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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> (b) my bikes would get stolen This is why I don't ride a bike in Philadelphia. I don't know anyone here who rides a bike and hasn't had it stolen at least once. The only way to guarantee your bike isn't stolen is
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> it really did feel like it went on forever. It does go on forever. The only difference is that the "opt out" option is unlocked after high school, but opting out has consequences. Even if we don't want to admit it, there
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
"I was too busy studying to be popular!" > Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Just like all those quarterbacks who were too busy with football practice to waste any time honing their social skill
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
I think most SMBs don't even know where to begin. They don't know how to identify things that may already have software solutions available, nor would they know how to implement those solutions even if they were aware of them. And
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
What are the best resources for someone who wants to move from .NET desktop development to .NET web development? All the popular sites like Udacity and FreeCodeBootcamp rarely (if ever) touch the MS stack. I know this isn't exactly the
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> 3ghz core i7 I hope Apple hasn't succeeded in reducing processor comparisons to these two useless tidbits of information... Based on just "3GHz core i7", a chip could either be painfully out of date or current top of the
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Are you guys actually getting enough sales to live off that business? Your site is on the 2nd page of Google results even when I type the exact address in, your Instagram was last active 13 weeks ago, and your Facebook page only has 50 like
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Don't be ridiculous. It's misleading to not warn people that you have exceptionally long shipping times, far beyond any standard and several times longer than what 96% of customers expect (5-7 days). If you ordered a cheeseburger
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
"Standard" shipping in the U.S. is considered 5-7 days, especially for small items. 10 days is generous. 20 days is certainly pushing the limits of what customers will tolerate without advanced notice. Many people would probably b
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Wow, I made it up to the payment portion of your checkout process. Not a single mention of the shipping time. The button says "Complete Order" so I assume this is the last chance to notify people before they pay. That's shady
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
I don't think I've seen anything less than 7-12 days, and that's only if the seller has a U.S. warehouse. AliExpress is definitely not the place for fast shipping. Most sellers on there only have China warehouses, and the fre
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
How do you deal with the insane delivery times? Do you tell customers up front that it might be weeks until they receive the product? Most sellers I've seen on AliExpress estimate 15-30+ days for delivery. In the age of ubiquitous 1 an
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Have you ever heard of a little thing called traffic? Or something called a "speed limit"? Can't believe this is the top comment on HN. Reddit? Sure, but I expect better here...
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Are you in a somewhat remote area and/or far from the nearest Amazon fulfillment center? I guess I'm lucky to live in a city near a couple of their warehouses, the 2-day shipping has always been reliable for us. And we often have
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
True, I'm sure third-party sellers have been extremely profitable for Amazon, but they've also destroyed its reputation by selling inferior (or fake) products with fake 5-star reviews. They basically rendered the review system wor
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Hawaii should be glad they're gone, sugar farms are destroying Florida. They fill lake Okeechobee with pollution, and then that pollution has to be drained periodically, destroying everything in its path and rendering beaches unusable
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Nobody said picking out healthy foods is hard. Anyone can point to some fruits, vegetables, rice, and boneless/skinless chicken breasts and say "those are healthy". But this isn't about that. This is about comparing the
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Yup, and it's no surprise that we've resorted to interpreting price as a signal of healthiness/quality. What's the alternative? To spend your entire life researching which nutrients justify a higher price and which are j
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> his boss/roommate mentioned this particular application to me several times over several months. . . it came up repeatedly in casual conversations and after leaving SpaceX he seemed to genuinely believe he had a shot of selling t
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Edit: Turns out the headline is completely made up. This was in the comment section: > So was “Sciview” actually some sort of analytics app for Silk Road, with the “sensors” representing some other Silk Road metrics? Or was BB truly free
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> Is it such a bad thing for society if a business fails when transparency is added to how they conduct their business? Transparency has nothing to do with it. Amazon has a history of shutting down Fulfillment By Amazon seller accounts i
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood o
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
America's obsession with individualism also has a much darker side-effect: > Between 1998 and 2013, Case and Deaton argue, white Americans across multiple age groups experienced large spikes in suicide and fatalities related to alco
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
All good points. The voting system just isn't conducive to balanced discussion. It's a perfect recipe for group-think, especially when overseen by self-selecting moderators. And to make matters worse, many subreddits rate-limit yo
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> it's the front page of the Internet, not my front page It's your front page, but the method of filtering is a little different. It's gradually turned into an echo chamber filled with like-minded people, and everyone else
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Yes, blame the victims for working to support their families. That will surely be productive... Amazon does have a seller support line. So what do you want people to do? Google "Selling on Amazon sucks" and then base their life on
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
I'm guessing he meant to link to this one about paid promotions leading to mostly fake likes and views from click farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag > When I paid to promote my page I gained 80,000 f
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Reminds me of Glenn Greenwald's article on the subject: > The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
The plural of anecdote is not "evidence". 4 billion people still lack internet access, and this would drastically increase speeds even for those who already have access to broadband. Besides, what's with the desperate attempt
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
That reminds me, did they ever address the Click Farm problem that was essentially rendering likes and views worthless for many advertisers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag Or the rampant Freebooting? https:&#x

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