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pyromine··on BMW is accelerating electrification plans
You may find that due to your socioeconomic status it may be more feasible to be a one car-transit using family, but for many americans who may work two jobs with a hour break between them (or situation similiar) they seriously may only manage to be able to make their schedule work with a car. (Just an example situation)

Being car-less in America is hard, I lived in a the suburb of a main city and if I was to use transit options to get to work I would have spent 3 hours a day on commute alone. That's simply not feasible. Similarly I used to work a job from midnight to noon (and a year later noon to midnight) and there simply was no feasible transit option for such a schedule, and with the sprawling nature of the suburb carpooling wasn't much of an option either.

pyromine··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)
SEEKING WORK | American currently in Europe REMOTE | Business Intelligence Analyst / Business Analyst

I am a business analyst who specializes in working with SMBs to implement business intelligence tools.

Dream gig: Working with a company providing mid-market supply chain planning solutions.

Available up to 25/hrs a week

Tech:

  *  Power BI / Tableau, etc.
  *  SQL
  *  ETL
  *  R
  *  Python (if needed, not my specialty)
email: tstein.prog@gmail.com
pyromine··on City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population
Depends on your definition of rural, to me if you can see your neighbors house it likely isn't very rural... though the American west is a literal different cause many of the rural towns have all the residential packed on top of each other.
pyromine··on Amazon Personalize: Real-Time Recommendation
So our highest revenue product Amazon interestingly enough is already our biggest customer on, but the vendor refuses to go direct with Amazon and prefer we are the middle man. We have huge exposure here, but Amazon already has their recommenr dialed on this product so I wouldn't really care about them having a marginal amount of more info on it.

The rest of the product is largely under MAP policies excluding Amazon, and the products take a level of care and branding a bit more than Amazon's typical white label products. So, could they, yes, but we have plenty of bigger operational risks

pyromine··on Amazon Personalize: Real-Time Recommendation
So I work for a distributor, and we've been discussing improving our up and cross sell abilities, due to the nature of our customer and product many of the products we distribute are deliberately not sold on Amazon, by and large I feel my company could use this without fear.
pyromine··on 2018 UtahJS Pay, Education, Job-title Survey
I'm interested
pyromine··on How to Be Better at Parties
What kind of "party" do you bring a d20 to? I think your experience might be an outlier, most of this advice seems extremely pertinent to the events I go to.
pyromine··on Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (2012)
>Not quite sure what the relevance is today of this article from 2012. It's core message is a good one, though.

I can't seem to find it at the moment, but it was linked in an article yesterday that was about clouded titles and how the mortgage crisis continues to have effects on the ownership of homes long after people thought it was over.

pyromine··on Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
This is pretty spot on, moved from the Northeast to Utah for school, now done with school and I'm enjoying my time here because I'm in love with the mountains but I'm planning how to move out of the state because I know that I will never feel culturally secure here. Being part of the outdoor community I never find myself struggling to find like minded people, but I do feel like an outsider to society as a whole.
pyromine··on Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
That's funny, I tried the same thing from the the base of Little Cottonwood and had the same issue.
pyromine··on Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
Working at a distributor, it's actually really common for vendors to have ETAs that are months wide and pushed back multiple times.... Supply chains are hard.
pyromine··on The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)
There is a reason people use the phrase To honnold something.

Definitley a badass

pyromine··on UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century
The wasted space costs more than the additional labor to deal with irregular size boxes
pyromine··on Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
You can't be registered for multiple parties.
pyromine··on Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble
My roommate does PR consulting in the cyrpto space, I've never heard more bullshit come out of one person's mouth. Seems like 3 months after each project he's talking about how bs that on was, but this new project is super legit.
pyromine··on Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
I work at a ski resort, I ski anywhere between 3-7 days a week. I lug some level of gear between home and the mountain every single day because sometimes I'm keeping the option of skiing elsewhere open. Renting a car would not be effective for me.
pyromine··on Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, shutting off computers
Uber has already been seen to act adversarial to law enforcement, raids are utilized to try and limit Uber's ability to conceal information. I have no doubt in my mind that Uber would willingly fail to comply to requests for information.
pyromine··on Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty incident
Hell, I took an outdoor emergency course (the national ski patrols first responder course) and even we are trained on MCI's and triage.
pyromine··on Quantopian hedge fund has lost about 3% since beginning of trading in June
Trading algos are trained on historical market data, this can (and should) include crashes etc.
pyromine··on Why I’m Against Unions at Businesses I Create
Employment is not a happy-go-lucky partnership.

At the end of the day people have jobs because they need to eat, the point was not that founders shouldn't have more equity it was that their incentives are not aligned. Lower wages is good for the employer and bad for the employee, it is adversarial and sugar coating it as if it's not is bullshit.

(Not that I think companies can't have good relations with their employees, just at the very least wages are adversarial)

pyromine··on Square Could Pass Twitter in Value
I feel like while twitter user base may not be growing, it's effects on the average person's social life has diminished.

I feel like 5 years ago Twitter was really popular among st friends and we talked about things people tweeted, etc.

Since then I don't have a single friend who actively uses twitter, maybe it's that my preferences simply changed, but the overall visibility of twitter seems to be diminished.

pyromine··on Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer than any 2015 country
Either way, mean (as in per capita GDP) is probably not the best measure of central tendency for showing how the typical person lives.
pyromine··on The $100B per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax
I'm a healthy athletic 20 year old and I was having back pain for a while, and when I finally went to the doctor they suggested it may just be an imbalance in the strength of different muscles in my back that I didn't properly train for the sports I participate in.

Gave me some exercises, and a month later back pain was all gone and my back felt stronger, with better posture. Crazy what can be done when you just have go for it

pyromine··on Do We Overvalue Bike Lanes?
How often do you bike in these protected bike lanes?

My city has them and I intentionally avoid roads with them. It's more dangerous because every intersection the protection is broken for the turning lane and let me tell you, cars do not check for you before jumping in to that turning lane. It's terrifying.

pyromine··on Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
The money doesn't roll in ad infinium
pyromine··on Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around
A lot of people leave the bluetooth on but just not connected
pyromine··on Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
So thinking about your advice a bit more, it's actually pretty good. I've been in a pretty weird situation where I'm realizing [traditionally well paying and considered successful career] is not the route I currently want to go in my life and want to spend a few years chasing a dream of competing in the top levels of a sport I love.

I'm kind of suicide those original career goals at the moment, but want to make sure I gave life somewhat of the biggest attempt I could.

pyromine··on Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
Uhhh, that was solid advice until the last sentence.
pyromine··on New England Lost Ski Areas Project
To call Saddleback a bigger mountain is somewhat of a misnomer... they're never been very popular, despite being a hell of a mountain. Blame the location.

And while I'm not too certain on the prospects of Sugarloaf, I can't see it struggling too badly. They have held high profile events consistently, and they're owned by Boyne who have a consistent track record of running resorts. They're a strong operator in the industry.

pyromine··on A Primer on Bézier Curves
Lovely explanation, I always find them fascinating. I really need to get around to coding some of them sometimes, but I find most of the itnerest in the mathetics.

That said, early higheschoolers knows jack about binomials unless they are particularly smart. I would venture a majority of college students (in subjects other than engineering and science) would find this too daunting. I think by downplaying the complexity it actually turns people off from trying to learn. Which of course is a shame.

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