ryanwaggoner

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by ryanwaggoner 2mo ago
I also run a B2B SaaS and I could have written this word for word. The only exception is that I do get a decent amount of word of mouth because many of my customers are individual franchisees in national networks, so they tell their peers w
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by ryanwaggoner 1y ago
From my perspective, it's more that he used to be competent , but something has changed over the last 5-10 years, and now he's essentially coasting (or more nefarious things) off the massive amount of wealth he's piled up. I
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by ryanwaggoner 1y ago
We're decades away from no one being allowed to drive manually, but people don't actually like driving. They like the autonomy of a car. That's not the same thing. If there's a button in people's cars that they can
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by ryanwaggoner 1y ago
We've all been reading this exact comment for years now. Maybe it's actually different this time, I don't know. What I do know is that I took multiple Waymo rides last week where those "gizmos" delivered a safe dr
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by ryanwaggoner 1y ago
OK, I rarely comment here anymore, but your post caught my eye so I spent a few mins checking out the site. Here are my honest thoughts: 1. I really admire you posting here looking for feedback and taking it with an open mind, without getti
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Every completed project was at one point a few weeks away from being done.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
There is no perfect place to live. Everywhere has trade-offs, and I bet we could both come up with 100 things more important to our quality of life than whether you need to lock your car door or not.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
”They haven’t made an argument as to why we should do that just for them…” What “we”? They’ve already raised billions, and I suspect they’re about to succeed at raising tens of billions more, despite the skepticism of random HN users.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
And yet somehow tens of millions of us manage to live in them.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Suits ruin everything.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Initiatives like this haven’t seemed to work in Sweden, among other countries. I don’t know if any countries have successfully reversed a plummeting birth rate, but it doesn’t seem to be for lack of trying. Maybe the reality is that, given
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
There is simply zero evidence that microplastics are killing people at higher rates than obesity. If they were, it would be very obvious in the data.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Fair point, but SD in particular also has some of the highest electricity costs in the US. This BLS data seems to be the actual cost to consumers, and the average is $0.17: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data&
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
What? Lots of states have cheaper rates than that: https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/ And none of them are anywhere near 40-80c, so maybe that commenter is in another country.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
This is a wonderful response, both non-judgmental and wise.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Ideology?
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
I work at one that is definitely not megacap, nor do we pay at the top of the market, and that’s below our range for senior, which is more like $300k-500k, depending on specialty and geographic area. Staff is more like $500-700k.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
They almost certainly don’t have that data. Levels.fyi is the only semi-accurate source for TC that I’ve found, at least it’s pretty accurate for the public tech company I work for.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Retro.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
The public tech companies (and hot private ones) all pay $250-300k and up for senior devs who can pass the interview process.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
This is a critical detail. GPT-4 is much better than 3.5 for programming, in my experience.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
I live in NYC and travel semi-regularly to both CA and WA, and this is completely overblown. You might catch a faint whiff every once in awhile, but it’s very far down on the list of annoyances a major city offers. And no, I don’t smoke wee
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
How’s your SaaS doing now, if you don’t mind my asking?
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
219 - 43.5
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
I tried this with GPT-4 for NYC, from my address on the upper west side of Manhattan to the Brooklyn botanical gardens. It basically got the whole thing pretty much correct. I wouldn’t use it as directions, since it sometimes got left and r
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Both methods can call emergency services, but it’s a setting for both (Settings > Emergency SOS)
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
Many of these countries have extremely harsh punishments for drug offenses, AND have corrupt law enforcement where bribery is normal, but I challenge you to provide a single example of where a Westerner refused to bribe police and were subs
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
My understanding is that the alleged link between testosterone replacement therapy and prostate cancer has very weak evidence: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/appropriate-use-o... .
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
* I swear that HN has the least-thought-through hot takes of any media in the world.* The irony is too good.
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by ryanwaggoner 2y ago
How is this even possible on a mobile device? Edit: they paid people to do it: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

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