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by habosa 7y ago
I always look for a discussion of "how much money does Uber need to make to cover all the fundraising" and I never see anyone doing that analysis. Instead it's just "they're not profitable" or "they turne
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by habosa 7y ago
I don't get why this is so shocking. The future of the company I work at is not the most important political issue to me. I don't want to have a good job in a bad country. I'll happily vote for Elizabeth Warren and if she do
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by habosa 7y ago
Yes, I'd never vote for Trump.
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by habosa 7y ago
I work at Google and I'll be voting for Elizabeth Warren.
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by habosa 7y ago
Filed, they're gonna fix it: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web.dev/issues/1811
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by habosa 7y ago
Aside: that page loaded crazy fast but is anyone else seeing bad scrolling performance? It's strangely choppy on Chrome using my original Pixel XL in a way that HN and other sites are not.
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by habosa 7y ago
I still don't "get" Peloton but my 90-year old grandpa has been active his whole life and is currently in love with Peloton. He's not one to get interested in any gadgets or fads but since his gym got a few Peloton bike
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by habosa 7y ago
There are people debating a lot of big issues in this thread. I just don't want a facially-tagged database of me doing my shitty drunk dance moves at shows ... is that too much to ask?
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by habosa 7y ago
I really hope they mean it. A few months ago I stopped using Amazon because of this. I knew electronics were bad but once I saw that someone was counterfeiting a raincoat I was going to buy and using Amazon comingling to get away with it,
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by habosa 7y ago
When I saw a HN thread about NYRB I thought "oh they reissued that novel I loved, Stoner". Glad to see I wasn't the only one who was surprised by how much they enjoyed it.
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by habosa 7y ago
> Are we really to believe that the citizens of these countries are 50% less susceptible than Americans to distraction, by their phones or anything else? Given the prevalence of manual cars there, yes I am actually.
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by habosa 7y ago
Well this is the most replies I have ever gotten on HN. I strongly regret discussion my feelings on my own religion on here. If people don't think that breaking "whites" down into Jewish/Non-Jewish and nothing else is s
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by habosa 7y ago
As a Jewish person I feel weird seeing "whites" being broken into Jewish and non-Jewish. What about other religions? Why include religion at all? In particular with respect to Harvard and Boston I'd think Catholicism might
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by habosa 7y ago
When I last published an app it was cross-platform and I was denied for having "sync with the Android version and the Chrome extension" in my listing even though that was one of the main value props for my app.
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by habosa 7y ago
7B and 24B are both effectively infinite money. If I could have the former just for signing my name or the latter but I need to go through an IPO and get slammed in the press every day, I go with the former.
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by habosa 7y ago
This is definitely not-nice behavior but is common. On an iOS App Store listing you can't even say the word Android, etc.
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by habosa 7y ago
Agree. If you limit the allowed use-cases and have strict access and retention policies this could be really helpful. Of course it could be used for dumb shit like giving out jaywalking tickets en-masse. And I'm not sure there's
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by habosa 7y ago
Sometimes I think about theoretically committing a crime. Just running it through in my head. I feel like in every single situation I'd have to pull some seriously Mission Impossible stuff not to get caught on some camera. I realize
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by habosa 7y ago
I went to Australia and spent a day hiking in the blue mountains. I remember thinking that the bird noises were so loud . Not just "huh listen to all the birds" but "it sounds like someone is pumping this in through speake
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by habosa 7y ago
I agree with Bill that divestment is probably less impactful than many people think, and certainly not worth all of the effort people go through protesting trying to get Fund X to divest from Objectionable Investment Y. However I think ther
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by habosa 7y ago
Whenever I tell other people at Google that John Skeet works at Google and is the same level that they are, it triggers immediate impostor syndrome.
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by habosa 7y ago
My girlfriend fell skiing and tore her ACL. We were taken down to the mountainside clinic. They were just gonna do a basic check and give her some Advil and a brace. I asked how much it would cost. They said they were not ALLOWED to tell
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by habosa 7y ago
This is one of my favorite pieces of historical trivia. To put it into perspective: the grandsons alive today can say "My grandfather's president was George Washington".
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by habosa 7y ago
Only been in one, the one on Stanyan street near Waller. Worked fine for me!
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by habosa 7y ago
At many fast food restaurants, especially the less busy one, the person taking drive through orders is multitasking. I've seen people run the front register and the drive through ordering at the same time. It's very impressive, an
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by habosa 7y ago
San Francisco has some self-cleaning public bathrooms that work like that. Locks between each person and cleans the whole thing including the floors. Pretty cool.
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by habosa 7y ago
I don't know the details of this situation and Uber is far from a healthy company, but I don't like that layoffs are always a sign of a company in peril in Silicon Valley. 1) This is a public company with shareholders. If they th
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by habosa 7y ago
Vinyl is one of those old-school technologies that seems like it's from the future. Somehow we turned sound into a disk. You can see and feel the sound and then a tiny needle will reproduce the original sound just by touching the disk.
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by habosa 7y ago
Outsourcing is an interesting concept when considered this way. My employer can hire me in Silicon Valley for $X or a remote engineer from Ukraine for $Y<<$X. Now clearly to the employer this is one big market where they have the cho
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by habosa 7y ago
Reading the comments here is a bit disappointing. There are a lot of legalization advocates seeming to take the position that because weed is mostly fine for most people it's always fine for everyone. It's not. Anyone here who h

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