sanswork

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by sanswork 10d ago
I've worked for a dating startup in the past and the main barrier is marketing costs. You need to be able to bootstrap a network extremely fast or people will join and bounce within minutes and doing that across any sort of region cos
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by sanswork 21d ago
I'm not sure if its the same in Canada but when I went through the process for Australia it depended on where you started the process. I started the process while outside the country so to activate my visa I had to leave and come back
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by sanswork 2mo ago
I tried Math academy twice and I cannot understand the hype but a lot of people seem to love it so maybe it's just not my style of learning. Each topic seemed to contain too little information to actually grasp it. It was like Trig 1
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by sanswork 2mo ago
It sounds like what they are looking for is a pathway. Khan used to have a really good one with the world of math pathway where you could go for 2 + 2 to Calculus in a set sequence of steps each building on the next. I've tried Khan
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by sanswork 2mo ago
I've certainly experienced it with AWS too where the explanation was that so many SLAs were tied to that green light that it had to have really senior sign off which is also insane. But the big difference is the frequency of impact.
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by sanswork 2mo ago
As an elixir dev fly was a company I very much wanted to succeed but I twice had to leave them because they just never found the right balance between cool engineering and ops. For a long time they would have global outages where the status
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by sanswork 2mo ago
I remember drooling over zip disks when I was a kid. By the time I had enough of my own money to buy one they were clearly not the best choice anymore but I still did for the same reason around the same time I bought a stack of old sparcst
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by sanswork 2mo ago
Canada's GDP is $2.2t vs $165b for Mississippi. Immigration rate is decreasing.
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by sanswork 3mo ago
Right but it means I can go read a bunch of content right away vs microtransactions where literally every click becomes a case of me deciding if it's worth 10c. That is exhausting. Also if they are handling payments at some point you&#
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by sanswork 3mo ago
They have to get almost 200 more conversions to make up for the single subscriber. Given a lot of these services offer $1 entry subscriptions and people still bounce it's unlikely you'll have a mass market excited to pay $0.10 ev
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by sanswork 3mo ago
My mom was one of those people that talked to people everywhere we went and seemed to know someone everywhere too. As a very shy kid I was constantly mortified but I had the startling realisation several years back that I'm that perso
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by sanswork 3mo ago
In Australia they are occasionally used as a temporary fix for plastic sandals when the piece between your toes pulls through the base you can push it back through attach one of these around it on the bottom and it will hold long enough for
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by sanswork 3mo ago
No worries, I have "Outdoor kids in an indoor world" next that I'm really looking forward to since I struggle with being an indoor dad despite being the type of kid that would leave the house in the morning on my bike and be
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by sanswork 3mo ago
The self driven child was one I just finished 2 weeks ago that I really enjoyed and felt had a lot of good advice that ran counter to my natural tendencies. The How to talk books(there are a few of them for different ages), no drama discipl
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by sanswork 3mo ago
It also ignores social pressure entirely. If everyone in your class is on some social network and your parents parent and you aren't then you are socially outcast from a major part of your peer socialisation. If only 50% of parents en
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by sanswork 3mo ago
I wanted to love it since despite being a self help reader I can definitely see a lot of the bad/dangerous advice given all over the place but I often found them really stretching to make stuff negative and being very smug about it whi
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by sanswork 3mo ago
After reading digital minimalism I did the digital declutter process and found a lot of extra space in my life once I removed distractions that felt "essential" but didn't actually miss once they were gone. I also found othe
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by sanswork 3mo ago
I'm definitely a better father because of a bunch of the self help books I've read. Things like better ways to communicate with my son, more effective ways to transfer knowledge, encourage independence, etc. Other areas of my li
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by sanswork 3mo ago
I don't have an answer for that, again I don't subscribe to that belief and I think risk should be highly rewarded. That said the market is a terrible judge of fairness since it's a feedback loop so luck early on can definite
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by sanswork 3mo ago
I don't personally subscribe to this belief but the people saying it's impossible to earn a billion dollars without doing something bad would say that your founders are doing something bad by exploiting the employees by not return
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by sanswork 3mo ago
Individual contributor(non-managers)
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by sanswork 4mo ago
Along similar lines, Tad Williams dedicates each of his Otherland books to his dad but notes his dad doesn't read his books so probably won't know about it. By the 4th book his dad still doesn't know and he mentions somethin
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by sanswork 4mo ago
Canada has minimal refining capacity.
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by sanswork 4mo ago
Nothing you've posted has shown that last claim. Everything I've found has shown it to be a misunderstanding.
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by sanswork 4mo ago
I'm describing the state from the screen shots on the site you included. > https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1660907518430699523 This screen shot is too heavily cropped for me to know exactly what the page
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by sanswork 4mo ago
Then cancel your subscription before its over? I'm not seeing what the problem is here.
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by sanswork 4mo ago
Your deceptive design link is literally outlining the plan discussed in the rest of this thread. The first one in your deceptive design was: Adobe: Unclear yearly subscription terms and cancellation fees "Apparently monthly subscriptio
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by sanswork 4mo ago
The subscription pricing makes it more accessible to consumers where as previously the only people that paid for licenses were companies(and probably only large companies given it was basically always the most popular warez). So they charg
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by sanswork 4mo ago
"We will give you access to annual pricing discounts but not require you to pay the full year up front" It's not complex or dramatic.
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by sanswork 4mo ago
Why do you feel the need to make up ridiculous numbers?

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