jacktribe

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by jacktribe 4y ago
Will do. If anyone is in the LA area and wants to check it out, it's Awakening Coffee in Inglewood. I'm there most days since we've just opened and there are many things to be sorted out. Come say hi.
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by jacktribe 4y ago
From what I've observed, a tiny fraction have left because of the no-cash policy, probably under 1%. We were expecting 5% to 10% in the first weeks, since customers that walked in for the very first time wouldn't have known of the
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by jacktribe 4y ago
Cash will tie up an additional employee behind the counter. One of the reasons we are able to not accept tips and pay fair wages instead, is because we don't need a person at the register. And while you can use that person for other ta
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by jacktribe 4y ago
Taxes are included. We might do the QR for customers that did not order using the app on their phone. We're printing stickers anyway, using the Star Micronics SDK which makes QR code printing a breeze.
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by jacktribe 4y ago
I've just opened a coffee shop in Los Angeles last month, and we don't take tips. We only use self-ordering iPads (I've custom coded an iOS app w/ Stripe Terminal for it), and we don't accept cash either. We've
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by jacktribe 4y ago
In theory it sounds like a reasonable explanation, but Helium is underperforming so much, that I doubt anyone would make the investment at this point.
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by jacktribe 4y ago
ChatGPT summarized: "Something something Twitter bad."
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by jacktribe 4y ago
You may feel differently in a couple of years, and if you do, consider a business with tangible goods or in-person services, where you see immediate results. It's unlikely it will have the growth of a tech startup, but you will get som
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Chicago town tacks on “amusement tax” for streaming services(nbcchicago.com)
3 points by jacktribe 4y ago|1 comments
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by jacktribe 4y ago
I've been trying to understand CCP's reasoning for these draconian measures. Even if you haven't seen the Twitter videos showing bags of live cats and dogs being being beaten to death with sticks, the children separated from
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by jacktribe 5y ago
You have to respect Ukraine's hustle. It's the startup "fight to survive another day" playbook.
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by jacktribe 5y ago
The morality of any military action, can and has been endlessly debated (as it should) because it's non-binary, it's a spectrum. That does not change the fact that these two superpowers could not be further apart in how they go ab
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by jacktribe 5y ago
We know it's unsafe, we see the videos of peaceful protestors getting arrested. We knew all of this before the current conflict. And I completely agree with you that we are privileged to have these freedoms. The ugly reality is that re
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by jacktribe 5y ago
We do know that your ballot there doesn't count. The "vote" is the populace going in red square despite all the odds stacked against them.
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by jacktribe 5y ago
When the day comes when US tanks cross over into Canada to annex it under a false pretext, running over passenger vehicles; when the US tells its soldiers they are going on a military exercise only to have them shoot at their neighbor; when
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by jacktribe 5y ago
There's certainly a possibility that change will not happen, but this is the best chance we have without escalating it to a world war. Sanctions on elites have not caused regime change in other authoritarian regimes, we have even less
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by jacktribe 5y ago
You highlight the difference well between a democracy and an authoritarian regime. However the suggestion you make at the end, that we should only sanction Putin & co., is exactly the type of measure that would work in a democratic regi
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by jacktribe 5y ago
Perhaps the issue with your line of thinking is here: > This action hurts your own team and not the opposing one. The majority of us in the west don't regard this as team west vs. team Russia. We regard it as democracy vs. Putin. Se
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by jacktribe 5y ago
> it is another thing entirely to celebrate businesses acting in ways to inflict the most suffering possible on the people least able to handle such abuse No one is celebrating, I assure you. The crumbling economy, all of the restriction
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by jacktribe 5y ago
Yes, they do have to pay a higher price, because the problem stems from there and they now have a small window opportunity for a regime change. They are at a point where they can reach critical mass. If we don't push enough this can be
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by jacktribe 5y ago
The point is that this has to happen for change to occur from within. Change of regime from outside with be far more disastrous to the Russian people.
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by jacktribe 5y ago
You're missing the point. It's supposed to inconvenience the Russian people. You can't have it both -- benefit from western companies and technology, but keep a leader in power that is completely indifferent to any human life
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by jacktribe 5y ago
I am completely in support of this. Hopefully the Russian people understand that these types of measures are not taken because we are trying to exact revenge on them as a people. This is our way to motivate you, to encourage you to go out i
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by jacktribe 5y ago
Yes, it's all very unfortunate that you have some additional work to do. In all seriousness, you need to take a step back and realize that this is a minimal price that we all have to pay, that includes those of us in the western world,