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by jordank 2y ago
Having rented a Tesla via Hertz last year, here are some quick remembrances: -The car was not charged fully when I rented it. -I had to park in a pay parking lot at a shopping mall to charge the car. Charging to 100% cost me $7 but took 30
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by jordank 2y ago
Has anyone found any basic specs (e.g. around battery life) for the 01 Light device?
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Ask HN: Places to find FOSS projects looking for specific help?
1 points by jordank 4y ago|1 comments
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by jordank 4y ago
“The tuition for full-time students who are Arizona residents will be paid for by the state at no cost to families. Students who live in the US, but outside Arizona, will pay $9,900 per year tuition. Students who live outside the US will pa
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Ask HN: Which venture studios have succeeded (and why)?
1 points by jordank 4y ago|0 comments
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by jordank 5y ago
Are there any examples of current or past successful libertarian governments?
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by jordank 5y ago
I routinely recruit highly targeted people for 1-on-1 interviews via services like userinterviews.com to help validate concepts. These services take care of incentives and scheduling, making this process fairly painless.
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by jordank 6y ago
Regarding the ice cube technique, I found some freezable bandanas on Amazon that have the same effect as holding an ice cube or using this Sony device.
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by jordank 7y ago
DuckDuckGo should also probably be on this list (and is hiring for a couple director-level technical roles IIRC).
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by jordank 7y ago
Yes, and in contrast with OP’s assertion some states are actively regulating privacy (i.e. California) and there are plenty of statehouses that would likely be amenable to regulating this issue. It’s a mistake to think about US regulations
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by jordank 7y ago
One factor missing from most analyses of scooter companies are the sheer cost of insuring scooters long term. Insurance rates are likely based on the assumption that scooter companies can disclaim against any user damages (injury, death, et
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Ask HN: What are some interesting but obscure niche SaaS companies?
19 points by jordank 7y ago|2 comments
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by jordank 7y ago
“You can build your own cards with Javascript. Game Builder comes with an extensive API that allows you to script almost everything in the game. All the code is live, so just make a change and save it, no compiling required.”
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If you want to fix San Francisco, don’t blame the NIMBYs – tax the rich(recode.net)
3 points by jordank 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordank 8y ago
It appears we are talking about place of origin of accounts, at least in my wife’s case.
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by jordank 8y ago
Right, which should also indicate that this trip to Cuba wasn’t part of a pattern but rather an anomaly. I understand the complex legal frames that this exists in, but they appear to have the data to be way more precise here.
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by jordank 8y ago
My wife’s Slack account was closed yesterday. She created the account while traveling in Cuba (legally) years ago and hasn’t been back to Cuba or any other sanctioned country since. She is a cofounder of an org that uses Slack heavily and h
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by jordank 10y ago
These are good points — many have tended to look at just the consumer applications. It may be that the economics lend themselves more to industrial transport or logistics than they do to moving bodies.
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by jordank 11y ago
Cool idea. Tried Crimson and Sage but didn't see results
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by jordank 11y ago
I'm not a Second Life apologist, but it seems like (from comments on the OP) that some of these environments are successful, just maybe not on a full-time basis.
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by jordank 11y ago
Or alternatively, why must the Olympics be held in one place at all? The infrastructural burdens of large events are massive. The World Cup distributes this burden throughout cities and even regions.
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by jordank 11y ago
A couple more points here: 1. A lot of people who care about organic and farm-to-table ethos already live in areas with significant market coverage. Those people will tend to have existing behaviors — GoodEggs sought to displace these. This
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Ask HN: Open source projects looking for user experience help?
1 points by jordank 12y ago|0 comments
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by jordank 13y ago
Would love to make the URL bar disappear in mobile Safari. Love the idea, I will do this workout now.
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by jordank 14y ago
Arguably more importantly, this gives researchers a very strong new lead on developing therapies that have similar effect to bone marrow transplant.
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by jordank 15y ago
Sometimes the products that companies need to buy aren't yet being made (and can't yet be purchased as components). In this case there is some financial risk associated with producing a new product — videos and other materials can help conv
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by jordank 15y ago
Publishing videos to the world may have issues, but these sorts of videos can have extreme internal value (the OP mentions this). I've worked on quite of a few of these — they've turned out to be useful tools in securing budgets and coordin
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by jordank 15y ago
Interaction designer was previously the preferred title for many designers...until it became completely co-opted. I wouldn't get too attached to the title UX Designer either, since that term will no doubt get diluted as well — but as the ar
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by jordank 15y ago
DDG.gg
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by jordank 15y ago
We find that our users really like disambiguation. I find it most useful on searches for people ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Doug+smith ) or places ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Deerfield ). Re: local search, we're bringing in datasets from se

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