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by mchusma 4y ago
I am pretty surprised they don't compete with Stripe. They have some Amazon pay thing I'd never use, but competing with Stripe seems obvious. Same with Twilio. They do kind of compete with them, but not really. Their managed airfl
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by mchusma 4y ago
Going to space is important, and we should strive to fill the sky with space structures housing trillions of people. Yes, the consequence will be a changed view, but the upside is so high, orders of magnitudes more people than have ever exi
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by mchusma 4y ago
We have everyone use a real photo in slack and emails. Over a hundred have been successful, without issue, without professional photographer. This is not as hard as others made it out to be.
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by mchusma 4y ago
No USB-C option that I could see. I currently have an Android with USB-C and a MacBook Air and having the same port for both devices is so luxurious when traveling. This plus an Anker charger/ battery hybrid means I never run out of ju
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by mchusma 4y ago
I am an online merchant. The visa Mastercard fees are enormously high, so not. We are not "happy to pay it". The 3% is not to cover any consumer protection, that cost is born by the merchants. When a dispute is made by a customer,
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by mchusma 4y ago
This article is so flawed in so many ways. The most obvious issue is failing to show the actual safety statistics! I mean, at least start with the obvious starting point: that nuclear energy's record is that it is one of the safest for
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by mchusma 4y ago
We want businesses and entrepreneurs to try new things with real estate, just like any market. I strongly believe that our physical spaces can get better/cheaper, but only if you allow investment and risk taking. The main issue at the
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by mchusma 4y ago
The FDA also currently has basically 2 statuses: "banned" and "covered by insurance". Making an intermediary step which is "not banned not covered", would allow things to progress faster. I'm ok with repor
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Lets Make Carbon Removal Easy(upgradingoptimism.com)
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by mchusma 4y ago
Returning the world to pre-industrial CO2 levels is likely cheaper than you think.
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This is not really like Nimble, it's more like Picard renderman
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by mchusma 4y ago
I hate the visa/Mastercard duolopy and the way people attempt to use the networks to regulate things. Card networks should be an open carrier to all, not subject to political whims. It's just too dangerous to have payments anythin
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by mchusma 4y ago
I use reclaim.ai to do the calendar sync. It works pretty well, worth a look.
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There are many good reasons for real estate to be an investment vehicle. You won't convince someone to build a new apartment building if they can't make money. In fact, we really really want people to build more, better housing. T
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by mchusma 4y ago
Jist noting that most of the cost was regulatory as well. So I am not really sure you can say the government "on the whole" helped it. I mean, just look at this approval timeline, totally insane. Hundreds of millions to get approv
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by mchusma 4y ago
I would hope we actively plan for much cheaper launches with Starship coming online. It seems like we can do many more projects, at lower cost and higher risk than before, because launch costs are low. Instead of $1-$10B projects focus on t
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by mchusma 4y ago
I cancelled Hulu for a few months simply because I was watching a romantic comedy and they showed a Horror commercial that was so gross that I cancelled on the spot. I don't like political ads, but there are good arguments for them. Ad
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by mchusma 4y ago
Hi, I am curious if you might consider publishing directly to the stores (Kindle) as a free book (or $0.99). It would make it easier for people to access. I am an engineer but failed to try and get a kindle book downloaded and read last nig
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by mchusma 4y ago
I personally was wrong in that I thought AVIF would be the last traditional codec, and future progress would come from ML based compression. But JPEGXL is very impressive. I do think we are close to the end of the road for this approach tho
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by mchusma 4y ago
This is an amazing change! Almost all credit card disputes I have seen are this category. This is a huge win for merchants and keep people honest.
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by mchusma 4y ago
I think unions for remote customer service roles would be counterproductive. Why would the company not just move the operation overseas? I don't like unions in most cases, but I honestly think it would be a really bad idea in this case
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by mchusma 4y ago
I was confused about the comment on Sherlock Holmes, apparently you do not need a license fee anymore (but this is as of 2014) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sherlock-holmes-no... The length of copyright is
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by mchusma 4y ago
The iPhone is still too thin. My wife has a brand new iphone and battery lasts about 8-10 hours in her normal use (she does a lot of text/photo/video but it is not continuous). An extra 50% battery would be an amazing win.
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by mchusma 4y ago
This seems like an insane law. I'm shocked it works at all. If a country wants to provide people insurance against sickness, totally fine. But to push it off on employers seems crazy. Let's say you are a small business, you have 1
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by mchusma 4y ago
I agree. We keep trying to cram things into the employee "bundle" which is just dumb. Want everyone to have healthcare? Just focus on that directly. Don't want people earning less than X per hour? Do that. Almost any attempt
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by mchusma 4y ago
I think I'm not surprised, and I share the sentiment, largely for 2 reasons: (A) I see Uber as significantly less "exploitive" than most or all other work relationships, and I think the term is quite frankly confusing, and (B
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by mchusma 4y ago
Uber and Lyft did incredible things in the aggregate to improve transportation, including getting horrible laws updated to be less horrible. I don't think they were perfect, but fighting against unjust laws is a very good thing, and I
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I agree here. Dealing with visa/Mastercard is the worst.
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If real estate is to be a good investment, it must become less affordable over time. The idea that real estate in general is a good investment is dangerous to our economy. The solution to housing is reducing subsidies and removing supply si
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by mchusma 4y ago
I would have 100% paid this on multiple occasions.

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