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by binarysolo 8y ago
Bose convert here after years of working in open offices, coding in cafes, flying, and what not. I have somewhat sensitive ears as a classical (hobbyist) musician and am always paranoid about hearing loss. My main pain points have been: 1.
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Think about how you learned a spoken language and when you were able to spend time articulating ideas instead of thinking about words and grammar for it. That's kinda how mastering a music instrument is like. Basically the first few y
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Amazon vendor here: pricing is not discrimated across platforms, BUT most vendors of a certain scale use repricing tools that dynamically change prices over time depending on inventory availability etc. (Think Uber "surge pricing&quot
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Also Amazon vendor here - co-mingling is really a lot better these days because of the new brand registry. Basically as the manufacturer you can restrict the other vendors from even hopping on. If you turn off comingling you have to (? not
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by binarysolo 8y ago
The west half of SF starting Fillmore Street-ish down to Daly City and Pacifica (all the lands alongside the Ocean) basically are known for fog issues, but most of the Peninsula, South Bay, and East Bay are super sunny.
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Scott Adam's advice (reposted by Matt Cutts) is pretty popular: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/
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by binarysolo 8y ago
Other than taking classes while in school... Watched a bunch of American cartoons/shows, then grew to computer games where I had to translate words used in text-heavy RPGs. Read a ton of great historical novels about military history s
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by binarysolo 9y ago
Tax avoidance. (This was the game a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/14/the-worst-t... )
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by binarysolo 9y ago
Not sure if I'm missing something but as an industrial engineer who solves these problems onscale via linear programming (X products, Y warehouse locations, Z destinations), most of these issues are not THAT computationally expensive e
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by binarysolo 9y ago
Looks like the author also arrived at a similar conclusion: “It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.”
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by binarysolo 9y ago
Parts of this are legit, but google "retail arbitrage amazon" to see a bunch of the strategies and pain points people run into. There's a reason this guy is selling seminars instead of just scaling what he does. Long story s
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by binarysolo 9y ago
I run a mid-sized online distributorship: there's a lot of factors at play. Have a few private label items + exclusives with a few US manufacturers and fought the war against counterfeiters for the past 7-8 years on Amazon, eBay, and
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by binarysolo 9y ago
I remember reading the article awhile ago and came across the same passage (and remember having a similar reaction): "I have not done laundry in years. I get my clothing custom-made in China for prices you would not believe and have ne
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by binarysolo 9y ago
Even better: get into the PhD program and then drop out. You have all the signalling of being selected in a fancy PhD, but it also shows that you're practical and interested in work and industry. Anec-data: me and several other PhD fo
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by binarysolo 9y ago
The dinner stereotypes are pretty baseless among my communities of friends in SF... seems like the author has more friends at home in France and more business acquaintances in SV.
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by binarysolo 9y ago
They do do this -- people who buy X also buy Y.
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by binarysolo 9y ago
I run a few Amazon stores with about 10,000 SKUs -- don't re-SKU, what you want to do is brand gating... IF you are the brand owner and/or manufacturer. I can give you a few tips if you just need some advice. I'm guessing y
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by binarysolo 10y ago
That's a humblebrag, don't get baited. :P Yes you can get 160k 2 years out of school if you're a top student and/or have awesome GitHub/sideprojects and performed well at the company to own something, move up the c
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by binarysolo 10y ago
Amazon 3P seller/manufacturer here: this is what they mean and do when they say your margin is their opportunity. It means people can't just go to China, lock down a manufacturer, and sit easy for years flipping the same old produ
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by binarysolo 10y ago
The problem with quality is that short term extractions of value for shareholders invariably drops long term value. :(
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by binarysolo 10y ago
I get it, the spate of political discussion on HN is stressful as politics is people and the recent change in political climate means a musical chair of winners and losers of the process. But I disagree about the approach -- what is politic
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by binarysolo 10y ago
Reading this just made me sad, as I see this over and over in the tech scene: the author is too obsessed about success and not enough about solving fundamental problems or being any good at them. Esp in tech, there's no value for bein
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by binarysolo 10y ago
And this is why you need hobbies -- >50% of my friends are from my hobbies, with work/school/misc friends rounding out the rest. Also a possible disconnect I felt after reading: "written by a 29-year old". Sure some
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by binarysolo 10y ago
There's a strong disconnect amongst the beneficiaries of globalization that the status quo is overall good -- it's probably TERRIBLE for a quarter of the people, treading water for half, and beneficial to the remainder who are in
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by binarysolo 10y ago
I travel similarly to you and solve that by going there, watching people and traffic flow, wandering aimlessly, and having a data plan. (I recently moved cell service to Google Fi and love it.)
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by binarysolo 10y ago
Aww, this is basically a really slick version of Stanford's 1st CS106A (intro CS) assignment, Karel the Robot! (After some googling, apparently it goes way back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_lan
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by binarysolo 10y ago
So... be the change you wish to see? :) (Sure the world sucks, so there's constructive ways of tackling it and...) Personally, I've found that a lot of stupid things are there because of downside protection or effort-minimization
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by binarysolo 10y ago
Hoo boy, these articles make the rounds every couple days. People live in the Bay Area because of: professional opportunities, culture, weather, and social network. If you value those things more than high cost of living then you stay -- y
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by binarysolo 10y ago
Don't discount execution though... I kinda see it as the chicken-egg issue -- that any city with a huge group of tech-smart people properly aligned (usual case: money) toward a good goal can make it another SV. Networking effects are
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Kitchit (private chef as a service) shuts down(kitchit.com)
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