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by kbos87 5y ago
Agree. Getting too hung up on what the T&C say is missing the point. You can put whatever you want in a contract, but if it’s very unpalatable to your customers, whether or not you can legally do it will be a moot point.
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by kbos87 5y ago
I’m guessing they’ll use electromagnets to keep it glued to its base station unless your subscription is paid.
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by kbos87 5y ago
What isn’t clear to me is whether Peloton intends for this to be a permanent end state - that you need to buy a subscription to use “Just Run” - or if it’s a temporary state (we introduced the locking feature, made a dumb decision to requir
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by kbos87 5y ago
I simultaneously believe everything the author said, and also feel like it comes off as bitter and personal. Tim Ferris embodies an approach to the world that I feel like I’ve seen taken over and over again. It’s a cynical approach to work
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by kbos87 5y ago
I’m 36 and about two years ago I stumbled into reading about the experience of what it’s like to have ADHD. As resistant as I was (and I was very resistant to the idea that I could have ADHD) I couldn’t ignore the fact that what I was readi
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by kbos87 5y ago
I think the point stands that there is probably a ton most manufacturers could do in terms of over the air updates with existing hardware that they just don’t.
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by kbos87 5y ago
My brother is a very avid fisherman - every time I call him, he seems to be out on a river or lake somewhere in western Massachusetts during the afternoon. This article really struck me, so I shared this with him, along with the video of th
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by kbos87 5y ago
Writing TikTok off as a platform full of only mindless viral content is seriously misunderstanding what is already going on there. It's already become a place to share your expertise, regardless of the topic. I follow everything from p
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by kbos87 5y ago
Yup. This is unashamedly the strategy of many mid-sized and larger businesses - let the venture funded startups spend the huge amount of time and energy it takes to ferret out product market fit, then we’ll come in and do it right.
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by kbos87 6y ago
What I’m really curious to see is whether or not “electric” is the single killer feature it is often positioned as. Semi-autonomous driving and overall UX are two places that Tesla is just so far ahead. I think other manufacturers will make
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by kbos87 6y ago
The fact that the Nest motion sensors / path lights in my home have been functioning for almost 2 years (their stated lifespan) without me needing to replace their tiny batteries boggles my mind.
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by kbos87 6y ago
Leaving college a little more than 10 years ago, my ideal at the time would have been to move to one of these towns and start a small business, and I have friends who went a similar route. Having grown up with parents who relied on a small
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by kbos87 6y ago
I know very little about him but was initially intrigued because he’s often referred to as a “good guy” with altruistic motives who also isn’t afraid to call others out. Then I saw him on CNBC in the midst of the GameStop fiasco, railing ag
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by kbos87 6y ago
How hard it is to connect even the first generation bike to a watch or heart rate monitor is ridiculous to the point that I’ve never figured it out. It seems confirmed impossible with an Apple Watch; supposedly it’s possible with other bran
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by kbos87 6y ago
These are two great examples of just how thin and self-serving the counter-arguments to crypto being an energy hog are. I'll save you some time... The premise of the first article is that the carbon footprint of fiat currency needs to
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by kbos87 6y ago
Something that has fascinated me about the last year is that the pandemic has sped up the feedback loop on decisions like this. Seeing the impact of this decision won't take years and the outcome won't be unclear. In another few w
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by kbos87 6y ago
This stood out to me too - that’s the Midtown finance bro uniform. Further confirmation that tech bros are the new finance bros.
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by kbos87 6y ago
I have no doubt that active trading is seeing a resurgence in interest driven by apps like Robinhood that make it easy to do. But I’d be willing to bet that the returns active traders as a whole are just getting are worse. Public is an inte
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by kbos87 6y ago
The same thought crossed my mind. Then I thought - could they have done this now to gauge feedback, stick with it if it works, and write it off as an April fools joke if there's too much backlash? That feels like the next level of ches
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by kbos87 6y ago
I previously owned a VW, but swore on my life that I'd never buy another one after the emissions cheating scandal. There are plenty of reasons why a VW likely wont be my next choice, but I'm softening my stance a bit. What they di
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by kbos87 6y ago
It's always surprised me that we haven't seem more attempts at co-op like models in spaces like this, and I'm happy to see it. Uber/Lyft strike me as thin businesses in the value that they actually provide both to riders
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by kbos87 6y ago
What interests me about the question being posed here is how we humans are so attracted to binaries and superlatives. "Best", "most talented", even the concept of "success" are all mental shortcuts that the wor
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by kbos87 6y ago
Capital punishment is driven by vengeance. If we are talking about protecting potential future victims, it does absolutely nothing that life in prison doesn't do. I sincerely doubt that in the moments before committing a crime that cou
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by kbos87 6y ago
I might be stating the obvious, but want to point out the inherent assumption in your argument that your moral and emotively driven opinions should be enforced against another human being. If you want to optimize for honor in a valiant figh
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by kbos87 6y ago
DJI is such an impressive company. I know comparing anyone to Apple has been done to death, but I'd really be hard pressed to think of another company that comes closer. It also seems like they are following a similar playbook of blend
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by kbos87 6y ago
I agree with you that comparing applicants objectively is a tough nut to crack. I don’t know the right answer but I would imagine looking at as diverse a set of inputs as possible is a good starting point; I could also see universities comi
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by kbos87 6y ago
As someone who never did well with standardized tests, it’s frustrating to see evidence like this of how heavily they are still weighed in the college admissions process, even though it isn’t surprising. If I were applying to universities t
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by kbos87 6y ago
I had to look back, because I remembered a discussion here on HN based on an Atlantic article that took exactly the opposite point of view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19045250 I'd have to disagree that we are
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by kbos87 6y ago
This! It isn't hard to look at what is successful in, say, the Salesforce App Exchange and apply that concept for HubSpot. Huge opportunity there.
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by kbos87 6y ago
First: This strikes me as truly amazing - but my mind immediately goes to the economic impact of something like this. Personally I try not to be an alarmist about the potential for jobs to be automated away, but how strikingly good this is

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