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by xfour 6y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, things have certainly opened up lately quite a bit with the mainstream-ization of the crypto currencies. One could conceivably avoid Visa / MC in a way that just wouldn't have been possible before
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by xfour 6y ago
If nothing else this made me realize that Digg still existed. Read the article which was pretty good. I think the blanket meetings are wasted time blanket statement is interesting. They serve a couple of different purposes when used correct
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Ask HN: Is remote work here forever?
14 points by xfour 6y ago|13 comments
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by xfour 6y ago
In parallel to this growth of topline and increasing efficiencies, our gross loss ratio declined steadily from 161% in 2017, to 113% in 2018, to 79% in 2019 and to 72% for the three months ended March 31, 2020. See "Management's
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by xfour 6y ago
Super cool, I'm sure the layout is inspired by the source material but wow is that hard to navigate. I was looking for Hero's Quest of the I just clicked through to the Adams wing, Floor 3, Sierra Online, Other Games (King's
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by xfour 7y ago
Didn’t see anything there in the article about the financials, is that because they filed “Confidentiality”?
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by xfour 7y ago
That sounds like a pretty aweful outcome, honestly. As overused and made to mean breaking the law, disrupting is a kind of exciting thing to be a part of. You’re changing the game, reinventing an industry or something of those sorts. Regula
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by xfour 7y ago
Speaking of new streaming services, I was trying to watch The Expanse Season 4. Amazon famously made this happen, so thanks to Bezos there. But even though I have their Prime service there seemed to be a monthly service called Prime Video r
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by xfour 7y ago
Non-Paywalled https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/softbank-sells-stake-back-to...
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by xfour 7y ago
In California you have Prop 13 causing people to stay put. If you bought a house anywhere close to the coast more than 6 years ago you’ve likely seen 50-100% in value increase. Therefore if you move you’d pay that same increase proportional
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by xfour 7y ago
Do you have a link to pictures?
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by xfour 7y ago
There definitely seems to be an opportunity to improve “line of sight”. The CTO/CEO brought you on for a reason. There exists some goal that those individuals want you to accomplish and you want to make them articulate it. Once you kno
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by xfour 7y ago
What's their cash on hand position, I believe I saw that there's 13B, after adding 8B in the IPO, that seems like a ton of cash on hand for a business that isn't showing any signs of turning of profit. Could they not just wit
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Ask HN: Uber’s Cash in Hand Position
2 points by xfour 7y ago|4 comments
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DefensibleApp updated to show PGE’s next outage starting tomorrow(defensibleapp.com)
3 points by xfour 7y ago|0 comments
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by xfour 7y ago
Modern MapboxGL based map of general wildfire risk updated with PGE’s “Historic” power outage planned for later today. Easier to view than the various other sources, especially on mobile.
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Defensible App Updated to include overlay for PGE projected outages(defensibleapp.com)
1 points by xfour 7y ago|2 comments
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by xfour 7y ago
That's a great point. There's some much arguing about what different passages in the bible mean, and what get's lost in those conversations that the passages in question are already a derivative source. The thinking must go s
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SoftBank reportedly preps a package to take control of WeWork parent company(techcrunch.com)
3 points by xfour 7y ago|0 comments
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Wildfire Risk in California Mapped(medium.com)
8 points by xfour 7y ago|2 comments
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by xfour 7y ago
Shhh... don’t force us back to piracy iPlayer is nice.
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by xfour 7y ago
Was almost an inevitability it seemed like with all the other news, IPO ended etc. While this is a huge deal, is it really going to change anything about the underlying business? Let's say there's only 10% of employees or some ver
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by xfour 7y ago
Visiting there recently I was in awe of what it must take to run and maintain that place. Every single day... it’s more or less spotless at any given moment you have attractions shows security vegetatation water systems etc. it’s incredible
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by xfour 7y ago
Not saying that I know this is the case but when you struggle for years to reach a liquidity event and with the direct offering everyone reached that event at the same time, likely there’s a bit of a collective sigh of relief there and peop
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by xfour 7y ago
So how long until an annexation request for Googleopolis combining all these purchased parcels and becoming a city upon itself. That seems like a likely endgame here. Invokes a bit of a mix between a company town a mining operation might ha
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by xfour 7y ago
I use the 2018 MacBook Air, 1.6ghz 16gb ram as a developer / development manager and it is faster than the 2015 pro it replaced with similar specs. The only thing I've seen it slow down on is compiling Rust, but I think that'
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by xfour 7y ago
This website is downright unreadable on mobile it goes completely white every five seconds or so probably trying to load some JS.
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by xfour 7y ago
Is this exclusive content of the economist or is there a non-paywalled mirror?
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by xfour 7y ago
Noticed it said brick and mortar. I’ve seen the practice much more prevalent with the popular food trucks. In both cases I feel like speed is essential and the moments where change is being made add up. It is also like the article says dog-
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by xfour 8y ago
Used Kong but don’t know too much about the internals other than I’ve heard it’s a wrapper on Nginx intended to be used as a proxy. Looking at some features around caching I was thinking about implementing they seem to have implemented a ty

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