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by look_lookatme 6y ago
Buying a debt-laden airline and trimming the fat + increasing yield while getting leverage on partners and expanding logistic capacity sounds like the ultimate Amazon move right now. Probably not AA, but I don't know... Southwest?
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by look_lookatme 6y ago
Considering I have been getting non-Amazon purchases much faster than Amazon purchases I suspect that's really code for paying for the delivery costs that exceeded the actuarial models that were baked into Amazon Prime and thus turned
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by look_lookatme 6y ago
> Wireless headphones are a solution to a manufactured problem, because Apple started removing the headphone port, and everyone copied them, as they always do. Now everyone is selling their own crappy AirPods. I wear wireless headphones
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by look_lookatme 6y ago
Substack is different in that they are a kind of Patreon meets Medium (with the newsletter angle, but I think on a long enough timeline that's a gimmick). With regards to what sets them apart from Medium -- in short, they actually have
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
The tap water in NYC is amazing. In two of the buildings I lived in there it was also the coldest tap water I’ve ever had. I sometimes make butter from raw milk, which available in h th he state I live in now. It is very good. Most of the t
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
I live in a vacation destination (that's also the commercial center of my state) and it's been interesting to watch the short term rentals start to pop up on craigslist (the state has banned short term rentals during the shutdown)
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Yes I did too.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
As far as I can tell the most common realization of the OODA loop is: Observe (the concept of the OODA loop as if you are the only person to have ever heard of it) Orient (yourself in front of your computer) Decide (to log into any random d
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
> But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear ( https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/ ). Well that's confusing. Whenever I hear brown bear (in hunting
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
If you feel like you need to de-Texas DP and Whataburger, you can replace one of them with Titos which is one of the most incredible growth stories of the last two decades. Same with YETI and Epic meats. Texas has had incredible success in
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
I think a lot of people in medicine, science, economics, policy and the media think what's happening right now is their shining moment, but if you talk to people on the ground -- this is a catastrophe and no one has any clue what'
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
I wouldn't outright dismiss the iPad like this. I read more on the iPad than I do with physical books or my Kindle. In particular, pair it with an O'Reilly Learning account and it opens up a whole new pedagogic world I did not rea
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Yeah it's brutal. Even loading the Playstation Store takes wayyy too long on my original PS4. It's like it's doing an npm install every time I want to spend money...
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
But when the cost recovers we'll be back at it again. US shale has seen booms and busts for a hundred years.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Strange to make a distinction between the two. Saving us from the effects of climate change is only a technology problem at this point, but it's hard and tedious and disincentivized because it's easier to make money right now in t
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
I think the original video is very much worth watching given what's happening in the world right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhtHojSphk In particular there is a moment where Thiel questions whether Silicon Va
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Isn't that the biggest goal right now? Maintaining a healthy banking and housing system by subsidizing rent, mortgages, debt payments etc? $1000 a month doesn't seem like a stimulus, it seems like a bridge to the other side.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
People's minds will change once they get that check.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
It's nice to see work in this area. I was familiar with Kontena (the company that creates Lens) because they have a really nice k8s ruby client lib, but I haven't given Lens a try yet. I use k9s (mentioned elsewhere) primarily and
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
The No Bullshit Guide To Math And Physics https://minireference.com/ I bought the Math and Physics copy because it has an ebook option and the first chapter is the Math guide. I’m going through a few pages a day and it’s cr
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
The amazing thing about Code is how it traces the connection of formal logic (in the Aristotelian sense) to the, as you say, pre-computer code of braille and even flag signals to form the foundations of modern computing. I am a self-taught
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
And those products have high margins, but they haven't sold out their core ideals and quality in order to cater to these markets because their core business is woefully inadequate, which is the point that original commenter made. And t
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
> Patagonia, North Face, Black Diamond and Arcteryx all began as brands that catered specifically to the needs of climbers and alpinists, but now sell primarily to yuppies. They may sell a subset of their product to yuppies, but you can
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
> "Obviously not everyone can pick up and relocate to the woods to experience the unobscured beauty of the sky. But there still are, for now, places where you’d expect not to see artificial stars passing overhead." Well the wri
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Yes I did this for a Garmin Instinct watch this last week. It was 30% cheaper on Amazon (80ish dollars) and the Best Buy cashier looked at it on his phone, called over his manager and she price matched it. It was a pretty nice experience ac
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
To generate content for Gimlet podcasts
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Denver and, as far as I can tell, people keep moving to Austin.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
They are saying distribution is trivial from a technical perspective. Acquiring the rights to distribute profitably is non trivial, of course.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
Not true at 10pm but good on your for getting a 3pm drink going.
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by look_lookatme 7y ago
I don't think OP is talking about metaprogramming, but more about syntax and how ergonomic Enumerable chains are, which I can see being really nice in data wrangling.

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