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by kbos87 4y ago
Thank you for the education on the history here. That makes Plaid’s indignance about new competition even less palatable.
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by kbos87 4y ago
If you aren’t looking for the closest possible shave, I can’t say enough good things about the Philips Norelco OneBlade. While the replacement heads run about $15 each, in my experience they do in fact last ~4 months as the manufacturer say
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by kbos87 4y ago
I think this is right. Plaid will get by, but their ability to capture TAM is now constrained. Because they didn’t expand horizontally into some related product offerings, they now look like a feature while Stripe looks like a platform. It
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by kbos87 4y ago
I don’t know all the specifics of the interaction that happened here, but the hard truth is that if you aren’t eventually expecting this to happen to your business - regardless of the space you are in - you aren’t being realistic about the
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by kbos87 4y ago
This is really tough because the only purpose of Grindr is to give it your location to see who is around you. There also needs to be much stronger requirements for end user transparency about where their data is going.
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by kbos87 5y ago
This comes off as an angry tirade full of projection and lacking any real insight.
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by kbos87 5y ago
Your comment makes it sound like “taking over from AI” is some complicated action. In reality that means turning the wheel reflexively to a road hazard or hitting the brakes in the same way that I would if autopilot wasn’t engaged. My atten
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by kbos87 5y ago
I was an autopilot skeptic until I wasn’t. As a user of the system it’s 100% clear that it’s my responsibility to be able to take over at any time. Autopilot regularly restricts the places it will engage and speed it will operate at based
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by kbos87 5y ago
That was it! Couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was called.
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by kbos87 5y ago
I’m a sample of one, but I’ll offer two things that have made a huge difference for me. #1 - 5-ish years ago I used an alarm clock app that would require me to get out of bed and take a picture of an object in my house away from the bedroom
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by kbos87 5y ago
I’m a middle manager at a company that is fully and completely embracing remote work, and I feel as needed as ever. It’s the bad middle managers who only know how to provide “value” by instilling fear and managing presence who should be afr
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by kbos87 5y ago
It’s very difficult to take a photo of the top of your head :)
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by kbos87 5y ago
Just downloaded the app last night. It was the first time I realized how many great Substacks I’m subscribed to, and this is definitely going to be my preferred method of consumption. Looking forward to seeing the future of Substack.
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by kbos87 5y ago
Counterpoint - most of the arguments against paid acquisition from people who don’t have direct experience are a classic Dunning-Kruger example.
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by kbos87 5y ago
My argument is based on having worked in performance based advertising for years and seen first hand that it works. Anyone who has direct experience in the space has seen the never ending stream of the same pedestrian arguments from people
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by kbos87 5y ago
This article tackles one small and specific portion (bidding on branded keywords) of what paid search advertising is all about, so I think it’s fair to say that the title overstates the scope of the content. Paid search advertising has been
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by kbos87 5y ago
The newer versions have lane centering which isn’t quite equivalent to Autosteer in a Tesla, but it’s much closer to it than the older versions that only have lane keep assist, which only nudges you away from a lane line you are about to cr
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by kbos87 5y ago
The reason I’m making the comparison is that there are reports of phantom braking when Teslas aren’t in Autopilot. The same vision-based system is used for AEB in Teslas. Subarus use a vision-based system for AEB but don’t seem to experienc
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by kbos87 5y ago
You are conflating showing up at a physical office with being accountable and doing your work. True, my employer doesn’t care about my whereabouts, but they do care that I’m contributing, available to my colleagues, and adhering to reasonab
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by kbos87 5y ago
I think you could also say that people seem to have an irrational obsession with Tesla’s decision to only use cameras. Camera only systems aren’t uncommon among other automakers (Subaru Eyesight, for example.)
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by kbos87 5y ago
True, but manufacturers can look at aggregate miles traveled and come to some conclusions about the safety of vehicles without any safety systems, with active safety systems like automatic emergency braking, and in Tesla’s case, Autopilot.
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by kbos87 5y ago
Nope, there’s no management or oversight of who is in and when.
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by kbos87 5y ago
It isn’t, but I’ve heard the same thing about Wayfair.
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by kbos87 5y ago
My company allows whatever you want. Partners company allows hybrid, not full remote unless that was something you negotiated at the start or got them to change. Those are two very different things.
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by kbos87 5y ago
I work for a large tech company based on the east coast. My partner works for another large tech company. We are both mid-level managers at companies that seem to be taking a pretty dramatically different approach. My company: - Started wit
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by kbos87 5y ago
Facebook, TikTok, Instagram are a literal cesspool of misinformation that often gets its starting energy by being shared, upvoted and commented on by fake accounts. I don’t think “in any way” is fair.
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by kbos87 5y ago
Honest question in good faith - Why should we hold true to some past ideals of technologists 20 or 30 years ago? I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the notion of the web as a self protecting organism that naturally rejects misinfo
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by kbos87 5y ago
A year ago I would have probably told you to calm down and that the statement was clearly a joke, but the way many people have responded to the pandemic has really opened my eyes, and I now agree with you. Unfortunately public health is a p
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by kbos87 5y ago
Maybe a random but relevant question to ask - it recently occurred to me that I know very little about the average HN user, but I presume almost if not all of the people here to be male. Curious if that’s accurate or not.
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by kbos87 5y ago
I can second that the level of aggression on the roads in the Boston area seems to have jumped substantially over the last 18 months or so. I also very rarely see enforcement happening, my partner and I have long noted that the likelihood y

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