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by jm4 4mo ago
In a city of about 60k outside a major metro area. Basic suburbs with a large retired population.
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by jm4 4mo ago
I didn't know anything about coffee, but I do have an MBA and held leadership positions before this so I wasn't completely clueless. It took between $150k and $200k to start up. We had to demolish and rebuild an existing retail sp
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by jm4 4mo ago
Yes. Margins are high in coffee. We serve a high quality product that customers feel is priced in the value range and we are at like 70-80% blended gross margin. There are plenty of busy shops at >80%. It takes time to ramp up, but 100 o
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by jm4 4mo ago
Already did it. Own a coffee shop now. I still do some tech work, but it's mostly for my own use.
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by jm4 4mo ago
It's an attention issue. We have these phones with constant dopamine hits. We were getting it a little bit on the web before the rise of smartphones, but it's just out of control now. We have 100 apps constantly vying for our atte
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by jm4 5mo ago
Back when Florida was still a normal state. It’s been crazy here for a while now.
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by jm4 5mo ago
This is performative. This is from the same AG who is suing the NFL over the Rooney Rule.
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by jm4 5mo ago
They probably lose a ton of traffic to AI or anticipate that happening. This is a way to keep people on Google search. Like you, I use both search and AI separately. Even casual, nontechnical users are starting to work like that. Including
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by jm4 5mo ago
It looks like a Polestar. The performance is certainly what you would expect from Ferrari, but it doesn’t matter. This isn’t a car that should have a Ferrari emblem on it. This will go down as one of the all time automotive blunders. I thin
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by jm4 5mo ago
Agreed. Aside from obsolete hardware that was replaced with newer products, there isn’t really anything on this list that I miss except for HyperCard. Just about everything worthwhile became another product or got rolled into something else
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by jm4 5mo ago
Oh, man. I remember that one. He absolutely destroyed that truck. What’s notable about that video is that the other trucks handled the abuse dramatically better than the cybertruck. He was determined to break every single vehicle in ways th
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by jm4 5mo ago
Google is probably still sucking up the contents of your LLM requests even with the model running locally.
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by jm4 6mo ago
Why would you listen to some fool’s baseless speculation?
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by jm4 6mo ago
Kobo has an equivalent to Kindle Unlimited (as well as a good store). It also integrates directly with Overdrive so you can download free library books directly to your device. I recently switched to one and it's superior in just about
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by jm4 6mo ago
No issues here. I liberated my kindle library and put it in Google Drive. The Kobo can download books from there out of the box. The Kobo store works fine too, although a lot of books barely have any reviews if you’re into that. I have the
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by jm4 6mo ago
Not to mention it’s as easy to download books from Anna’s Archive as it is to buy them from Amazon. It’s weird going through so much effort to lock down books people already paid for. I wonder how much this is about making it difficult for
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by jm4 6mo ago
That’s actually really cool and I don’t feel like it’s invasive. It’s surveillance in a specific location for a specific purpose and in response to certain emergencies. Active shooter is probably the first thing that comes to mind, but acci
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by jm4 6mo ago
It is and that’s great. I guess it counts for something if Detroit is already on my list, but it’s not what puts Detroit on my list in the first place. A multi-year break on property taxes or incentives like low rate SBA loans or tax credit
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by jm4 6mo ago
$1000 doesn’t cover the cost of a moving truck to get your stuff from one end of a small town to the other. In terms of moving costs to relocate from another state, it’s less than negligible. It wouldn’t influence my decision at all and wou
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by jm4 6mo ago
Iran claimed today that they have a new homegrown air defense system in use. I saw another report about a new Chinese system deployed in Iran that was used to hit the F35. Who knows what’s true, but it’s 100% clear that the administration i
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by jm4 6mo ago
What changed is he took the mask off. He was always the sleaze that he is today, but a lot of us were fooled into believing he wanted to do something good.
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by jm4 6mo ago
I think you need to learn more about the history of U.S./Iran relations over the past 75 years. There was a pretty good episode of NPR Throughline a couple weeks back that gets into the CIA bullshit and then 1979 onwards. Iran has not
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by jm4 7mo ago
Interesting. Sounds not too much unlike Linux.
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by jm4 7mo ago
Windows 11 performs like a pig, it’s full of unnecessary notifications and apps that constantly seek attention, copilot isn’t useful, I feel like I’m being spied on, the UI is weird. It could be turned into a great OS if they simply remove
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by jm4 7mo ago
Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits.
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by jm4 7mo ago
We know exactly who is to blame. I can share my own experience as a small business owner. I sell coffee. I engage in some direct trade and also buy some coffee from domestic vendors who already have the coffee stateside. I primarily buy Cos
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by jm4 8mo ago
Many retailers increase their prices by multiples of the tariff increase rather than a straight passthrough so that they can maintain their margins. It's probably why a lot of the biggest retailers with monopolies aren't complaini
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by jm4 8mo ago
What the hell is wrong with that site? It immediately starts playing audio and there’s no apparent way to stop it.
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by jm4 8mo ago
It took all of 2 minutes to delete my account and block Discord from my network. Credit to Discord for making the process very easy using the mobile app. I'm not going to put up with this crap just to occasionally use this app to play
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by jm4 9mo ago
Have you ever thought about a marketplace for premade workflows? Or a library of integrations that are already tested that a user can mix and match to create complex automations? Or access to more MCP servers? For example, it would be reall

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