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by ptmcc 4y ago
Same experience. I put two notes in my profile, 1) that I have very fair skin so whites and off-whites are not a good look on me. 2) no polos, ever. My first box arrived with a white polo and a cream beanie. Could not cancel faster.
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Everyone is seizing on the opportunity to clean house and cut costs while the macro narrative is bearish. Investors and shareholders are demanding it. The days of cheap money are coming to a close so jus
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by ptmcc 4y ago
I love Mazda for resisting the touchscreen-everything car interior. Everything in my 2021 CX-5 is physical buttons and knobs. The design and ergonomics are just fantastically nice and usable. Like you said, the infotainment is also not a to
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by ptmcc 4y ago
I don't see how this addresses non-competes at all. Also that is already how many sign-on bonuses work. Retention is only tangentially related to non-competes. People leave for all sorts of reasons. If a company wants to restrict what
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by ptmcc 4y ago
It's because for many Americans their house is by far their largest asset. For some it's their only meaningful asset and basically is their net worth. A decline in housing prices is a decline in wealth. Now I am not saying that is
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by ptmcc 4y ago
They may want to stay out of assisted care facilities, but late life decline makes independent living difficult to impossible for many. They may try to put it off as long as possible, but it will catch up to them. And then it does not take
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Caring about licenses, fair use, and copyright has been deeply ingrained in the open source and hacker community for literally decades.
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Your response perfectly illustrates the point OP was making
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Indeed, and more like 20 out of the last 1.
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Cabin usability and ergonomics are a huge selling point. CarPlay & HUDs are just one piece of that, but it a critical piece of the overall usability experience. Getting into a car that has a pre-CarPlay infotainment system feels like st
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Motorcycles can be insanely efficient, some pretty ordinary ones achieve well over 100mpg. But internal combustion engines themselves are pretty maxed out on efficiency, in the mid 30% range. At least in the US, motorcycles are more often t
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by ptmcc 4y ago
But that is also key to the problem: the cost to convert these buildings is already prohibitively expensive, and converting them into dormitories cannot possibly recoup the cost. It's like how sometimes it just doesn't make sense
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Most offices have physical layouts that make conversion to residential difficult to impossible. Big things like lots of interior square footage without windows and plumbing only to a few central locations. And while some or even most of thi
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by ptmcc 4y ago
It was disastrously unreliable, and they knew it, and got sued for fraud over it. So they don't use a cheap DCT anymore.
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Strava and Ridewithgps are great for routing bike rides, and derive much of their routing priority from how popular roads and paths are from recorded gps tracks of their users. Still not perfect, since cycling route quality is ultimately a
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by ptmcc 4y ago
The Wall Street guys have piled in running schemes that they are unable to do in the normal banking world because it is regulated & insured. Most of the regulations have come from centuries of banking history, which the crypto world see
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Good news, you'll get both!
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by ptmcc 4y ago
> As usual, we on HN are incredibly out of touch. Yeah, I know that to be true, but those 4% of old reddit users have probably been the longest and most active reddit users from the days when reddit was more like HN. I understand why red
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by ptmcc 4y ago
The moment they kill/break old.reddit.com is the moment I quit reddit for good Unless they magically release a not horrible new UI, which I'm not holding my breath for
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by ptmcc 4y ago
It used to be, but the push for monetization has poisoned that well. I don't know what comes after reddit but I'm keeping my eyes and ears open. Had a reddit recruiter reach out to me recently looking for engineering leadership fo
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by ptmcc 4y ago
I wish I had your unimpeachable knowledge and foresight of which small fraction of startups will not only succeed, but succeed so much that your options will actually be worth something meaningful. I would wish you the best of luck, but sou
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by ptmcc 4y ago
The vast, vast majority of startup options are worth less than toilet paper. To say nothing of the shenanigans like dilution and liquidation preferences that will screw you. They are lottery tickets at best. Yes, sure, someone sometimes win
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Per account type per bank, importantly. And SIPC covers brokerage accounts up to $500k.
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by ptmcc 4y ago
Something is very wrong with your bike if you are frequently "trashing" your gears. I've been riding bikes for 30 years and have never had to walk due to drivetrain failure. As long as the drivetrain is set up well initially,
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Even Microsoft itself doesn't pay top of market anymore. They are increasingly known as one of the lower paying "big tech" companies.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Sounds absolutely dreadful
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by ptmcc 5y ago
I'm not even competitive, but my tracker devices are hugely motivational for me. And having useful metrics like heart rate as a tachometer for my body is immensely valuable for all sorts of activities. I'm healthier and more activ
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by ptmcc 5y ago
All of those uses have been common in standard American English for decades if not longer. Singular they is nothing new at all.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Many/most of the built-in interfaces of smart TVs are slow, buggy, and ad/tracker-ridden and have a limited upgrade path, if any. Since there are effectively no dumb TVs on the market anymore, I bought a fancy Sony TV with Android
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Completely agree, and reminds me of how much I hate the common Agile terminology of "sprints". Sprints are an extraordinary effort and are by definition not sustainable. If you run a sprint, you have to recover for at least as lon

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