okprod

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by okprod 5y ago
Before COVID I was remote but took a cab to an Amtrak for an 8 hour round trip once a month to the office. But yea I've been working from home for 18 months now..
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by okprod 5y ago
Does Prime make the fees for grocery delivery get much smaller/go away? If you have a Prime membership the Whole Foods delivery is free, though it's nice to tip the delivery person.
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by okprod 5y ago
Do you feel the same moral indignation about crimes committed in hotels? Yes. Sorry, I would share stats about Airbnb crimes with you but the company keeps most secret by paying people off. Second, if you want Airbnb compared to hotels, t
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by okprod 5y ago
What kind of doctor to you go to to get a diagnosis?
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by okprod 5y ago
So, is this just a HN thing (since engineer/STEM salaries are higher than the usual population) or do a lot of people order groceries? I live on the East coast in an apartment building, and from talking to neighbors and seeing the tr
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by okprod 5y ago
If Airbnb actually cared they would have invested in their operations already; Chesky giving "a promise to verify the photographs, amenities, cleanliness, and safety of all the listings on Airbnb", which the article notes is under
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by okprod 5y ago
That Airbnb take responsibility for its service offering end-to-end, in this case the key exchange. From the article it's obvious the company has no ethics and has tried to cover up shoddy/lax business practices from the beginning
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by okprod 5y ago
while Deep Mind has a huge financial temptation to sell snake oil I don't know, isn't the DeepMind founder that guy in the Go documentary? I read about him after watching the doc and he seemed to be pretty cautious about taking
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by okprod 5y ago
I've come to the conclusion that software managers are not needed I think some layer of management is needed for strategy, business operations, market positioning, etc., but they should get out of the way as much as possible, similar
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by okprod 5y ago
My parents physically beat me if I got less than A's; that just made me relish spending time on my own projects and interests away from their priorities.
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by okprod 5y ago
This is a serious question. I know what they're doing/why, but GCC's structure and ability to handle legal situations isn't like the Linux Foundation.
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by okprod 5y ago
I really hope GCC consulted with a lawyer before this
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by okprod 5y ago
and to stick to your principles for as long as Matt has. Technically he subtly shifted from supporting free software to open source. Just pointing that out, not making a big deal about terminology or anything as WP is still GPL'ed.
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by okprod 5y ago
Agreed. I know a number of small business owners who prefer Squarespace for the ease of use and integration, and they've never thought about lock-in as a dealbreaker. I know some entrepreneurs and nonprofits who prefer WordPress for th
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by okprod 5y ago
I still remember the talk he gave where he wants to build self-sustaining (to the extent possible) habitats in space where people can work, live, etc.
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by okprod 5y ago
The risk the author talks about can be somewhat mitigated by establishing governance policies beforehand.
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by okprod 5y ago
Very interesting. A coworker hired a professional doula and their home birth went well. I'm not sure yet what we would do.
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by okprod 5y ago
even if that means a chunk of legitimate mail gets marked as spam Obviously a personal anecdote, but I signed up for Gmail close to when it first came out, and I don't think I've ever had a legitimate piece of mail marked as spa
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by okprod 5y ago
That's interesting; back when I was in high school I learned Logo, BASIC, then C++.
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by okprod 5y ago
Abbott should work at Comcast and supervise outage communications.
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by okprod 5y ago
Tiktok has a different user base; they don't use email, phone, or SMS anymore, instead relying on Snapchat and WhatsApp, etc.
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by okprod 5y ago
Very different in 90s AOL. "a/s/l" was the norm and everyone had a profile
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by okprod 5y ago
They're nonprofit, so the revenue possibilities are endless -- activating program participants into donors like you say, corporate sponsorship, foundation grants, partnerships with academic institutions, special events, etc.
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by okprod 5y ago
What's that have to do with UBI? I'm confused.
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by okprod 5y ago
I have colleagues in relevant sectors in China and they were telling me about lab origins when this first started last year. I didn't believe them but I'm not qualified to really have an opinion on the matter.
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by okprod 5y ago
I try to stop being exposed to any electronic displays an hour before going to bed. There's enough to do, like meditate, read a bit, make lunch/es, shower, etc.
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by okprod 5y ago
They made a mistake. I think they made more than one mistake. Overall, I think this situation really paints Jason in a bad light; I used to use Basecamp, but I actually know him more from all his interviews and writings about management a
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by okprod 5y ago
I thought there were apps out there that combined all your incoming communications into one screen but maybe not. I started with the Blackberry 957 through the 8700 and really miss the unified inbox, BBM, BrickBreaker, and the jogwheel on t
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by okprod 5y ago
The aliens from The Abyss are actually back
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by okprod 5y ago
$80B isn't enough to overhaul US train infrastructure and all the related challenges, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it ends up going to high-bid/low-result vendors. Other countries have had high speed rail for 10-50

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