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by meritt 8y ago
Ah, totally missed that. Thank you
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Pixel 2 is nearly identical in size to iPhone XS, both of which are 40% larger than iPhone SE.
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by meritt 8y ago
The X2 is two years older than the iPhone SE and the successor (Z3) is 45% larger. I'm not sure how anyone can reasonably conclude it's a replacement.
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> Apple seems to have underestimated iPhone SE demand to a significant degree I would love to purchase a new iPhone (or Android) if they were to make a new device with a comparable form factor to the SE. Instead, everything has progresse
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by meritt 8y ago
More work? Simply park it in one of (yields as of Dec '18): * VMRXX - Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund, ~2.4% yield, fully taxable * VUSXX - Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund, ~2.2% yield, no state tax * VMSXX - Vanguard Municipal Mo
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by meritt 8y ago
I've had a draft email to myself for the past 12 years titled "Cool Ideas" and update it accordingly.
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Oh, I completely agree with your sentiment but I don't think that means it has to be hosted remotely. No reason you shouldn't be able to download a packaged web binary to run locally. I wonder if webassembly supports that notion o
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I hope you're right. We've had this capability for quite some time but for some reason it never takes off. Bastion released a version for Chrome's native client 7 years ago, the game ran amazingly well, but that version of th
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by meritt 8y ago
There was a bit of discussion back when this bill was introduced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524928
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by meritt 8y ago
I didn't want to come across as advertising any particular entity but they are organizations [1] that are registered in every state, provide benefits, retirement plans, payroll, etc. They technically hire your employees for you, and th
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by meritt 8y ago
> Imagine if every single state required every alcohol manufacturer to have a full operation in every state. You should try running a startup that hires remote workers. We already have to deal with this when it comes to taxation, filings
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A number of years ago, The Onion did a great parody piece [1] on how Facebook is ran by the CIA [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPaTy2iJTM
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There are numerous ways to fix the glaring flaws in this analysis but a very simple approach would be using regex word boundaries, that way it'll work not only for the space but for commas, periods, end-of-line, etc.
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I am not misunderstanding you. Your entire comment was centered around a perceived unfairness regarding price: > most expensive version of their OS. > they charge hundreds and hundreds of dollars for. To be clear here, I'm not de
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While your statement is reasonable, it's interesting seeing a Mac user complain about things being too expensive. Is it fundamentally worse to overcharge for software over the hardware?
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The source is IndieHackers which is owned by Stripe. I'm assuming the startups must register and opt-in to have their revenue numbers published? e.g. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/tettra/revenue
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by meritt 8y ago
When Sprint did numerous layoff rounds in 2004-2010, they paid out 2-weeks per year of service and capped it at 52 weeks.
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by meritt 8y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Spectrum, anyone mind summarizing the key features/differentiation? It looks similar to Slack or Discord, with a focus on discoverable open communities as opposed to private organizations, and
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by meritt 8y ago
While this post is supposed to be about GraphQL, it seems to focus more about the benefits of having a centralized request broker / gateway for your APIs and nothing unique to GraphQL. Their rule of "AVOID NESTING OBJECTS, JUST RE
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by meritt 8y ago
There's been a definite surge the past 4 years [1] however I think at least part of that is due to growth of extremely capable MySQL forks (MariaDB and Percona) [2]. [1] https://www.hntrends.com/2018/oct-react-hold
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by meritt 8y ago
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ It happens every year during Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook events.
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No, it still triggers a taxable event. "In general, the sale or exchange of convertible virtual currency, or the use of convertible virtual currency to pay for goods or services in a real-world economy transaction, has tax consequences
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They intentionally provide this information to marketplace sellers. It's arguably poor design but it's definitely not an unintentional security flaw. Marketplace/FBA sellers have talked about strategies for utilizing customer
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Another really amazing spot on Orkney is Maeshowe, it's a neolithic cairn (from ~3000 BC) but Vikings in the 12th century looted and desecrated it with a bunch of runic graffiti [1]. It's really cool to experience two facets of hi
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As someone who runs a very successful data business on a simple stack (php, cron, redis, mariadb), I definitely agree. We've avoided the latest trends/tools and just keep humming along while outperforming and outdelivering our com
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> Google can't index Facebook content or Twitter content even though it's public They index plenty of their content [1][2]. What they don't index is content not explicitly marked as "Public". e.g. Facebook posts
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How was Machinio impacting your business? They appear to act as a metasearch engine and were scraping listings/imagery without permission. As you don't publicize the dealer contact info, presumably buyers still ended up on your si
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by meritt 8y ago
How do you feel about Uber? They arguably don't have a sustainable competitive advantage either. Yet they're somehow looking at a $120B IPO next year.
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TIL that Medium posts have a discussion section.
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Restaurants: Tripadvisor, Google, Zagat Service Providers: Homeadvisor, Angie's List

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