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by eeixlk 2y ago
Netflix streaming was originally a free perk of being a dvd subscriber, because the hosting service was so much more efficient than the cost of mailing a physical object to your house and back. Now many ISPs have dedicated netflix storage
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by eeixlk 2y ago
Understanding texas - it's not political, they just worship money. So if you can make money making solar / wind farms nobody will stop you, and that's why texas has a ton of solar / wind farms. If you can make money ru
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by eeixlk 2y ago
Heroku was revolutionary, but was bought out (salesforce) and stagnated while retaining their 4x cost. More than a few of the addons i've used on heroku have shut down, and you still have to upgrade your app to the new heroku stack re
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by eeixlk 2y ago
Great read! Design it exactly Twice. If you cant afford that design it once. Twice will also not be enough. Attempt to approach a local maximum because all design has competing values. Design for yourself, or someone you like more, or a
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by eeixlk 3y ago
Couchsurfing was an experience in radical hospitality. There was always the notion that a host / guest could be a terrible person, but there was also a review system aimed to weed out the worst. It was never as transactional as you g
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by eeixlk 3y ago
That is on webkit engine so would be similar to iOS Safari.
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by eeixlk 3y ago
There is no billing / login / ecosystem convenience advantage to using google for any service, because once that service is killed off it is no longer convenient. They decided not to end service and allow you to migrate to your pr
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by eeixlk 3y ago
How is this valid criticism? This is an excellent use of a scripting language.
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by eeixlk 4y ago
I also have stopped buying eggs, but everything you said is correct. Maybe they are still underpriced? I wonder how high the price will go before the average American will buy fewer of them.
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by eeixlk 4y ago
Aldi has a radically different shopping experience than most traditional grocery stores, mostly by having smaller stores that offer a complete set of private label items affordably priced, and a weekly or seasonal rotation of variety and pr
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by eeixlk 4y ago
I feel like Ruby usage slowed after all of the innovations from the rails era - convention over configuration/erb/haml/slim/activerecord/coffeescript/sass became mainstream and were adopted into all the various
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by eeixlk 4y ago
Do you feel the same way about private highways? All infrastructure is subsidized to hopefully benefit the economy. Obviously no private company would want an unprofitable long distance highway. These arguments mostly just show we have d
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by eeixlk 4y ago
Or we could embrace something that is new and uncomfortable and see if it brings us joy because we can own it and tweak it or if it ends up being bad because it requires maintenance and oversight and energy. It's not like there are to
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by eeixlk 5y ago
Amtrak tickets are sold in buckets and don't price fluctuate much. If you are booking in advance more than 14 days and Saver tickets are available those are the best deal. I have also bought train tickets a few days out and they were
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by eeixlk 6y ago
I saw an ad for a facebook tv show on the subway once and was surprised because i've never heard anyone talk about them anywhere. Looks like "Facebook Watch" came out in 2017.
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by eeixlk 6y ago
Interesting to see the internal debate, even if i totally disagree with what they decided on. Has anyone ever tried to run a company will full transparency?