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Die with Zero: Mental Models [pdf](assets.diewithzerobook.com)
4 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
I doubt they are processing 100% of the revenue from those companies. It's very normal for companies to spread their Payment Gateway calls across a number of providers depending on volume, approval rates, geography, currency, etc. Adye
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by jmacd 3y ago
A couple hundred $
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by jmacd 3y ago
I had a Hybrid Audi Q5 and one day it just stopped working. The dealership quoted me $25,000 for a new battery, plus labour, plus they said I had to manage the recycling of the old battery. They estimated that at $6,000. My head was spinnin
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by jmacd 3y ago
This is the enterprise equivalent of putting up a landing page and collecting email addresses. Salesforce uses the same lean product development concepts that we espouse here. They test messages and products and then make R&D investment
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Prioritizing Driver Speed over Children’s Safety and Wellbeing(localmile.org)
1 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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Trumpkin’s Notes on Building a Sauna(localmile.org)
46 points by jmacd 3y ago|6 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
That book sounds like a great read. It appears to be hard to find however!
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Tier – Pricing-as-Code(github.com)
1 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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RemoteUI(github.com)
3 points by jmacd 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
Agree with this totally. re: trucking. I agree the industry essentially gets "free infrastructure", although in their defence the "gas tax" concept was designed to cover these costs and heavy users are the top payers of
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by jmacd 3y ago
Canada privatized our railways in the 1990s. While it created a hugely profitable company for shareholders, it has been a pestilence on Canadian society since. Canadians do benefit from a somewhat more efficient freight network, but overall
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by jmacd 3y ago
The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosely Joined were major influences on my young brain. I'm glad I, for some reason, decided to read them. Over the years I had several chances to meet Doc Searls and David Weinberger and it was
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by jmacd 3y ago
We’ve built https://GitHub.com/tierrun/tier with a local sidecar that can talk directly to stripe to help simplify situations like this. A pure SaaS model for billing doesn’t do much more for you at then end of the day
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by jmacd 3y ago
Yes, every business needs to be recapitalized at some point. There is an entire industry that focuses on finding the non-public companies that OP mentions. It's called Private Equity and they buy these companies when they have come to
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by jmacd 3y ago
Venture capital has been long gone from Twilio at this point. It's a public company and no matter what the history of how the company raised the capital to build its business initially, it is simply acting as a public company now. Had
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Farmers Insurance Group stops writing new property policies in Florida(wesh.com)
9 points by jmacd 3y ago|1 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
Thiel seems to conflate a valid criticism (he has many) with an invalidation of an idea. His objections and anecdotes are all very instructive. There is nothing wrong with shedding light on the motivations of people and the incentives in pl
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by jmacd 3y ago
Mostly I switched from high intensity cardio workouts (1hr+ cycling or running fast/hard) to much longer low impact workouts (walking for 3 hours+ some evenings). The most likely reason that had a big impact was that I am not sitting o
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by jmacd 3y ago
It does 5 full (filtered) air exchanges with outside air per hour. There are a further ~10 full circulations of internal air through the full filtering system. That level of air movement remains comfortable because we have a lot of ducting
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by jmacd 3y ago
Wow, I had no idea about this!
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by jmacd 3y ago
We recently built a new house and I decided to over provision air handlers so that we could get better control at the room level. As a result of that, there are a lot of fans moving a lot of (sound dampened!) air, through air filters. I upg
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E-Ink GPS for Boats(maptattoo.com)
2 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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Separating Pricing and Billing Engines: Unlocking Efficiency and Growth(blog.tier.run)
3 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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An open source implementation of OpenAI's ChatGPT Code interpreter(github.com)
2 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
This app appears to be region locked. Not available in Canada.
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Rye: An Experimental Package Management Solution for Python(rye-up.com)
1 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
In the early 2000s Microsoft did a lot of research in to "Inductive User Interfaces". [1] The closest approximation still around would be Wizard interfaces. Creating those UIs was so rewarding, as you really had to focus on the go
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by jmacd 3y ago
apologies, yes. Wrong thread. +dang can you delete?
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by jmacd 3y ago
https://thestrong.substack.com/p/can-facebook-keep-up-missin... "In recent years, there has been a notable shift in online activity from the Social Graph, where users connect and interact with their friends and fa

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