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by guntars 7y ago
You’re forgetting the cost to develop the software itself. It’s like saying a gigabyte of data on a wireless carrier cost them pennies in electricity and bandwidth.
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by guntars 7y ago
PayPal is a private albeit very large entity and they’re within their rights to ban you for looking funny. If that’s harmful to the society, let society introduce a law that prevents them from doing that, like how there’s a ton of regulatio
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by guntars 7y ago
Rust’s is a tagged union so you can have Result<number,number>, something you can’t have in Typescript.
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by guntars 8y ago
I always thought that the phrase refers to doing a lot of small upside, but high probability of profit trades like selling far out of the money options for pennies. One bad trade is enough to wipe you out including hundreds of successful tr
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by guntars 8y ago
Does a day go by when an article about some version of Google Is Evil doesn’t make it to the top of Hacker News? It’s ruining the site, imo.
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by guntars 8y ago
Chat is great and any company should have a way to quickly contact a person with an arbitrary question. This is more for distracting pop ups, that I’m sure increase conversions, but it’s at the expense of annoying the rest of your visitors.
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by guntars 8y ago
Sharing photos with your family and aquintances has been feasible since the invention of snail mail and photography, yet it wasn’t done at nowhere near this scale. Ultimately people get enough value out of Facebook to use it for a billion h
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by guntars 8y ago
Here's another one - DON'T disable the submit button if the fields are empty since some native password managers like Chrome iOS will render as if they've filled the fields, but only provide the values on the user's firs
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by guntars 8y ago
In the beginning the author of the comment said that a broken model results in a loss of confidence which then prevents us from acting on that model and forces us to figure out a better one. They're saying that's what depression i
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by guntars 8y ago
You talk about meaningful differences, but then lump a search in a database with stop and frisk. Either everyone is allowed to use hyperbole or no one is - you can’t have it both ways.
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by guntars 8y ago
That was probably the main reason why I recently got a Precision instead of an XPS as a daily driver.
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by guntars 8y ago
It says right there on the page "$390B - Money returned to Treasury by bailed-out companies." It's not an outstanding amount.
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by guntars 8y ago
That's fair too, though it's easy to blame all of the recession on the subprime bubble bursting while I think it would have happened anyway, eventually. And I'm advocating for letting banks, funds and investors fail if they l
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by guntars 8y ago
The taxpayers made $96B on those loans [1]. The issue then was that everyone was buying those CDOs because they were AAA rated, things like the pension funds and the banks themselves. I'm saying that if only individual investors are bu
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by guntars 8y ago
The article doesn’t mention who’s buying the debt. As long as it’s private investors using their own money, I don’t see a problem with this.
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by guntars 8y ago
If you create an app that makes some annoying task take half the time, you can potentially save literal lifetimes of frustration for your users. The value created for the founders is a small fraction of the value created for the users.
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by guntars 8y ago
Indeed, what is the purpose of the pharma industry if not making money for the shareholders?
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by guntars 8y ago
Just because everyone and their mother adds a signup flow just to be able to use their web app doesn't mean it has to be done that way. You can add the signup flow after you've already demonstrated the value to the user and when i
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by guntars 8y ago
Are you saying you download more apps than you visit websites? I highly doubt it.
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by guntars 8y ago
For every ad or suggestion that elicits that kind of response, how many are completely unremarkable and immediately forgotten? It’s largely explained by the survivorship bias.
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by guntars 8y ago
It feels like in this instance the reflexive reaction of the developers is what made the passing of the proposal more likely by putting the committee in a psychological position where they're dismissing large amounts of feedback, makin
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by guntars 8y ago
There were hundreds of comments against this, both constructive and otherwise, alas the committee knows better and will do whatever they want.
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by guntars 8y ago
They spacer could even be a spring to add a bit of springiness.. Oh, wait.
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by guntars 8y ago
That’s an interesting viewpoint, in my experience almost 100% of budget overruns and ensuing lack of quality comes from changing requirements or rather truly thinking through the requirements for the first time after the project is about ha
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by guntars 8y ago
Producing a gas vehicle is equivalent to two years of average driving as far as carbon footprint is concerned, according to this one guy on YouTube ( https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM )
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by guntars 8y ago
I don't know, do they? If they do, then your premise is correct and there's enough benefit in negotiating in groups that it's worthwhile. If there aren't, then it's either a) the "economist sees a 20 on the gro
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by guntars 8y ago
If that really is the problem then you, as a freelancer, can hire a company to navigate and negotiate the health care plans for you and other freelancers as a pool and get the same quality and discounts as you would in a large corporation.
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by guntars 8y ago
Glad you brought up porn because I believe that if you optimized any site's features just based on engagement analytics, you'd end up with a porn site with elements of gambling! I'm kidding of course, but the idea is that ana
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by guntars 8y ago
Not if it felt like it.
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by guntars 8y ago
Using analytics to understand what users are thinking is like using tea leaves to divine the future. Just ask them.

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