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by tonymet 2mo ago
what matters is the story implied by the graphs. If you show a graph of shrinking glaciers starting from 1950 , the story being told is "look, human emissions have triggered a sudden recession in glaciers, implying a looming cataclysm&
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Aren’t we mostly engineers here who have been paid to build these accounting systems , so it’s not our place to criticize McDonalds for deploying them .
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McDonald’s is likely the safest fast food restaurant to divulge your eating habits and other personal information to because they will treasure that data and never share it with third parties
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i guess HN hates facts
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I recently visited Illecillewaet Glacier in Glacier NP , BC and most of the recession occurred prior to 1930 . Naturally the remnant continued to recede after that. And the recession started before 1880 When you draw short term graphs, of
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by tonymet 2mo ago
it's much easier to keep people happy while prosperity is growing.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
> Actually Eastern Europe is doing immigration despite what headlines you might be reading. "faltering" -- failing to uphold their discipline to restrain immigration
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it's a matter of degree
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Do tell. From my point of view , economic indicators are the oversimplification , rather than social factors
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i didn't mean economically. stop striving to be uncharitable.
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You're right for the most part. exceptions (and faltering) would be Poland, Hungary, Russia, and a few others.
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you're assuming gdp means productivity.
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by tonymet 2mo ago
economics < productivity < demographics (primarily ) & technology (secondarily) Every country in the world is trying to solve the same problem: how to preserve economic growth despite a shrinking population and declining productiv
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There are hundreds of models and thousands of tools so this is about the most naive and disingenuous assessment imaginable
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i can think of 3-5 bigger issues hitting the games industry than this. It's a sort of bike-shed issue that everyone can pile onto. I'm sure people have a lot of angst over the decline of games, and this is an easy focal point. B
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by tonymet 2mo ago
So it sounds like your position is that AI is not yet generating high fidelity solutions at a cost that would make reimplementation compelling. That's an okay position to have. That's what I would call, your side. I prefer hear
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by tonymet 2mo ago
I appreciate you taking a side
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You had me in the first half I’m not going to lie.
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Sounds good thanks for contributing. I agree with your points on where the reluctance is coming from, and that it’s an opportunity
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by tonymet 2mo ago
that doesn't help the conversation. It's easily less than 10% of their revenue, and there's likely more than 10-15% of revenue on the table. Nearly every business will consider that formula. What's your opinion? do you
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by tonymet 2mo ago
i agree this is a barrier, especially with charity projects -- those that don't have a clear short term revenue opportunity. But many of these apps have loads of money on the table. Reduced operations & labor costs, increased reven
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maybe not universally, but broadly . could you state your position?
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yes strangler fig is more or less what I'm alluding to . Log all of the business behavior, reimplement it, canary the new version, sunset the old. I agree that Fandango is much more complicated than the customer experience, but an en
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I was inadvertently logged out many times, my CC needed re-inserted many times, there are way too many screens to complete the purchase. I only frequent a couple theaters and they show me irrelevant theaters. I could go on. they were beg
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I mean at $100m in revenue, the $1-$2m in migration cost to the new system would be recouped very quickly (1-2% of revenue)
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I can see this , but we do have migration strategies to reduce this risk. During development the business requirements (embodied by the logs and running state) can get the app close to perfect. and during migration canary'ing the tra
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by tonymet 2mo ago
but the cost is pretty low. the entire fandango stack with a few guys and a month or two so we are talking $500k-$1m on ~$100m of annual revenue (< 1% ) . I could find $1m of lost revenue on their site in 30 minutes
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Ask HN: Why are websites and apps still running legacy code?
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by tonymet 2mo ago
totally agree. we used to hit Panera with coworkers and really enjoyed it. I tried it a little while ago and it was just awful. I noticed it had a PE buyout and their products declined. Glad to know my taste hasn’t changed.
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it’s much more likely this led to customers buying two

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