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by siruncledrew 4y ago
“Made in America” comes up a lot, then when it comes time to needing Americans for the work, these factories either downsize, close, or just move to some faraway country again. It’s like the thing that gets people excited only to deflate ag
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
Looking back at Wechat from how it was since ~2013, I think there’s a decent amount of recency bias influencing it as “the everything app”. It definitely wasn’t close to being as horizontally integrated until recently. On another note about
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
100%. It feels like a bait and switch. They say “we created brex because it’s hard to get banking as a startup”, and then what do you know… now they don’t want to bank startups and are giving them the boot. It’s just annoying as hell. A bun
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
A taser-drone looks like an expensive remedy designed to be a money-sucker than an actual solution. Instead of making schools safer, pretty soon we'll just have a bunch of defense companies lined up to sell snake-oil bandaid solutions
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
Is there even any data or evidence to support the claims that letting farmers repair their tractors with OEM parts is going to result in deaths and injuries? And wouldn’t there already be company liability protections and user agreements in
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
I can see agricultural land going down even further in the future as techniques, incentives, and people dynamics change. How much of what we farm is really just 'superficial agriculture' and not 'survival-driven agriculture&#
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
New google glass is coming
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Ask HN: What are you struggling with at your startup?
4 points by siruncledrew 4y ago|3 comments
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by siruncledrew 4y ago
All these posts about DALL-E are making me so excited to try it if I ever make it through the waitlist.
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
The main lesson of the story is not that he was using crypto, but that he was conscientiously trying to enrich himself by conducting illegal activities with a sanctioned dictatorship. Personally, if he’s being this blunt about his intention
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
I heard about this company on an NPR podcast, and the mission sounded pretty cool and the founder talked about interesting customer experience points, but then I never saw Fast ever being used in practice. I think I read somewhere they only
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
Why would employees want a subscription though? Considering you can buy a Xiaomi scooter for like $400 (which is easily affordable to most google employees), then why would someone want the extra hassle of managing a subscription to avoid p
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
The tweet is certainly bad taste and something that would be appalling if said out loud, however, this seems like a bit over-the-top judicial response to tweets. Isn’t stuff like this why the ‘report’ function exists? Or couldn’t the gov ju
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
Do you think it’s more lucrative in tax money for the government if they continue doing things the way they are or if there were pre-filled taxes sent to each american to confirm? If I think about the state/federal tax services like bu
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
People do this for so long too. Sometimes nearly an hour will pass and someone’s car/truck/van will just be sitting double-parked or in some other non-parking spot with the engine running and blinkers flashing. It’s like dude… t
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
$5B seems low. If it was $5B, then companies with that kinda cash can just vacuum up any early stage companies that could even come close to growing into sizable competitors. In a way, it kinda seems like kneecapping the exit potential for
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
I am so ready for permanent DST. More daylight to actually do stuff. Plus it's nice to not have to come out from work and it's all dark in the Fall/Winter.
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
That’s an interesting 180 degree turn from saying “no” to crypto support to now allowing crypto support. What regulations changed behind the scenes?
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
Thanks for explaining, the AWS metaphor helped a lot.
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
I think that the value of IP protection makes sense for health & safety, and also for small/growing businesses that don't want to be shut-out from bad actors. Where it gets worse is when it gets enforced by some giant behemoth
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
General question: Who pays for something like this? Or how does the cost splitting work? Because, in theory, why wouldn't every small nation ask for this if some other nation's taxpayers foot at least 50% of bill?
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
If employees can apply for fully-remote or a closer office to them and, according to the article, about 85% of those applications are approved, then this doesn't seem as ominous as the headline makes it sound.
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
To the point of Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc virtue signaling during this time - yes, they are doing it. And yes, of course they calculated this first and didn’t just do it on a heartstring. It’s like regular people giving to charity to ge
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
> "In most markets around the US now, the expectation is that buyers will waive inspection requirements, make an offer as all-cash (e.g. pre-approved financing), with no contingencies (e.g. not based on sale of their previous home).
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
I highly doubt the government's core stance is "Heavens no, we can't intervene in the free market!" when the market is not even a literal "free market" to begin with. That's more a theoretical concept th
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
Pretty soon there will only be some kind of Equipment as a Service subscription model.
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
The longer this problem goes on at this level of severity, the bigger of a shitstorm the UP and DTLA are going to face. Customers, companies, and the government are going to be pissed if trade and distribution of important supplies gets imp
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
Great, thorough read. As someone that doesn’t have any life experience of what towns/suburban development was like prior to the 1990s, what was interesting is the part where the article brought up the types of big changes happening aft
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
I was wondering the same thing about seeing the aerial footage in the Twitter thread. I don’t even know that amount of stuff could be opened, filtered for valuables, and transported within a few hours time without dozens of people and some
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by siruncledrew 5y ago
Reddit has definitely had noticeable changes over the past 5+ years as they’ve gone through further VC rounds of funding that demand more ROI-centric changes. I can’t imagine the ways it will change as a public company once numbers are publ

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