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by sah2ed 7y ago
You seem to be thinking of only one force when in fact there are at least two forces acting on the ballcock. If you were to empty the tank instantaneously by cutting out the bottom of the tank, what would happen to the ballcock? It would fa
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Nope. The only way for the tank to overflow is for the flotation device — the ballcock — to be removed from the tank, causing the valve to never close.
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by sah2ed 7y ago
The label can be useless, I agree, which is why I try to limit my use to certain contexts where its use makes sense or can be inferred correctly. I do think we should limit its use to something of a legal term, as I tried to explain elsewhe
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> No more than a company founded by bankers is a bank. Exactly. In fact, the most useful explanation I’ve found is to consider the label “tech company” as mostly a legal term, similar to how a bank is a legal label for a specific type
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by sah2ed 7y ago
You had me until your fourth paragraph. If your argument is that Uber, Netflix are not tech vendors because they sell a service; they do not sell/license software, then you are correct. Oftentimes the label tech company is used as sh
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> After 7 years in Amazon Fulfillment, I'll say this: we're doing a mediocre job- fortunately no one else is doing much better. But still, we've got 25 years of legacy software and processes to carry with us wherever we g
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Is this limitation documented somewhere? After how many entries before the HN software started tripping on your favorites?
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by sah2ed 7y ago
May I ask what extension you use for cookie exporting?
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> That lawyer needs to be sued for malpractice. This is their job. Why do you think that? Perhaps you parsed "parent's lawyer friend" as "parent's lawyer"? The former is likely doing a favor and would not
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Hearing about this for the first time. Mind linking to more info on how people opt in to help train Google’s NN for handwriting recognition? My searches turned up this TC article (from 3 years ago): https://techcrunch.com/20
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by sah2ed 7y ago
I’ve also wondered how these estimates are produced with fairly high accuracy. Would be interesting to read more on their methods.
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by sah2ed 7y ago
LOL :-)! That was never my intention and I have absolutely no connection to them in any way whatsoever. MongoDB just turned out to be an example I felt a lot of HNers could readily relate to considering some of their guffaws as they grew ma
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> What part of VPC networking is challenging to you? It can be a source of friction for someone that is just trying to accomplish a specific goal , in this case it might just be to use AWS to go live. If building a database-backed pro
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by sah2ed 7y ago
But it is only a matter of time. Once webassembly achieves near feature parity with the native versions, you bet Adobe will switch users to the webassembly version. From Adobe's perspective, it offers a lot of benefits: - they don&#x27
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Not only that but iPhones are generally more durable now than when they first launched in 2007 allowing Apple to justify their need to raise prices. A more durable phone reduces the incentive to upgrade to a newer device every 18-24 months
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Reducing Rice’s Carbon Footprint(researchfrontiers.uark.edu)
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Image Processing: Algorithm Improvement for 'Coca-Cola Can' Recognition(stackoverflow.com)
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by sah2ed 7y ago
No need to overthink this. There’s really no point in designing additional failsafes into a launch vehicle when it disintegrates which can happen for a variety of reasons beyond anyone’s control — RUD is really just an euphemism for an expl
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by sah2ed 7y ago
The creators' Twitter: - https://twitter.com/@wongavision - https://twitter.com/@astrojams1 Originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225
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by sah2ed 7y ago
This is only true in certain industries. The examples you cite are Internet companies. Internet companies are peculiar because they exploit the economies of scale of the Internet to primarily offer services, not goods (read physical product
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by sah2ed 7y ago
This story about Drew Houston meeting Steve Jobs for acquisition talks pretty much confirms the supposition in your edit. “'You either got Chill Steve or Very Mean Steve': Dropbox founder remembers being summoned to Apple by Stev
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Perhaps that the actual cost to use private rooms for delivery is being subsidized?
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> There's a really enlightening blog post that goes through all the numbers (maybe someone can find it again for me) ... Perhaps this blog post with slides at the end by Mark Suster? https://bothsidesofthetable.com/h
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> I also didn't quite follow your interpretation, why does avoiding working 40 hours a week lead to spending more man hours to pursue an opportunity? Disclaimer: my interpretation is in the context of the SV mantra under discussion,
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by sah2ed 7y ago
I think the mental test could have been framed better using the IMHO far more intuitive framing used by Don Dodge in his 2008 article about how to assess a fresh batch of YC startups. Is your product a vitamin (nice to have) or a pain kille
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by sah2ed 7y ago
> Is the only reason to create a startup to experience exponential growth and get really rich and have your own stock symbol? The answer is yes, if your working definition of entrepreneurship agrees with the one used by Lori Greiner: ‘En
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Facebook started out as a social network where you could get what we today regard as PII (e.g phone numbers of the opposite gender and such) for Harvard students, and its engagement numbers were really good (based on Zuck’s previous experie
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Reminds of a story from 5 years ago [0] about a biologist that caused his parents to get divorced after he shared the results of his genetic testing. His lesson: 23andMe kits are essentially an advanced form of paternity testing. [0]: http
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by sah2ed 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
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by sah2ed 7y ago
Do you know whether the "62k free monthly emails limit" of the free-tier is available to existing AWS accounts, or a new AWS account must be created to enjoy free-tier billing? Thanks! EDIT: BTW, nice project!

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