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by dmode 6y ago
Because I am not some selfish asshole that will put the lives of vulnerable people at risk to exercise some imagined muh rights that are supposedly being violated
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by dmode 6y ago
Hmmm, I have been a ardent Tesla supporter for many years and actually own 2 teslas (my post history would confirm that), but alas starting today I am done with Tesla and Elon. I have given him a pass for - Promising autopilot in 15 days (a
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by dmode 6y ago
Netflix always felt an outlier in the FAANG acronym, as rest of the group consists of $1tn companies
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by dmode 6y ago
Interesting essay, but more of a feel good elite speak that anything else. Feels like he skips over the main part on why "building" anything is difficult. That is because we have worshipped at the altars of capitalism for so long
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by dmode 6y ago
You can view that as a negative. But you can also interpret this as a positive development, where people at grassroots are empowered to protect their own communities, and cannot be simply swept over.
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by dmode 6y ago
The high speed rail is nothing to do with bureaucrats (not sure what the term means anymore), but is delayed due the really difficult task of land acquisition, while maintaining property rights, and address thousands of lawsuits about commu
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by dmode 6y ago
Are there any studies that prove that asymptomatic people are less contagious ?
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by dmode 6y ago
CA and WA had the earliest cases of COVID,I believe in Jan or early Feb. If this ripped in Feb, why did we not see similar hospitalizations and death rates in CA and WA compared to NY,Italy, Spain, etc ?
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by dmode 7y ago
I don't really understand your comment. This is more of a "vision" doc that sets a framework and principles on what the plan will look like. The next iteration will be a more detailed plan. It is fairly typical of tech produc
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by dmode 7y ago
I always wondered about this. For COVID, the recommendation is that you have to be symptom free for 14 days before you are considered not contagious. Adding another 7-10 days of actual disease, you will be asking people to take 21-24 days o
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by dmode 7y ago
I don’t get why this question gets repeatedly upvoted in HN. I just responded to a similar question on Airbnb in another post. Do people not work for large corporations here ? Yelp’s business model is to sell ads to local businesses. And ad
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by dmode 7y ago
Hotels.com is part of Expedia group. Expedia has 25k employees. Millisecond improvement is needed because travel is commodity and bounce rate is very high. If website doesn't load in time, visitors bounce off to other providers
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by dmode 7y ago
We have already seen 13k deaths in 2 weeks, with unprecedented lockdowns. According to president genius we should have been at zero cases and shouldn't be shutting down the economy. If we treated this like a regular flu, I won't b
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by dmode 7y ago
I bet these are not majority employees, but contract photographers or even Airbnb hosts
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by dmode 7y ago
I always read this comment and and amazed how people here underestimate the complexity of running a large business with global reach and billions of dollars in transactions. Airbnb is in >100 countries and uses home grown payment system.
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by dmode 7y ago
What travel ban ? 400k people traveled from China after the ban. Trump said as of 2 weeks back that everything will be open by Easter. Everyday he downplays the virus and peddle misinformation. How anyone can define a completely unhinged an
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by dmode 7y ago
Completely disagree. The Fox news and related contingent and their response was drastically different than the other side. For example, SF declared an emergency in February and everyone was working from home since early March. While Florida
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by dmode 7y ago
After 3 weeks of remote work, I am sick and tired of it and cannot wait to get back to office. This constant need to dial in to zoom for every single meeting gets tiring. Even for short 1:1s, which I would have accomplished over a cup of co
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by dmode 7y ago
Must we be always skeptical? Openly announcing sets a standard that forces hands of other companies
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by dmode 7y ago
This is an extraordinarily bold step and I agree in theory. But the risk is extremely high and I am curious what the downsides will look like for an approach like this
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by dmode 7y ago
Did they move fast and growth hack ? There is an absolute culture in the valley now of showing quarterly results and ship something and inevitable trade-off is eng excellence. This culture needs to change dramatically
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by dmode 7y ago
Soccer is a great example. Searching "Chelsea" in Google vs DDG demonstrates the differences between the two.
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by dmode 7y ago
We regularly bid for our own keyword and it is super competitive as competitors are always trying to buy our company name. It is awkward when you type "My company", and the first page is all competitor ads
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by dmode 7y ago
I just went through extensive home remodeling. This is a big industry and there are a lot of opportunities to improve it by software. It was impossible for me to get a good visualization of what the end state of my home would look like. I n
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by dmode 7y ago
The big problem is pricing. Uber sets the price, while handyman quotes their own price
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by dmode 7y ago
So after 20 years of waging war with the Taliban and spending trillions of dollars, we sign a peace deal ? At the same time, we always seem to be eager to cut food stamps, refugee support, healthcare.
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by dmode 7y ago
This is a refreshingly candid interview with black and white responses instead of hedging. His point about Iran is weird, as Iran has decided not to engage in direct war but rather fight through proxies. One thing I do agree that if there i
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by dmode 7y ago
The complaint from the left has always been that Twitter protects extreme right wing view points even when they violate their terms of service
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by dmode 7y ago
This should be illegal for CA subscribers, but I still don't see the option to cancel. How do I raise this with regulators ?
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by dmode 7y ago
You are correct. They have no idea how to use LinkedIn. If you literally type Google in the job field for Boulder, it shows 1600 jobs, includes jobs from companies with the keyword Google in the JD. Actual jobs from Google is 42

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