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by binarysolo 5y ago
Thanks for your's and whakim's thorough conversation about this -- some of the nuance is really hard to articulate without the historical geopolitical context and you summed it up really well!
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by binarysolo 5y ago
The title on the article, "Kintsugi – Art of Repair" is different than the title in the submission. Came in to (also) say that kintsugi isn't about making things better, but more about the acceptance of the damage as part of
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Parents are a bit younger (late 60s), but the biggest thing I keep watch for is their mobility and anything that affects it. My relatives that passed away all had one great correlation in their decline -- the loss of mobility, which really
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by binarysolo 5y ago
I've never been that much of a animal watcher my entire life, but on a lark I was able to visit Katmai National Park in Alaska this past year where these bears are from. I'm now a bear fan. Highly, HIGHLY recommend checking out
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Right, even a day or suncycle is kinda arbitrary and human-scale. Point is just that consistent repeatable practice rewards compoundingly over time.
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by binarysolo 5y ago
I think like a lot of other similar verticals (exercise etc.) there's quite a bit of cargo-culting, and that def gets scammy. But for what it's worth, I do enjoy reading self-help stuff -- though for me the practice is what I focu
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by binarysolo 5y ago
It's actually worse I think: Amazon demands the people and systems to be better-on-metrics over time -- dealing with Seller Support is just a huge nightmare these days as a seller.
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by binarysolo 5y ago
I'm sorry Cliff: the system sucks because there's a lot of edge case handling when they're dealing with millions of vendors selling literal hundreds of millions of SKUs. Many of them autogenerated programmatically like "
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Given how this is on page-1 of HN, jeff@amazon (the elite US-based seller support team who uses the email, not Bezos) is gonna tear this AMVOOM / TaroRee hijacker a new one. While this is kinda designed-as-intended (Amazon wants you to
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Caveat to this: there is no substitute for hard work IFANDONLYIF you enjoy the journey itself, and want to be good at the process. There are plenty of things where people don't care for the process -- they just want the results, whethe
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by binarysolo 5y ago
If you wanted to hear what it would have sounded like: https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68333 click on the little ♫ music icons. (The link was kinda buried in the article).
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Disclaimer: Non-dev small business owner here; I only MVPed offerings that solve a big-enough existing problem of contacts I know -- so for me the logical customers to validate are the ones with the pain points that I can comfortably access
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Please don't delete your comment since this is a great reminder for all of us, but yeah, dang is an active HN mod.
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by binarysolo 6y ago
For people who didn't read the abstract clearly: for old people, no noticeable differences in health benefits comparing HIIT to MICT to recommended physical activity. Other studies show that exercise is better than no exercise for old
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by binarysolo 6y ago
That guy's amazing (and has a great take on the whole issue).
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Amazon seller here - cominging is typically a long tail problem these days, as manufacturers with brand registry basically get their own special inventory/storage treatment. I know it doesn't seem like it from a consumer side, bu
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Amazon seller here, we sell in grocery and have seen a buncha things in this space: There's a nontrivial possibility this is a transportation and/or storage issue. Most food items have some sort of temperature threshhold during t
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Good luck on your decision -- it's a toughie! :)
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Have data on the opposite end: super stable type (Stanford MS&E undergrad; PhD track in ML 10+ years ago) who chose startups and entrepreneurship in scrappy, un-sexy niches of retail excess, operations research in shipping, etc., passin
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Yeah, that makes sense - for a simple scheme like this I'm sure there's some expectation you can't just go around abusing bankruptcy like this.
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Read a bit and wasn't sure of the exact nature of the 700k loss, but if he somehow got access to all that credit without the assets to back it it, it would seem like people can form a pact, where person A gets credit and bets X on a th
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Speaking as a former developer (~5 years) + current business owner (~10 years): "Race to the bottom" freelancing for a dev with no experience is as intended -- the priority is to 1) develop a portfolio of experience to get better
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by binarysolo 6y ago
Stanford double dropout (undergrad + grad) reporting in - one piece of anecdata: Middle class Taiwanese family of white collar parents. Went to undergrad, dabbled in a few side projects and dropped out to work at a game company, a startup
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by binarysolo 6y ago
For people wondering why we can't just convert spare passenger capacity to air cargo easily: I do supply chain: everything is handled in pallets. If we filled all passneger space up with individual small boxes that's a lot of ext
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by binarysolo 7y ago
I wish I got this advice! I just replaced my 2015 MBP 15" max spec with a Mid-2019 version and that touch bar is annoying the heck out of me. At least it has a physical escape key I guess (I keep hitting F1/brightness controls o
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by binarysolo 7y ago
They do. 4% triggers an automated-ish warning and 10% triggers a serious notification which usually gets scrutinized by some Amazon member -- this happens inconsistently on low volume long tail items too which cause sellers massive ammount
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Baby (category) is tricky - you can bet that she's getting all sorts of approval things because some cheapass Chinese product poisoned some kid and now Amazon has to really put pressure on all the legit existing vendors to have MSDS sh
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by binarysolo 7y ago
Love it - this is really simple and elegant
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by binarysolo 7y ago
It's complicated - On the plus side, 3p vendors contribute by getting a product from 0->1 or 0->100 units per day. This is what the industry calls "prospecting", and confirming that there is product-market fit for some
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by binarysolo 7y ago
That was the whole game they played though, by design -- 3P sellers were partially meant as a prospecting tool for long tail product coverage in the marketplace, and when they found a product good enough now Amazon dips their toes in the po

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