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Max payload is only 31lbs unfortunately

I will let the dishes sit because the thought of doing them feels overwhelming.

There’s tons of existing finance infrastructure for this already, it just doesn’t reach tech. Small business loans, traditional banks, franchisors, local business investor groups, etc all facilitate these sorts of businesses today.

They just don’t do tech. This is because their risk models are built on 30+ years of priors and the financing is very often business sector specific. Tech is too much of an unknown for this model.

“X uses Y therefore Y is good” in general is a terrible argument. But also, Fortnite is a game. It’s for fun. 99% of their read/write throughput is in the context of a match, and matches are ephemeral.

Restaurants want this service, they just want it at a fair price.

The argument isn’t so much “grubhub charges a fee” more that “grubhub uses its monopoly position in a local market to further monopolize distribution channels and thus charge monopoly prices“

> Somewhere along the way Tesla Autopilot became marketed as a fully self-driving system freeing us to tune out

Do you own a Tesla or ever considered buying one? This is a misconception I hear from folks who never planned to own one but not from owners.

Cognito? Lightsail? Redshift? CodeStar? Athena? Polly?

There are loads of AWS services that don’t follow any logic, they’re just distinct, easy to spell nouns.

These employees do not have employment contracts and do not have hours that are set by a contract.

This is consumer thinking, not business thinking. Every high ticket item on the planet comes with the option of a support contract.

I was getting a lot of brand names, including Sporcle and Truvia.

I challenged myself to learn to count cards last year and I found it really fun. Being able to count a deck in under 30 seconds is one thing, but putting the skill to work is another challenge completely. It is hard work.

Ultimately, if you aren’t playing with a team or $50+ minimums, you won’t make a huge amount of money on a per-hour basis. I still count occasionally but now only for one or two shuffles before getting back to having fun with friends.

express isn't a particularly novel brand term.

It's worth taking a look at Stripe's revised color palette after a ton of fascinating research - https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems

This is exactly what’s terrible about Airbnb. A listing in a residential neighborhood creates negative externalities on that community.

Redis. Back in the day when I ran memcached with the rest of the cool kids, I always wanted something like SADD and LPUSH. Redis is a realization of that vision and using it is always a delight to me.

I immediately jumped to “why don’t we just compress them?” and it turns out I was wrong. The author is using the WOFF format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Font_Format) which is already compressed with zlib using a special encoding. Serving them gzipped is unnecessary.

They do not have 75 million in the bank. They returned what's left of their 75 million raised back to investors.

Hiring folks to act as telomeres for your team seems so cruel.

If you liked this article I would recommend “How To Invent Everything” by Ryan North. The book is effectively a time travelers guide to reinventing technology.

It sounds like a standard “double Irish” tax scheme. It’s possible FB did the same thing as everyone else and the IRS is just going after one of the big fish to get case law in their favor. If that were to happen, they’d potentially get to go after everyone else who has done it, like Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Review volume is not a useful indicator. HR departments actively lobby employees to write positive reviews. These will always outnumber the honest reviews.

You can’t pick up a dictionary and determine how difficult it is to speak a language.

One of the most difficult things about pandas is knowing how to shape your data frame before you plug it in to something. Most of my frustration comes from finding the magic incantation of symbols that will reshape my data frame the right way.

> It became a "top-of-the-funnel" lead generation tool for other products

If I recall correctly, the original pitch deck for Mint stated that this was the plan. Weird to say it morphed into something that was just the original vision.

Edit: found the deck https://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-de...

I’ve seen some writing on what makes marketplaces resilient to “supply side defection” as you call it, but I’d love to hear your take. Specifically I’d love to hear more about structuring to leverage the relationship, or anything else you think is important.

What specific structural things are important?

Because using scrap cars to exhaust the barnacle supply is a hilarious way to hack the system for the benefit of other students.

Totally agree with you. I wish folks used better technical solutions that made a breach like this impossible. It’s the ethical thing to do - this breach will directly cause people to come to physical harm.

As a cam site operator, you have a legal obligation to keep a record of their ID as proof of age. Keeping just the ID’s number isn’t sufficient.

Could they have firewalled the data better? Hell yeah, there’s a long list of ways this could have been done more responsibly.

I’m in the industry and we take the security of this data very seriously. Very few folks have access to IDs once age verification has happened.

US law requires that the cam site have valid 18+ IDs on file for everyone naked on screen.

In my partner’s speciality, a job in SF or Oakland pays less than a starting software eng at Google or Facebook. A medical degree costs easily 5x an undergrad CS degree.

Yep, when I sent out a call for help for a bug on HN in 2012, I got ~190 votes. When I posted the followup I got 5.

It’s a little strange because for Reddit’s r/legaladvice it’s the opposite. Follow up posts can rank much more highly than the original.