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by quartz 5y ago
...or maybe this time they missed?
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by quartz 5y ago
When we were hunting for baby names I found that fiction character naming books (ex: The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook) were really great for inspiration. They tend to focus on the perceived qualities of the names more t
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by quartz 5y ago
This is a good list! I do disagree with #8 and #9 though... #8: "just another kid among the other 10..." always seemed weird to me. There are tons of notable Peter's, John's, Anne's, and Olivia's in the world
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by quartz 5y ago
Same reason I bought a dashcam. "That's what insurance is for" is a LOT easier when you have some kind of video evidence of what happened. Anecdotal but investigative effort and interest from local police departments feels li
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by quartz 5y ago
In most cases salary is private more due to social customs and corporate interests than privacy concerns. If EVERYONES salary is public, I could see it serving the public interest in preventing wage disparity and discrimination. Even in th
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by quartz 5y ago
I guess at least partially because part of the rebrand was supposed to be that you won't need a facebook account anymore to do meta things so gating the video is a little off-brand now.
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by quartz 5y ago
https://meta.com is live as well. ...I can't tell if it's intentional that the page loads initially with the "facebook" brand in the uppper left and then quickly overwrites it with meta.
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by quartz 5y ago
I wonder if the goal is to consume the market so it's more difficult for other rental car companies to get Teslas? Personal anecdote but I already am generally willing to pay a slight premium for Hertz over other rental companies and w
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by quartz 5y ago
Makes sense. I'd wager a good chunk of rentals (especially business use) use under a single charge worth of mileage and the reduced maintenance fees are probably a big deal for Hertz.
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by quartz 5y ago
Sure, and there are also billions (?) of photos of the Mona Lisa, countless fakes, drawings, scribbles, desktop wallpapers, and posters sold. The owners of those things aren't holding priceless art they can resell but they do definitiv
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by quartz 5y ago
As a creator you absolutely CAN validate ownership of your creation uniquely from anything else ever minted. That's the whole point. Someone else can't just mint the same thing and pass the same digital validation. Example: If I
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by quartz 5y ago
Shouldn't it be that? I mean, isn't that a major success case if so? That's how the physical world works. You or I can scribble whatever we want on a piece of paper and the median value of those creations is $0. It doesn&#
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by quartz 5y ago
I don't follow Solana, but assuming their NFTs are the same as Ethereum's, the long-term potential value is the proof of ownership and the rights that may bring, not the image itself. I can take a picture of someone else's ba
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by quartz 5y ago
100%! Unfortunately even with 60+ years of us formally knowing this-- at least since WWII-- it's very difficult to fight the urge to blame and punish people for incidents. In many ways we're wired to do it and it FEELS GOOD to do
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by quartz 5y ago
Facebook has a very healthy approach to incident response (one of the reasons it's so rare for the site to go down at all despite the enormous traffic and daily code pushes). Unless there was some kind of nefarious intent, it's ve
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by quartz 5y ago
The inside boy at 8 o'clock. In position A he's there, in position B he's gone. Think of each position as a discrete state rather than thinking of it as "moving boys".
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by quartz 5y ago
To the folks who think this is some kind of rejection of remote work: even in a remote work era, having physical offices in cities makes a ton of sense so long as large numbers of people want to live there. In a city like New York, living d
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by quartz 5y ago
Surprisingly, they still only cost about $1.
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by quartz 5y ago
There's a surprisingly large supply of new old stock hotwheels cars at places like Target, walmart, and CVS. I picked up a few from the early 1980's the other day for $1.29 each or so. I do like that they're on average a li
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by quartz 5y ago
Setting up a local DNS server is super easy with unbound + pihole: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ .
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by quartz 5y ago
I'm curious what Lynx, which is curiously absent from this piece, did with hyperlinks since it was released in '92 I think?
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by quartz 5y ago
> Just make a standard ticket ecommerce site and add some functionalities for ticket resale. A generalized system for selling and validating ownership of digital things makes implementing ticketing easier than building an entire digital
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by quartz 5y ago
For a modest unreported profit, assuming you converted it back to USD at an exchange that reports to the IRS, you'll probably get a CP2000 in the mail many years later with your recalculated back taxes (probably assuming a $0 cost basi
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by quartz 5y ago
Obviously biased but I definitely think you can get good value out of a tool like Kintaba at your scale (if you're only using it within engineering it would actually have no cost since we're free for 5 or fewer users!). Kintaba is
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by quartz 5y ago
Nice to see articles like this describing a company's incident response process and the positive approach to incident culture via gamedays (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder at Kintaba[1], an incident management startup). Regarding game
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by quartz 5y ago
Awesome progress from Devin, Alex, and their growing team-- congrats!
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by quartz 5y ago
Not a collection but I'm a big fan of Uber's pitch deck[1] because it's not flashy at all but very straight to the point with a strong structure around "what investors need to know about a seed stage company" withou
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by quartz 5y ago
Not sure of your personal experience with this but mine was that the era before code reviews was mostly enabled by having often large teams of QA / SDETs who were burdened with finding the output of bad code and throwing bugs back at t
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by quartz 5y ago
Hi HN! Working on an incident management startup I’ve become pretty obsessed with discovering and reading public postmortem documents after major incidents, so I built https://postmortem.io as a way to try and better capture an
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Show HN: Discover and discuss incident postmortems from other companies(postmortem.io)
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