smeyer

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by smeyer 3y ago
I changed my last name when I got married, and at the time I had a work email address that looked like oldlastname@company.com on the company's Google Workspace. Given that oldlastname was no longer my name, I changed my email address
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by smeyer 3y ago
I think your view is too strongly assuming that everyone in the market is perfectly rational and perfectly replaceable with zero transaction costs.. Especially when you start talking about a single person company, it could be as simple as t
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by smeyer 3y ago
Others might care less about this than we did, but we were also thinking about popularity of names we were considering, including changes in popularity over time. There are names that feel very natural to me because they were common among m
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by smeyer 3y ago
My guess is that this is a funky artistic choice, and that they used to have a "normal" webpage. I checked with the wayback machine, and it looks like my guess is correct. I clicked randomly into an archive a few years old, and he
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by smeyer 3y ago
Yes, there are lots and lots of people who don't wash their hands with any regularity and others who don't wash them as often as they should. You can find statistics about the fraction of folks washing hands in a public restroom,
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by smeyer 3y ago
And yet, I've been to plenty of venues that were uncomfortably loud in back while not going to any (indoors, professionally set-up) venues that were uncomfortably quiet in back. I think it's more than what you've described. I
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by smeyer 3y ago
Do the same characteristics that make it the most regulated state also make it the state most likely to notice these hazards before other states do? If so, it wouldn't be very weird.
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by smeyer 3y ago
They don’t just feel like an ad, they are an ad. You might not interact with ads (I’m usually similar), but they may still get enough interaction to be worth it to YC.
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by smeyer 3y ago
Your comment is an interesting reflection to me of the expectations people have for cheap or free software. You were willing to invest your time and schedule into seeing this talk live, which for many people is a much larger investment than
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by smeyer 3y ago
That's a nice way to avoid scams, but the cost doesn't seem worth the benefits to me as someone who otherwise has good awareness about scams. I've made some nice friends off the internet and yet to fall for a scam, so it does
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by smeyer 3y ago
But someone with 5.5 years of experience isn't a person breaking into the industry.
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by smeyer 3y ago
I assume there are folks faking data in all fields, but I also assume that the rate of faked data is not the same across all fields.
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by smeyer 3y ago
Were people actually paying $200 for a piece of productivity software, though? I'm no expert but sort of got the impression that a lot of the consumer-facing software currently charging $10 a month used to retail for 2 figures, not 3.
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by smeyer 3y ago
I would hope that random "non-government related non-profits" aren't using .gov domains. Isn't the whole point of the domain that it's just for government entities?
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by smeyer 3y ago
That also depends on the scale of the monetary sponsorship, though. If I heard something like "Meta/Google/Whoever is the main sponsor of Python for the next 3 years", I'd assume (perhaps incorrectly) much more mone
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by smeyer 3y ago
Prices are much stickier for some products than others. There's a big difference between a lot of commodities being sold wholesale (oil or steel or whatever), products sold to consumers (cars or oreos), and services (especially ones wi
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by smeyer 3y ago
This is all fascinating! Thank you for sharing! If I can keep bothering you with questions (or if you happen to be able to point me to a place to learn more about harpsichord tuning), I have more questions. But I also understand if you don&
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by smeyer 3y ago
>I used to be a harpsichord tuner I have to ask out of curiosity, does this mean you worked full-time tuning harpsichords or rather that you did a lot of e.g. piano tuning and also occasionally tuned harpsichords? I'm hoping the for
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by smeyer 3y ago
There's a big difference between giving a voice to "the people who work [there] " versus to the people who own businesses there.
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by smeyer 3y ago
Yes, it has been widely reported. If you do an online search for something like "rogoff excel" you can see reporting all across mainstream media.
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by smeyer 3y ago
I'm not sure why the tweet adds the brackets around the w, since I don't see it in the SEC complaint. Here's what's in the linked complaint. For clarity, the "emphasis added" part is from the SEC bolding the te
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by smeyer 3y ago
This is exactly what I assumed when I read the headline. What did you assume when first reading the headline?
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by smeyer 3y ago
It's interesting that you chose Kleenex and Chapstick, because both are still protected trademarks in the US. Competitors to Kleenex still market themselves as tissues and competitors to Chapstick still use lip balm. If you try using t
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by smeyer 3y ago
Is the 80% sampling a variety of manufacturers and batches, or a single batch of drives that were all ordered at the same time from the same manufacturer? If the latter, I'd suspect it's more of a realization that you got a flawed
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by smeyer 3y ago
I think the commentary railing against these sorts of trends talks about them in general, whereas the commentary promoting them talks about solving particular problems. So if you ask "how to fix foo bar issue with my system design&quot
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by smeyer 3y ago
I don't think the metaphors would be evaded by using metric units, though. Would 4 Teraliters been more useful to much of anyone? Converting it to gallons, liters, or any other common unit of volume probably leaves most people without
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by smeyer 3y ago
No. I don't always assume that just because a CEO makes a public statement they have internal data backing up the claim. Sometimes they do! Other times, they have data but are misinterpreting it or missing something, but it's impo
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by smeyer 3y ago
We haven't met in person, but hi! Part of why I own a sedan rather than an SUV (although not the only reason) is safety of others. It's also part of why I avoided car ownership for many years! I'd prefer that this safety cons
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by smeyer 3y ago
>extremely safe Do you care about the safety of others, or only yourself? You listed safety second in your list of positives, but I'm curious if you're considering things like pedestrian safety or just driver/passenger saf
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by smeyer 3y ago
>If you can't hear over 8 kHz Can't most folks hear frequencies higher than 8 kHz? I don't disagree with your conclusions since I don't care much about audio quality, but I feel like I'm missing something here.

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