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by ketzo 5y ago
It's a matter of tradeoffs. California electric companies – and PG&E in particular – desperately need to decrease load during fire season so that they have more flexibility in the grid. It's important for them to try and disin
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by ketzo 5y ago
iPhones are great hardware, sold far above cost, that are very much mainstream and changed the shape of the entire product field. Apple's VR doesn't have to compete with the Quest on price if their product is that much better. Whi
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by ketzo 5y ago
Wow. Excellent analogy.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I had some friends participate in a virtual hackathon run pretty much entirely over Discord. The final demos took place in a very "room-focused" fashion - each team/product had their own Discord channel, and people could pop
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by ketzo 5y ago
We can do anecdotes back and forth, but many people would absolutely love “Uber but there’s not a stranger in the front seat.”
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by ketzo 5y ago
I just got the horrifying image of a lead engineer who refuses to move on from Java 9 because "it's all you need," but they're working on human bodies. Yeesh.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Just wanna say thank you for your work.
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by ketzo 5y ago
That 30% of the population translates to about 45% of federal elected representatives. Not quite as easy as "ignoring them," sadly.
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by ketzo 5y ago
What's a PRD? Love the five-minute rule, by the way. I tried to apply that a lot especially when I was just starting at my job. So many things that I would spend two hours trying to fix, only to be told the next day that we had a super
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by ketzo 5y ago
Ooh, just saw this, don't know why I never considered it. I'll definitely try it out.
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by ketzo 5y ago
just so you know, you are correct to call Florida and California "states."
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by ketzo 5y ago
Was just about to comment the same thing. Massive upgrade in grilled cheese quality. If you can get it, Duke's Mayo is just absolutely bonkers. I also really like the Trader Joe's organic mayo. Also, since I'm deeply invested
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by ketzo 5y ago
Venmo, at least, is absolutely concerned about it. The app really tries to get you to flag payments as "business" any time you're paying someone.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Venmo is already trying to solve this by incentivizing users to flag payments themselves. When you go to pay someone, there's a pretty big box on the screen that says "Are you paying for goods or services? Protect your purchase he
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by ketzo 5y ago
> current technology that is on broadband that I can take remotely. I actually think that there are a couple of solid examples of this: * Console/PC videogames: people wanna play God of War on their bus ride, as evidenced by the mas
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by ketzo 5y ago
Hm, that's interesting to me. Is it just regulators (FAA I guess?) falling behind the times? Or is the GPS version really not adequate for some use case that is only satisfied by ILS (not sure what that is but I assume it's the &q
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by ketzo 5y ago
That’s a genuinely hot take, and I do think there’s some merit. That said: I think your hypothetical is better than our current, objectively ridiculous situation. “Everyone’s doing it in the open” is a pretty lame excuse, and definitely doe
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by ketzo 5y ago
Always psyched to see a post from josh. Really insightful deep dives into a very misunderstood technology, presented with a fun, lighthearted writing style that I find myself trying to emulate in my own technical writing.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Despite many, many tries, I’ve never found a note taking tool that really captures the way I think, and I until I do, I’ll always welcome a new entry into the field. Congrats on launch and good luck!
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by ketzo 5y ago
> that will do nothing materially Tell me it's not material when you're waiting in a rural ER for six hours because one of their two ventilators is taken by an unvaccinated 19-year-old who went to three New Year's Eve part
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by ketzo 5y ago
Ah, yes. Obesity, that problem that can be solved with a free, walk-in appointment at any drugstore in the country. These two things are a perfect, 1:1 analogy.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Where am I saying to stop providing medical care? No one should go untreated, not even the dumbest, shit-spewing-est anti-vaxxer. Human life is precious. But the idea that vaccination status is remotely comparable to weight, smoking, dr
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by ketzo 5y ago
Since I'm not seeing much comment on the post itself: This was a fun, interesting read. I appreciated the straightforward, concise style of writing. Exactly the kind of content that I love on HN. Thanks!
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by ketzo 5y ago
You are, unfortunately, incorrect, at least about the "young and healthy" part. Unvaccinated people of all ages are significantly more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than vaccinated people of the same age group [1]. 12-
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by ketzo 5y ago
> there is no longer a real need to vilify the unvaxxed I very, very much disagree with this. Unvaccinated people have a much higher rate of severe illness that requires hospitalization. Filling up hospitals unnecessarily kills people, a
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by ketzo 5y ago
Just as a point of technicality, this is not pro rata for YC, right? > a pro rata clause in an investment agreement gives the investor a right (but not the obligation) to participate in one or more future financing rounds to maintain
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by ketzo 5y ago
This is a super valid question that I have seen asked multiple times with no clear answer. I don't really care what YC is expecting; I think that is already extremely clear. They're expecting VC unicorns. The question is what is
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by ketzo 5y ago
Not exactly, although clearly this is in some part a reaction to the kind of insane amount of VC sloshing around. They're not offering "more money for the same thing" (i.e. inflation). Instead, YC is offering its old deal –
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by ketzo 5y ago
Woah, okay, didn't totally understand that until you put some numbers on it. That's... almost unbelievably founder-favored, yeah? Neat.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Even if it is a symptom – say they're interviewing CEOs for a piece on Canadian business, so it's tricky to find people who are not white men – then I would argue that what they're doing is important. There's a chicken

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