ryanwaggoner

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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
I get that, but it's hardly a horrible bureaucracy. I did web dev for years and there are lots of trade-offs there too.
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
Then once you're rolling, the amount of red tape involved in testing, releasing, updating etc really is shocking. I've been doing iOS dev for seven years, and have launched dozens of apps for organizations large and small, many
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
In terms of sleep disruption, yes. But not necessarily in terms of disruption in your bed. Even though it's all the rage, you don't have to co-sleep. We didn't, and our daughter slept through the night once she was 5 months
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
No one is disputing that they don't use chat. Everyone uses chat. But they also still use email. This company in question gives every employee an email address, right?
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
In addition to being condescending, most of this is false. Your examples are bizarre. Buying hair extensions is a tiny niche market to begin with. The percentage of people buying cars from dealers via text message is a rounding error, and I
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
I really don't think consumers want this. We're moving away from our TVs, not towards them. I think that's why Apple never released this product and probably never will.
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
He was fairly active here until being banned a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michaelochurch
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
True, but that ignores FICA, state income tax, city income tax (rare), sales tax, property tax, etc, etc. Granted, these aren't all income taxes, they have their own curves, etc, but still, paying an overall effective rate of 30% isn&#
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
I know this is going to sound like victim-blaming to some, but I'm genuinely just horrified / curious: why didn't you go to the ER? Or to an urgent care clinic like many drugstores have now? And was this something that you ne
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
Wow. And there aren't any other conditions in Somalia beyond their lack of minimum wage that might be influencing that unemployment rate? Lots of respected economists are on both sides of this issue, whether you want to be honest abo
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
Flight crews and ship crews will be enhanced by automation, thus reducing those jobs, but they won't be replaced completely. The liability, safety, and economics situations are completely different from drivers. The cost of a crew to f
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
Do you turn off your cell phone and computers at home? Even if you do, most people don't. And won't.
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by ryanwaggoner 9y ago
Actually, people don't know that. The Echo doesn't "record everything", and I'd challenge you to provide any evidence that it does.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
Informing or challenging is a tiny fraction of the different reasons to communicate.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
I don't know that I would state it so strongly, but regardless, most of life isn't about raising awareness of meaningful things, and probably shouldn't be.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
People use them because that's what everyone else uses. With a social network, that's kind of the point. And for whatever reason, most people don't care that much about the things you listed as big dangers.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
"I want everyone to read this comment I wrote." "Cheers, I have read your comment."
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
But surely much of that overseas cash is invested and earning enough that 3.25% interest is erased or at least mostly offset?
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
Being self employed has made things a lot easier for me, but two years into having kids, I'm still trying to break the bad habit of thinking "I'll get it done tonight / this weekend." My wife and I do split things u
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
I'm going to start responding to people who disagree like this :)
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
I don't time the market. Studies are really clear that people suck at it. You may be convinced you're the exception. I'm convinced that I'm not :)
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
I'm well aware. That is unrelated to how I think it's crazy.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
Everyone is going to have their own opinion and 2 cents about what you should do, so I'll add mine to the mix. First of all, most importantly, you'll never find a better investment than yourself, up to a point. Whether it's e
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
You missed an important benefit: expenses are mostly post-tax, so reducing your expenses by $1 may reduce the amount you need to earn by $1.50 - $2. Also, 50% in treasuries seems overly conservative for most investors, especially if they&#x
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
I think the problem there is one of scale (same as here, actually). Hardly any small planes get built. Cirrus is the largest builder of small airplanes and they sold 276 new aircraft in 2013. These planes cost hundreds of thousands of dolla
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
Fewer than 20% of gun owners are active hunters [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if it's as low as 10%, and more than a few of those hunters are pretty casual about gun safety and conservation, in my experience. A little off topic, bu
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
Your etsy link doesn't work for me
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
I initially read this headline as "Facebook's female engineer claims gender bias", which would make a funny Onion headline.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
Wow! For some reason, this blows my mind. I guess I had my mind a dozen people sitting in an office writing checks and compiling reports. I had no idea it was a huge global organization with 1420 employees and 8 locations around the world.
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by ryanwaggoner 10y ago
BBB is also going the way of the yellow pages.

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