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by badgers 2y ago
I remember Digg being more popular than Reddit more than a decade ago. What happened that caused Reddit to succeed where Digg failed?
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by badgers 4y ago
This was from 2019: https://www.switch.com/fedex-signs-10-year-data-center-infra...
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by badgers 7y ago
This rings true with my experience also. A couple weeks ago I bought a bunch of computer parts online, the majority from NewEgg and a MSI motherboard from Amazon. Hooked up everything and it wouldn't post. Thinking it was a power suppl
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by badgers 7y ago
When the notifications say 'In Transit' they aren't passing through a FedEx building, but rather are sending GPS ping notifications every 12 hours. Your package was most likely on a slower mode of transportation such as rail
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by badgers 7y ago
WSJ reported on Amazon's expanding delivery ambitions 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600094
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by badgers 7y ago
This reminds me of the E-13B font [1] seen on checks since the early 1960s, but in a square format. The goals are similar, produce machine readable and human readable text. There have been attempts to also make a version with alphabetical c
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by badgers 7y ago
You're on point about the strategic focus. Think long term, who these shipping companies want to align with: Target, Walmart, other companies with physical presence and a need to grow their e-commerce to compete with Amazon. By not ren
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by badgers 7y ago
Five years ago there was a similar situation with the transportation of prescription medications. FedEx put out a public statement that they intended to fight the Department of Justice order: "We want to be clear what’s at stake here:
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by badgers 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with Web Design 2.0, in fact I prefer it when I need to interact with information on a website. When I use Netflix to browse for a movie or TV show, linear is good. I don't need free positioning, overlapping
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by badgers 8y ago
In December of 1994 the 10 year minus 2 year was at 0.15 (currently it is 0.18 in Feb 2018), but then we had to wait for the next recession until 2001. It could go back up like in August of 1984 or January 1995, or continue downward and put
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by badgers 8y ago
That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depressing." ( https://tonic.vice.com/en_us&#
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by badgers 8y ago
My guess is that is has to do with IKEA's improving smart home trend [0]. I like the fact that the work with all three major platforms so I don't necessarily have to be all in on one if I decide to switch in a couple of years: &qu
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by badgers 8y ago
The 10-2 treasury yield spread looks like a good indicator, with the exception of 1994/1995. In 1995 there were fears of a recession due to the Fed increasing rates further: "Indeed, if there is a risk to what is generally seen as
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by badgers 8y ago
If you're looking for problems to solve in the transportation / shipping context, one that comes to mind is estimated delivery. Try predicting the day (maybe even down to the hour) of when something will arrive at its destination
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by badgers 8y ago
I agree; it reminds me of the Dropbox comment from 2007 [1]: > I have a few qualms with this app: > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with
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by badgers 8y ago
Agreed, caller ID should not be able to be spoofed. My rule of thumb is if it is important, they will leave a voicemail with a call back number. This screens out 90% of the spoofed calls I get. The visual voicemail is a nice feature too, I
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by badgers 8y ago
I believe there is a way to do this, if you use Do Not Disturb and make an exception for All Contacts.
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by badgers 8y ago
This would be a big feature for me, whether spam blocking is done by the telephone companies or by Apple. I don't know why they aren't more aggressive about it either; it's not like the USPS, where the USPS makes more money o
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Google wants to get rid of URLs but doesn’t know what to use instead(arstechnica.com)
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by badgers 8y ago
I'm not sure I'd want to live in an old mall, but I could see them being purposed for office space. Parking is already taken care of, and most have bus routes already in place. The existing food court would be ready for new tenant
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by badgers 8y ago
The turn based gameplay, square tile floor design, randomized levels and loot, fantasy medieval world of sword and sorcery remind me of an earlier 1990s game called Castle of the Winds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca
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by badgers 9y ago
In 1992 Brazil faced similar inflation numbers (80% per month, or 1156% per year compared to what the article claims 1219% for Venezuela). I'm surprised the author does not reference Brazil in their article. The NPR Planet Money podcas
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by badgers 9y ago
We need a new "Falsehoods programmers believe about character encodings" article to be added to the falsehoods list [1]. Joel Spolsky wrote in 2003 about the dangers of the ignorance of character encodings [2]. [1] - https:/
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by badgers 9y ago
Nothing new here [1], they've been doing this for the past 5+ years. They are still at least half a decade away from taking away any significant volume from FedEx or UPS. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600
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by badgers 9y ago
I'm not sure if it is possible, but for the iPhone Xs would it be possible before deciding to show a notification to use the TrueDepth camera to take a quick peek to see if a user's hand is near the top of the screen and delay the
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by badgers 9y ago
Your side project nanagram reminds me of a similar service, Pidgeonly, which allowed people to text photos to inmates that heard on an NPR podcast -- http://www.npr.org/2015/03/25/395238624/ex-inmate-uses
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by badgers 9y ago
For some background into the phenomenon that was Lake Park last summer, there was a large concentration of Pokestops around Lake Park in a relatively small area. In Pokemon GO there are geographic boundaries that make up biomes in the game
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by badgers 9y ago
NPR's Planet Money did a podcast on a a town in Wisconsin that reduced health care costs by having conversations with patients about death. It's worth a listen for an inexpensive solution to a costly problem: http://www
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by badgers 9y ago
> Now imagine a Starbucks with touchscreen-and-voice enabled ordering, no visible employees (maybe one employee, nominally a store manager, working the fleet of coffee machines behind the screens, and doing some light sweeping in the res
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by badgers 10y ago
Amazon has been doing this for years now, and they'll never completely abandon using the USPS, UPS or FedEx for the foreseeable future. Their line haul network has always been solid, and they've been using other carriers to do the

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