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by losteric 7y ago
Personally, listening to vinyl is like reading a novel. There's a tangible "ritual" and the experience is inherently focusing and somewhat intimate... intentionally enjoying time immersed in the work of a single artist/g
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by losteric 7y ago
Just some feedback: * Anything with a sign-up feature needs an elevator pitch somewhere on the homepage: "What" and "Why" for the layman, two short paragraphs but ideally a single-sentence elevator pitch. * Eliminate t
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by losteric 7y ago
Amazon's retail experience has been sliding downhill since going public, but that's fine because shareholders are the customer now
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by losteric 7y ago
Same reason rent would be cheaper - fewer potential renters, especially new small businesses
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by losteric 7y ago
AWS is working on it too. Internally, the region is very much treated as untrustworthy.
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by losteric 7y ago
How much keto/carno red meat is raised in such an idyllic settings? Most red meat is factory-raised and fed tons of those artificially fertilized/pest-controlled grains, belching massive amounts of methane before getting trucked a
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by losteric 7y ago
> Now you can hear notifications and alerts, turn on compatible smart lights, or call a friend, all without pulling out your phone. They’re designed to keep you in the moment—so you never miss one. wow, I just had to laugh at this market
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by losteric 7y ago
And this is the canonical example of why Twitter gets it wrong :) I'm not talking about myself. Never even remotely implied it. HN is filled with the 0.1% that truly are experts on individual topics. You'll find people that wrote
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by losteric 7y ago
HN has a lot of smart people. People don't like being fact checked, especially when they believe they discovered something significant until experts show it was a basic misunderstanding.
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by losteric 7y ago
You're still paying for the garbage you don't use
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by losteric 7y ago
1/2: ensure drone operators are familiar with the other rules. imo licensing should be required to purchase a drone with much stronger punishments against unlicensed operators, otherwise idiot operators will result in further regulatio
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by losteric 7y ago
Obviously, key-value stores aren't a new thing... but pushing that abstraction to hardware offers far better latency.
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by losteric 7y ago
Depends on delivery density. Apartment complex with loads of items delivered each day? Makes sense, though packaging is still environmental overhead. Lots of single family homes ordering individual items distributed across suburbia? Less ef
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by losteric 7y ago
So that's as far as you got? Didn't like the domain, therefore the study results are bunk? 75% of the authors are affiliated with other institutions, only 3 are with the National Institute on Drug Abuse. NIDA itself is well-ground
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by losteric 7y ago
It's a peer reviewed study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. If you take issue with the study, state why - don't ignorantly reject the results because you think the scientist's employer's name sounds biased.
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by losteric 7y ago
Minimizing emigration due to rapidly rising cost of living.
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by losteric 7y ago
Do economic models distinguish consumer confidence from ignorance?
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by losteric 7y ago
The way San Francisco and Seattle run affordable housing is just tossing scrapes to the poor so businesses can retain cheap labor. They do nothing to maintain communities, just token diversity. Sustainable affordability is achieved at the
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by losteric 7y ago
Seems more like a tangential complaint about general societal ignorance of that fact... and the title seems to be phrased as clickbait for people that believe in the cholesterol boogieman.
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by losteric 7y ago
Listening to or participating in technical conversations is just regular business, but the proposal of looking over someone's shoulder sounds very distracting and unnecessary...
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by losteric 7y ago
Amazon is customer obsessed in the same way that Google does no evil.
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by losteric 7y ago
"Hey man, what did you do this weekend?" - "Not much, my husband and I went up to the cabin to spend some time hunting and fishing" For normal adults, that's just someone sharing their pleasant weekend... but others
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by losteric 7y ago
Eh... it's turning out that Netflix just introduced a new medium for cable. Now that every content owner is starting their own services, we're losing the thing that made Netflix revolutionary: loads of quality and diverse content
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by losteric 7y ago
Medical Medium is bullshit. Dude claims a spirit from the future psychically communicates advanced medical knowledge to him alone... garbage like celery water curing autoimmune diseases. His website has an extensive legal medical disclaimer
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by losteric 7y ago
I'm not sure that situation was worse, considering how much more accessible e-cigarettes are in comparison. The experience of smoking was a big deterrent to nicotine addiction.
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by losteric 7y ago
Maybe. Or, Pinterest is just a narrowly scoped and realistic product while this audience is more interested in pie in the sky ideas.
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by losteric 7y ago
However, the collapse of unprofitable unicorns will propagate across tech. Reduced investments in start-ups and tech companies with risky ventures translates to increased labor supply, which means downward pressure on compensation across th
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by losteric 7y ago
They lied to the public about side effects of their product. That's ridiculously illegal.
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by losteric 7y ago
> Amazon's code is not secret internally. That era is long gone. Internal-public is the default, but there are plenty of secret projects (private source/build artifacts)...
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by losteric 7y ago
Yes, what about Alphabet? Why is this mention relevant to the topic of whether Amazon is a monopoly?

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