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by tmnvix 9y ago
Changing the price first has the disadvantage of possibly losing the sale.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
This is encouraging. One of my pet peeves of late has been the ubiquity of black, grey, and white colour schemes. Here in NZ and Australia, almost all new apartment buildings are some combination of those colours. It's not just new bui
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by tmnvix 9y ago
If potatoes were not commonplace, they would be declared a 'superfood'.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> how are you going to pay for social welfare if no one is making money? So what do you tax? You stop taxing income and start taxing wealth. A land tax would be a good start. Resource taxes are another.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
It's the future! (Unless we can come up with a better means of sharing/distributing productive output).
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by tmnvix 9y ago
selfcontrol (the aptly named app) helps with self control. I only use it on desktop to limit myself to productive online resources. I have an aversion to using my phone for browsing anyway, so don't need it there too.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
After hacking away at Drupal and then WP, adopting Django as my go-to backend helped me immensely early on. I don't do anything with PHP anymore. I'll also say that backend + html + css will take you surprisingly far. JS will be m
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Product design, logistics, warehousing, delivery, IT infrastructure, physical stores, ecommerce. Plenty of companies have this kind of vertical integration too (e.g Apple) but none that I'm aware of do this across such a large range of
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by tmnvix 9y ago
How do you know it's extremist until you've read it?
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15343559
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15343559 Good article. Well worth reading it in full.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Same machine and specs here. Bought it as a refurb in Jan 2013. Still happy after almost 5 years of constant use. The only downside for me is the 128gb drive which limits my options when it comes to VMs. Looking at what has come from Apple
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by tmnvix 9y ago
I can't help but feel that the ongoing push for ISP blacklisting of sites is only going to make VPN usage commonplace - to the point where it is more common than not. When do they come for the VPNs?
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by tmnvix 9y ago
I'm currently building something very similar. The stack is very similar to what you're proposing: S3, Route53, Cloudfront, with a Django backend running on Lambda (using the great Zappa! framework for this), and a very basic CMS
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by tmnvix 9y ago
For a lot of people, they want to be financially secure before they marry (historically men would often marry later than women - after 'making their fortune' or establishing their career). With todays casualised workforce, housepr
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> Tax cuts are good. Stop saying they’re bad. Except that tax cuts basically mean the government has less money to pay for things. I suppose if you don't rely on government for anything (like infrastructure to run your business) the
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> tax labour, not land Why do you think this?
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> "Programmers were like chess players trying to play with a blindfold on—so much of their mental energy is spent just trying to picture where the pieces are that there’s hardly any left over to think about the game itself." Th
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Defaulting on debt helps: https://mises.org/library/short-history-us-credit-defaults
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by tmnvix 9y ago
I happened to catch a few minutes of one of those border/customs reality shows a couple of weeks ago. A young German couple were trying to enter the US from Canada as tourists. They had very little in the way of funds and claimed that
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> which is often worth it for highly-compensated people You don't even have to be highly compensated for it to be well worthwhile. Where I live (in NZ) it costs less than 6USD to have groceries delivered. There are other major advan
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Reminds me of Andres Duany's presentation to San Diego local government officials[1]. It's very funny and very informative. A highlight for me was when he was discussing an artist's impression of what amounts to an urban wast
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Or close it?
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> Amazon has free returns I doubt this is true for anywhere but North America.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Many news sites limit readers to a few articles before throwing up the pay-wall. Usually that means paying $$ for an ongoing subscription (/m, /y). Maybe if you could make a /d or /w micropayment? You've already had
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by tmnvix 9y ago
A great read. It's easy to think of the GFC as something that 'happened' and is now over but this is a good reminder that events can have lasting and dramatic effects on the lives of individuals.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Ditto NZ and Aus. Also means that no national ID card or number is necessary. Seems kind of obvious to me. The use of SSN as proof of identity in the US just seems like misuse to me.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Long since past the point of smokers in Australia and NZ paying their own healthcare costs. Smokers subsidise the public healthcare system. Unfortunately, the statistics are often muddied by externalised costs being assumed to include ~50k&
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I think this is an important point that is often lost on people that don't smoke. So often in these discussions, smoking is assumed to have no positive effects. Strangely, most people don't take the same attitude when talking abou
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Remember the Occupy movement? They had no immediate demands. People thought it was pointless and the protestors copped a lot of criticism because of it. Almost ten years later Bernie Sanders rallied millions around a platform that was based

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