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by d2vid 7y ago
Not exactly the clearest announcement from AWS, but the "instance limit" they are referring to is the limit on the number of server instances you can have running in your account at any one time. Before the limit was quoted in a m
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by d2vid 12y ago
Transcript is a good idea, we've been looking into APIs & mechanical turk for that. In general we're trying to figure out how to present the responses in an interesting/informative way without you having to watch ALL the
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by d2vid 12y ago
Because Iowa farmers get to vote on federal matters, but they don't get to vote in SF and NYC. When I worked at Climate Corp, it was pretty interesting to hear the (nearly universally) Republican farmers argue for why there should be f
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by d2vid 12y ago
We paid for this as a test of instapanel, got respondents off of Craigslist for $10 each. In general, we're building a tool for startups to get feedback like this on their own products. I went in strongly in favor of Prop E, I came out
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by d2vid 12y ago
If we think of soda like tobacco this makes sense. If tobacco companies are against it, then it probably is a good idea. But what if the book industry spent $15/SF voter to stop some law that applied to books? Perhaps that law would be
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by d2vid 12y ago
It just feels too much like a symbolic victory rather than actual progress. I think it falls into the same category as the plastic bag ban - bags are a very small component of overall trash, but they're highly visible so let's ban
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by d2vid 12y ago
As much as I think vice taxes are a good idea, the panelists raised a lot of great points about the holes in Prop E. It's only SF so people will just drive to Daly City to stock up on soda. There are tons of other sugary products that
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by d2vid 12y ago
Well that sucks, this post is completely delisted from the front page. How'd that happen?
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by d2vid 12y ago
We tax income, even though we agree that income is a good thing. Why not tax cigarettes, soda, pollution, and other bad things. The dead-weight loss from the tax is actually a good thing in these cases. Agreed that there are always unintend
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by d2vid 12y ago
If you watch Jude's video, she says she bicycles to Daly City to buy her cigarettes because they're too expensive in SF, and threatens that she'll just start doing that for soda too. Get people to bicycle an hour for cigarett
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by d2vid 12y ago
I was really surprised by the results. When I created this instapanel I was a strong "Yes" on Prop E - governments need to raise funds, so why not tax vices. Watching the responses, I've changed my vote to "No". The
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Show HN: How to vote on SF's sugary drink tax(instapanel.com)
25 points by d2vid 12y ago|17 comments
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Block the Comcast/Time Warner Merger – Whitehouse.gov Petition(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
2 points by d2vid 13y ago|0 comments
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by d2vid 13y ago
If tweens listen to 10 hrs/day of Justin Bieber on repeat using free accounts, Bieber shouldn't get money from adults who listen a few hours a day to anything but him using premium accounts. I think it's quite reasonable to a
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by d2vid 13y ago
The sales tax agreements amazon has made with various states should provide a nice experiment showing how price sensitive their customers really are.
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by d2vid 13y ago
Choice with reasonable defaults sounds ideal to me. The suggestion that you HAVE to make all these choices is FUD. To bring a bit more consumer psychology into the discussion, people love SUVs because they give them the choice to go driving
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by d2vid 13y ago
"as we get older, particularly past middle age, we tend to grow happier naturally." Sounds like literal survivorship bias.
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by d2vid 13y ago
From an expected value perspective, being kept awake by a smoke alarm has robbed me of more of my life than [chance of fire]×[chance of death]×[crappiness of dying]
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by d2vid 13y ago
Climate Corp doesn't forecast the weather.
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by d2vid 13y ago
Former Climate employee here. Swiss Re reinsures Climate Corp, not any individual policy. So Climate Corp sets the price for each policy and pays out each claim. Swiss Re pays out to Climate Corp if in aggregate all the claims are greater t
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by d2vid 13y ago
"No," said the God button.
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The Shortest Sci-Fi Story in the World (Competition)
3 points by d2vid 13y ago|6 comments
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by d2vid 13y ago
COO
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by d2vid 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy#Environmental_benef... Insects are far more efficient than livestock. Also, you can feed them things that humans can't eat (like rice stalks and husks) so they can be an en
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by d2vid 13y ago
FTA: "notably, Russia bans handset subsidies"
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by d2vid 13y ago
Are international calling fees within the EU going away as well?
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by d2vid 13y ago
"Warren lied about being Native American to benefit from affirmative action." Doesn't seem to be true: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/everyt...
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by d2vid 13y ago
Yeah, with all those freshly baked tracking cookies.
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by d2vid 14y ago
I really appreciated the end of this article where he argues that some users could appreciate a service more if they realized how hard a problem it is solving. It makes me think of the first iMacs having clear backs so you could see inside
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by d2vid 14y ago
To take your analogy further, an early-stage startup has a high cost of capital. You are expected to produce massive returns (or fail). You thus are explicitly required by investors to take risks. You have a duty to not invest in the softwa

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