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by ttcbj 4y ago
Wow, very useful. Thanks for sharing this.
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by ttcbj 4y ago
While I see your point, I went through several scammy credit card processing solutions (one from an intuit subsidiary, one from a local bank) back around 2013 before I found stripe. You wouldn’t think that “it’s easy to use and not scammy”
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by ttcbj 4y ago
I have been developing in Flutter for a few years now, and I really enjoy the ecosystem. It is the only mobile development environment I have every really enjoyed using. When I started, flutter worked on mobile, and web support was in bet
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by ttcbj 4y ago
Coming from a rails background, I have really enjoyed developing against Firebase. Cloud Firestore so much easier than deploying a rails app somewhere. It comes with a lot of great analytics tools. The auth stuff works great. The docume
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by ttcbj 4y ago
I haven't really tried apple maps since it came out and was bad. However, one thing I dislike about Google maps nav is how formal it is, even in areas that I have driven around for years. Often, I will drive to a hike where I need de
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by ttcbj 4y ago
Desktop software with a subscription model, sold to businesses (so, economics similar to SaaS).
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by ttcbj 4y ago
As someone who owns a lifestyle business, I think the domain of lifestyle businesses is almost entirely distinct from that of startups. Something that has the potential to be a startup (massive growth), could not be "held back" t
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by ttcbj 4y ago
These are all interesting points. However, I recently used Uber Premier twice in Miami, after not using any car service for two years, and the experience was excellent. It was fast, friendly, the car was nice, and I was happy with the pri
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by ttcbj 5y ago
I am very excited about the prospect of cultivated meat. It just makes so much more ethical, environmental and eventually economic sense. This innovation seems inevitable, but someone still has to figure out all the details. Sounds like
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by ttcbj 5y ago
> I keep raising the $50 thinking the new price is crazy, and then people continue buying anyway. Yes! It is your business, and you know best, but this sounds promising to me and reminds me of my situation. That is why I recommend that
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by ttcbj 5y ago
I write this with true love for your effort, but do I read your 2021 annual retrospective correctly stating that you made $13K on $477K in revenue? Maybe some of your expenses are paying yourself for software development, and that's
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by ttcbj 5y ago
My grandparents are now 95 and 96 (just shy of their 75th wedding anniversary). They are wonderful people, but it is clear that life is hard for them now. They have chronic pain and nothing can really be done about it. They have very lim
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by ttcbj 5y ago
My wife fits the “almost in a cult” description. I think she loves the positivity, and feels engaged by the classes. She started with bike, but now also does peloton outdoor runs. She is focused on the Peloton power zone classes. For pow
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by ttcbj 5y ago
Yes, exactly this. I found work stressful and fraught when I needed the money. Once I didn’t, I was free to enjoy the work I enjoy. If anything, the flexibility in my schedule from financial independence opens me up to a lot of unpaid work
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by ttcbj 5y ago
My favorite idea for this issue is that the gov't should pay for college, except it should pay a multiple of the student's increase in earned taxable income averaged over the 5 years preceding and following the degree. High school
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by ttcbj 5y ago
My 72 year old mother was just in the hospital for 5 days with AFib (not her first). We had an escalating series of interventions and procedures, none of which proved effective. By the end, I suspected she had been substantially over trea
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by ttcbj 6y ago
Yes, exactly, the dangerous dose is not far past the safe dose. One of the common causes is that many medicines contain Tylenol/acetaminophen, but don't have it in the name [1]. For example, DayQuil or Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold and
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by ttcbj 6y ago
I haven't paid much attention to GPT-3, and this is an interesting point (that is picks up the tone of forums). Although the original article is interesting, I think it would be more interesting to try to systematically vary the origin
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by ttcbj 6y ago
I think the first paragraph of the parent may be correct, but I think the second paragraph is inaccurate and unnecessarily discouraging to young men who may be reading this. Here is my experience as a happily married man: 1. Throughout my
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by ttcbj 6y ago
FWIW, I think this is a useful idea. But I think it would be more helpful if you clearly explained why you choose those stats and rethought what you are trying to say. I personally care about "When can I feel safe going out?" T
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by ttcbj 7y ago
To be clear, I am not arguing for central planning. If I were in charge, I would try to combine (1) a temporary but much broader federally run unemployment system, with (2) measures to prevent short-sighted reallocation of capital resources
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by ttcbj 7y ago
I find this situation very different from the bail outs of 2008. In 2008, the economy was too focused on housing and lending, and so real substantive changes needed to occur to refocus. People need to change jobs, etc. I was annoyed by
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by ttcbj 7y ago
Exactly. In fact, the best way to determine a fair value for an investment is to estimate the net present value of future cash flows to owners: from dividends or a terminal acquisition.
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by ttcbj 7y ago
Yes, the book says the 1918 flu hit healthy robust people the hardest. There are many other differences. For example, that flu had a super short incubation time, so it swept through communities in 7 weeks, and military bases in 4-5. On
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by ttcbj 7y ago
Over the last few weeks, we have acquired enough food/supplies to stay isolated at our house for about 2 months (a combination of bulk rice/beans/grains, and pre-purchasing anything we use regularly which has a long expiratio
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by ttcbj 7y ago
I have not read the NYMag article, but I personally think this approach makes a lot of sense. My own favorite higher education reform idea is to have the gov't fund higher education by paying schools a percentage of the student's
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by ttcbj 7y ago
I agree that I don't want to fly them. The DC-10 had a similarly bad safety record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#Cargo_... It seems to have continued on for several years, though ultimate
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by ttcbj 7y ago
I'm not convinced this is accurate. When an industry is offered a technology-based productivity improvement by a vendor, the increased profit associated with that improvement can go to three places: 1. The technology vendor itself 2. T
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by ttcbj 7y ago
We have a checking/savings account, and then various investment accounts at vanguard. All income goes to vanguard. Each year, we move our total budget for the year to checking. Then, we pay for all spending from checking. We can easi
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by ttcbj 7y ago
Good question: for tax reasons!

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