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by rsanek 5y ago
It's possible you didn't pick the "remember me" option -- the network effect I get is that once I've used that payment network once, I can one-click purchase from any other merchant on the network (that is, I skip t
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by rsanek 5y ago
Have you ever used Shop Pay or Square checkout (the online version)? There is actually a massive network effect.
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by rsanek 5y ago
How many of the companies listed there have a >$10b valuation?
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by rsanek 5y ago
> people have never been happier I always have trouble with this assertion. How do we actually know this? Do we feel that the surveys that are being given can even accurately measure happiness, and that the responses are comparable over
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by rsanek 5y ago
> Decades ago it was normal for a good university to be nearly free or at least quite affordably by the student working part time to pay their way. Here's a few graphs that show this more explicitly: https://www.buzzfeedn
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by rsanek 5y ago
I think the secret is to go with much larger monitors and blow up the text size. Right now I'm typing this on a M1 MBP plugged into a curved 48" 4K TV that I use as a monitor. I can have the text scaled about 3-4x as large (physic
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by rsanek 5y ago
Do you have a source for this being considered a felony?
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by rsanek 5y ago
> using AWS is fine, as long as you use cloud agnostic stuff and avoid AWS specific services This is the worst of both worlds. You get the expense of AWS but without any of the things that would make the cost worth it. IMO you should eit
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by rsanek 5y ago
I think we should assume the distribution is pretty non-normal. Feels to me like performance in many careers, especially so knowledge work, follows a power law. There's pretty good evidence for it: http://www.hermanaguinis.c
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by rsanek 5y ago
You know it's a sad state of affairs when you assume the article will be about physical mail spam but it's actually about phone spam. Could have just as easily been about email newsletter spam you somehow get auto signed up for al
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by rsanek 5y ago
When talking about investments, "profit" is generally a synonym for "net income." Of course, many people may disagree on which specific income measure should really be used to represent the general concept of profit, but
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by rsanek 5y ago
You may be looking at "trailing 12 months" -- take a look at the quarterly charts, which do indeed report profits.
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by rsanek 5y ago
> They're not turning a profit now Uber turned a profit in 2021Q2. [0] Twitter now has had many profitable quarters. [1] Of course, cumulatively, they are both money-losing, but I think the perception of these businesses as only hav
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by rsanek 5y ago
Feels to me like there's some pretty big leaps being made in the assertions. Just one example: >Taxi demand is sociologically bipolar; 35 percent of users have incomes over $100,000 and 55 percent have incomes under $40,000. Thus, o
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by rsanek 5y ago
Version without broken images: https://www.promarket.org/2019/11/20/the-uber-bubble-why-is-...
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by rsanek 5y ago
While not in the same section as posted above, the ~same limitations apply. Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time shall ride as close as prac
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by rsanek 5y ago
It's counter-intuitive, but the data [0][1] is quite clear that laws like these significantly improve safety for bicyclists. I found this video [2] useful in understanding what might be going on. [0] https://www.bikede.org&#
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by rsanek 5y ago
I found this article to be very useful in taking stronger ownership of my own safety as a bicyclist: https://iamtraffic.org/engineering/behaviors-and-risk/
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by rsanek 5y ago
I'm not sure what the laws are in the rest of the country / world, but at least in California you cannot simply take the full lane as a cyclist at any time. There are specific situations where you can -- such as to avoid a hazard
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by rsanek 5y ago
Interesting video. I learned from the comments that in the US, the maximum assisted speed for something to still be considered an "electric bicycle" is 28mph, ≃ 45kmh [0]. Bikes that can go this fast are actually not allowed on bi
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by rsanek 5y ago
Do you have thoughts or resources on comparing the two types of readings?
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by rsanek 5y ago
Hmm this is a great catch. The figures quoted in their Methods and Results ("from 135±2 mm Hg to 126±3 mm Hg") don't seem to match any in Table 2.
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by rsanek 5y ago
Looks like the ones used in the study are an order of magnitude more expensive than the ones on amazon. Amazon (Plus model), $70: https://www.amazon.com/POWERbreathe-Fitness-Breathing-Traine... From manufacturer (K3 model),
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by rsanek 5y ago
>you'll get users who you have to take responsibility for Why's that? Can't you just provide the service as-is? I have a project that has user accounts and when people ask me for features or support, I either don't re
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by rsanek 5y ago
>There are always some heresies — some opinions you'd be punished for expressing. But there are a lot more now than there were a few decades ago I see this sentiment expressed often to the point where it seems to just be accepted as
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by rsanek 5y ago
> cram It's interesting that this read to you as cramming. To me, the mention of the use of Anki (spaced repetition) as well as his approach to revisiting past questions he had trouble with suggested the opposite.
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by rsanek 5y ago
I've long thought that it might be interesting for an interview model to emerge where a trial period of weeks/months is the expectation. I think this might resolve much of the current frustration with programming inteviews. But I
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by rsanek 5y ago
While I'd agree that few companies are simply looking for the "cheapest," I think we've seen ample evidence that businesses will go to great lengths (even to the point of breaking the law [1]) to reduce salaries. [1] ht
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Tell HN: Levels.fyi is selling your salary data to companies for $1200/month
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by rsanek 5y ago
The colloquial usage of "automated" isn't literally "no humans are involved at all" but rather more along the lines of, the effort involved or expertise required is orders of magnitude lower than it was previously.

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