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by ggg9990 9y ago
If Uber driver conversations were mostly tip-motivated then you would have seen an increase in the frequency of them when Uber introduced tipping a few months ago. I haven't observed that. Something like 80-95% of my drivers have start
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You can usually trade off monthly fees and per-unit costs for SIM cards. You can get one for $50/month that includes unlimited calling or one for $3/month that has high per-minute costs.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Dropbox has never been sold as "pure backup" like Backblaze, and isn't priced like it (I'm a paying customer of both). I'm not paying Dropbox to backup my data, I'm paying them to sync my data across machines,
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Used car dealerships are scummy because 1) the quality of the product is much better known to the seller than to the buyer, and 2) people make few enough purchases that repeat clientele is not that valuable.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Move to California, stop buying prime rib dinners, and stop complaining.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
One place that heuristic fails is for kids technology. Parents will buy almost anything that they think either benefits their kid or makes parenting easier.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I think that the idea that there is a "correct" and "incorrect" side is a cognitive trap. If we try to break free of this trap, even for the things where there seems so clearly to be a correct side, we can better underst
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by ggg9990 9y ago
"The cyclist actively undermined the freely and fairly elected President of the United States and the only person with a credible plan to make America great again. That's a big step beyond supporting a set of traditions that go ba
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If Brendan Eich lost his job for supporting Prop 8, and James Damore lost his job for writing his famous memo, of course a company can fire someone who flips off the President. For better or worse (my opinion is worse), Internet activists h
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You're right that copyright law does not need a special case here. Rather, taxpayer-funded research grants should come with the requirement that all findings will be published open access. If you want to publish in Nature, go get your
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You should launch without it, but with a framework to do it when necessary, i.e. Keep your strings file in one place at a minimum. You may find it necessary sooner than you think. For example, many governments and academic institutions cann
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The limitations on background processing are exactly why I prefer iOS. When something is acting funny, the foreground app is always the culprit, and killing it fixes the problem. I don't want to do any more complicated debugging than t
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Perhaps the chemotherapeutic properties of yew bark were known in some way to the ancients.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It may be personality differences but I went to dinner with a guy's parents and a couple of other friends less than a month after meeting him in the NYC subway.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
This is very normal in most parts of the United States but the South in particular.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
This is an extremely well written post, did you delegate it?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Thank god this isn't one of websites that just says NO in 144pt font.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You guys should become angel investors, not entrepreneurs. It's a good way for people with money but no real penchant for entrepreneurship to get involved in the startup ecosystem.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Why would he say? Zero chance of more customers and nonzero chance of more competitors.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Your post could easily read: "I've got a killer office space in an amazing skyscraper with catered organic sous vide lunches and a yoga room, but I don't have a business idea to put in this office space. Any ideas?" The
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It's a bit rich for the US to be in a huff over Russians buying Facebook ads when 1) US law allows corporations to buy as many ads as they want, because they're "people." Aren't Russians people too? 2) The US govern
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I've always upgraded my iPhone only for the camera and I've never regretted that. There are so many photos I have from a long time ago that I wish were higher quality, so I'm always willing to spend $ to make sure that today&
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by ggg9990 9y ago
FaceID is extremely uninteresting but the hardware used for it could be game-changing. A depth camera on 100m devices in the world is pretty novel. I can imagine pretty cool gaming and communications apps that project a user's face int
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It's certainly the highest profile and perhaps worst case in recent memory but not by a country mile. Jorn Nielsen murdered a rival gangster and was paroled, killed another guy and was paroled again. The country seems intent on protect
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I mean, the facts I offer are accurate. In modern times not a single person has served life without parole. It could happen, but it would be entirely new, so I couldn't predict either for or against its likelihood.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Murder in Denmark is never a life-in-prison sort of scenario. The average served sentence for a "life term" is 16 years and in modern times only one murderer has served much more than 16 years. That guy, Palle Sorensen, murdered f
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It's Denmark, so perhaps all of the aggravated factors will get him a 10 year sentence.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Can you post a link to those spy glasses you mention?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Japan is such an outlier in so many things, especially things involving care and precision, that I don't think it's reasonable to assume that things elsewhere can be similar. 6-year-olds take the subway alone in Japan, and it woul

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