serious ones. Even when you filter for just prime, there are tons of edg

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