whyileft

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by whyileft 10y ago
> Or they are in a hurry. I will take the faster option every time and that usually means no human. Correct, but this is the result of the store intentionally routing you through the self checkout by under staffing cashiers to save mon
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by whyileft 10y ago
This shouldn't be downvoted. There is definitely at the minimum Microsoft employee vote brigading at this point. HN needs to start making upvotes, downvotes, and time of vote public.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Ban breeding. There are plenty of dogs available for adoption. Once we run out of those we can reconsider the ban. Pretty simple stuff.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Or its a flaw in market capitalism. "When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail"
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by whyileft 10y ago
Bingo. Automation is cheaper, not higher quality. The only people that consider not talking to service agents or cashiers an improvement in service have social anxiety issues or something similar. A checker at a grocery store actually does
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by whyileft 10y ago
I would highly recommend spending an evening reading through Martin Fowler's blog. Has has a gift of breaking down concepts into very pragmatic and digestible explanations. A couple of my favorites: https://www.martinfowler.
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by whyileft 10y ago
http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications Every. single. other. browser. Including desktop Safari.
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by whyileft 10y ago
That is a very deceptive way to put it. https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/ Safari is intentionally crippled in several areas. Its very specific and obvious. It is dishonest for you to at this point p
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by whyileft 10y ago
That's a valid point. I've updated it to be less flippant. Appreciate you bringing that to my attention as there is a lot of great discussion going on in this thread.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Almost smells like the ACA, doesn't it? Edit: My apologies for sounding a bit antagonistic. The ACA is currently making use of high copays for that reason and more. It also hopes to force more transparency as well as most people want m
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by whyileft 10y ago
Most technology is useless. Its not a product of necessity, but a product of our chosen economic system.
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by whyileft 10y ago
In market capitalism we need at a least 2. Efficient, isn't it?
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by whyileft 10y ago
> The main reason we haven't switched over is because switching is costly and it seems like there are better things we could do with our time. In hindsight, do you feel that your potential customers made the same decision?
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by whyileft 10y ago
Yup. Voting on HN is very suspect in general and easy to manipulate because the votes are hidden.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Everyone quits at the same time. When they realize how much they owe in taxes or incur accidental cost like a car accident or a large maintenance bill to their home they were renting out. When your contractors lose money working with you th
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by whyileft 10y ago
Oh god. You just turned a thread about startup opportunities into one about diet fad wackos. You even got the ball rolling with your silly carbohydrates comment. Ugh
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by whyileft 10y ago
Things feel more fun when you're drunk with other people. Having a drink or two isn't. In that case its just kind of relaxing. Takes the edge off if you are feeling anxious or stressed about the earlier work day for example.
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by whyileft 10y ago
Considering how there are a lot more Amazon employees here on HN as opposed to Walmart employees, I doubt your contrarian opinion will be particularly well received. Regardless of its merit. Personally, I agree with you, but having a discus
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by whyileft 10y ago
The older I get the more I wonder how much it has to do with very few people making it 10 years without moving into an different industry that doesn't treat their talent like assembly line workers that they don't have to pay overt
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by whyileft 10y ago
For historical context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 Based on your green colored name, you may not know that pg is Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/
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by whyileft 10y ago
On HN the downvote button is definitely considered the disagree button. Downvotes are private whereas comments are public so it ends up actually being the most common action for disagreement. Also, you must have over 500 karma so it is typi
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by whyileft 10y ago
Everywhere I've been begs for female applicants. I feel like the low numbers of women trying to get into tech is a fantastic example of how market forces do not solve everything. There is an enormous gap between the supply of female ap
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by whyileft 10y ago
"non-literal" copying is garbage. We already have a legal term. Its called a derivative work. Which is what taking a Harry Potter book and changing the names of the characters is. Lawyers create new terms like that to intentionall
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by whyileft 10y ago
Bingo. First person I found in this entire thread that knows what actually happened.
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by whyileft 10y ago
> That classic "well, nobody else has had a problem, so you must be the problem" response. To anyone reading this that gets this response in a negotiation, this is the go to line for any experienced negotiator when you come t
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by whyileft 10y ago
I think being from the US you underestimate the scale and reach of the enormous vertically integrated corporations of Japan. The US has antitrust laws which allow for a lot more potential disruption. Japan does not.
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by whyileft 10y ago
The arbitrage is on the labor. Find someone who can build x for y and then sell it for z. The arbitrage opportunity comes from creating or obtaining a market you control. That market can be everything from a platform(Apple) to a collection
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by whyileft 10y ago
Because its still about building an overall market for Uber to capitalize on later. Lyft is burning through their own VC money helping Uber build that mass with little possibility of actually beating out Uber in the long run. Not aquiring L
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by whyileft 10y ago
Considering it is illegal for companies to do what Trump ordered[0], I'm not sure that would be the best analogy. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/nationalorigin.cfm
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by whyileft 10y ago
That's actually a very valid point. I was not thinking as much about HTML/CSS as I haven't been involved in a lot of large scale frontend refactors.

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