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by reeddavid 7y ago
There are many calls for personal responsibility here. But I think the average person is not making a choice to sustain permanent hearing damage – most people don't know the risks. I used to own a decible meter. I brought it to a movie
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by reeddavid 7y ago
I have followed the crowdfund-launched Nebia shower, which looks like a similar mist technology: https://nebia.com I’ve been curious about it, but it’s kind of hard to try a permanently installed plumbing fixture without buying
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by reeddavid 7y ago
This looks awesome, just tried it out on Poshmark (they don't have a feature to alert me when new items in my size are listed). I was a huge fan of Kimono Labs before they stopped operating, and this serves a similar purpose for me. I
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by reeddavid 7y ago
This is incredibly abrupt. They pulled the plug with rentals still active! What a bummer. I was disappointed when I learned about the merger of the ReachNow / Car2Go parent companies, because I predicted one of them would shut down the
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by reeddavid 7y ago
Ha, in the time since I posted the parent comment, I got a typical email from Poshmark: Subject: 'Score DISCOUNTS on your likes TODAY' Email says "These discounts won’t last long, so snag items before they’re gone." Call
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by reeddavid 7y ago
I've seen services that "clone" your favorite jeans. But it's incredibly expensive to make one-off jeans. The last time I bought jeans I picked up 7 identically-cut pairs at once in a few different washes and colors, for
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by reeddavid 7y ago
The praise here is over the top. Poshmark is a peer-to-peer clothing marketplace – think eBay, but focused mostly on used or one-off pieces of clothing. Poshmark has incredible potential given the huge amount of quality clothing inventory,
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by reeddavid 8y ago
kimonolabs – cloud-hosted web scraping, configured in a browser-based UI. It would let you make a GET request to your scraper, which would live-scrape the web and return structured data. They were acquired by Palantir, and kimonolabs shut d
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by reeddavid 8y ago
Quality prefabricated homes and apartments are a great idea. There's a negative association with prefabricated homes, but I've seen a lot of newer companies that seem to be focusing on quality and efficiency, often targeting the h
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by reeddavid 9y ago
When was Apple great? Snow Leopard 10.6. Most of the early OS X problems were resolved: Pretty much any printer you bought would work instantly; there was a healthy ecosystem of well-supported native apps; bundled apps worked well and used
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by reeddavid 9y ago
When I worked in UPS operations, Peak season (generally starting in August / September when retail stores started stocking up, and building to full force in December) saw volume approximately double. It's pretty hard to fine-tune
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Paypal offers a separate fee structure for micropayments: PayPal's micropayments price is 5% + $.05 and is designed for merchants who process low-value transactions (typically under $10 in value). The micropayments rate is available t
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Yep, I'm with you. I use Shure SE846 earbuds, and even though the dongle supposedly uses a DAC chip identical to the DAC in the iPhone 6, the audio is noticeably flatter and less enjoyable. Since the chip is the same, I figure it must
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Yes, it's a huge inconvenience. I got the iPhone 7 knowing it didn't have a headphone jack. What I didn't realize was how awful the adapter would be (I have two, both have problems). I barely use headphones anymore, because t
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by reeddavid 9y ago
If you're talking about a checking or savings account, you can safely close it without it affecting your credit score. Closing a credit account could affect your score, but unless your checking account has a credit product attached (
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Wireless does have some features of a natural monopoly. In order to compete with Verizon Wireless, you need access to a finite amount of wireless spectrum. The FCC auctions off exclusive access to the wireless spectrum, so you can't ju
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Yes, and counterfeit books have also been sold through third party sellers who don't have the Buy Box – it's a problem independent of the Buy Box.
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Yes, Amazon definitely has a counterfeit problem. But that's not a problem with the buy box. If it were, then Amazon could say to publishers, "We fixed the counterfeit book problem, now customers have to click on another link to b
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by reeddavid 9y ago
Oh I absolutely agree, nothing wrong with people selling review copies. My point was that review copies for sale is an entirely separate issue from which seller wins the Amazon Buy Box.
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by reeddavid 9y ago
This was a terrible article. The complaints have nothing to do with the buy box. I can think of three ways that "publishers aren't getting paid" could be true: 1) Books are stolen 2) Books are counterfeit 3) Books were purcha
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by reeddavid 9y ago
You're right. Just because everyone uses it, doesn't mean it's "good". By making most ads free, Craigslist dominates the market even though they have a poor product. Take these examples: - Buy a car. Poor make/
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by reeddavid 10y ago
I've had the same problem with kitchen strainers, bike seats, and microphone stands. Hundreds (thousands?) of nearly-identical products on Amazon, all private-labeled, most with questionable reviews. Zero confidence that it's a go
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by reeddavid 10y ago
> who goes to ebay before just buying the item from Amazon I do, all the time. For one, the exact same products are often cheaper on eBay. Second, it's much easier to discover the right items on eBay. Amazon search/sort/fi
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by reeddavid 10y ago
The environmental costs are one thing, and those could be served by carbon taxes. But that doesn't address the congestion costs or the infrastructure costs. Ideally we'd separately tax each thing appropriately: Tax carbon to accou
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by reeddavid 10y ago
I really enjoyed Blendle for a while, but I found that I frequently ended up paying for articles on the Blendle platform that I could have accessed for free from the publisher.
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by reeddavid 10y ago
The FedEx you're probably thinking of is the Express division. It's the original service oriented around high-priority packages getting places quickly via plane. This part of the company uses purple/orange colors, and is staf
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by reeddavid 13y ago
Google often ignores quotes. I've had success using "intext:someword" (without quotes) to force Google to only return results that include someword.