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by ssharp 5y ago
I had something like 4 out of 7 orders with UberEats go undelivered. They take the order, make the restaurant prepare the food, and then it sits there because the app took the order even though a driver wouldn't be available. This was
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by ssharp 5y ago
I finally decided to talk to someone about this about two years ago, in my mid-30's. I was always able to achieve satisfactory results in school, work, etc. without have to dedicate myself too much. As I got older, it became clear to m
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by ssharp 5y ago
I don't recall seeing USB (granted, this was my limited view as a teenager at the time) until the late 90's and I don't think I had a PC with USB until at least 2000 or 2001. My girlfriend at the time started college in Fall
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by ssharp 5y ago
How would you have done this? USB wasn't around in the mid-90's, so you would have needed something that plugged into a serial port. Would that have been that much worse than just running a 3mm cable from the MiniDisk headphone ou
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by ssharp 5y ago
It's not uncommon for the unsubscribe links to live on the same domain as the link tracking and other features of whatever email or marketing automation platform they are on, so if those are blocked to prevent tracking, the unsubscribe
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by ssharp 5y ago
> It will most will likely consolidate to 4 major players so we're looking at 4 subscriptions to watch most new content. How do you see this playing out when there have been so many big investments by traditional players to put forw
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by ssharp 5y ago
UBI isn't unemployment. You could collect UBI and still work.
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by ssharp 5y ago
It's a binary choice right now. You either work or you get the enhanced unemployment benefits. With the extra $300 / week benefit, in my state (Ohio), the total benefit works out to a little under $20 / hour. Note that this i
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by ssharp 5y ago
They are offering some, whereas other roles are clearly needing to adapt to some consistent in-office time. It will be interesting to see how all this ultimately plays out. My best guess is that companies like Shopify, who are fully committ
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by ssharp 5y ago
I've done substantial amounts of a/b testing and experimentation around ecommerce pricing and it's pretty rare for a maxim like "show your costs to boost sales" to hold to in either 1) the long run or 2) across mult
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by ssharp 6y ago
If you order McDonalds, you probably know what McDonalds should taste like. If it meets 100% of your expectations, why would you rate it lower? Similarly, if I get a meal from Michelin Star rated restaurant and it fails to meet my high expe
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by ssharp 6y ago
You could argue there was substantially more risk with some of those first five IPOs. Amazon looks nothing like it did in 1997. This was pre-AWS, pre-Prime, pre-just about everything. Apple survived a point in the late-90's/early
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by ssharp 6y ago
This is easily avoided by not writing option contracts. If you're new to options and are ready to start exploring with real money, you should only be buying them and then selling them, not writing new ones. The exact same thing can be
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by ssharp 6y ago
When the app can't do what it's supposed to do (buy/sell securities), the nicer interface is pointless.
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by ssharp 6y ago
It's not easy to generate the kind of momentum you need to pull off something like what's been happening. WSB has been pushing GME for months. Then things got heated with them and the major shorts, it brought more attention to it,
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by ssharp 6y ago
I live in a township with no local income tax, so property tax funds everything local -- public schools, local + county roads, local police, county sherif, fire department, libraries, etc.
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by ssharp 6y ago
When I started at a fully-remote company, where most communications happened on Slack, I was prepared to live with it as a necessity that I simply had to deal with, based on my negative perception of it from places like HN. I actually found
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by ssharp 6y ago
If I'm buying online, it's probably from Sweetwater or Reverb, definitely not Guitar Center. I mainly used GC if I needed strings, picks, sticks, or other small things, but I've found Amazon to be perfectly fine at getting me
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by ssharp 6y ago
I wasn't really talking towards the WYSIWYG editors. Those are trash on all platforms and fall apart quickly for all but the most simple tests. Metric + page management, results analysis, segmentation, etc. all work better in Optimizel
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by ssharp 6y ago
Optimize can run five experiments at a time and it only lets you measure 3 metrics. Any other metrics need to be analyzed in GA and will almost certainly end up sampled and unreliable.
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by ssharp 6y ago
Optimizely's pricing makes no sense for small teams but VWO and Optimize cannot compete on features that start to become very useful as your experimentation and personalization efforts increase. Any roll-your-own experimentation platfo
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by ssharp 6y ago
What was the control in the A/B test? I've seen lots of recommendation algorithms fail against curated recommendations. It would be really interesting to see where / what this approach beats. Would also be really curious to h
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by ssharp 6y ago
Apple also managed to mostly stave off competitors from eating away at their incredible margins while still staying within price bounds that make their products accessible to the mass market. I'm not sure Tesla can do the same. There i
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by ssharp 6y ago
This is a completely fair question and is something anyone working in performance optimization (marketing, product, etc.) should be asking themselves all the time when looking at data and finding ways to suss it out. In the case of retarget
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by ssharp 6y ago
> Don't ever buy a house where the driveway slopes towards the garage. If the rest of the house was on the same slope, I'd probably accept the garage and invest in mitigating water getting in. The natural drainage for the house
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by ssharp 6y ago
The ad platforms have very clear incentives to deliver the ads that perform best for marketers so that the marketers spend more with the ad platform. As much as you think the ads are doing a poor job, they're likely doing a better job
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by ssharp 6y ago
> Winamp could have been Spotify but went in a completely different directions I'm not so sure how successful that really would have been. There is a significant gap between Winamp falling out of favor and the rise of Spotify. The o
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by ssharp 6y ago
You still have to support the policy, process claims, customer support, etc. The biggest expense on a unit-economics level, post claims paid, is marketing -- acquisition and retention costs. If you look at the auto insurers, it's incre
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by ssharp 6y ago
A funny aside to this on how poorly integrated these things can be: My state has a random proof of insurance system where licensed drivers with registered vehicles will be randomly selected and be forced to provide proof of insurance for th
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by ssharp 6y ago
There are systems to look up VIN, which gets you make/model/year/trim, by something other than the VIN. In the U.S., the state you live in can find the VIN by plate number. They make expose this information via third parties.

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