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by pb7 4y ago
Increasing sales by reducing the obstacle of not having all of the money now.
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by pb7 4y ago
WeChat is almost entirely used by Chinese people. It doesn't have broad penetration in the US unlike TikTok.
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by pb7 4y ago
Name something that you find groundbreaking and I too can reduce it down to something mundane. Leaps in performance across all metrics in an existing thing is groundbreaking, especially when it’s just the beginning. On a practical level, it
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by pb7 4y ago
If my 6 figure tax contribution is not worth much, can I keep it? I'll even go back to using debit cards to make it fair.
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by pb7 4y ago
It's not a downside. The credit card didn't make you spend money you didn't have, you did.
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by pb7 4y ago
The taxes of those who are eligible for credit cards pay for the poor. So what?
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by pb7 4y ago
That’s why most innovation is coming out of the US. Gotta have consumers to be anti-consumer and to continue to have consumers you need products worth using. Europe has none. Just worse local copies of ideas that have been pioneered elsewhe
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by pb7 4y ago
Your paid account has an agreement not to use your data to improve the service for others. This is an experiment the purpose of which is to collect usage data to improve the service. What's confusing about that?
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by pb7 4y ago
YouTube has a paid option and even here on HN, the mecca of anti-ad sentiment, people openly admit to using ad blockers there instead even though that means the creators they're watching do not get paid. Hint: People are cheap. They wa
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by pb7 4y ago
Waymo is far in the lead. Best track record, transparent reporting, and actually on the road driving passengers around without a driver in the car.
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by pb7 4y ago
Waymo is driving passengers around a real city without a driver in the car as a service. Automatically changing lanes is cute by comparison.
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by pb7 4y ago
What's stopping someone from exporting it?
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by pb7 4y ago
Ok, since they don’t care about IP, where can I find all their source code?
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by pb7 4y ago
Ok, where’s their source code?
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by pb7 4y ago
European work culture is extremely weak. Where are all the European tech giants? The only reason American companies hire Europeans is because 1/3rd of the cost justifies the low productivity.
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by pb7 4y ago
Apple has a lot of contractors working in roles that companies like Google and Meta opt for FTEs instead so it's similar.
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by pb7 4y ago
But search wasn’t.
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by pb7 4y ago
Because they have 1.4B people? China != people of Chinese ethnicity. Your name doesn’t change when you immigrate somewhere.
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by pb7 4y ago
Generalizing millions of people makes you an actual asshole. Kindly leave, this place is not for you.
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by pb7 4y ago
Someone tell the people working at startups.
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by pb7 4y ago
Canadian airlines are not special. Air Canada has a negative operating income. They don't make shit. Since you seem to be missing the point, let me make it simple for you. If you have 100 passengers and two plane types, one can seat 10
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by pb7 4y ago
Pay for a lie flat seat and stop whining then. You have that option on flights that are 9 hours.
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by pb7 4y ago
You don’t seem to understand how this business works so let me explain. Air travel prices have been dropped significantly over the last few decades. What used to be a luxury reserved for the wealth can now enjoyed by folks paying as little
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by pb7 4y ago
It is about cost to airlines but to call out the cramped conditions in the same breath as carbon emissions when the cramped conditions reduce overall carbon emissions immediately gave away that the OP doesn’t give one shit about climate c
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by pb7 4y ago
I get it, you were saying it for effect, but this statement: >if our descendants learn that we traded butterflies for 9 hour plane flights for business meetings Makes it seem like that's all flights are good for. It's not any d
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by pb7 4y ago
Doesn’t matter because he’s not the one making grand assertions. It’s ok to criticize research, especially when it’s limited.
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by pb7 4y ago
I can confidently say the majority of fliers are not traveling for work. This is a strawman.
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by pb7 4y ago
>Crammed between people and hardly being able to move for hours Do you know why it's so cramped? To maximize the number of people on the flight and therefore reduce the per-passenger carbon emissions and cost. I can tell you've
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by pb7 4y ago
Not caring what people think doesn't mean he can't communicate with others. Introvert doesn't mean asocial.
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by pb7 4y ago
>developer-unfriendly This is where you lose me. Go to any tech company with pockets deep enough to afford whatever hardware its employees want and the vast majority will have MacBook Pros running macOS.

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