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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Oh no, where will I possibly find weird racist xenophobic takes if not during my taxi ride? It's too bad there's not a million social media sites where I could be exposed to them
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
You're looking for "Idaho stop"
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Subway fares disproportionately penalize the poor and force them into encounters with police. Transit should be free.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
SF startups seem like a fucking nightmare. I live in a second-tier city and there's lots of six-figure, 9-5 software dev roles that are nowhere near as competitive. Consider relocating somewhere with a lower CoL and more sane culture?
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
There's a few levels going on here: - technologists and startup wannabes feeling like HN is "underground" because of the stripped down aesthetic and weird tech stack - out of touch VCs who are successful because of money and
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
If the US had stronger regulation of airlines they would require compensation in these circumstances. In the EU you would be covered. Flying in the US is a hellscape now thanks to deregulation and union-busting.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
> delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control. AFAIK if it's one booking on the same airline or a codeshare they are required to rebook you. If you planned a &quo
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
I think it's a "fuck around and find out" situation like Brexit. People love to stomp their feet and complain, but when some big interest group actually organizes the vote and it happens they'll be caught unawares. Peopl
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
"AI tend to be brittle and optimized for specific tasks, so we made a new specific task and then someone optimized for it" isn't some kind of gotcha. Once ARC puzzles became a benchmark they ceased to be meaningful WRT "
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
BNPL seems primarily like a regulatory arbitrage because of increasing scrutiny of payday loans and limits on credit card interest rates. Do we really think securitization of burrito loans is unlocking new liquidity in the market that Visa
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
I organized some grassroots hackathon events 10+ years ago. Turnout was mostly students and die-hard geeks who wanted something to do on the weekend. Even in this small pond we had a local startup sponsor and try to shoe-horn their service
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Dave needs all the money he can get, he has two families to feed!
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Weed doesn't hit for me, but it's so easy to buy good mushrooms near me. It's like a nice weekend vacation to just walk around my neighborhood (or better, go to a cottage and trip in nature).
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
I find some startup leaders really struggle with this if they come from a Big Corp environment. If you're a CTO or VP or Director of Engineering for like 20 people, you're actually going to have to decide things. Yes at your previ
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
It's an incredibly dangerous job, both in terms of chronic health and acute risk.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Have you been to a bank branch recently? There is almost no staff, and to get help you have to call an offshored call center.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
2019 public-facing Tobi is probably the least insane version. He has gotten worse and more egocentric (and more explicitly right-wing) since then. Early (pre IPO) Shopify had a pretty toxic internal culture with a lot of drinking and sexual
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
There's a kind of survivorship bias to people saying "he's very smart". I was in a neglected part of the engineering org far away from his micromanaging. If he had been showing up and complaining about my projects I woul
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
To be clear this is a pretty modern company, not 10 years ago. CI/CD absolutely was a common best practice.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Having worked at Shopify, Tobi is 100% a try-hard Elon wannabe. Anil is correct that this is about performing "being a CEO" for the sake of his image among his peers. My favorite stupid Shopify cult thing is the hiring page having
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
I worked on a product where there was basically no automated testing, just a huge product surface to click around with a bunch of options. Because of technical debt some of the options would trigger different code paths, but it was up to th
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Aren't there issues with states randomly revoking registration for imported kei vehicles because of emissions/safety/whatever?
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
This article is missing at least the Mitsubishi Mirage - the 2024 model year still seems to be available for 17k in the base trim?
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
I use a 2018 Subaru Forester to move stuff like this, with the seats folded flat the cargo space is decent. You can add some cargo boxes on the back trailer hitch as well. The dream is a Pacifica minivan - they make a hybrid version.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Contrary to people's expectations, it's not actually possible for "number go up" to continue forever. Privileged people have extracted value from marginalized people, the global south, the environment, and increasingly j
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
I've never actually worked in an org where infra could overrule product in such a way. If some director wants a whizbang new database your job is to facilitate the resulting tire fire.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Who do you hold accountable when all the product teams are choosing their own tech stack and there's no consistency?
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
When I was cleaning my dishwasher I realized there are two ways to configure it: with a in-sink garbage disposal, and without. If you don't have the garbage disposal part hooked up there is simply nowhere for the chunks to go and they
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
My only use of FB is as a glorified forum for community groups that haven't moved to Slack/Discord/whatever else. Visiting the actual FB UI feels like another planet, it's all weird spam content.
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by hbsbsbsndk 1y ago
Incredibly prescient. This quote from 2011 really sums it up: > The original promise of the Californian Ideology, was that the computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, i

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