L_Rahman

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Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died(referenceforbusiness.com)
266 points by L_Rahman 4mo ago|115 comments
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by L_Rahman 4mo ago
I learned today that 7/11 in Japan wasn't a pure licensing play but a technology enabled business model disruption of large grocery stores and mom-and-pop convenience stores. The launch of 7/11 Japan introduced: franchising,
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by L_Rahman 4mo ago
You can just implement Prosemirror from one of the greatest web teams on the planet and get pretty much every text editing nicety for free - markdown rendering, document version history, blocks, tables. If you choose to deal with prosemirro
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by L_Rahman 6mo ago
One of the things we got really lucky with is that Claude Code and not the ChatGPT app won the war for the defining AI product and it runs on your filesystem. There's a different reality where everything had to go through the API on a
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by L_Rahman 2y ago
We are all ignoring the obvious solution to this. One of the benefits of being a global hegemon is having close allies who are good at things we are not. Intel fell behind on semiconductors and now Phoenix is turning into an outlying suburb
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by L_Rahman 2y ago
It is also happening to restaurants and HVAC installers and plumbing businesses. They just got around to buying those up a little more recently. We should expect the price and service consequences to start showing up in the next 5-10 years.
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by L_Rahman 3y ago
/u/dhouston has turned into "the guy in the article" what a day important piece of hacker news history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
N=1 disclaimer but this also happened for me with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for my peanut allergy, soft boiled eggs for my raw egg yolk allergy, and shrimp based broths for my shrimp allergy. Unfortunately it has not yet worked for tree nu
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
It takes much longer than 70 seconds to heat up a 12 inch stainless steel or carbon steel skillet on a home burner to a point where it can be used to fry an egg or sear a chicken thigh, both of which are things a home cook may do with some
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
it's probably l reuterii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917019/
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
They did encrypt the vaults. The problem is that for accounts that were opened before 2017 the used an encryption algorithm that can be cracked with modern hardware. Not a typical desktop GPU, but someone with some firepower could pick an a
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
If you think humans are heat and humidity sensitive for their productivity, I have some news for you about robot servos.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Stripe is paying for health insurance over that time too.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Roosevelt Island isn't car free, but if you're willing to accept 15mph max speeds, no through traffic in exchange for living in NYC with some of the most incredible views it's a nice place to be.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Your guess that this is driven by a SaaS is built around assumptions of how process and repetition is structured in the West and its labor markets but this doesn't hold in China. In reality, there's no SaaS to automate this becaus
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Echoing this to say I took a full two years off and came back to a 30k raise and that too as a product manager - meaning no hard skills to show in a leetcode type setting. The right team will always understand why you had to take a break. I
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
This is a problem in many places, but it is absolutely not a problem in Korea which adds housing units in every one of its metro areas at a rate that would make community approval boards in the United States pass out. Seoul has a population
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Not the type of book whose review I would expect to see here. The reviewer was evocative enough for me to pick up a used copy on Amazon. Thanks for sharing.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Three things could be happening: 1. The heart is a giant muscle and needs balanced sodium and potassium to function. There are electrolyte blends in the market designed for fasting to help with this. 2. You're insufficiently hydrated b
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Miami is gross and sticky even in March and I'm surprised it's listed next to Californian cities.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
Tokyo summers are miserable, as are the ones in Seoul and New York City. I have lived in all three and every July/August I wonder if this is the year I start cooling off in Bogota for a month.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
If this is true, why do the cities with the tallest buildings have the highest cost per unit area of housing and commercial real estate, population density and GDP per capita?
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
You might find that aka miso or doenjang have a flavor profile closer to what you're looking for.
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
0% APR over 12 months for a big ticket purchase like a mattress in an inflationary environment and a bull market can easily equal an additional 5-7% discount on 2000 dollars. Admittedly this is not how most people are using Affirm, but it&#
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
The piece is based on a talk given a conference on cycling optimization. The author is not in any way recommending that day-to-day cyclists change to a different form factor. It seems entirely to be an intellectual exercise asking "wha
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by L_Rahman 4y ago
As the parent says, arguments like these are always a scheme to lock customers into proprietary standards. It's frustrating that companies still think they can get away with this.
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
Few people vote, especially locally, but everyone spends money. America's most expensive neighborhoods per sqft, except for some suburbs in California, are all in mixed-use NYC neighborhoods next to transit.
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
Yes, but it's nice to live in a small town that just happens to be embedded in a great world city and all the amenities and concentration of interesting people that comes with it.
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
It does work really well and makes it really nice to walk or cycle inside your "zone" so to speak. The downside is that they concede the large avenues entirely to automobile centered design resulting in 10-13 way intersections tha
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
You are not alone. A subset of HN users have an identity marker around having a preference for "explicit material claims and nothing else for color or emotion". They then enjoy signaling this preference to their tribe in the comme

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