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by ssharp 4y ago
That looks more sophisticated than what I’m talking about. This is more along the lines of what I’ve seen: https://mobilehomepartsstore.com/parts/230215.html These are “self-conainted” and don’t go into electric boxes.
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by ssharp 4y ago
In my area, I see a fair number of manufactured homes placed on permanent foundations on private lots come up for sale. For whatever reason, they almost never mention the fact that they are manufactured, which I guess must not be a legal re
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by ssharp 4y ago
I was at Case a few years after PBL opened so I could be misremembering or just hear of people getting hit anecdotally. I was aware of the shooting nightmare that took place there and specifically remember how odd it was hearing the song &q
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by ssharp 4y ago
The building he designed in Cleveland, the Peter B. Lewis building on the campus of Case Western, suffers from the winter fate of having ice and snow avalanche off the classic Gehry roof design. Initially, I don't think this was accoun
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by ssharp 4y ago
I've spent a lot of my career doing A/B testing, including doing that role exclusively for a number of years. I specialize in ecommerce, so maybe I have too narrow of a view here, but in that vast majority of cases, I am optimizin
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by ssharp 4y ago
This is part of the "unchecked" part of AB testing the headline mentions. You, of course, need to ensure the granular tweaks can be rolled up into something usable as the granular tweaks prove successful. You can't just keep
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by ssharp 4y ago
It's not really an either/or option. You can use testing to validate the changes stemming from market research. Having seen lots of site redesigns go horribly wrong due to 100% earnest people trying their best and utilizing the re
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by ssharp 4y ago
Better customer experiences often times lead to increased metrics. They are not totally different things.
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by ssharp 4y ago
Brute approach (This doesn't account for whether a checkbox is checked or not so I don't actually know if the game prevents everything getting checked programmatically all at once. I had to set the setTimeout to "2" inst
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by ssharp 4y ago
I'm struggling to find a good analogy to these crypto boom/bust cycles, where the market continues to survive/thrive after the busts. The closest I can come up with is real estate, but there is a core underlying value in real
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by ssharp 4y ago
Certainly there has to be some portion of the potential audience who would have become microtransaction purchasers who didn't because they were turned off by the long load times.
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by ssharp 4y ago
It's routine maintenance. My car is required to have its timing belt replaced by 100,000 miles. If the dealer does the work, the manufacturer provides a warranty on the parts. Since a broken belt could destroy the engine, this is a rep
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by ssharp 4y ago
And you should go into the dealership with clear alternatives to each. There are lots of dealers to buy vehicles from, lots of people to sell your vehicle to, plenty of alternatives to "add on", most of which are unnecessary, and
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by ssharp 4y ago
I can't believe people go to a dealer and are willing to drop $30k+ on a new vehicle that isn't to their exact spec just to drive away that day with something new. There usually aren't too many options on cars -- color, whe
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by ssharp 4y ago
I had a dealership quote me $2600 for a required service package. The price of the parts was $400. It’s a bit of work but the labor was effectively over $366 per hour. I could have had the job done by an independent shop for $1000. When I p
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by ssharp 4y ago
I think part of the “good-faith” SPAC pitch was that since there is so much VC money now and companies can close huge series D rounds that there is less need to IPO early. Later stage IPOs don’t give the public as much upside as IPOs used t
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by ssharp 4y ago
Well most people aren't going to take the money and invest it at a higher rate of return, either. With 30-year rates around 6% right now, the math becomes a lot tighter as well. Where are you going to find 6%+ investments right now?
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by ssharp 4y ago
Kia's updated logo looks vaguely like the Nine Inch Nails logo so maybe this is the next step in their industrial rock band pivot.
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by ssharp 5y ago
I've found that the 2 meals per day, eating lunch and dinner and then not eating again for 16 hours, is by far the easiest "diet" I've ever followed. It doesn't really disrupt any cultural norms around eating dinner
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by ssharp 5y ago
The dealers are using 3rd-party partners to finance the loans. The only risk the dealers take is if you're rejected and can't buy the car. Besides that, the loan is the same as cash for them, except they also get kickbacks for the
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by ssharp 5y ago
Dealers will usually reduce the purchase price if you finance through them since they are getting kickbacks on originating loans. As long as there aren't any fees associated with financing, you can get a better deal than if you were pa
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by ssharp 5y ago
The person who did this made a fake website for the building, including the floorplan :) http://trummerkind.com/theone/04-Floor_Plans.html
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by ssharp 5y ago
I read the comment as being critical of Facebook. "Not being able to innovate" seems like a critical statement, indicating a failure on their part. However, they are an incredibly successful company. If Facebook is successful not
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by ssharp 5y ago
The practical classification seems better than the botanical classification. The botanical definition would also classify peppers, cucumbers, squash, and many other things we consider to be "vegetables" to actually be "fruit&
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by ssharp 5y ago
> UberEATS drivers are like Fedex or USPS for food. They have no special powers here. Expecting one to refund "for" you is like having a mail person show up at your door and then berating them for the screwup of whatever busine
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by ssharp 5y ago
I usually at least make a decent attempt at resolving these types of conflicts before reporting to AMEX. Even though AMEX's chargeback process is probably the best of the credit card companies I've used, it's still not as ide
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by ssharp 5y ago
I’ve had food sitting at restaurants for over an hour before while Uber attempts to find a driver. After a particularly frustrating instance where Uber told me to cancel but didn’t refund me for me, I did manage to find a support inbox that
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by ssharp 5y ago
I took the test with this logic but I think there is a wrinkle I overlooked -- pedestrians are able to control their decisions while the passengers can't control their decision besides the decision to enter the self-driving vehicle. Fo
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by ssharp 5y ago
Shoe-horning your remote self into a position that the company would prefer not to be remote seems like a big risk for stagnation.
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by ssharp 5y ago
> The other side of pay is current valuations are insane. Many startups are getting A, B and even D rounds with 300-500x (i’ve seen higher than 1000x) revenue to value ratios. Your FAANG may hope to 2x or 3x in stock value while these st

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