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by obblekk 3y ago
Not really. We have Stripe send a recharge reminder 7 days before it happens next month with an option to unsubscribe through Stripe subscription portal in 2ish clicks. No cancellation reason asked. I've done plenty of growth hacking b
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by obblekk 3y ago
There is a one time option (click one-time at top) and it is $35!
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by obblekk 3y ago
There is a one time option (just click the tab at top of screen that says one time). Alternatively, you can cancel immediately if you'd like. It's standard stripe portal with 2 clicks or so. You will get a renewal reminder 7 days
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by obblekk 3y ago
Hey I built getdispute.com to do literally exactly this: sue big companies in small claims court easily. First, I strongly recommend sending them a demand letter. You can generate one for free on getdispute.com/products/demand-let
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by obblekk 3y ago
This might be one of those cases where “legal but regulated” is better than driving people to seek the product from completely unregulated markets. Canada has many reasonable regulatory alternatives including: - condition libel protection t
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by obblekk 3y ago
Is it possible the German Green Party ends up destroying more of the environment than every other party would have?
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by obblekk 3y ago
Interesting learnings for me from this article: - Lego operates multiple $1B+ factories around the world - they are not just a design and marketing company - 1400 manufacturing jobs in Virginia expected - not just an automated thing. Anyone
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by obblekk 3y ago
It’s interesting the difference in trajectory between Facebook and Google right now and the impact of being founder led. Zuckerberg made a weird bet on metaverse… but also drove a real change in staffing levels unlike Google who has sat abs
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by obblekk 4y ago
Great write up, thanks for posting. I’ve been thinking of doing this for myself. One thought that’s haunting: how long before AI friends are more interesting and stimulating than any real person would be, leading people to prefer AI over hu
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by obblekk 4y ago
One level further: the historian asking questions is itself an AI meaning as soon as primary sources are provided, interesting history insights flow out.
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by obblekk 4y ago
This is a case where an algorithmic feed would make this into a truly amazing product. I don't want email spam from every follower, but do want to see the best snippets on substack. Super easy to create a for you page, given text conte
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by obblekk 4y ago
This is very impressive technology and engineering. However, I remain a bit skeptical of the business case for TPUs for 3 core reasons: 1) 100000x lower unit production volume than GPUs means higher unit costs 2) Slow iteration cycle - thes
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by obblekk 4y ago
Curious how you implemented this to be more reliable? Headless browsers or official APIs?
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by obblekk 4y ago
Worth remembering GPT3 was 10-20 times more expensive 2yrs ago. There's a super-moore's law type learning function going on here and I suspect in 1yr GPT4.5 will be the same cost as GPT3.5 today. It's insane... feels like iPh
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by obblekk 4y ago
The Fed is giving banks an infinite credit line at par value of their assets. This allows them to borrow and cash out any customer who wants, so long as they have assets. This program would have saved SVB last week. People may continue movi
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by obblekk 4y ago
Depositors who hold more than 250k in checking? The probably should be expected to be sophisticated capital managers rather than kept on safety wheels. The alternative is scarier: infinite deposit insurance exposes government to larger and
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by obblekk 4y ago
23% of the reserve, or $9.7B is held in cash. I think on Thursday, SVB saw cash outflow requests over $40b in one day. USDC peg is so far below 1 right now there will definitely be a lot of par arbitrage Monday trying to withdraw. Hopefully
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by obblekk 4y ago
The fact that they filed a last minute report on a Friday night speaks volumes about the amount of withdrawals they must be experiencing. This is about as strong as a signal they could put out to stop a possible run.
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by obblekk 4y ago
These are fair criticisms but imo miss Chomsky's much bigger point. From Chomsky's essay, 2 important lines: "Whereas humans are limited in the kinds of explanations we can rationally conjecture, machine learning systems
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by obblekk 4y ago
"Whereas humans are limited in the kinds of explanations we can rationally conjecture, machine learning systems can learn both that the earth is flat and that the earth is round. They trade merely in probabilities that change over time
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by obblekk 4y ago
2021: 1% 2022: 2.7% 2023: 4.6% 2024: 5.2% Federal employees pay seems to lag inflation by 1-2yrs (ex benefits, retirement). I think some people worry about government unfairly outcompeting private sector businesses for employees, but these
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by obblekk 4y ago
Yes completely agree. But, this car never even pretended to advertise driving itself. Most likely, it advertised plain, vanilla "cruise control." At best, it also advertised lane keeping and radar cruise control.
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by obblekk 4y ago
I used to drive this exact model and all it had was cruise control. I think it's relevant because back then Tesla did not advertise "FSD", whatever that means. If you look at my comment history, you can see I routinely critic
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by obblekk 4y ago
I completely agree with the irrational anger. It feels so unfair particularly when I put personal effort into providing a service. My business has some services which are expensive and ephemeral (phone calls, custom work, etc.) and sometime
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by obblekk 4y ago
Ironically, we are in the business of providing people court documents which they have to sign / notarize, and we still get this kind of chargeback behavior. In our case though, we've gotten quite good at writing these dispute let
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by obblekk 4y ago
Important to note, this was a 2014 Model S. Most 2014s did not have any autopilot (just standard cruise control), and the ones that did used an off the shelf module from a third party company.
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by obblekk 4y ago
Definitely. But people believe they won't get pulled over because the car will drive itself fine.
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by obblekk 4y ago
Someone I know drives an M series BMW and was considering a Tesla switch because his close friend in LA told him the autopilot is so good, he can now routinely drive home drunk (this was a guy in his mid 30s with a kid). As a result, my f
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by obblekk 4y ago
In case you ever find yourself with as much leverage as Figma seemingly had… always negotiate a break up fee to compensate for exactly this. T-Mobile famously got a $4B breakup fee after DOJ blocked ATT from acquiring them. That $4B was use
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by obblekk 4y ago
Interesting to see a different side to the benefits of Deno. Personally, I find direct Typescript interpretation to be one of the best features. Typescript is not necessarily a simple type system, but it is an expressive one: - It has great

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