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by jvagner 7y ago
I stopped following Paul Krugman on Twitter only because Twitter was constantly pushing anti-Paul-Krugman trending threads at me, most of which I couldn't find much affinity with.
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by jvagner 7y ago
I worked in Boston in the 90s. A couple of coworkers would use a week’s vacation time to just hitchhike around New England. They had a cabin in Vermont, sometimes they made it to the cabin, sometimes they went to other places. They always g
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by jvagner 7y ago
1) MoviePass claimed they would make up the difference by selling data. The press repeated this over and over again, as if the "selling $1 for $0.50" could be solved. 2) When companies like Uber can go public, after years of econo
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by jvagner 7y ago
Many of those doordash.com “delivery” links on Google Maps didn’t come from the restaurants either.
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It’s a pay site. Logging in gives the, a chance to upsell.
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If we're getting to the point where we can openly talk about getting rid of the industry -- unlikely but not an impossibility -- perhaps the industry itself missed a few opportune -- not opportunistic -- steps. My health insurance comp
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by jvagner 7y ago
Insurance companies actively work to not-deliver the thing they are paid to deliver.
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Scrolled down pretty far to catch this point being elevated.
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I want to agree with this, but the delivery is also not-14-ish. I have a 15yo child. This is in uncanny-valley in both the "what 14 yo would write this?" and "what 14 yo would want to delivery this?" quadrants. That said
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I have created a to-do list for the start of each calendar quarter. It includes things like: * Replace toothbrush heads (electric) * Spring clean two rooms in the house * Download backups of all email accounts * Download backups of all clou
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by jvagner 7y ago
We do this for our maintenance retainers... after our sites go live, we continue to provide technical and marketing services on a monthly basis. Pre-paid retainers secure a lower billing rate. So far, it hasn't been a good idea to star
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He's homeschooled. He loves Minecraft and Kerbal. But I think what did it the most is that the adults in his life are all self-employed and a bit stuck on their phones/laptops/tablets. I'm thinking this may end up skippi
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by jvagner 7y ago
I held at the iPhone 7 until the XR. I didn't actually need to upgrade, but I knew I wouldn't upgrade to whatever they released this year if 5G and other nice hardware things were coming next year. The 7 is fine. Went to my partne
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Agreed. Always have an initiation fee, applicable to hours to be spent. By the time this ask has been made, the proposal conversation should've established your credibility.
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I don’t disagree with that, but I don’t think the market cares about that.. w/r/t Apple. I wish they weren’t targeting the masses so completely. iPhones shouldn’t have the absolute worst charging tech in the box.
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by jvagner 7y ago
Apple will never get the same P/E love, because they only make like 4 things (Mac, iPhone, iPad, services). Everyone loves to hate on Apple on multiple fronts (elitist, expensive, over the hill), whereas the hate on Amazon is really ab
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by jvagner 7y ago
Used to really like full-duplex voice in Nextel phones eons ago.. it was good for initiation conversations, which would then pull people into whatever chat we needed at the time. Not sure we'd use it the same now, but we were running o
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by jvagner 7y ago
But this isn't usually the norm. If this dev's trajectory is true, it's also something worth discussing with your management. There might be candidates for this kind of trajectory in your current dev pool, and any feelings co
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by jvagner 7y ago
can't seem to edit my parent post, but: THANKS to everyone with suggestions. there's some good ones here... i played piano years ago, so in terms of basic music theory i have some of that. i tend to love researching things like mu
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by jvagner 7y ago
dumb question, perhaps someone will take mercy on me: i've wanted to learn to make electronic music for.. ever. and i've never really done it. i have a mac. and an iPad. and an iPhone. and an M-Audio MIDI controller. what's a
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by jvagner 7y ago
I've spent time in a lot of countries, and: You tip in the US because the employees are paid a sum that assumes tips are coming. You can pay less than minimum wage because the actual compensation comes from tips. Of course, this is dif
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by jvagner 7y ago
Agreed. The government already has so many resources & advantages against individuals, groups and companies. They don't get this one, too.
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by jvagner 7y ago
I've paid for Dropbox for years, but recently cancelled, because I'm uncertain of the direction they're heading in. It's like Evernote of yore.. in fact, I sarcastically think Evernote and Dropbox should merge so I can s
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This is fantastic.
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Sounds reasonable, but when I look around...
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I had a prospective client/customer, just today, schedule a Zoom meeting for tomorrow. I was aware of the issue this week, but I wasn't really going to make a lot of noise with someone who was just a prospect. I figured.. this has
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by jvagner 7y ago
I don't enjoy it much anymore, but I've been un-following anyone discussing politics much, and all VCs. VC posts are the worst.
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by jvagner 7y ago
> the move towards FreeBSD Who? Where? for what? You mentioned BeOS. Sorry, I love nostalgia too, but I have no idea what you're talking about. Out in AWS, GCP, Azure, DO -land... it's still going to be Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS,
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by jvagner 7y ago
Tesla 3s are all over in Reno, and we have exactly one supercharger. Which is weird, because we now have a Tesla dealership (South Reno) and the Gigafactory is just down the road.
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by jvagner 7y ago
My confidence in Google reCAPTCHA is diminished by their admin site.. can't edit/change "reCAPTCHA type:v3" settings.

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