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by zamfi 7y ago
I’m just talking about the stuff that shows up literally when I check out using doordash. doordash knows about them, obviously, because it’s showing them to me as line items. Hypothetical increased prices from the restaurant are a whole ext
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by zamfi 7y ago
Also: why is the service fee separate from the delivery fee? Why do hotels charge an invisible “resort fee”? Why do airlines and utilities have so many extra fees you don’t find out about until later? These are all dark patterns that try to
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by zamfi 7y ago
Your post quotes the cynical piece of Levine’s editorial (literally his next three words are “but let’s not”, referring to “being cynical all day”), but it’s worth reading in full for the more nuanced perspective. I found the last two parag
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by zamfi 7y ago
Oh, is your point that YC-funded companies get more coverage on HN than non-YC-funded companies? And that this is bad? There are many reasons why this could be the case, only one of which is naked self-interest on the part of YC to promote
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by zamfi 7y ago
> If Kayak or something got closed, it'd be deemed off-topic for HN. Kayak and Hipmunk do virtually the same thing. The difference? One was by a YC founder, the other has T.V. commercials. Um, what? https://news.ycombina
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by zamfi 7y ago
What's going on with your server? My 11-year-old Mac Pro runs python in 32 ms! Kidding aside, even just running an empty C program that does nothing still takes 5ms, so not just a Python problem...
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by zamfi 7y ago
> This is the future, I’m afraid. A future that plans on everything going right so no one has to think about what happens when things go wrong. Many organizations have one of two perspectives on customer service: A) It's an opportun
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by zamfi 7y ago
There’s also things like https://editor.p5js.org
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by zamfi 7y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739290
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by zamfi 7y ago
If bike wearing headphones that prevent you from hearing the world around you, this could be quite dangerous -- not only to you, but to pedestrians too. Please be careful. In many jurisdictions, this is also illegal.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Also, I find that I can be "vocabularily challenged" for a few minutes after I break out, sounding like a complete moron; struggling for the most basic terminology. "Whatchacallit" is one of my most-uttered phrases.
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by zamfi 7y ago
50? I hope, for everyone’s sake, that it’s closer to 5.
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by zamfi 7y ago
I think the OP is referring to "big tech" as in mostly public companies.
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by zamfi 7y ago
I do not, and I’ve never visited a page on the NYT or WaPo and literally been redirected to a malware site that adds 20 items to my history so I can’t hit back, and hits me with every dark pattern trying to get me to download said malware
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Fighting environmental issues I’m not talking about fighting “environmental issues” — I’m explicitly talking about a) global climate change, which has little to do with ~75% of the environmental impacts of an electric vehicle, and b) n
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by zamfi 7y ago
> IMO that is a profoundly unhelpful way of looking at it. Agreed. > The money spent on the Iraq war [& Afghanistan, etc.] would be enough to buy enough batteries to store ALL US ELECTRICITY for full two days. Or, a base-version T
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Now, you probably won't like the source of that information, and I'm sure it's all been 'debunked,' but the other side can say the exact same thing. I don't like that source of information because it redir
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by zamfi 7y ago
Click the three vertical dots to see what "highly subsidized" means -- it's a specific level of subsidy, which you can actually modify in greater detail in the "detail" view. I absolutely agree that this thing needs
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by zamfi 7y ago
There was reason to be optimistic!
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by zamfi 7y ago
A controversial figure to be sure, but at least no one is really forced to work for him -- they know what they're getting into, no?
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by zamfi 7y ago
> I'm waiting for the entrepreneur who will say he doesn't care how much money he makes or how many customers he has, only that it's worthwhile and needed doing. Closest to this today might be Elon Musk, maybe...but there
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by zamfi 7y ago
> low temperature performance Doesn't that make li-ion unsuitable for, e.g., ICE vehicles that need to start at low temperatures? The batteries in EVs are definitely not as "forget about it" as the lead acid's in gas
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by zamfi 7y ago
At least in California, it is indeed apportioned at the state level.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> The benefits of education go to more than just the (parents of) the recipients of that education. I think this is exactly the intent — get the whole county / district to pay, not just the parents, right? And these payments are usu
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Imagine if teaching paid as well as software development. I’d love this personally. But the organizations that employ teachers do not make the same amount of money, per employee, as organizations that employ software engineers. Dependi
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by zamfi 7y ago
> I'm merely returning the attitude which was presented to me. An eye for an eye indeed makes the whole world blind. Sorry to have fueled your anger.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> Since you did not read my post and obviously didn't read theirs, I'm not entertaining yours. You lack the required information to make a useful contribution to this thread. Apologies for misunderstanding what “the prior posit
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by zamfi 7y ago
Nice goalposting there. My issue was only with your implication that the mass alone was enough. Obviously impact speed matters too, that was the point. I assume your 500m/s comes from the assumed algebra in my post, but the real issue
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by zamfi 7y ago
A mortgage is usually a contract between two parties, so...both parties can agree to change anything about the contract at any time anyway.
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by zamfi 7y ago
> I'll let you do the math, but just the 10^12 kg along should tell you that the idea is quite infeasible before you ever get to doing the actual calculation. Did you try the math? 10^12 J (i.e., 10^12 kg moving slowly) is a lot, bu

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