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by habosa 3y ago
You're mostly correct but I should point out one thing that credit cards do that debit cards don't really do in America: fraud protection. Credit card companies spend a lot of money protecting their customers from card number thef
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by habosa 3y ago
If you think this is cool check out Orca, which I'd describe as a visual musical programming language: https://100r.co/site/orca.html Spent a week playing with it last summer and it was a blast.
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by habosa 3y ago
> SEO hacking content farms dominating search results It seems like LLMs are destroying traditional search engines (Google) much faster than they are enabling new ones (Bing + GPT). Are we going to enter a dark age of search where the si
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by habosa 3y ago
A Herman Miller chair (the Mirra). Cost me $400 from an office supply liquidator, or you could spend about $1000 brand new. It’s the only way I can be truly comfortable at a desk for 7-10 hours a day.
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by habosa 3y ago
From what I’ve seen with friends who work at Discord: yes they do.
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by habosa 3y ago
I am not going to defend Zoom's RTO plan because I do truly believe that most people who work on computers can work remotely (I do, and I enjoy it). However ... this feels correct. This is basically the same as saying that Zoom is a me
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by habosa 3y ago
The technology is pretty amazing, but does anyone else feel like we (the public) got duped? What I wanted was for my own car to drive itself so I could relax and make better use of car time. I also wanted some new novel ways of interacting
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by habosa 3y ago
Just finished that book last night. Highly recommend, its incredibly original.
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by habosa 3y ago
Not the point if your post but it's amazing how influential the Fireship team is! A true developer influencer, without being a cult of personality.
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by habosa 3y ago
The share to the driver is so small I can’t believe they get away with it (Lyft too). In SF I often see drivers accepting their next fare while I’m in the backseat. A ride that will cost me $15 might get them $6. I know Uber’s part here is
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by habosa 3y ago
Yes! I have this one on my desk and use it very often: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L68RQCX/ref=pe_27063361_48562... It is cheap, never needs batteries, and I find it much easier to use than my computer or my ph
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by habosa 3y ago
Seems like Uber Eats really did save the company. Not with the original plan (leveraging idle capacity in the existing driver network) but instead by just discovering that urban customers are willing to be insane premiums (50%ish) to get fo
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by habosa 3y ago
Fidelity and Vanguard charitable are two of the biggest DAF providers. Daffy is not nearly as well established but I like the UX. Honestly I just use it because donating to most charities via bank transfer is a massive pain and Daffy makes
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by habosa 3y ago
If you live in the US and like to donate to charity you can have your own private foundation and you don’t have to be a jerk about it! It can be a convenient way for you to do good in the world. It’s called a Donor Advised Fund and you can
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by habosa 3y ago
There are tons of Senior engineers from Google and Facebook (and other large companies) with only 5ish yeahs of experience.
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by habosa 3y ago
I’m not the biggest Slack fan … but does anyone else think Slack is massively underpriced? For most companies I know it’s the central communication hub and often the integration point for dozens of other tools. Yet it’s one of the cheapest
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by habosa 3y ago
The US is the best place in the world to accumulate wealth. Unfortunately that does not make it the best place to live.
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by habosa 3y ago
This truck seems to have most of the desirable Kei truck qualities (besides price) but it’s an EV with modern features. https://www.telotrucks.com/
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by habosa 3y ago
Driving in the US is such a nightmare because everyone seems to think it’s their own video game and where they are the main character avoiding cops and NPCs.
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by habosa 3y ago
I’d really prefer not to kill anybody else I’m sharing the road with, all else equal. It would be quite traumatic for that persons family and for me too.
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by habosa 3y ago
Reading this as a problem with code review is just wrong. The problem is that a company let its processes, which are made up internal barriers, get in the way of its principles. Every process needs an escape hatch. Changing something which
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by habosa 3y ago
Would be cool if bounties could have an expiration date. I’ll pay $100 if issue X is fixed by date Y. Probably more reflective of business value too, since if an issue isn’t fixed relatively quickly I’ll have to build my own workaround.
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by habosa 3y ago
The parties involved: - Drivers: clearly unhappy with their pay at least in NYC and other major markets. - Restaurants: have been quite vocal about how they are in a lose-lose situation because they can’t afford to not participate but also
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by habosa 3y ago
To be clear before I say anything: I think the entire food delivery app business model is bad for all parties involved and that these companies are bad actors. But … I don’t think the cities are properly accounting for the ease of using mul
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by habosa 3y ago
Nice site! I agree, this information is generally pretty hard to find. I hate that dividends have such disadvantageous tax treatment in America because I think dividends are the healthiest relationship between companies and investors. They
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by habosa 3y ago
I’d love to move off of Goodreads but their export function is pitiful, to the point that I’d say it’s deliberately hobbled. All I do is mark books 1-5 stars and record the date I read it. I recently tried to export to StoryGraph and 1&#x2F
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by habosa 3y ago
The really interesting statistic in this article is the dramatic drop in “hours per day spent caring for children” for women while the number for men stayed relatively flat. Interesting for a number of reasons: 1) The numbers for men and wo
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by habosa 3y ago
I work at an unprofitable VC funded startup. We plan to be profitable soon, but so far we haven’t been. We’re not huge and not glamorous. The entire point of taking a VC check is to run your business at a loss while you grow. The idea is to
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by habosa 3y ago
I think our collective minds are warped if we don’t find it odd that a restaurant software company has a 280M research and development budget.
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by habosa 3y ago
When I moved into my new apartment building I had a lot of deliveries so I signed up for FedEx Delivery Manager. I put in my address but did not verify that I lived here in any way. When I loaded my account settings in the “delivery instruc

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