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by wwalser 10y ago
Since this is content marketing for meetnotes.co (which looks like a pretty cool service) I feel like it's reasonable to give some constructive criticism to the team behind the product. Remove "Beta" from your marketing site.
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by wwalser 10y ago
As others have pointed out, what this comment proposes is wildly different to what Wealthfront and Betterment do. Active trading, algorithmic or otherwise, is unlike buy and hold investing which Betterment and Wealthfront advise. Buy and ho
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by wwalser 10y ago
Will do. I only reluctantly admitted that Chrome was better than FF about a year and a half ago. Would be thrilled to switch back.
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by wwalser 10y ago
At the time that Firefox started really turning heads, it took an order of magnitude less money to build a better browser. JIT innovations that were once just good research ideas from the Smalltalk world had an open source implementation in
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by wwalser 10y ago
The point that a company paid taxes, in response to an article with a title claiming that they paid $0 in taxes, is irrelevant?
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by wwalser 10y ago
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of the speed limiting, that does sound rather useless.
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by wwalser 10y ago
I have another question based on the instructions. Why does a Netlify user have to create an oAuth application of their own? > … in order to use the CMS, you’ll need to set up authentication with GitHub. That's the opposite of how o
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by wwalser 10y ago
The (current) top thread in the comments section references the reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_vertical_separation_mi... It appears that there is a section of air betwe
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by wwalser 10y ago
This was my understanding as well. If they just ring up the total and pass you food, there's no expectation of a tip. I do tip from time to time at places where I'm a regular customer. If I get takeout somewhere near work of home
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by wwalser 10y ago
I was under the impression that AP* was for keeping the car in a lane on the interstate. Is it suppose to be capable of navigating rural roads like the video shows?
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by wwalser 10y ago
I have heard that people didn't care for working with her. I don't find that surprising given her espoused views on work ethic.
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by wwalser 10y ago
I can imagine that as well. However, my hope is that I only feel this way because I personally sway slightly left and therefore assign my own preferences to the left. I'm hopeful that's just my bias showing and that instead we&#x2
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by wwalser 10y ago
Imagine you have something and you take it to the market and investors tell you it's worth negative amounts of money. It's actually worse than worthless. Then you take it to them later and they purchase it for multiple billions of
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by wwalser 10y ago
I appreciate that you've cited some sources (however questionable). The tone is fine, it's sometimes hard to maintain composure. Especially when someone points out that you're wildly making things up. Any response to selling
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by wwalser 10y ago
The person above you didn't say CEO. They said exec. If she had stayed at Google and had some equity comp she would have netted more money. Absolutely.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Any ah… evidence for that first claim (or any of them really…)? It seems obvious that she would have netted more money if she had just stayed anywhere near the top tier of Google. Yahoo was a capsized ship before Marissa came aboard. The fa
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by wwalser 10y ago
For clear examples of what op is talking about: Guess blogs — PR — Reporters — Co-marketing with partners —Guests on podcasts — Most notable speakers at conferences All require one party to make first contact. That first contact is often a
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by wwalser 10y ago
The headline of the article (not the title of this post) is a clear representation of how bad ad-driven news has gotten. Civil asset forfeiture is an issue so transparently incompatible with our society that everyone, no matter what side of
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by wwalser 10y ago
I respect Joel immensely. That said, I found his post strange in what it leaves out. So much so that I wrote my own follow up. https://medium.com/@wwalser/re-developers-side-projects-3ee3... Basically, yes, it's s
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by wwalser 10y ago
If you're reading about the founder of a company, chances are you're reading content marketing for that founder's company. If you're listening to a podcast with a company founder as a guest — you're listening to con
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by wwalser 10y ago
My opinion (and I know this varies): * The service is superior to a cab 100% of the time. It's never worse. Ever. The margin of "better" is not small. * I use to use Uber regularly in three cities[1]. * In one, Orlando, price
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by wwalser 10y ago
Cheers, I missed that they did actually cover this. My mistake.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Thanks for pointing out the profitability bit that I missed. That was far enough into the article that I must have been skimming at that point. Cheers.
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by wwalser 10y ago
All of these pieces carefully avoid talking about the fact that Uber claims to have been profitable in several US cities in 2016. In places where they have had time to figure our their model, pricing and supply/demand, they appear to b
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by wwalser 10y ago
Besides the gradient background I'm not really seeing it on the ghost site. On the Scale site I see what you're saying. This comment does bring to mind something I heard a while back. What web developers say to you when they see s
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by wwalser 10y ago
The article doesn't say that the service fee is _not_ given to workers. It may pass through Instacart. It may all go into a common pool paid to workers. Instacart may take a rake. We simply have no idea. Until someone shows some data,
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by wwalser 10y ago
Your comment is 100% assumptions. > Sure, but Instacart is demolishing a very worker-popular tipping feature. That suggests that actually, there is a critical mass of consumers willing to pay more. Nothing about this article says that to
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by wwalser 10y ago
Labeling a service fee a service fee isn't a dark pattern. Nothing about "service fee" makes me thing it's going to the driver. Also, per the article, the service fee wasn't originally something that could be change
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by wwalser 10y ago
I didn't miss it. I just think way more information is necessary in order to understand whether or not it's a positive or negative. As originally implemented, it doesn't appear to be in any way dishonest. My understanding of

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