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by safog 6y ago
Out of curiosity, can you build a service and collect payments from US customers while not being a US resident?
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by safog 6y ago
Note: These are stylists and not engineers. I've tried StitchFix twice and found their stylists pretty lacking in terms of value they add. They don't listen to your requests and I'm sure most of them just have templates of st
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by safog 6y ago
I think this one's definitely happening. The cost of renewing your lease and staying in the bay area vs simply moving out for the year to your parents' house / LCOL area where if it really comes down to it, you can simply bre
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by safog 6y ago
You overestimate our cultural attention span :) Anyway, even with COVID + Rioting, I'd much rather live in a big city than in the countryside.
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by safog 6y ago
I remember reading about fruit fly brains and how we're at a point where we can computationally simulate them now, but I'm not sure where that went. Anyone know?
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by safog 6y ago
> The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone..... ....living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one This is also patently false - they're sending out ballots to regi
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by safog 6y ago
Did you read the entire thing first? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mail-in-ballot-voter-fraud... What's True While no U.S. government agency officially compiles state-by-state data on voter fraud, and requirem
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by safog 6y ago
I don't buy the argument that we will have such a leap in software development productivity that we need way fewer people to solve all the things that need technical solutions. You can unravel abstractions we build on all the way to th
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by safog 6y ago
I wish there was a way to try this keyboard without committing to buying it for a month or so. It seems like there will be a learning curve and you might not even like it at the end of it.
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by safog 6y ago
Similar setup - I just throw my terminal full screen on a vertical monitor (w/ GNU Screen) and don't find it distracting in any way.
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by safog 6y ago
Early days of EC2 were chock full of stories like this - Of kids / engineers running up their CC bill because they screwed up in some way they didn't anticipate and Amazon CS would bail them out. I don't think this was a cyni
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by safog 6y ago
> Then do salaries and taxes by the second and split off tax payments right where the transaction happens. ACH literally takes O(days) to move a few bytes of data from one bank account to another and the system simply stops working eveni
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by safog 6y ago
Err.. but they are rolling their own tracking service + ad exchange. They say they will create user segments that advertisers can use to target ads - that is basically an ad exchange. Instead of advertisers using AdWords (or whatever they c
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by safog 6y ago
How is everyone being blind to the fact that they will now simply start collecting their own user data and do targeted ads by themselves? And yes this includes potentially sensitive stuff like location data, not just NYT reading history. Ad
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by safog 6y ago
Thanks for building this! It infuriates me that they have a widget that does display the lyrics but keeps switching to random trivia every 5s. There's an open bug on spotify to have it always show lyrics but doesn't seem to receiv
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by safog 6y ago
This is awesome! This is exactly what I've tried to implement multiple times but got lost in details of how to actually build a market. I'm a huge paradox fan as well if that helps :) My thoughts were based on this really old nich
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by safog 6y ago
I think you can make the images a lot more appealing by adding some automated post-processing to them. I don't know a lot about image processing algorithms but clicking "Auto" on google photos tweaks basic stuff like exposure
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by safog 6y ago
I think you're over estimating the complexity of what FAANG engineers work on :) As the saying goes, we spend our lives converting one proto into another.
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by safog 6y ago
How does it matter if a billionaire lives or dies? Their wealth is simply spread out to heirs or pet projects of theirs, no difference from when they're actually alive. Companies take on a life of their own, so Apple hasn't been d
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by safog 6y ago
The restaurants don't lose a full 30% on the order - the items on Uber eats are marked up over what you pay when you do regular takeout. I wouldn't go so far as to say they don't lose any money at all but we won't know e
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by safog 6y ago
Get an antibody test?
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by safog 7y ago
I agree. I have several objections to this line of thought. Of course Sweden might want to risk its entire population on made up data but I don't think that's a prudent approach. 1. When we put in these lockdown measures, we basic
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by safog 7y ago
Depends how old the phone is and how limited the h/w is though - Android is designed to work in some ridiculously under powered devices. I highly doubt a top of the line phone like the Galaxy or the Pixel would have issues with input l
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by safog 7y ago
Corporate bond yields spiked due to business risks posed by Covid19. B rated bonds went from ~5% to >10.65% https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_high_yield_b_effective_yie...
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by safog 7y ago
Like credit rating agencies and how well they work? /s In this case, it's not even about falsely marking up poorly understood investment products for extra business, it's people's health. Any reviewing businesses that ar
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by safog 7y ago
It's hard to take Gruber seriously anymore. I haven't seen anyone with such an obvious bias for Apple and disdain for anything non-Apple so 99% of what he writes about Apple is going to be sunshine and butterflies. If you aren&#x2
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by safog 7y ago
The Fed has been obsessed with liquidity since this crisis has hit. From a high level, I understand why but this coupled with the repo market issues we've been having on and off for the past six months or so, the mortgage markets gummi
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by safog 7y ago
Come on man, there's no where near enough volume there to move anything but the most low volume of stocks. All they trade in is meme stocks like TSLA, NFLX, MSFT, AAPL etc., and a few 100k on calls here or there won't budge the pr
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by safog 7y ago
There's several issues here though: 1. For most people symptoms are so minor that they don't go to the hospital at all and don't get counted in the reporting stats. This means that the 18% number is higher than reality. How m
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by safog 7y ago
How did you infer that from the post?

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