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by mrobins 4y ago
It would be a big boost to the city both economically and culturally if more people went back to offices. That said, he’s not going to make it happen by guilt or shaming people for staying in their PJs. The city need to do more to help land
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by mrobins 4y ago
I use both in different applications. Overall SES is no-frills but does exactly what it says it will. Deliverability is on par with SendGrid assuming your traffic is legitimate and not spammy. The main difference is that SES lacks significa
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One week until Uber, Lyft strike at LaGuardia Airport(gothamist.com)
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by mrobins 4y ago
https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/10/sim-swap-sc...
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by mrobins 4y ago
Insane that this is how far cost cutting has come.
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by mrobins 4y ago
Separating entitlements from SKUs makes a lot of sense and definitely saves a lot of engineering edge case nightmares around renewals. It also gets super messy after a couple years of pricing iterations. Eventually your plan distribution do
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by mrobins 4y ago
It’s not that anyone is describing his youth in an effort to render him blameless. They are reinforcing this image of him as aloof and practically just out of college in a way that softens public opinion and could lead to lighter sentencing
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by mrobins 4y ago
Here in NYC (and I’m sure elsewhere in the US) there was a movement to end tipping policies for all of the reasons noted here. For a short time it succeeded for well known and established restaurants. Prominent restauranteur Danny Meyer sig
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David Crosby, iconoclastic rocker, dead at 81(rollingstone.com)
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by mrobins 4y ago
Agree in spirit but I think companies actually need to be extremely competent and consumer/privacy focused to ensure data collected NEVER leave their testing environment. It takes constant vigilance and sadly the incentives aren’t ther
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by mrobins 4y ago
> What's wrong with a stable long-term business that makes founders and customers happy? And employees.
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by mrobins 4y ago
Confirmed by AWS: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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by mrobins 4y ago
Works from my computer but not my phone (AT&T in NY).
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by mrobins 4y ago
We're experiencing issues for some users but not all connecting to resources in US East 2.
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by mrobins 4y ago
I would generally agree but this position seems unique enough to warrant some latitude.
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by mrobins 4y ago
To quote the article: > Bankman-Fried has decided to “confuse, evade, distort.” Even if you believe he's smart enough to build a massive exchange that takes in billions of dollars of customer money but is too incompetent to institut
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by mrobins 4y ago
Every time I start wondering if I’m too dogmatic about avoiding smart home products…
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by mrobins 4y ago
As a contrarian who doesn't love WFH this is spot on. A purpose-built place designed just for working where I can be hyper productive - yes please! Being able to focus while I work but collaborate/socialize/have lunch with co
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by mrobins 4y ago
This is entirely anecdotal but recently many top results in DDG read like they’re written by GPT-3 or the like. Half coherent sprawls of text that contain lots of random factoids but nothing novel or that actually answers the question.
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by mrobins 4y ago
Surely this is partially a calculated move to further reduce headcount/expenses.
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by mrobins 4y ago
Respectfully disagree. An obligation to maintain a service in perpetuity for no revenue becomes a huge unfunded liability. What if the app falls out of favor and new marginal revenue can’t cover fixed costs? What if the business wants to in
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by mrobins 4y ago
They have a web client that might be easily scraped.
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by mrobins 4y ago
Spotify’s user experience seems especially designed to de-emphasize choice. Over time their home pages have increasingly promoted playlists vs individual artists or albums. They’ve definitely worked hard to make the “playing like” algorithm
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by mrobins 4y ago
If you mean the infotainment system or head unit, I think lots of people place a very high value on usability. Depending on much you rely on navigation or use apps for audio, high quality UI goes a long way. Fortunately if you also want to
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by mrobins 4y ago
I don’t know but I’m interested in trying Qobuz. They have supposedly personalized recommendations but I don’t know if they’re any good or algorithmic vs editorial. That said one of the main appeals is they’re just focused on music rather t
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Ask HN: Why is Spotify playing so many covers?
9 points by mrobins 4y ago|14 comments
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Instagram update plays sound for Stories even when phone is silent(newsweek.com)
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by mrobins 4y ago
Three things I love about cron: - hot keys/command palette for everything - great functions to view and schedule across my team - an app (yes, electron…) not a website It also does lots of other nifty things like creating individual ca
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by mrobins 4y ago
Sure donating to PACs can have positive impacts but it also fuels what has made politics so bad: a back and forth ever-growing battle for absurd campaign war chests.
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Plaid Cofounder Buys NorCal Bank, Renames It “Column”(wsj.com)
1 points by mrobins 4y ago|0 comments

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