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Some people have night rates for electricity so you could set your dryer to start at 3am and save yourself money.

You could get an estimated time for when the clothes are going to be dried. Often I have to switch on the dryer a second time as the clothes aren’t completely dry.

If the water collection tank is full in my dryer it essentially stops drying the clothes so if I could get an alert that the tank was full I could empty it or maybe alert someone in the house that it needs to be emptied.

Often if I’m washing clothes at night I don’t turn on the drier as some people have gone to bed, I normally leave the clothes in the drier. So if I could get an alert based on the weather the next morning if it makes sense to hang out the clothes before I go to work or is it going to rain and the drier will switch it on and be finished before I come home from work.

If Google could get their act together with Stadia they could really capture a nice chunk of the casual gamer market. Games are becoming the next streaming wars, having to switch between several services to get what you want is becoming a pain.

So I could control the dryer remotely.

So I can get a notification when the dryer is finished.

So I could be alerted if some goes wrong with the dryer or if it needs a service.

Grifters paradise.

In the article he's explicitly talking about an "investment thesis".

If I wrote articles like below I should explicitly state my investment.

"Why gold is a great investment"

"Why You should invest in Tesla"

"The Ark Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (NYSE: ARKX) is the future"

If your objective is to get your readers to do something that could financially benefit you then you should make that clear.

I noticed that some financial podcasts even have a disclaimer at the start of their podcast.

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Sorry I should have clarified in my original comment and said all articles shilling some coin

All articles about crypto should be banned on HN unless the author posts about any position they have in the coin. Influencers have to acknowledge when they’re promoting a product, it should be the same for all crypto.

This blockchain hype is getting ridiculous. As an enduser I don’t care about the underlying technology it’s not my problem.

Coursera has pretty good content but I’m not sure their certifications lead to anything meaningful. I’m just using it to learn stuff so I don’t really care about that aspect but I see so many people online cheating.

Platform is pretty basic/poor. There’s bugs months old in some of the courses that haven’t been solved. I don’t think there’s much community/networking. They ask cringe questions at the end of a module to create discussions, very LinkedIn like “How will you use what you learned in the real world?”

The mobile app and the web app are out of sync. I’ve completed the course on the web but on the mobile app it says I still have 4hrs to complete.

I think all colleges will start to offer online degrees going forward. Lambda school seems to be taking off and it seems more like the future of education.

I’m a customer but won’t be an investor, nothing groundbreaking. Could easily be copied. They seriously need a better UX. Pluralsight & Datacamp UX is a lot better.

Content : 7/10

Platform : 4/10

Ironic that you say move to crypto when ICOs have been the biggest pump & dump schemes of the last few years.

I didn't misunderstand "value for how something was achieved" I said it was expensive.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/16/22178026/microsoft-authe...

Microsoft have launched a beta password manager

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Lastpass (€3 per month)

- Password Manager

- 1GB of encrypted file storage

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Office 365 (€6 per month)

- Beta Password Manager

- Office Suite

- 1 TB Storage

It’s ridiculously expensive. I get Office 365 with 1TB of storage for €6 per month. Office is just as secure as lastpass. I bought Enpass(wouldn’t recommend as they moved to a subscription model) and store everything on OneDrive. Paying $3 per month to store tiny text files is crazy.

Having lived in Romania for several years this is completely untrue and utter nonsense. In any other European country I had the exact same freedom to begin a startup. There is no start up scene in Romania. Why don’t you find Bucharest in the top cities in Europe to start a startup? What laws exactly are stopping Startups from flourishing in other European countries?

I think in Israel if there is any vaccines left over from that day because people didn’t attend their appointment anyone can show up and get it. Our obsession with fairness is ridiculous.

Fiat currencies have no intrinsic value so how is Bitcoin different?

It crashed in 2018, it lost 65% of its value.

Don’t agree with what he says let’s attack his intellect...

“originates from the fact that it escapes his alleged ‘expertise’”

“he’s basically clueless on the topic”

It’s the internet...

How is their story related to you knowing scientists?

Scrum has destroyed my organisation. It’s like working with zombies.

How to turn your organisation into a cargo cult 101.

The Dropout podcast sheds a lot of light on the entire situation.

All roads lead to banks.

I think QAnon and this kind of stuff is an ideology. You won’t change their minds with facts.

There seems to be an obsession with a certain group of people telling another group of people what they should believe.

I don’t believe in god should I go out to all religious people and tell them god isn’t real and they’re wasting their time.

We live in a society and have to accept other people have different beliefs than us, and even if their beliefs are incorrect it’s their right to believe what ever they want.

So what damage do you estimate this blog post will do in USD to the price of Bitcoin

I think bitcoin is the new politics, we won’t be able to talk about it in work soon. It’s ok to disagree with someone, but to just attack the author is ridiculous.

examples:

“I work in this space and can confirm this guy is talking out his ass and has no idea what he's talking about”

“Yeah, this author has no idea what he's talking about and it's stuck in a cognitive dissonance bubble”

“I don’t know what to say. Or the person behind this is 150 years old and was living under a stone, or is someone that obviously has 0 knowledge about Blockchain”

“maybe try to properly host an html page before advising multi billion businesses...”

“I feel like these analyses are always very well researched and set-out, but the authors lack any formal qualifications at all. Why read this when there are Nobel prize winners with polemics on Bitcoin?”

Yes because one blog post is going to change the price of bitcoin...

Just because you don’t like what he says doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand the principles of BTC.

Chatbot mania began in 2016, it’s now 2021 what major improvements have there been? What’s one website that has a good chatbot?

Chatbots are great until they don’t work which is all the time. You need to ask questions in a specific way to get an answer. From a user point of view it’s a terrible experience. Most companies don’t value the time of their users that’s why chatbots have been deployed on many websites.

I wish chatbots would follow my dead loved ones to the grave

Tried it. Didn’t work for me.

I think people are beginning to see through these advertising companies. If it’s too good to be true it probably is...

What difference would it make if the co-founder seen it? Maybe they would see sense...