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by jarek 11y ago
If that was an option, he wouldn't be in YC, half-accidentally or otherwise. Nothing against YC here, but long-term steady-state isn't what they're looking for. Remember that next time you start using a VC-funded tool.
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by jarek 11y ago
How much are you looking to pay for this? How many people are looking for delight in their email client? Do these numbers multiplied add up to a few tens of millions?
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by jarek 11y ago
Do you suppose that an organization that builds a bus station away from a train station and has to connect them with a shuttle will do much better at building reasonable, cost effective infrastructure for self-driving cars?
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by jarek 11y ago
> Start with that and remove 1-person-1-car model [0], add ride-sharing software, ban human drivers [1] and done ... you've got a train (particularly on the Intermediate Capacity Transit System / Copenhagen-like models, automat
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by jarek 11y ago
Yes, there's a big opportunity. But U.S. customer-facing financial companies - especially startups - have been really bad at doing stuff outside the U.S. Witness the darling Square getting its lunch eaten by iZettle and Paypal (!) even
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by jarek 11y ago
> may want nice images and responsive design Responsive design? Have you ever tried implementing an HTML email that will work across different clients? I'd be thrilled if 2005-era floats worked. As it stands, <table>s inside &
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by jarek 11y ago
The second user advantage is a drawback to most banks (they'd rather you carry just their card, rather than be able to switch easily), so that might also be a contributing reason for not signing up for Apple Pay.
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by jarek 11y ago
Yeah, so, like, the same as contactless credit/debit cards, only it can run out of battery
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by jarek 11y ago
Have you ever seen an enterprise software company do badly because its software was an ugly mess and alternatives were cheap or free?
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by jarek 11y ago
> It's funny, we have all these NFC credit card terminals, but Apple Pay still hasn't launched here. I mean, "it can do the same thing your free debit card could two years ago" is kind of a weak marketing pitch, so ma
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by jarek 11y ago
The bridge is a particularly contentious subject since it's funded by tens of millions of pounds of public money. If The City wants an independent bridge, surely it shouldn't be a problem to stump 40 million rather than asking TfL
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by jarek 11y ago
Rather than changing a million regulations that give status to spouses to also include partners, why not just change the definition of a spouse?
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by jarek 11y ago
Strictly speaking, flying kites is not allowed in other London streets as well ("any street, to the obstruction, annoyance, or danger of the residents or passengers", from a 19th century law http://www.legislation.gov.u
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by jarek 11y ago
> What would be a first principles approach to "What should every kid learn" if we were to start from scratch you think? It's a question humans have been asking for centuries, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by jarek 11y ago
> More and more of the web is built on javascript Yes, you should definitely allow arbitrary code to run in a Turing-complete interpreter on your personal computer to read some text in the Economist. This isn't some advanced app or
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by jarek 11y ago
It's also a regulation / regulatory capture issue. The UK has a switching regulation set up so that all you have to do is go into the new bank and tell them your account number at the old bank. All scheduled deposits and withdrawa
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by jarek 11y ago
Yeah but you technically also nullify your protection against fraud if you write your PIN on a sticky note or tell it to your partner. The question is whether a bank will use that as an argument, not whether they can . E.g. Barclays: &qu
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by jarek 11y ago
That's pretty good - thanks. Do you know if there is a way to also have this show score/number of upvotes or number of comments for a story, in addition to the rank?
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by jarek 11y ago
To put some context into that: In the last 10 years, Alberta has had a "1-in-200-year" flood in 2005 ( https://ec.gc.ca/meteo-weather/default.asp?lang=En&n=A4DD5AB... ) followed by a three-times-heavier flo
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by jarek 11y ago
Lower Mainland B.C. had a water shortage; skiing around Vancouver was dreadful early last winter because it was too warm so recreation and tourism impacted; more frequent and severe floods in the Prairies; more summer storms leading to loca
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by jarek 11y ago
I'm still not sure this would be a company suited for YC-expected massive growth, but thank you and respect for expanding on the idea.
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by jarek 11y ago
Definitely possible, though the ratio of upvotes vs flags is interesting nevertheless - opinions must be extremely polarized for that to be the case.
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by jarek 11y ago
How will any company, especially a VC funded company, avoid problems and dilemmas seen by other online-submitted-reviews companies like Yelp that basically turn the company into either a fake review haven or a protection racket?
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by jarek 11y ago
Another fun thing I saw on Amazon a few months back was items for sale with reviews for another product. Shopping for a small FM transmitter, I found a listing where every review more than a few months old was for a roof-mounted car antenna
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by jarek 11y ago
Not that I'm aware of. I made that joke since it's the second submission in a week I saw sunk far below its expected score (the Homejoy debacle was the other, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469134 )
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by jarek 11y ago
Another submission for the flagged files. As of 17:51 GMT, this submission is 3 hours old and has 374 points, 68 comments, sitting in position 11 on the HN front page In position 10 is a submission from 8 hours ago with 100 points and 76 co
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by jarek 11y ago
The car in question was a kei car not sold outside Japan, so "huge and really strange marketing mistake" might be overstating the actual effect a bit. It's not like it would have had Corolla-like sales with a different name.
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by jarek 11y ago
It appears the Mazda was never sold outside Japan and the Kia was only a concept vehicle. Additionally the Buick is now called LaCrosse in Canada. So probably not as impactful as it might seem...
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by jarek 11y ago
I would suggest keeping it simple and scripting wget instead: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Following... Often all that is needed is -r --no-parent
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by jarek 11y ago
In appears this isn't actually the case, it was an Opel Corsa from the start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevy_II_/_Nova#Urba...

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