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A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating(bloomberg.com)
174 points by yawz 9y ago|364 comments
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by yawz 9y ago
Thanks! For sensational titles, I'm developing a habit of checking the comments first. It seems to be working :).
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by yawz 9y ago
> Give me clear goals... Arguably, I need talented individuals forming good teams to clarify the goals and to have direct input to the roadmap. Reducing people to implementors may not be great for morale, motivation and engagement. Som
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by yawz 9y ago
> I am fully convinced that you are a Facebook addict in denial This is certainly your right, but I am not. Someone said "denial"? :) I rarely get religious and passionate about things. I don't have FB shares. I'm s
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by yawz 9y ago
I blog for other things: technology and book reviews. But it is too public for personal stories that I share with friends & family.
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by yawz 9y ago
For me this is similar to junk that I receive by snail mail :). They go directly to recycling. Same with Facebook (for any other media type, for that matter). I put my filters on, and I don't get distracted by the adds. Also, on Facebo
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by yawz 9y ago
Totally! That's close to how I'm using Facebook normally. I don't even have Messenger on my mobile devices.
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by yawz 9y ago
Sounds like you didn't care about them in the first place. I'd like to think that friendships and love (not necessarily romantic love) survives the distance. Having said that, I totally get that one may not necessarily want to kno
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by yawz 9y ago
Why would you print a typed letter and send it by mail instead of e-mailing? Waste of resources, if you ask me, and pretty expensive depending on the country you're sending it to. Good for USPS, though. A typed letter is not more perso
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by yawz 9y ago
How long does it take to write a 2 page letter? I'm not even talking about preparing the mail, posting, etc. I'm in software development, just like yourself, and I can probably type many times faster than I can write. I think you
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by yawz 9y ago
(replying at this level, because HN seems to have a depth limit for nested messages) Drew, I think I understand where you're coming from. But as stated earlier on, I don't even connect to Facebook daily, let alone spending hours o
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by yawz 9y ago
Instead of writing letters, I guess I prefer to have hobbies.
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by yawz 9y ago
I prefer not to repeat myself and spend that time for more happy memories ;).
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by yawz 9y ago
Seriously?!? Would you write that letter to dozens of people in 3 different languages? Or should I pick "only one" of my aunts and uncles to share my son's first school day pictures? Or maybe we can create a human chain where
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by yawz 9y ago
This is hardly practical :), let alone slow and expensive with all the pictures printed etc.
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by yawz 9y ago
I'm guessing that parents connect through Facebook groups. Today, being the first day of school here in Colorado, my wife told me that the parents decided to organize a Facebook group to share information. My suggestion was a Whatsapp
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by yawz 9y ago
Well... As someone who has moved to various countries and across continents a few times over the last three decades, I can hardly find another medium that allows me to keep up with friends and family across many countries and time zones eas
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by yawz 9y ago
Just like anything else, I've seen them done well, but also badly. My current stand-ups last probably 10 mins (never more than 15 mins). It generates questions and discussions that are carried out after the stand-up with a more focused
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by yawz 9y ago
> Still, even with a huge surge, Uber is 1/2 to 1/10th the price of a cab in my city. This summarizes why the model would continue to work. It's similar to low-cost airlines: most of us hate them, but most of us still us
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by yawz 9y ago
> Sadly, offices are perhaps the closest modern equivalent to a "village" that we have left. Ha! We need a "tribal leadership" discussion forking off this point.
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by yawz 9y ago
> The nature of the beast is that software requirements rarely change Put like this, it's hard to agree with the above statement. Following the spirit of the article, I assume the author means that the problem domain is pretty sta
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by yawz 9y ago
> The other thing is not to beat myself up when I slip up Great advice! This is somewhat similar to what I observe about the things that people "want" to do but give up on easily as well. A good example is to go to the gym. J
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Ask HN: Why don't we have tags on HN?
26 points by yawz 9y ago|19 comments
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Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays(theguardian.com)
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It’s Mosquito Season. Here’s How to Prepare(nytimes.com)
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by yawz 9y ago
Regarding #5, I humbly agree that taking some time might be beneficial. We all suffer from "Focusing Illusion": Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
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Hacker collective Anonymous claims NASA is on the verge of announcing alien life(dailymail.co.uk)
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What's New in DevTools (Chrome 59)(developers.google.com)
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Text-based 3D Tetris(quantumduck.github.io)
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by yawz 9y ago
They would have to adapt. This would create a good evolutionary pressure, and as a result, bad policies wouldn't survive. Not a bad thing overall.

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