jedrek

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by jedrek 9y ago
Unfortunately, there are a lot of events/organizations that organize almost exclusively through Facebook. Unfortunately, there effectively no other free platforms with a critical mass of sign ups big enough to be used in that way.
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by jedrek 9y ago
It only pays for the bills because publishers have said, "sure, put whatever tracking script you want on there, we don't care". And yet they have the power, because they have the eyeballs. Look, nobody runs 30 second commerci
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by jedrek 9y ago
Your nr 2 isn't a real argument. A lot of people drive because it's not _much_ cheaper than taking public transportation. If a monthly pass costs 100€, that's ~70l of gasoline, or 40km of driving 20 days a month in a car that
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by jedrek 9y ago
Every time I visit Berlin I get my ticket checked, like clockwork.
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by jedrek 9y ago
It doesn't make sense because you don't understand how registered addresses and taxes work in the former eastern bloc. It's common for people to move to a large city and officially still be registered as living at home. Somet
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by jedrek 9y ago
> Geographic spread is a major macro factor There's already an amazing nationwide public-private transit network: they're called airplanes. But on the local level it's politicians kowtowing to the people who scream bloody
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by jedrek 9y ago
> there are also many others who rode the wrong ones. My buddy wrote a book on VRML.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Stormfront and Infowars didn't have a link so you went with the_donald?
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by jedrek 9y ago
It's hard to be a hoarder living in a 500sq ft flat.
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by jedrek 9y ago
The winter holidays are, generally speaking, an amazing example of how hard it is to scale for massive, sudden, short upticks in the real (not virtual) world. You see it everywhere in the : services losing jobs because they don't have
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by jedrek 9y ago
> I think proper hormone regulation is far more sustainable than the calorie restrictions necessary to offset out-of-whack hormones. Sure. As long as you have time to work out. Or you don't get hurt. Or you can afford to go to a p
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by jedrek 9y ago
I think you're misreading the function of those slogans. First off, they're hardly "obvious" when you account for the overwhelming FUD around nutrition anybody who's tried to lose weight. And you get it from everybo
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by jedrek 9y ago
Abramov being one of the creators of Redux.
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by jedrek 9y ago
There is explicit marketing and implied (historical, metaphorical, etc) behavior.
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by jedrek 9y ago
I bought a car, when I turn the steering wheel left, the wheels turn right. Damn marketing!!!
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by jedrek 9y ago
While I agree that it's impossible to make predictions, your example is a massive edge case.
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by jedrek 9y ago
> $300M/year in revenue, or enough to afford 1000 $300K/year engineers [or actually more like 1000 $200K/year engineers once you figure in overhead]. I think you're massively underestimating overhead. Each person wh
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by jedrek 9y ago
I think they mean stuff like, "If you want the latest and greatest framework, you won't find it here. We use spaces and not tabs. Our stack is locked down."
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by jedrek 9y ago
Yeah, but the real money is in licensing.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Yeah, cryptocurrencies have their own overvaluation issues.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Price transparency is a lingering issue in American retail, period. How many advertised prices have surcharges, taxes, tips, fees, additions, etc?
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by jedrek 9y ago
> Makes sense for the companies, of course. It seems to select for poor candidates.
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by jedrek 9y ago
I know three people who've already moved this year. Two to Germany and one back to Poland.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Online retailers HATE amazon because they've gotten customers to expect free second day shipping.
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by jedrek 9y ago
The subsidizing happens to find drivers and passengers. When Uber came to my city, it was months before I paid for a ride, and drivers told us all about how they were getting cash bonuses for working high traffic times. No matter how optimi
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by jedrek 9y ago
What this piece misses the obvious financial privilege that many startups have. Uber is slaying yellow/black cabs around the world, but only by massively subsidizing its rides through investment capital. Amazon is the world's larg
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by jedrek 9y ago
Are... are you a bot?
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by jedrek 9y ago
The cultural priority in the 1950s was to not be thin.
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by jedrek 9y ago
We like to think so, but there are swaths of Western European where this is true. Replace the Dodge with a Citroen, the Walmart with Tesco, and the Olive Garden with a pub. Even in the most pro-bike and public transportation nations in Euro
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by jedrek 9y ago
If they're so bad, why did you have 4 or 5 of them?

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