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by subpixel 4y ago
I wish I had used the term addicts and not junkies.
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by subpixel 4y ago
They may not use this logic but it’s churn rate vs. customer lifetime value. When your product is consumed by people who are at one point or another in the process of killing themselves, it’s all churn all the time. Dealing opiates is a hig
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by subpixel 4y ago
We are starting from a place of weak democracy. I don’t think the tea leaves can be read otherwise. We aren’t alone - but that’s not much succor.
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by subpixel 4y ago
Why won’t a drop-in replacement battery be a better deal than a new car after 10 or more years?
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by subpixel 4y ago
All the data disagrees with you here - we eat content up.
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by subpixel 4y ago
Even if it’s not more common, young people in isolationist authoritarian communities are literally more trapped than victims in the greater society. I’m not sure how this observation offends.
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by subpixel 4y ago
Also sex abuse and the normalization of controlling behavior are more common in these self-isolating communities, and even more impactful on a person who has little to no contact with the outside world.
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by subpixel 4y ago
I’m right there with you and it’s the homogeneity that killed podcasts for me. To be fair, it started with This American Life, which managed to become so repetitive stylistically that the subject matter suffered. Then that approach was in l
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by subpixel 4y ago
Living in the country is amazing if the geography and culture of the place have a lot to offer you, based on your interests and desires. I’m on the coast of New England and it’s in many ways just great. If I described the world within 45m o
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by subpixel 4y ago
I’ve been around HN a long time. My cohort gave up the stuff bc of age related concerns and see the contamination as a sign we won’t be walking back that decision.
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by subpixel 4y ago
It’s a full-on trend in the US to feed these to your baby to prevent peanut allergies. My daughter probably ate her own weight in Bamba.
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by subpixel 4y ago
I pay a little over $100/year for YouTube premium and that’s all I need. Premiere League highlights, German documentaries about pretzels, hour long POV shows shot in working Japanese kitchens to entertain my young daughter, the occasio
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by subpixel 4y ago
This is a longstanding question: see The Anxiety of Influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence
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by subpixel 4y ago
The story of Etsy. You can still sell $1000 custom pieces of elaborate handmade art, but _most do not_ and that is not what moves the needle for the marketplace so the system is setup to enable volume sales of items that are in no way handm
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by subpixel 4y ago
I live where weed is legal and all the charm goes right out the window once the allure of illicit fun is gone. There are weed shops everywhere, like fast food places, and the clientele is pretty similar to Burger King. Is there room for hi
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by subpixel 4y ago
V2 is what I think shows a lot of promise but it is not ready to come out of the oven yet.
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by subpixel 4y ago
I’m playing with GitHub projects and while it’s actually showing crazy potential it has the problem of being an intrinsically developer-focused solution to a business problem. Project management software isn’t about getting things done quit
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by subpixel 4y ago
Surely not, I’m afraid, at least not outside of a city. I just returned from a ski trip where in order to not pay $500/night at a hotel I turned to Airbnb, where the prices were the same. I wound up renting an off-grid cottage that sta
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by subpixel 4y ago
Good preschool is $10k+. In large swaths of the country decent schools only exist where housing is prohibitively expensive. The combination of camp and afternoon care in the summer is thousands of dollars a month. It all adds up and while y
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by subpixel 4y ago
Easy - they get paid have some additional responsibilities on top of a standard job. It would be better to have several of these than a single manager who only has meetings all day and is disconnected from the actual work of producing value
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by subpixel 4y ago
I’m referring to education, not professional specialization. And yet, isn’t the latter’s deleterious effect on the former a clear symptom of the problem?
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by subpixel 4y ago
On a related note, I feel certain that mandating new words (or capitalization of existing words) does not make the world more just or the lives of its inhabitants more harmonious.
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by subpixel 4y ago
On the contrary, you should study the experiences and products of all of humanity and not just the ones that _appeal to you_ based on your own ideas and mindset. When it comes to learning, never take the narrow view.
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by subpixel 4y ago
> some kids are absolutely more work no argument on that point!
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by subpixel 4y ago
No judgement here - I’m a parent who continues to make mistakes. But it doesn’t matter if you’re building software or raising a family - it doesn’t have to be draining. In fact your best work will never show up when it is.
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by subpixel 4y ago
This is eerily, scarily true and what’s more it works. I loathe Zuckerberg but his insistence that managers contribute or leave is exactly what my org needs. Unfortunately this is the sort of change that’s basically impossible when so many
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by subpixel 4y ago
This is possibly not as bad as my experience, where Stubhub managed to fool me into thinking I was purchasing tickets from the venue, through some clever omission in their design. I paid what turned out to be twice the face value and then w
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by subpixel 4y ago
I spent a year in the company of a dueling Verein in Munich a few decades ago and was startled to be at parties where every fourth male had a a scar. There was what looked like a swimming pool in the basement that was in fact a sort of dug-
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by subpixel 4y ago
This doesn't deserve to be flagged.
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by subpixel 4y ago
I’ll need to replace my 2015 model soon, and anything smaller than 15” is a downgrade - screen is too small for serious work all day.

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