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tldr: "no children"

I think everything can be summed up like this...

you're planning to take a 7 day cruise to the Bahamas with your family of 4 this Christmas.

but you recently watched Patriot act episode on cruises and were shocked that a typical cruise generates equivalent of 1 million cars worth of greenhouse gas per day.

so you reached out to the cruise company and asks them what they can do to mitigate this appalling disregard of the environment.

the cruise company informs you that there's now a vegetarian or vegan premium meal plan that would cut down your green house consumption by about 10%.

you loved the idea and happily pays extra for the vegetarian meal plan, knowing that you're now doing good for the environment and thus saving the planet.

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Running $240k worth of ads to sell $250k worth of things sounds much less impressive.

Regarding timestamp, I often have a soft delete timestamp 'deletedAt' in which it must have a null default value. I think this is a perfectly acceptable usecase of db null values

Follow up questions:

if I read out a nullable text field and write the same struct back into the database is it going to insert an empty string into that column?

Also related, how would auto incr pk work?

Here's my hot take (with 2 years of running a #1 trending shopify app + multiple attempt in starting a store)

Shopify DOES NOT help you sell. Period.

Amazon will win in the long run because at the end of the day it's all about if the "platform" can move merchandize or not. Amazon captures top of the funnel all the way down to personalized targeting.

Shopify will never do that. they are just the tool to help you figure out all that yourself. Outsiders / beginners looking in would say Shopify is amazing because the ecosystem and how many "tools" there are to help you sell. but it's all load of horsesh*t. The merchant ultimately is the one responsible to run the ad campaigns, find the customers, run promotional pricing on BFCM.

I predict mass real estate sell off in every major city around the world. Millenials world wide collectively let's out a sigh of relief.

Software was there when we went to the moon and back to ensure hardware failures are handled and communicated. Why can't it do the same for these planes?

My first iPhone is a 5. Then SE. Definitely the best iPhone in terms of quality and spec per inch

If they make another same size I'm there

so that we aren't cherry picking here, from the White paper:

> To ensure that Libra is truly open and always operates in the best interest of its users, our ambition is for the Libra network to become permissionless. The challenge is that as of today we do not believe that there is a proven solution that can deliver the scale, stability, and security needed to support billions of people and transactions across the globe through a permissionless network. One of the association’s directives will be to work with the community to research and implement this transition, which will begin within five years of the public launch of the Libra Blockchain and ecosystem.

one of the most important key stat is defining housing spend to be "no more than one-third of income"

if you make >3x your rent i'd say you are cruising in life.

Should have resulted more than slap on the wrist.

this is text book case of fraud and exactly why we have government bodies and watchdogs making sure cases like these don't happen often.

where every sidewalk garbage-bin will have its own instagram fan page!

Because you're joining a team and should be a good fit beyond technical expertise.

I would be very happy to have answered that question and would be a plus one in my books if I can have these types of heated talks with my coworkers.

Welcome to the new century where each distinct generation is so out of touch with the previous the only conclusion they have is utter destruction.

Truely we've became a race of bureaucrats and "artists". Unfit to do any productive work.

use interactive rebase?

Because this is HN. It's a forum about tech, startups, and entrepreneurship. If you want polarizing politics go to Reddit.

That was a scary and sad read.

it's 20% reduction in the rate.

as in, 2014 percentage of population in poverty was 11.3%, 2017 percentage of population in poverty was 9.5%

hence a 15.9% decrease in the percentage of population in poverty.

Also transfer of wealth from the drivers/delivery person..

I think the author fail to distinct between how "entrepreneurism" and "venture backed business" differ.

A one man consultancy operation is as much entrepreneurism as serving billions of users world wide.

I think we have this misconception that success mean you need to have hockey stick growth on bunch of metrics, anD that you must make your investors 10x return on their investments.

Fundamentally the wrong approach. As an entrepreneur I don't strive to "make money", I strive to learn, adapt, and survive. Money and success depends solely on how well I can iterate those three things.

Read lyfts s-1 filling. Under"cost of revenue" I'd imaging Uber would be similar

Yes. It could become Orwellian, and I do see the issue with what a comprehensive surveillance state could become.

Either way, China faces a very unique situation, but I do see overall improvement in living condition. I don't live there full time but visit often, I'd say the biggest challenge coming up will be dealing with the aging population (and their needs), the shrinking work force, and decrease in consumer confidence. The post-boomer generation did VERY well for themselves but I can't say the same for the millennials and beyond.

All your points are valid. However you're only looking at it in a way that's familiar to you.

Here's a personal example, my parents bought a condo in China in a new development area, searched around for renovators and found this shop close by that seemed fairly legit. A show room, full staff, decent looking portfolio, sales people looked legit and they had legit looking supply chain relationship as well.

My parents worked out a project scope and plan, estimated the cost, put down 25% for down payment. The shop came in, did a month of work and then disappeared. Job was half done. what happened? They went "bankrupt".

Are the shop owners risk takers? Maybe. Did they really try to start a business? Honestly they probably saw an opportunity where a new development area was coming up and came in for the quick buck. Borrowed some money, set up shop to a decent level and then disappear.

This isn't an isolated case, lots of examples exist. Am I saying this is the case for everyone? No. But its gotten bad enough that the government had to do something about it. Is it my parents fault for not doing more due diligence? Probably. But it's really really tiresome if you had to do this every. single. time. for everything.

i don't think you understand the premises of how one ends up on the bad list.

"owing" money means you borrow from secondary lender, using it to buy risky assets. you essentially played with fire and got burned. lots of cases like this where these "businessmen" loses money and then declared bankruptcy, refusing to pay anyone back.

sounds a lot like wallstreet doesn't it? are you okay with what they did?

this is government way saying enough is enough.

This.

I've since learnt "recycling" meant more on the line of "collect+transport+sort+ship it out of sight". It was a business like any other, when it was profitable everything chugged along just fine.. as soon as money stopped flowing things gets ugly.

I wonder if there's any opportunity in this. or is it basically wait for some other country to pick up the demand.

Here's my question about unions and worker controlled workplaces.. What happens when the entire shop becomes uncompetitive?

It's the same as when a country is happily going about their day and suddenly tanks show up at your door because someone else wants what you have.

that's just human nature, I don't see a way around it.

is it a misprint? 100%?

"100x" is laughable.