jonknee

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by jonknee 8y ago
They have lots of different businesses and associated supply chains, they're not going to have random 3rd parties selling prescriptions on Amazon like they do for many verticals. There would be no reason to integrate prescriptions in w
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by jonknee 8y ago
Great post, though this bit stuck out for me: current_zip = meta.IntegerField(max_length=5, blank=True) You should not store zip data as an integer as they can start with 0. Zip codes use numbers, but aren't actually numbers th
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by jonknee 8y ago
There a orders of magnitude less producers of one time use plastic items than there are consumers of them though, so it's vastly easier to regulate on the production end than the consumption end.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Most of us aren't paid to answer the phone though... If my job was to answer the phone for people making reservations and I started to hang up on reservation bots I would expect to be fired immediately. I also hang up on real people wh
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by jonknee 8y ago
The NYT has plenty of text content on Venezuela if you are so bothered by this... I for one love experimentation and pushing the envelope.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Airliners don't go over 1,200MPH or above 59,000 feet...
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by jonknee 8y ago
Why? People call businesses all the time and get robots, why would it be different the other way around? As soon as the boss figures out you're hanging up on people trying to get reservations you can bet hangups will stop ASAP.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Google solved this by having it talk to you naturally so you never even consider responding differently. Seems like a winning idea.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Probably for similar reasons the US charges a 2.4% tariff (on a muuuuch higher dollar value of motorcycles since Harley is about the only US motorcycle maker).
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by jonknee 8y ago
The US charges plenty of high tariffs in return, it's not like the US doesn't protect industries. The EU laid these on in response to Trump protecting the domestic steel and aluminum industry (notionally for national security reas
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by jonknee 8y ago
Currently it's devolving into tariffs on everything. Like Europe's 25% tariff on Harley motorcycles. They're getting hit on both ends too because their inputs are also hit (steel being the big one). Tariff in and tariff out,
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by jonknee 8y ago
How are you measuring bodyfat? I'm interested in tracking it, but seems tricky to do accurately.
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by jonknee 8y ago
The Intercept is "overindexed" to the US in the same way that the Daily Mail is "overindexed" to the UK. That's the whole point.
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by jonknee 8y ago
https://www.taxjar.com/pricing/ Considering you are already required to do it for where you are located it's just a little more work to automate it for all locations.
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by jonknee 8y ago
That shouldn't matter too much, identify with the most granular option there is one time for each product and then let the tax provider figure out what falls into each bucket for each state. Also, UPC codes should help automate it for
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by jonknee 8y ago
In general you would identify the product type from a list of a lot of product types and then let your sales tax calculator as a service provider sort out what needs taxed and at what rate.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Or you could just outsource it to companies like TaxJar that specialize in this and pay a few bucks to have to all done automatically. After this ruling I expect more and more platforms will have this sort of thing built in. One or two more
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's 200 shipments or $100k in North Dakota which would be impressive for any mom and pop eCommerce site that isn't somehow focused on ND. Almost no one lives there.
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by jonknee 8y ago
If you're that concerned about cameras you are much better staying in a corporate owned hotel than an Airbnb. If you do ever find anything you will actually be able to sue and cash in: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/
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by jonknee 8y ago
Which would be front page news around the world. Why go the effort of a zero day on a hugely popular device when you could just leave a mic or camera almost anywhere in the room?
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, voice assistants don't do anything that you can't accomplish by pressing buttons or using your phone. That's not the point.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well it's not like this is a new platform designed for Marriott, it's an extremely popular product millions of people have in their homes and offices. It is already accepted.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Hacking Alexa would be extremely valuable, why would you do that to listen on some random hotel rooms? I have to imagine the outdated phones they use are a lot easier to hack and are already in every single hotel room.
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by jonknee 8y ago
"Alexa, get my car" to alert the valet would be awesome.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> It's one thing to trust Amazon or Google, but now you also have to trust the hotel and its staff, the physical security of the device, and all the previous guests of the room. With miniature cameras being widely available for year
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well it does if you are physically unable to keep eating like you were before the fast because someone stapled your stomach shut...
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by jonknee 8y ago
> Part of the reason nobody wants to pay for it is it costs as much as a Model 3 That's a bargain compared to paying for a diabetic! http://www.diabetes.org/advocacy/news-events/cost-of-diabete... > Peo
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well then by all means please link me to the law that states what a startup is!
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by jonknee 8y ago
What is your cutoff? Bird is not yet a year old and is definitely a startup, but has a $2b valuation. It's a wacky world.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Inflation has been low, but regardless that just means money is worth less, it doesn't make you a millionaire (unless you owned a Bay Area home!). In any event, the dollar has actually been quite strong.

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