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by vegannet 6y ago
Uber Eats isn’t really in the business of delivering food, it’s in the business of discounting the cost of food delivery. If your favourite local restaurant raised investment to be able to reduce their prices to below cost they would have a
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by vegannet 6y ago
I am not a doctor but fwiw I was told by an NHS doctor that the most recent scientific understanding of vitamin D is that the recommended dose (based on old science) is far too low and 5000 per day is a good amount for someone in the UK (du
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by vegannet 6y ago
Search is hard to get right and the cost of Algolia is negligible vs. doing it yourself. As a programmer, every line of code you write is a line of code you own: the less code you own in production, the better off you are. Algolia has saved
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by vegannet 6y ago
If your code is bad in a monolith, it’ll be bad with Microservices. If you can’t build a good monolith, you can’t build a good Microservices architecture — because it introduces even more complexity and requires even more consideration. Dis
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by vegannet 6y ago
That’s often a concern amongst publishers around implementing the ability to pay to opt out of advertisements however I think in this case the relative low cost of YouTube advertisements is because of the high cost of getting them right.
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by vegannet 6y ago
An advert is the creative and context — i.e: a photo on an influencers Instagram story is a different advert to the same photo on a billboard.
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by vegannet 6y ago
Yes but it’s very contagious, asymptomatic while contagious _and_ many people who aren’t at risk of death do come into contact with those who are. There are tens of millions of people in the UK who are vulnerable to severe consequences if t
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by vegannet 6y ago
I think the key to understanding the scope for abuse is to understand the opportunity. There will always be abusive behaviour and tools are required to tackle it _but_ the majority of abusive behaviour on the internet comes from a desire fo
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by vegannet 7y ago
I’ve always been a little confused about their cult following given their unfriendly terms — arbitrary domain cancellation based on adult material for example — which are fair terms to have if that’s their ethics but it seems at odds with t
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by vegannet 7y ago
Setters and getters aren’t really object oriented. An object has behaviour, ensuring the inner workings of that object are protected is a good thing _even if_ the inner workings are only ever inner workings. There’s lots of valid and meanin
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by vegannet 7y ago
The reason WeWork is great is because investors are subsidising our memberships, just like Uber is cheap because investors are shovelling in cash. WeWork has the potential for profitability if you take away the ridiculousness but the ridicu
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by vegannet 7y ago
Yes and no. They use a guest registration system (on an iPad) that takes a photograph to send to the person who invited you on arrival so that your host knows who to look for in the shared space. You can simply choose not to stand in front
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by vegannet 7y ago
You can make the same point repeatedly if you like but, as I've explained, the costs you're referring to are a very small part of the total cost and certainly do not come close to offsetting the gains made by cutting out livestock
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by vegannet 7y ago
The cost of transporting a hundred thousand burgers is dwarfed by the cost of creating a hundred thousand burgers. The primary costs associated with meat are in the production, not the transport: compared to, say, Beyond Meat, a single beef
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by vegannet 7y ago
Marginally? Beef, for example, takes many times the amount of energy and water to produce equivalent calories to vegan foods. Based on any measure, beef is significantly more expensive than vegan food sources, “marginally” is far from an ac
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by vegannet 7y ago
I think it very much depends on the work you’re doing. My co-workers depend on debuggers which are a crutch that allow them to _feel_ like they have control over our spaghetti code — “it’s fine, I can step through!” — but the code I produce
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by vegannet 7y ago
The majority of plastic waste in “civilised” countries is shipped elsewhere: out of sight out of mind. There’s a strong likelihood that your plastic waste is ending up somewhere you do not expect it to end up. https://www.wired.c
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by vegannet 7y ago
I hate very little in life but I can confidently say I hate “DRYing out code” because it’s _always_ used by developers who believe the repetitiveness of code dictate its quality. I have never seen a good commit for “DRYing out code” — in fa
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by vegannet 7y ago
You’re looking at 1/10th of the earnings you’d generate from AirBnB with the same amount of work. You have to manage bookings, grant access (working around your own availability), handle insurance and clean up. Would you deal with all
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by vegannet 7y ago
There is such a startup in London (and elsewhere maybe) but the problem is the costs are greater than the cost of a true co-working space. WeWork in London has hot desks from about £10/day (monthly) and £20/day (pay as you go). A
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by vegannet 7y ago
I’m talking about the specific promises made by Tether. The question is not about whether or not fractional reserve banking exists, the question is how can Tether engage in fractional reserve banking (or any profit making activity) without
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by vegannet 7y ago
I’m not clear how that applies to Tether: “[...] each tetherUSD in circulation represents one US dollar held in our reserves (i.e. a onetoone ratio) which means the system is fully reserved when the sum of all tethers in existence (at any
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by vegannet 7y ago
If Tether worked as it was advertised there would be no profit opportunity. The purported reason Tether exists is to help the crypto markets deal with the liquidity problems because of how difficult Fiat banking is, essentially Tethers valu
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by vegannet 7y ago
I have a permanent desk in a WeWork and although there is reasonably high turnover (I’d guess the average desk tenancy is about 4 months although at least a dozen in my space have been there for 18 months or more) I have made a few friends
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by vegannet 8y ago
Sure, it’s unjust that innocent people lose everything, but... every single day innocent people lose everything because of the legal system. “Innocent until proven guilty” may be the best we have for a legal standard but it is far from perf
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by vegannet 8y ago
Innocent until proven guilty is a legal standard, it is unreasonable and impractical to expect individuals to abide by it in their day to day life. Every day you are constantly making assessments on people based on the information you have,
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by vegannet 8y ago
Does this mean the next step is developers start building out brandless hotels that are a collection of individual investor owned rooms that are serviced and let through Airbnb. There’s already “invest in a hotel room” schemes (that are mos
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by vegannet 8y ago
I’ve heard that a 5 month old child can be vaccinated (it’s just not standard practice) so in a situation where there are serious concerns about infection you are not without options.
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by vegannet 8y ago
We are arguing different points. I’m saying _if_ an organisation _is_ insecure enough for social engineering to work then a vacation auto-responder is not going to represent any meaningful increase in risk.
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by vegannet 8y ago
Any organisation where “hey I forgot my password, can you reset it?” from an unknown email address is an attack that has chance of success is an organisation where there’s dozens of major problems long before you get to auto-responders iden

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