treelovinhippie

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by treelovinhippie 4y ago
The majority of RV/vanlifers do not need internet in motion, they just want a regular static 12V dish that can be mounted fixed and flush to the roof/racks like any solar panel. $2500 for such a dish is the wrong target market. Th
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Go one better and structure it legally such that it can never be acquired: https://purpose-economy.org
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
I'm turning 35 this year. My first startup was at age 16. I've launched well over 100 startups in the past 19 years. They all failed. The only really successful one was a non-profit hackathon. Though about 3 years ago I started on
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
There's also a side effect that isn't reported at all in the TGA's weekly reports and risk stats: costochondritis and/or myalgia. I had 3 weeks of intense chest pains after 1st Pfizer and another week of mild chest pains
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Zuck's non-profit acquired the company back in 2017 and as of a few hours ago they conveniently killed it. Imagine acquiring a company via your non-profit purely to grab the name and domain names for your for-profit. Announcement: htt
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
I've had the influenza vaccine every year with no side effects. 3 weeks of chest pains on the 1st Pfizer (+emergency visit) and 1 week of chest pains on the 2nd Pfizer. ECG, x-ray and blood tests normal. Four different doctors: "w
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
And all the calls go through Infura which runs on AWS. Joe Lubin (former Goldman Sachs) owns ~50% of both Metamask and Infura. Centralized much?
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
In Australia the government's (dubious) re-opening plan is based upon modelling by the Doherty Institute. Facebook censors anyone from sharing that report. Here's the link to try yourself: https://www.doherty.edu.au&#x2
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Facebook acquires Giphy. Regulators: shooketh Facebook acquires Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Regulators: crickets
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Get drunk/high and try to use their desktop app. The primary button to create a new note looks like a "new note" button. You'd expect that when you click it a new note will be created. Nope. It's a dropdown. You the
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Square is buying a loan shark service. "The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found one in five buy now, pay later users is missing payments, half of users aged between 18 to 29 cut back on essential items to make repaym
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Afterpay is a buy now, pay later scheme. It's literally a loan shark service. 25% of their revenue comes from late fees. "The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found one in five buy now, pay later users is missing p
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
~25% of their revenue comes from late fees to consumers. 75% from merchants. They're your standard loan shark predator disguised with flashy marketing and bankrolled by VCs.
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Ok so Square has opted to engage in predatory practices. Noted.
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Yeah definitely. Though the timeframe is in the 10-30 year range. Safe bet that 10 years from now most vehicles on the road will still be human-driven. Openpilot with 10 more years of development will be impressive.
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
For those new to the comma.ai strategy: Autopilot is iOS. Openpilot is Android. Far more devices running Android than iOS in the world. And unlike consumer tech, the average car on the road is over 12 years old. So there's a long windo
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Another scam for you to lookup: Facebook Australia claimed it made 2020 local revenues of $155M. In reality it's local revenues were $747M. They put the rest of it onto overseas books to reduce the local tax requirements. It's the
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Nothing to do with GST. They have a registered Australian company, but they (like most multinationals) do dodgy tax scams to offshore revenues. More details: https://www.michaelwest.com.au/a-netflix-original-dreams-of-...
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
The VC game these days is no different to flipping houses. They're primarily funding boring, inconsequential and incremental startups which can be acquired in <5 years. Or chasing the <1 year money-on-money return of crypto proje
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Try build a production app and you'll very quickly find the multi-year bugs in core components that require you to either build elaborate workarounds or 3rd party packages.
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Alas the HN echo-chamber ensures these points are pushed out of the bubble. Why is YC funding this sort of shit? https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/beacons-seed-round-creator...
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation. Gumroad is something that should be a 0% fee opensource developer component, not an entire company. The YC Faceboo
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Got to wonder what crypto prices would be at today without Tether's pump scam.
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
They ejected toward the end but that just makes development more difficult, particularly the deployment process. Expo is nice but the whole DX is just painful. The iOS Simulator will crash often. You need to do a hard 'expo start'
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
PWA + Capacitor would basically be a web wrapper with access to native APIs: https://capacitorjs.com/docs/v3/plugins I'm chasing the holy grail of "build once, run anywhere". I want to basically use
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
Having just finished an 8 month Expo RN contract I'm excited to never touch it again. For personal projects keen to see how far I can go with Svelte PWA + Capacitor. Google + Microsoft should really double-down on PWA apps. I think at
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
The simplest filter to avoid hiring these Woke cult people in the first place is to check for pronouns in their Twitter bio. You can see it in the tweets from people leaving Basecamp. I'm not against using preferred pronouns in the wor
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by treelovinhippie 5y ago
US imperialism burning all the world's books.
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by treelovinhippie 6y ago
Basically my current contract at a startup funded by a bank. Though I started off doing fast work only to realize that the CEO/PM has a fetish for feature bloat, and entire sections of the app get changed by the designers within 2-3 we
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by treelovinhippie 6y ago
I think all design tools should have a component-first UX (eg Storybook but embedded in the tool). We devs obviously know how to think in components and understand how props work. Designers who can't/won't learn to code have

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