alteria

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by alteria 5y ago
At least one news website threatened to shut my (expensive) paid account because I was using a "generic" email address, and as such, was likely sharing my credentials. They insisted I change the email to myname@myname.tld, which w
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by alteria 5y ago
Square acquired Credit Karma's Tax business, probably folding it into CashApp [1] https://squareup.com/us/en/press/credit-karma-tax [2] https://www.pymnts.com/news/partnerships-acqui
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by alteria 6y ago
You should be able to block those elements with uBlockOrigin or similar browser extensions. I blocked a bunch of the "trending" stuff since it never really contributed positively to my site experience.
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by alteria 6y ago
The other comments provided a great overview, but I would really recommend read ProPublica's reporting about them [1] Some very brief highlights: - They use dark patterns and other trickery to prevent people from filing for free (the v
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by alteria 6y ago
But they also have to live without an office and may not have meaningful stakes to make the tradeoff worth it for most.
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by alteria 6y ago
Presumably this was an office job? It might be a little different with a warehouse job that has very productivity targets set from above.
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by alteria 6y ago
I don't know if this is a recent trend, or if I've only experienced negative things in the past year or two, (perhaps in the lead up to their IPO?), but I ended up switching away from them. They closed my account because they susp
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by alteria 6y ago
The whole presentation I was wondering how much Verizon paid as well. Between the pricing reveal and the conflation of their 28GHz deployment as a standard 5G experience, it seemed like it was the iPhone sponsored by Verizon.
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by alteria 6y ago
Is Spotify on Airplay 1 still?
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by alteria 6y ago
With Amazon I do like that I talk to real people, but half the time they try to give me money instead of actually trying to solve the problem. It's great that chat is empowered to send $5 or $10, but oftentimes I just want to have my p
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by alteria 6y ago
For sure. Like many younger workers, I didn't move into a ultra-high COL area to spend all day in my shared living arrangement. There isn't a lot of room to optimize for a WFH world with those kinds of spatial restrictions.
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by alteria 6y ago
fwiw the Adobe Photography plan requires a 1-year commitment (paid monthly) and has an early termination fee if you do try to cancel, so it's not as straightforward.
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by alteria 6y ago
Yes, whoops!
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by alteria 6y ago
Yes. I volunteered at an aquarium for several years, and we spent a surprising amount of time learning octopus etymology. It was a top 10 question for adults to ask.
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by alteria 6y ago
That's correct. It's a very big difference if you think about it. Under the normal arrangement, a customer has to retain for 12 months before the 15% rate kicks in. Depending on the product, you could be losing a significant porti
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by alteria 6y ago
Amazon. It may be true that they A/B test the shit out of things, but it feels super clunky every time.
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by alteria 6y ago
They did, which was the shocking part! If you believe their claims about profit distributions (which you probably shouldn't), the total cost might even average less than $70/mo.
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by alteria 6y ago
Funnily enough, I was doing research one day and came across a local ISP co-op in one of the Dakotas that was selling rural, symmetric 1/1 for $70 per month. Much better service at a lower cost than in SF (been trying to get ATT to fin
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by alteria 6y ago
They must massively oversubscribe their services, far beyond ISPs. The advertising probably brings in a lot of profitable users who aren't pushing tons of BitTorrent traffic as well. With the insanely high affiliate commission they&#x2
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by alteria 6y ago
I would add the standard caution when looking at averages, that symmetric 1/1 fiber may be pulling the upload value up significantly. Or that Speedtest users have higher internet speeds. But I really want that stat to be true. The worl
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by alteria 6y ago
And don't forget the middlemen that monetize your de-identified data in exchange for providing the service :)
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by alteria 6y ago
Totally understandable, but I'd strongly recommend challenging yourself. Of course I'm a little biased having done a CS/humanites major at a liberal arts college but there are so many great reasons that people have listed and
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by alteria 6y ago
True, but it also is the case that younger folk/non-devs are more likely to live in smaller spaces with housemates. Speaking personally, I made some optimizations, but there's only so much that can be done with the fixed amount of
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by alteria 6y ago
Interesting take, and it does track with my experience as a data nerd. Also, my first time looking at myself on the leaderboards was throughly depressing
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by alteria 6y ago
This is pretty disappointing. Recently Strava seemed to be turning the corner, releasing new features that users wanted. Totally understand their need to make money, seeing that they've raised 5 rounds from VC. However, burning goodwi
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by alteria 6y ago
Got it, this makes a ton of sense, and explains why Grubhub was able to do the impossible, make money.
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by alteria 6y ago
Definitely agree that they're winning (the Second Measure blog is fascinating), it just seems like they bought their way to the top at a very high cost. DashPass is definitely keeping me a DoorDash user, it's benefits are signific
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by alteria 6y ago
This is absurd. Can someone explain to me why DoorDash exists? They're #1 in share, but I get the impression that they basically bought their spot. Grubhub has been operating in the space forever, is public, and generally had been prof
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by alteria 6y ago
Excellent explainer that's worth a read [1] and it's HN thread [2] tl;dr: Interest, payment for order flow, and securities lending (but mostly interest) [1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-br
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by alteria 6y ago
GrubHub is also public, and therefore has a harder time burning piles of cash compared to its competitors (looking at you, DoorDash).

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