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by jmathai 7y ago
I don't disagree that it's inevitable. But I think there's value in slowing down this type of progress so society has more time to adapt. That's why I called out that the value added by self checkout stations is only mar
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by jmathai 7y ago
I'm not convinced it is that easy for someone working as a cashier to find another job. Especially if low skill work is being replaced by robots. Also given that cashiers are already at or near the poverty level they're likely goi
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by jmathai 7y ago
I purposely checkout with human cashiers despite the fact that self-checkout is almost always faster. Sometimes technology provides so much benefit that it's a no-brainer to adopt. I don't think that's the case for self-check
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by jmathai 7y ago
Some % of Google's $30 billion quarterly revenue comes from Ads in Gmail. This does not include revenue generated from enterprise G Suite licenses.
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by jmathai 7y ago
I believe they all use several of the services. I worked at one of the airline booking sites and know they used Sabre and ITA as well as others. https://beta.developer.sabre.com/guides
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by jmathai 7y ago
Sabre[1], ITA and others. (Worked at one of Hipmunk, Kayak, Expedia, etc) [1] https://beta.developer.sabre.com/guides
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by jmathai 7y ago
My son had an imaginary dog named Baxter from 1-3 yrs old. It was great --- we would set a plate on the floor with food for Baxter at dinner time. He's 9 now and I miss Baxter.
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by jmathai 7y ago
Meh. I wasn’t going to bother getting a lawyer involved for a balance of a few thousand dollars. I did threaten legal action though it proved futile. Out of curiosity, why was it not a good course of action? Did the client have any leverage
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by jmathai 7y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not sure what the legality of this was so I'm not recommending it - but it proved effective in my case. I was owed several thousand dollars by a client and they were several months late in making a payment. They st
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by jmathai 7y ago
Thanks for your response. My son is 9 and he goes through phases of having some sort of tic (throat clearing, head shaking, blinking, etc). They're not too bad, relatively speaking, and no one has really noticed. Or if they do then the
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by jmathai 7y ago
Did you outgrow the tics? If so, at what age and what led to outgrowing them?
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by jmathai 7y ago
I imagine teachers don't have the time to have this type of 1:1 interaction with the 25 students in their class. Seems like email/phone communication to the parents is reasonable here. Something like disciplinary action would have
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by jmathai 7y ago
It means I primarly use Google Photos and seamlessly have every photo in Google Photos backed up on my NAS at home with no extra work. I also prefer my photos to be organized in a folder structure (which I've also automated) and the Dr
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by jmathai 7y ago
iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos are good Google Drive or Google Photos replacements but it does not offer the sync functionality which Google's deprecating in this announcement. You're not gaining much in functionality with iCloud
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by jmathai 7y ago
It's not the most reliable but it worked pretty well. The Google Drive sync they're deprecating today is what made Google Photos not a 'dead end'. I've been using it for 3 years and am really bummed that this means
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by jmathai 7y ago
Flickr's a decent alternative to Google Photos but is not comparable to the combination of Google Drive + Google Photos. The combination they're deprecating is not offered anywhere else.
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by jmathai 7y ago
My main issue with iCloud Photos is that there's no way to disable auto-upload. The idea of every photo I being uploaded in an instant to iCloud is such a deal breaker for me. As far as I can tell there's no option which can repla
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by jmathai 7y ago
Interesting. That statement says FedEx is USPS' largest provider of air transportation to the USPS. But that's different from USPS being FedEx's largest customer.
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by jmathai 7y ago
Thanks for being a trailblazer and not using any employee sponsored health insurance.
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I believe the point is that when autonomous vehicles are allowed on the road then those companies can undercut Uber's cost by whatever % they pay their drivers (≈40%?). It's more of survival for Uber to get their own autonomous dr
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by jmathai 7y ago
That future is not here and it's naive to think full-time and contract employees should be the ones leading the charge :).
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by jmathai 8y ago
Unified billing, support and management was the pitch...if I recall correctly. Seemed pretty compelling to me.
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by jmathai 8y ago
What makes you think that? These first few iterations are expensive (in the thousands of dollars) and require assembly but those are not difficult problems to address over time. Are you saying people wouldn't want to have an automated
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by jmathai 8y ago
Not saying this is the right solution but the vast majority of Chrome users likely do not know exe files can be dangerous.
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by jmathai 8y ago
One of my favorite OSS projects is farmbot. I wish more people knew about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0CiLBM1o8
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by jmathai 8y ago
Looks like AWS Faragate pricing is per invocation and duration of tasks. > Pricing is per second with a 1-minute minimum. Duration is calculated from the time you start to download your container image (docker pull) until the Task termin
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by jmathai 8y ago
I wouldn't worry about this unless/until it became a problem :)
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Does it matter when you're talking about multiples?
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I understand that it's inconvenient when services shut down but I see 3 options. 1) Wait until it seems there's enough comittment from Google before using it. 2) Start using it right away knowing that it might not be around foreve
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by jmathai 8y ago
Medium is good for marketing but not much else. If your goal is to get eyeballs then Medium is a decent option. I've had several posts which got more views than had I self hosted by getting posts featured in publications. Had I not bee

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