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by rvba 3y ago
Does USA have places that sell kebab?
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by rvba 3y ago
Wikipedia page about swvl is fascinating: the backstories of the people behind look like something written by themselves or by their marketing department (never corrected to neutral point of view). Then we learn that some spwcial purpose ve
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by rvba 3y ago
Isnt this the same thing? Slow product adoption = difficult to get users. Scaling a product = difficult to get users Bootstrapping is hard. Also perhaps different markets are different due to local law and competition. But isnt water wet?
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Global Outage in McDonald's - issues to sell(cnn.com)
1 points by rvba 3y ago|1 comments
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by rvba 3y ago
There will be that one user who makes a gazillion queries just because they are unlimited. Or the second tier should still be capped. But that looks wrong feo marketing point of view.
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by rvba 3y ago
I would make the mid tier limited to 10k (100k?) queries and add one more plan.
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by rvba 3y ago
Thanks for the link, it made me move to the article about "Mayday Mayday Mayday" callsign, then listen to a recording of one and read about a ship that hit a bridge in Florida. They rebuild the bridge. Wikipedia is such a fascinat
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by rvba 3y ago
Crypto or pennystock - no intrinsic value? Not that all srockmarket companies have, but IMHO they should..
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by rvba 3y ago
It was also on cable tv
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by rvba 3y ago
Who manufactures plane tires? How much do they cost? What about fighters and bombers?
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by rvba 3y ago
Reminds me how some would search for bitcoin wallets via google and kazaa. On a side note, can someome remind me what was the name of the file, I think I have some tiny fraction of a bicoin on an old computer
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by rvba 3y ago
> staff engineers are ICs Wtf is an IC? Internal consultant? Individual contributors (what does that even mean? One person team?) Using abbreviations to explain something is a bad way to explain...
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by rvba 3y ago
Controls should be standardized across cars. Imagine that someone rents a car and is tired + every manufacturer has their own konami code, or secret button to start the wipers. That's how accidents happen.
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by rvba 3y ago
You make the mistake of assuming that everyone is the same as you and leads the same life as you.
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by rvba 3y ago
The truth gets downvoted, since unpopular. As if you never saw someone get drunk and spill their beans. Alcohol removes inhibitors (at least to some people) from "drunk calling the ex" to "telling the boss that their idea is
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by rvba 3y ago
If you read about GRU (e.g. Aquarium) you will see how agents were tested while drunk to see how they behave.
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by rvba 3y ago
Are there really? If we ignore alcohol. We have few groups: 1) Coffee / tea (caffeinated so many cant sleep after them) 2) Yerba mate (isnt it the same group as caffeinated drinks? Also availability is low) 3) sugary drinks (cola, fant
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by rvba 3y ago
Did they capture the bird to study it? Or they just made a photo?
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by rvba 3y ago
Three physical buttons at the bottom are much better user experience than apple, where the back is somewhere on top of the phone. Maybe that design worked when Jobs was alive and artificially kept them small, but it just makes it feel like
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by rvba 3y ago
They knew very well what they were doing.
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by rvba 3y ago
> Far easier to just request and obtain the resulting intelligence from partner intelligence organizations who are using it. Couldnt they ask to spy on a phone owned by them to try to learn how the phones are infected?
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by rvba 3y ago
LIBOR not broken? It was a club used by the big boys from banks to screw everyone else. With a madeup number that benefitted them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
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by rvba 3y ago
OpenAI doesnt even have shareholders, so the company would just bankrupt and few hundred people would be out of jobs. Probably Microsoft would hire them to some AI shop, because Microsoft is the one deploying the stuff. But Microsoft has ri
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by rvba 3y ago
The android app (and android web client) seem to have issues login in from time to time - I had a situation where you couldnt log in on two different phones
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by rvba 3y ago
300 thousand is a "poor" pay for a CEO Current CEO earns 20 times more -> 6 million per year
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by rvba 3y ago
> optimism that ruled in the 90s This is such an interesting take, about which we could probably write whole paragraphs. Can the 90s be really summarized in such way? Yes, we had the "information highway" and "waiting for
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by rvba 3y ago
The Mozilla management seems to be disinterested in doing anything to improve Firefox market share (by for example doing what users want: customization), they waste money on various "investments" and half-bake projects that are us
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by rvba 3y ago
Well it is human error after all. By the programmers. Oe those who invented the complicated calendar
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by rvba 3y ago
Google is now outsourcing development to low cost countries. They dont care about quality much
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by rvba 3y ago
Mild inflation is not good for anyone bar the central banks. Central banks profit from inflation (they can pocket this hidden tax) so they repeat the lie that it is good. People still conduct business at 2,5% inflation. Why would they stop

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