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'Everybody Is Freaking Out': CA law aimed at Uber might harm freelance writers(hollywoodreporter.com)
13 points by firasd 7y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 7y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like the fifth column here is an example of their method in action based on finding keywords for the combination of papers listed above the columns: https://i.imgur.com/FQ6sznp.pn
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by firasd 7y ago
It's because -- especially since the iPhone, but even before (cf. Sidekick) -- the phone is a consumer fashion item as much as a tool. So it's the same as people talking about whether a pattern in a dress is hand-stitched or machi
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by firasd 7y ago
I think the word 'subsidy' is kinda questionable here. (This writer's previous article used the same word to discover many companies[1]) If a company is not losing money on gross margins--if they are losing money in total &#x
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by firasd 7y ago
I was getting insecure that my side-projects/hoped-for-businesses are things like a social news app and a podcast discovery app while Uber, SpaceX etc are changing the world but now that the software-is-eating-the-world companies are g
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by firasd 7y ago
Well 'bubble' is not defined by whether the industry's products are valuable (or we would never have a 'housing bubble')—I would base it on whether investors were putting too much money into a type of business. Ther
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by firasd 7y ago
I think all the 'Uber-for-X'/food delivery apps that popped up circa 2015 and went under a couple years later were actually the pets.com equivalents. That bubble popped and people didn't think much about it, because Face
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by firasd 7y ago
I don't think his philosophy is irrelevant in the era of cloud computing. For example, 'The Right to Read' is an allegory about textbooks, but I realized that the fact that my old laptop can run Netflix (since the PC & br
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by firasd 7y ago
Zapier is already one of YC's top 100 companies. Form builder apps tap into that same growing 'no code' movement.
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by firasd 7y ago
I'm not sure what welfare payouts you're referring to; the Indian state mostly assists via subsidies rather than cash. Lately they have moved to direct benefits transfer (ie a payment into a bank account) for the cooking gas subsi
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by firasd 7y ago
My favorite commentary from him is on 'Frankenstein' which is not a difficult read. In fact he wrote about several 20th century books like 'Catch-22' and 'Death of a Salesman'. But yes I don't think he ana
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by firasd 7y ago
As far as prominent products, besides WordPress, Facebook, and Wikipedia, Slack and Mailchimp are (were?) also PHP. (I googled and apparently a prominent '-hub' site uses it too.) The PHP hate never made sense to me in the context
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by firasd 7y ago
I saw an NYT piece about profits mattering again in Silicon Valley: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/technology/silicon-valley... I don't quite agree that this is actually what the issue is lately
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by firasd 7y ago
Her question that starts the post is about doing it in a single query (no subqueries.) I kinda had this misunderstanding on Twitter too when responding to an earlier diagram of hers https://twitter.com/firasd/status&#x2
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by firasd 7y ago
Why do you feel they need to either be a top 10 YC company or they should just be a foundation? Seems like if they can make a few hundred million an year they can just be an ongoing business. “Just a CRUD app” is not a good analysis because
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by firasd 7y ago
The fact that they offer a paid service is also their weakness in potential valuation, since they have significant marginal costs unlike Reddit. (Stripe is a bit different but I’m referring to Doordash etc.)
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by firasd 7y ago
Yeah this is definitely something to think about.
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by firasd 7y ago
Seems like the Mac-based designers were a bit too fixated on the issue of scrollbar appearance and this tech team had to figure out a workaround. Speaking of web scrollbars: One of the many reasons I hate modal dialogs ('lightboxes&#x2
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by firasd 7y ago
I've been thinking about to what extent I support regulation of tech companies. Usually I side with software companies against governments (especially in cases like protecting encryption, etc.) But there are some battles where it doesn
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by firasd 7y ago
Someone was telling me that here in India authorities clone SIM cards to eavesdrop on WhatsApp conversations. I don't know if that's accurate, but it's becoming clear that SIMs in general are a vulnerable form of ID. I'v
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by firasd 7y ago
Interesting news. This is another reason the 'you are only gluten intolerant if a doctor has diagnosed you with Celiac...!' argument is not sound. If cutting out something from someone's diet is beneficial to them, the causat
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by firasd 7y ago
Thanks for the info. Yeah growth is definitely slowing down, quarter after quarter.
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by firasd 7y ago
Lately the pro-Modi govt response to economic criticism from people from the previous UPA government -- besides claims about corruption -- has been to point out higher inflation in the previous era. Here, the former Prime Minister says: &gt
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Manmohan Singh on the economy: “India cannot afford to continue down this path.”(medium.com)
33 points by firasd 7y ago|5 comments
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by firasd 7y ago
Fair enough. The state of healthcare in that area for that demographic in general is to blame (not to mention specific neglect in this case.) But I think the fact that the first, front-line refusal was based on Aadhaar is relevant...
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by firasd 7y ago
A couple weeks ago, a friend going through tough times asked if I’ve ever been really down in life, and how I dealt with it. I responded that in a pragmatic sense what has helped me most is staying in the present instead of worrying about t
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by firasd 7y ago
In a previous HN discussion about 1.5 years ago[1], someone justified Aadhaar with a 'meta question': "how is a nation state supposed to provide unique identity authentication". I think about that sometimes, because the
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Indian child dies of rabies; denied vaccine due of lack of biometric Aadhaar ID(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
16 points by firasd 7y ago|3 comments
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Regrets of the Creator of the Retweet(buzzfeednews.com)
2 points by firasd 7y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 7y ago
Right. Tesla short-sellers and media critics say all their doings are virtuous and normal actions in the context of stock markets, but I think the intensity of the feeding-frenzy makes it all a bit weird. For example, let's say I think

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