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by tomhoward 2y ago
The thing is that major live sport is now the only category that is successful in the broadcast TV market. Without that, many (most?) broadcast networks may as well shut down. We saw the best evidence of that recently in Australia when the
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by tomhoward 2y ago
It’s weird how invisible tennis is on television in Europe. I was traveling in Spain and Italy last year when Roland Garros was on, which included major highlights like Nadal’s (likely) last ever match there and strong performances from Eur
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I'll share a perspective as someone who doesn't really have a dog in the fight (For the record, I'm over 20 years into my career but don't fear losing roles/income/status due to AI, and am using it in my projec
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by tomhoward 2y ago
First HN submission: Feb 3 2009 (0 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
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by tomhoward 2y ago
The quoted book was being purposefully colorful and inflammatory for literary effect, but it still doesn’t make any claims of investors being “blacklisted” just because they said something unflattering about YC. (“Disseminating unflattering
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by tomhoward 2y ago
What in the article (sentence or paragraph) contradicts what I wrote? The article is about how YC defended one of its funded companies against a legal attack. It doesn’t say anything about YC refusing to fund someone who criticized it.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
YC will fund anyone who is building a company that looks like it could be highly successful. There's one case I'm thinking of now where someone was as critical of YC (both the org and individual leaders) as anyone could possibly b
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I'm not commenting specifically on the heart-muscle aspect of the study, but it shouldn't be a surprise that the weight loss from this drug is significantly attributable to muscle loss; it almost always is when dieting. It's
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by tomhoward 2y ago
dang explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40577703
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this. It’s some food for thought! So much thought and effort went into how the site would feel to use, but it’s very hard to convey the importance and value of that to investors who are not in the primary audience. I
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by tomhoward 2y ago
The upfront capital costs and fixed running costs are huge, and the commissions are very low - often zero, normally about $1 or $2, only very rarely $10+ if it’s a high-priced purchase (business/first class with multiple passengers, bu
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by tomhoward 2y ago
We built the company from the start by scraping low cost airlines, and always did a lot of it. It’s just a very big undertaking - building all the scrapers, maintaining them (every time any detail of an airline website changed), getting aro
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Great to hear! Thanks for saying so. Question for you: can Google Flights (or any other flight search engine) give you the same kind of search capabilities/answers/experience you got from Adioso?
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I love hearing this! Makes it all worth it. Thanks for sharing :)
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Seems likely if you imagine the producers just looked at an alphabetically sorted list of YC companies for name ideas.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Great to hear! Thanks for saying so. I still hope to rebuild it one day but only when I can do it as a passion project. You can’t make a living from a site like that.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
It’s an ongoing tension. Direct bookings are ideal but are only adequate if your brand awareness and loyalty is strong, like AA and Southwest. To whatever extent that’s not the case, you need to be available via partners/agencies and o
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by tomhoward 2y ago
> Third party apps are not allowed by airlines to charge less than the airline Technically true in that they can't undercut the airline on the same fare class. But there are many different fare classes and some of them are only offe
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by tomhoward 2y ago
It's called "virtual interlining". The startup I co-founded (Adioso - YC W09 [1]) tried to do it, including having discussions with a travel insurance provider about offering "layover protection" - so that if one l
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by tomhoward 2y ago
No - it was a talk to YC current-batch founders, which is always off the record.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
There won’t be. Talks given to YC batches are off-the-record, to allow maximum candidness. This essay by pg is the closest you’ll get to a blog post discussing its main points.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
There’s a convention for this that has been established over many years: - If it has a hard paywall the link is not allowed and should be flagged or removed by moderators (or changed to an accessible source) - If it has a porous paywall (us
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I'm planning to build this for myself and could make it available for others if there's interest.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Only now that T20 cricket is played in many countries including USA and continental European countries does it make sense to have cricket in the Olympics. That really only became true in the past year with USA participating in the ICC T20 W
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Tell HN: Devices for agricultural/enviro monitoring/automation I'm developing
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by tomhoward 2y ago
A more satisfying life, better life outcomes.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Maybe it’s the opposite; kids need to learn that LLM’s can bullshit just like every other person and institution can bullshit, and the most important skill they can have is verification of information, no matter where it’s coming from.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
It’s pretty normal to have devices out in the elements now, it’s just a matter of how many. Yes having a device on literally every plant will probably always be overkill, unless they are so cheap and easy to replace that it doesn’t matter w
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by tomhoward 2y ago
In Melbourne/Victoria, Australia, from 2025 they’re applying a government levy on vacation rentals and using it to fund new public and affordable housing projects [1]. They’ve also added a land tax on second homes to disincentivize hoa
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Looks cool but I'm not sure how current those TI CC1310 devices are. I can see product release pages going back to 2015. Do you know anything about future support/availability for this model, or any newer models?

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