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by smeyer 7y ago
What brand grocery store was that?
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by smeyer 7y ago
It's definitely not a duopoly and if it were it definitely wouldn't include Zenni. Here's one ranking of the top eyeglass retailers in 2015[0]. Another source says Zenni Optical had gross revenue of $214MM in 2018[1], so mayb
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by smeyer 7y ago
I think a big reason is that people are using the rest of the amazon ecosystem. If your costs aren't primarily storage, you might be willing to pay a premium to use something that integrates nicely with other services you're using
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by smeyer 7y ago
I use Keepass. Like you said, I sync the encrypted storage file through an existing file sync service and use a keepass client on my phone. It's slightly clunkier than I imagine a well-built system designed for multiple devices would b
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by smeyer 7y ago
I think you're out of touch with pricing or have a very high bar for what you consider acceptable in a hotel. When I was in New York last month I paid $125 for a perfectly pleasant room with good online reviews (in the top 20% or so of
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by smeyer 7y ago
Would changing the interview and selection process to look like other jobs alleviate the case you're laying out? In a similar way, there are students who spend $200k to go to college, then go to law school, wanting to practice in a cer
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by smeyer 7y ago
There's some flexibility, but often the unvested options in the acquired company are converted into unvested options in the acquiring company on the same schedule.
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by smeyer 7y ago
>$10-$12.50 an hour The minimum wage in California (the subject of the OP) for companies with more than 25 employees is $13.00. I know you were trying to be conservative in your estimate and I don't know if that $10-20 range you&#x2
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by smeyer 7y ago
Mousing over the word "Terms" in "By signing up, you agree to our Terms." on the sign up page linked me to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms .
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by smeyer 7y ago
I like the command line and it doesn't surprise me that other people do too. What surprises me is that there are people where an entire friend group universally prefers open source over good UX, since plenty of my friends couldn't
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by smeyer 7y ago
It's a little eye opening to me that anyone could have a friend group that "universally prefers open source software to good UX". I have and use Signal with some friends, but there are also loads of people I communicate with
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by smeyer 7y ago
>another round of debate among the finalists before revoting What do you do if revoting doesn't break the deadlock? Also, just in general, I think a lot of people don't want a system that involves potential revoting.
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by smeyer 7y ago
>which is something to consider since We has quite a distributed workforce Wouldn't a distributed workforce mean a less impactful layoff for the employees? Much better to be part of a N,000 person layoff but one of only 200 people i
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by smeyer 7y ago
I'm not an expert on what costs would do under a public healthcare system, but I think "self-evident that costs will go up" is very much wrong. You add new beneficiaries, but you also change major cost centers. For example, t
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by smeyer 7y ago
Or he just looped around the coastline once at a tighter resolution than your source of 30,500 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox (Also thanks for the AMA link)
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by smeyer 7y ago
What do you mean by "3rd/last attempt"?
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by smeyer 7y ago
It sounds like they stayed there for about a year and had to move cities, so apparently the market in the area wasn't too hot for this to work. There are probably other people who stay longer, especially if they're not willing to
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by smeyer 7y ago
Can you explain more about how Ryanair refusing to fly to far-flung airports without a subsidy is an externality?
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by smeyer 7y ago
Do you mean similar to a projection keyboard[0] but without actually projecting a keyboard onto the surface and using the integrated camera? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
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by smeyer 7y ago
Which special chars?
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by smeyer 7y ago
>Price per kilometer & wait time seems higher in Zurich, for example I think Zurich is just a particularly expensive example. At least in the US, most places seem a lot cheaper (I checked New York, Chicago, and San Francisco). Of the
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by smeyer 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of copyright is that if you come up with something independently you're not violating copyright. So if you and I both write code to interact with the same REST API and end up writing i
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by smeyer 7y ago
>given how tightly the systems remain integrated Ebay is moving away from its tight integration with Paypal and has a deal with a new payment processor (Adyen) after it's current paypal deal ends in 2020. Between that and the fact t
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by smeyer 7y ago
>they own Paypal They spun Paypal off into an independent company in 2015.
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by smeyer 7y ago
I don't doubt that it's quite stressful for some people. In general, I think any element of an interview process is going to be stressful for at least some people, just given the stakes involved. That said, at least this guarantee
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by smeyer 7y ago
>Stanford Cardinal Stanford Cardinal is also a color.
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by smeyer 7y ago
My employer has sometimes given out challenges that take a few hours. We just ask the candidate when they'd like to do the take-home and email it to them on that schedule. Then they have to submit their solution within the allotted tim
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by smeyer 7y ago
The point is that it changed in ways different to his twin's body, and some of those changes even reverted once he was back on earth for a while. It's pretty unlikely that this is all just an anomaly and the regular changes of a b
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by smeyer 8y ago
As a bit of a side note, that was the most striking of the demos I've ever seen from their catalog.
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by smeyer 8y ago
> ping an IP controlled by their manufacturer Who is the manufacturer? For many smart home devices, Google either is the manufacturer or at least the creator of the software, so it sounds like they might already be doing what you're

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