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by gist 7y ago
Exactly. Fedex sees the writing on the wall and figures it might as well wring the last cent of profit out of the relationship (and who knows what profit was on it with the contract). In other words if they feel that Amazon will cut them o
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> I have been playing with radio controlled aircraft for most of my life RC Helis 60 Size Gas back in the old days. You had to manually control everything. You had to built it from scratch. [1] The ones they have now are so simple and ea
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What is the energy source for that? Solar? Is it therefore possible to have enough solar energy to operate the machinery with enough to pull out and keep on going? And wouldn't you need a tremendous amount of batteries as well? Would s
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> 1) Wait, does DuckDuckGo use Bing’s search index? They do what a company called metacrawler did back in the 90's (and I see still does now) but w/o the privacy angle and whatever other bells and whistles DDG adds. It also cr
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by gist 7y ago
Is it possible to have the extra fee (.4%) only on some transactions or does it have to be applied to the entire account? For example in what we do we have very large transactions where we know the customer very well and we don't need
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by gist 7y ago
Right now this is at the 'good at least it's not mine to fix or worry about' kind of like 'and the reason I choose IBM' [1]. I can just sit back and wait for gmail to work correctly. Now at the point it starts to l
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Ask HN: What do you say to someone whose company was acquihired?
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Unsafe Notes(avc.com)
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by gist 7y ago
Well it also depends on what is considered a 'user'. For example let's say you had 'only' 50,000 users. So you then pack the database with hundreds of millions of fake users. The purpose of the fake users is simply
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The fact that she enjoys it gives me the thought that she does not enjoy what she was actually trained to do or went to school for. Honestly doing deliveries is easy and lazy work sure you walk around the market but I'd be more likely
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No doubt the HN crowd will not like a comment like that that is grounded in personal responsibility and planning. When did taking into account potential bad life occurrences and/or living beyond your means turn into sympathy for peopl
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Oh stop already. There are plenty of situations where people knowingly waste others time. What happens when you walk into a retail shop with ZERO intention of buying something? (And in some cases you actually do?). What happens if you waste
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> and you could more or less tell them "yeah, sure book x chapter y, how about we just talk?" and then everybody had a chuckle and got down to business Well my particular tack is never never never tell someone you know what the
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Well in brief 'stop reading and start doing'. Now think about all the ways you can 'practice' at negotiation. You can start by trying to buy things that you don't even want to buy. Go in and play games with a car de
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> Never Split the Difference is amazing for negotiation. I have done thousands of negotiations (for vastly different things) and have been paid to do so. [1] I have never read a single book on negotiations. I can always tell when someone
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> I don’t think PG is in a good position to understand those constraints and anxieties. And he is somewhat incentivized not to, since YC benefits from having more startups to choose from. But YC does not experience significant downside o
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> that is, you need to have a "safety net" before you can take risks. If one can't even get them fed and not worrying about what the next meal is and where to stay, all bets are off. To take the other side of this (not to
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by gist 7y ago
> but 17 fewer people would die from cancer and heart attacks The other thing to consider is that if '17 people die' there are probably a far larger number of people who don't die but get treated (for cancer) and live but
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> Since the two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 Max, airlines around the world have moved to buy flight simulators to train their pilots. They don’t always work. Boeing recently discovered that the simulators could not accurately replica
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> But after a couple of times, such mistakes graduate from “oops” to negligence. Once again I think when you are dealing with a very large number of transactions there will simply always be screwups. To insure zero defects would raise th
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by gist 7y ago
> Why don't they just put seat numbers and dividers on the bins? Your luggage fits in your bin or it gets checked at $25. a) Bags are different sizes so no way that would be efficient (dividers) b) Not everyone has a bag that needs
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by gist 7y ago
> Let say that I, as an individual, report my car stolen when I’ve actually lent it to someone, and then I do it again, and again, and dozens more times, resulting in false arrests and jail time for law-abiding citizens. Isn't the l
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by gist 7y ago
Also noting that Cloudflare is an internet company for which the competitive landscape and ability to have losses is vastly different than an airline or a beverage manufacturer. There is a reason that old school companies are like that. An
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You feel that way because it does not move the needle for someone to use your own product on such a small scale. Now let's say that same employee was socializing or coming in contact in some way with a decision maker for a potential la
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No the 'general rule' is that in certain situations you do something not to appear to be disrespectful in some way. So for example if you were to work at Ycombinator the 'general rule' would be to try and encourage othe
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> Why does any of this matter, even in the slightest, when talking about "Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone" which is what this post is about. So I need to explain to someone who doesn't think that it matters
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The main idea is law and punishment not just reminders. And the punishment needs to be done in a way that people take notice not slap on the wrist (because in some cases that can and would backfire). If it's important (and it is) it&#
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> If you're poor though, losing that stuff Poor? If you are flying on an airplane you aren't rich but you also probably aren't so poor that your worldly possessions lost are worth another person's life. > Would you
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Article did not breach a few points. First, why is there no law or clear punishment against grabbing your luggage in an emergency or otherwise obstructing the safe exit from the plane? If someone were intentionally obstructing others in thi
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> their kind should be barred from being part of any important deliberative body It is hard for me to not agree with that (at least emotionally) but I would then argue further to also limit the number of attorneys that are legislatures s

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