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by wzwy 4y ago
> I see. One similar food delivery business I consulted at had a healthy (for the startup) margins at 30% from each order, so I suppose it's beefy enough to absorb some fraud. Alright, cool, a consultant. And then… > Sri Lanka
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by wzwy 4y ago
That’s what I felt as well when I read it. Maybe it’s as industry-redefining as it claims to be, but surely there must be some tradeoffs. Rust’s tradeoff in providing safe and faster code is mentioned. Why not Zig’s?
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by wzwy 4y ago
Possibly interesting supplemental read - South Korea’s Intelligent Robots Development And Distribution Promotion Act: https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=54151&type...
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by wzwy 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if we should try building a news site optimised for seeing the effect of appeals to authority. To write an article for the site, we would need to: 1. Write a headline with no mentions of any experts. 2. Write another head
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by wzwy 4y ago
I am struggling to think of a more fitting analogy to describe this overvaluation of self-assembled items. What’s similar to IKEA, as in the self-assembly bit, but also doesn’t have the “it’s exactly what I need” effect that confounds the “
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by wzwy 4y ago
This post reminds me of this excerpt from the book How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard: > What many organizations do to assess risk is not very enlightening. The methods I propose for assessing risk would be familiar to an actuar
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by wzwy 4y ago
From what I’ve read on this page[0], Ghost does allow other providers which I presume includes self-hosted emails. > I still want to use a different provider to send email newsletters, why can’t I do that? You can. There is no requireme
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by wzwy 4y ago
> *All together, here are some alternate email providers: - ProtonMail - FastMail - Mailbox* Anyone uses or used to use Tutanota? That’s the only privacy-focused email provider I know of aside from ProtonMail. And why is having a data ce
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by wzwy 4y ago
> We are all experiencing what happened when politicians regulated the web. I hope you are enjoying your cookie modals; browsing the web in 2022 is an absolute hell. What would they do with email? To be honest, I kinda like seeing a lo
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by wzwy 4y ago
> To chain science to objectivity or to any kind of formulaic process may help everyone to agree on results, but it impedes the evolution of the scientific process (or better, processes) itself. There's nothing wrong with methods t
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by wzwy 4y ago
> After a decade of discussion about the replication crisis, open science, and all the ways we could reform the way we do research, we’re more aware than ever of how biases can distort things - but also how we can improve the system. So
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by wzwy 4y ago
She’s a psychologist, isn’t she? Maybe a lot of her clients had said: “It’s all just semantics. I don’t want those, I want solutions. I swear I should’ve just taken meds only and none of these so-called therapies”. By the way, I’m pro-thera
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by wzwy 4y ago
> This illustrates a difference between proper nouns and common nouns. Common noun phrases describe their referent. Proper noun phrases do not describe, they merelydesignate. A woman named Joy can be in a bad mood; a man named Ernest ca
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by wzwy 4y ago
> In large part by not asking restaurants for permission to list them on DoorDash's platform and publish their menus. A lot of restaurants complained about this but DoorDash didn't care. In cities like Seattle, this was made i
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by wzwy 4y ago
Woah, flashback to was it Crossing the Chasm or Inside the Tornado? I’m not sure if the latter has an updated version, so it’s probably that.
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by wzwy 4y ago
> (d) Compute the mean age, and print it out as the median. It's much easier to program, and Mary Jones will probably never notice the difference. Lol. If it’s not the most important statistic to Mary Jones, I can see why a progra
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by wzwy 4y ago
A sensor to detect clothings blown away by strong wind, maybe? It’s been ages since I had used a clothes line, so I don’t remember if that has ever been an issue.
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by wzwy 4y ago
There should be a different lifetime attached to these cloud-based smart home devices. It's an implicit lifetime separate than the hardware: how long can the company last? And what's their frequency of plug-pulling? If it's n
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by wzwy 4y ago
Accepting that people make mistakes is one thing, but reducing those mistakes is another. If it’s a simple change, why not do it? Though, I can see your point if the change is monumental but barely reduces rate of mistakes.
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by wzwy 4y ago
> Strictly execute *peer-surveillance approach*that requires at least 3 peers to engage in the deployment process > - We will adopt a peer-surveillance approach which requires at least 3 peers to engage in the deployment process. They
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by wzwy 4y ago
Great description. I’m constantly impressed by how much people nod when I spout some nonsense. It’s dangerous, especially if you’re prone to believe every praise you receive.
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by wzwy 4y ago
What the author meant by innovation seems to be limited to world-changing innovation like the telephone or internet. Following that, I’m unsure if world-changing innovation is slowing down primarily because of the talkocracy. The issue is n
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by wzwy 4y ago
Seems like a sizeable collection to use as props for a horror story. Cuckoo clocks are scary.
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by wzwy 4y ago
> In fairness, books have a complicated history in my family. One delayed my own fretful entrance: When the doctor wanted to induce my mother’s labor, she asked him to come back in an hour as she wanted to finish Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit.
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by wzwy 4y ago
> If your free tier is too valuable people won't be compelled to upgrade, not valuable enough and people won't be compelled to give the product a try or stick around long enough to see or want the value of a higher tier. This i
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by wzwy 4y ago
I don’t think he’s arguing about the benefit of having confidence and experience in a domain, but rather the origin of the experience and confidence and how it impacts a startup’s success. In this case: the startup success rate of those who
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by wzwy 4y ago
This article is not really about what’s unique about working at a startup that can give you an advantage when founding your own, but more about how to accelerate the learning of skills required to do so. Hence, the emphasis on high-growth s
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by wzwy 4y ago
> First, the bicycle stock data are difficult to obtain directly from statistics because most countries do not have bicycle registration system like that of cars. I didn’t know that bicycle registration is a thing in some countries, thou
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by wzwy 4y ago
Do you have any notable example of brilliant people working on something that doesn’t improve the world? My naïveté inclines me to think that there are more brilliant people working on world-improvement project than the opposite.
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by wzwy 4y ago
> I agree that there is no such thing as an ethical ad Are you saying an ethical ad is possible, but it has never existed to this day? Or that it’s impossible to ever make an ad ethical? It seems that using your definition of an advert,

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