wintogreen74

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by wintogreen74 4y ago
>> People can read it natively in the social app they find themselves already in Not saying you're wrong, but... if it was a blog wouldn't that "native app" be a browser? >> Also makes it easier for such read
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
>> since they’ll have to factor in the risk of paying a hefty severance Typically there is not a hefty severance paid by most companies though. There's some restructuring costs and lots of disruption though.
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
Even determinate progress bars are challenging because they typically represent a portion of a known measure that doesn't necessarily match with the user's measure of reference. Example: "75%" complete might mean 75 of 1
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If we qualify this as acts that don't directly impact the actions or choices of others does that limit the obvious counter-examples?
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this seems more like a systems problem with a reinforcing and a balancing feedback loop: you're hiring for the future based on current demand, but there's a delay between the syncs of supplying capacity (hiring) and demand.
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Well, if YC is positioning themselves as "helping to solve the problem" I think it's completely valid to call them out for previously "helping to create the problem", in a humorous way.
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YC has generated enough wealth from these and other endless consumption ideas for a thousand lifetimes. The billionaire's playbook now dictates you focus on building your legacy by using disruptive technology to save the world.
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I can only assume an entire generational period of essentially zero-percent financing costs has convinced people they can have everything they want now. Financed deals of all kinds are always "locked" for some term. Sometimes this
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
Or the wire fraud. That's a federal charge and a felony. At $1M the range is going to be likely around 40-50 months, so $25M + (in this case) several aggravating factors like amount of loss, number of victims, defendant’s intentions an
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
"Harming corporate profits" seems like a weird spin, considering locked phones are typically on long-term contracts that subsidize the purchase price. If you buy a lease-to-own car, then stop making payments and go to a different
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these devices could also be stolen, or on longer-term contracts that subsidized the purchase price. Neither of these are artificial restraints on competition, especially considering all carriers play the same game.
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
2022 is/was a terrible year for a lot of people in specific areas or regions of tech, but was it a terrible year across the board? The only fundamental shift I'm seeing is back to some semblance of rational thought and expectation
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
That's not how corporate income tax works though; the company pays taxes on all that sales income less expenses, and then they would likely take dividends at a preferential tax rate and pay yet some more tax. I doubt they've been
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
I agree with you across all your points: positive, critical and kudos. Having to occasionally use a browser without ad blocking (or container isolation) is unbearable. The original internet has largely died but Mozilla has made it's pa
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Their silence on vaping IS promoting alternatives though
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Good point. What are they going to do to make me look cool then? Vaping (especially in cooler weather) looks ridiculous.
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
>> Canadian style widely encouraged assisted suicide model Canadian here; we're pretty much the polar opposite of our southern neighbours and I'd argue both of us are too extreme in our approach to health care, but I don&#x2
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I really like a lot of what comes out of NZ, but not this sort of nanny state action. I believe it will have all sorts of negative consequences out of the public light and control. It's a high-level combination of "Won't some
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
It IS pretty damning that Bezos (and Gates IMO) are the ones held up as "not letting the wealth and power change you". Bezos literally flew in a giant cock-rocket wearing a cowboy hat.
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How can either side get an accurate assessment of the other in such a short time? I was hired by my current employer in less than 2 weeks from initial conversation and it was a bit of a smell that they weren't more thorough. Now I&#x27
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
Your understanding is one approach, but the composition can occur anywhere in the pipeline from SSR to client runtime composition, or in-between (example: at a CDN). eCommerce CAN be a good example, as things like the shopping cart, product
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by wintogreen74 4y ago
My biggest learning from time in the eCommerce world: trivial-sounding things are very, very difficult to get right, and the edge-cases in api-based solutions are entry-level features. Take a single one of your items: inventory management.
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I worked with a smaller but decent-sized player in this space and the API components (while difficult) are the easier piece of the puzzle. Micro-front-ends seem really cool but you don't have to dig very deep before your spidey sense s
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what the?