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> detailed blog post

When I'm actually churning the product, yes that would make sense! I'm currently sharpening my skills, I thought I had it still in me (art-making) but apparently not. Well they did say that edtech is a long game - that's my half-full cup anyway!

Good luck with finding the right pathway. Since it's early stage (I'm assuming that you've just graduated?) just follow your instinct. Even if you turn out to be wrong it's OK, plus you can always adjust course :)
Plus 4-7 hours of cooking and cleaning. Suddenly you just spent an entire work day on dinner.
Yep. In their coffee, in fact.
> Cost isn't relevant, the commission is because Apple brings X hundred million credit cards to your door and presumably increases sales by at least that much.

Except that developers have demonstrated with real numbers that that is not always true:
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2017/02/10/piezos-life-outsid...
I think the counter is that when the crowd is the aggressor, you don't know if anyone in it has guns of their own. If they see you as a threat then they'd take you out in kind, and there's more of them.
I'm a graybeard so far be it from me to pass judgement. If you're applying for $300k/yr architect level job, then you should be good at every level of software development, including writing it.
Take out dinner in itself is not a thrash concept. Something like Blue Apron is. A thrash concept producing thrash. You don't have to cook with takeout. You have to cook with Blue Apron, spend extra money on groceries and produce extra thrash when the entirety of it is avoidable. And if you are nearly a good cook and follow the instructions on a prepackaged thing, you surely can go and shop groceries and cook better meals. So this kinda solution is not for the lazy (take-out crowd) and neither for the home chefs.
You're describing more or less the Estonian system here. 22% flat tax rate, no taxation until the money actually leaves the company.
The washing machine trades money for time, but the Bloomberg video showed that squeezing the juice pack is actually faster than using the machine.
Yes, definitely over-engineered and needlessly expensive for it's purpose.

But at the same time, it feels like they have achieved such a great quality that the learning and experience to design and execute could be very valuable as an unintended consequence.

So, maybe quality always wins in the long run nevertheless. Wouldn't you hire these guys and pay a premium, if you wanted to manufacture great hardware?
and octarine!
The US Federal government's role isn't to manage all commerce within the states. It's not a matter of what "federal law allows". Managing tax rates within states is not a Federal power enumerated in the Constitution.

It's a good thing that States are forced to compete with each other on offering suitable economic environments for the businesses that they wish to attract. Big corporations can offer significant tax revenues and employment opportunities for the states they call home. There's no reason why States shouldn't use whatever means are at their disposal to attract good companies for their citizens.
I would not take part in an event where I had a >1/60 chance of being killed.
Finland tried this same thing with the same "dynamic effects will offset lost tax revenue!" rhetoric a few years ago, and it didn't work out anything like expected.

At the start of 2014, Finland lowered its corporate tax rate to 20% (from a previous 24.5%). The lost tax revenue amounted to $800M EUR, but the government claimed that half of that would be recouped thanks to positive dynamic effects the tax cut would create in the national economy.

Two years later, they were forced to admit [1] that none of those dynamic effects materialized.

Cutting corporate tax may still be a good thing, but it's most likely nothing close to revenue-neutral anywhere in the developed world. So this plan would expand the US budget deficit (which Republicans seem to hate only when they're not the ones expanding it with tax cuts).

[1] http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-7773569 (in Finnish)
That's true. I didn't mean to imply that hired CEOs aren't sometimes great leaders. I just don't think they get the same respect and admiration that founder CEOs do, and on average I think they tend to have somewhat different goals and incentives than founder CEOs.
You do that with blue apron as well....? I dunno, cooking is an inherently relaxing experience for me and many others. I don't think Blue Apron is a better solution if you're making the "counting hours" argument, as for much less money I could do marginally more work and spend marginally more time. That's a win in my opinion.
it's considered best security practice to do so
52 and I started with a KIM-1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 (mowed lawns to save up for it, still have it, still works). Been programming ever since and rarely use SO (most of the time I just read the code when I'm trying to grock some aspect of a library.)
only one seat, the engine power is more limited by how much juice you want to suck from the batteries.
Bach's Goldberg Variations (Creative Commons Zero Licensed)
This was great reading, I really enjoy this style of content: someone with expertise tearing down electrical and mechanical equipment and commenting on which parts are well done or poorly done.

I'll definitely be on the lookout for other write ups from Ben Einstein. To anyone wanting more content like this, I also recommend the "Bored of Lame Tool Reviews?" (BOLTR) series of videos from YouTuber AvE:

https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil
well written blog post imho
but who cares when 99% of people at work, in conferences and cafes have Apple Macbook (Pro)?
The Most Interesting CEO in the World
That is what's taxed, profits, as long as they keep using it to drive the economy it doesn't get taxed.
Yeah, all it really needed to be is a modernized mangler: http://i.imgur.com/t3QRmgb.jpg
Full stack is just new age lingo, and sure why not. We say AI (shudder) these days instead of ML, we say devops instead of sysadmin, we say cloud instead of vps/hosting.

Times change and so does language, true to any old fart out there, and the old farts to be.
I don't actually have an opinion either way because I don't understand the tax system well enough. But I'm curious, why do you think:

a) money pulled out of business for personal consumption isn't driving the economy? - that's how other businesses make money

b) personal consumption isn't already taxed? That's what sales tax does right?

c) money pulled out of businesses isn't used to finance other businesses? eg. I live off dividends from my index funds while I bootstrap my startup.
Trash. Thrash is something else.
There is none because this is not true.
I believe there is room for nuance between poor and hundreds-of-millions rich.
> I could probably hand wash my clothes as well as the washing machine does in the same amount of time

No. It takes you about five minutes to load and unload the washing machine, try to do the washing yourself in the same amount of time.

> While the Juicero is pressing your juice you can be making your lunch or something.

In 120 seconds?
That's interesting. So basically, bag or not, you probably can't crush carrots to paste (and spinach leaves, etc) with your bare hands, yet Juicero claims to have things of that nature inside the bag?

I think it's time you took some scissors or an Xacto knife, whatever's required, and cut open the bag to see what's in there. I know I'd be very interested in that result.
Absolutely. Chinese too. There are patterns among words. Also if you know part of the phrase not hard to figure out either. Once you know the language you will whether it is Chinese or Korean.
Please don't forget robotwisdom. It was one of the more important sites for me, right up there with Slashdot. The fact that robotwisdom was run by a semi-homeless guy was a big eye-opener and made it clear that people of great intelligence can have real mental/emotional problems.
For a good substitute at a much lower price with no ridiculous trash, you should checkout https://www.platejoy.com/.

We started using them a month or so ago and its been pretty good.

Disclaimer: My Fiance works with the husband of someone who works there. (Not sure if that is a real conflict of interest or not)
No thank you, my healthcare is my responsibility. It's like washing your car after a snow. If you don't the chemicals that keep the roads ice free will rust your car away, insurance doesn't cover that and it shouldn't, it's your own responsibility.

Likewise health insurance should only involve itself with emergency care, I am perfectly capable of seeing to my own daily health care by not smoking and not drinking and not eating unhealthy things, or not sitting in front of a screen all day and getting up and getting exercise.

Tying these things to corporate pay will only incentivise those who are greedy to manipulate the facts to puff up their own coffers.
With all due respect, I think you've completely missed the point of something like Blue Apron. It's not about saving money at all. It's for folks who enjoy cooking, but want to completely avoid trips to the grocery store or at least greatly simplify those trips. There's also a fun element of surprise since it not only takes out the grocery store trips but even basic meal planning.

That said, the one point I agree with you on is Blue Apron's generation of trash. It's wildly wasteful in that sense because so many of their ingredients are individually wrapped and packaged.
Then don't worry, while there is a decline in handwriting, people still handwrite.
If we still lived in 2008 this is relevant. But it is now 2017, server costs are so close to zero for an app binary download, and credit card transactions can be had for 2.9% + 30 cents with Stripe. App visibility used to be a bonus, but today your app will get seen by literally no one if you just upload it just because of the sheer number of apps being released every day. And that is only mentioning the "good parts" of being on the App Store.

The bad parts:
- No customer data, this is fine, except for when the expectation is that you will host the application for that specific user indefinitely. But this leads into the next point...

- No ability to do customer support - Want to refund a user? We have to tell them to go to Apple. Want to give a user a free subscription month? Can't do that, as subscriptions will just continue to auto-renew on apple's servers. Want to give an existing user a discount on a new app? Can't do that without some super awkward app bundle. Want to even know that a user purchased your app in the first place? I hope you collected an email when they signed up...

- Arbitrary app review process - my company has had an app stuck "in review" for two weeks. We pulled it and resubmitted and it was available later that day. What?

- Search. And now Search Ads. Search highly favors volume over user satisfaction. Have a small user base but impeccably high retention rate? Who cares, we have another app with 10x the downloads and a 2.5 star rating that will rank above you. Also your competitor is buying your app name as a keyword to also bump you down one more slot.

- Subscriptions: They pushed these really hard last WWDC, but in iOS 10.3 users still have to find the subscriptions page buried in settings and use a crappy web view emulating iOS to cancel.

So for "all that" Apple takes 30%...

I appreciate all Apple has done in creating the market, but they need a way to make it actually sustainable for things that aren't SaaS or candy crush clones with in-app currency. Paid apps are dead along with anything wanting to be "pro" level on the iPad. My main issue is that almost all of these things can be fixed with some small changes to how things work. Responding to reviews was a definite step in the right direction, but they still have a ways to go to actually be worth 30% in 2017. There is a reason you can't sign up for Spotify Premium in the iOS app anymore.
Their market is people that don't cook all that often, and want to cook relatively fancy things. It's people that cook so rarely that they throw away half of the groceries they buy, because they don't cook enough, and the dishes they make don't make sense together, from a home economics perspective.

I do my best to cook traditional Northern Spanish food for myself (well, as close as I can given the available ingredients). There's very little food waste, precisely because so many recipes either use long lived ingredients, or just reuse them. Some are built using another dish's leftovers as an ingredient. This makes it very easy to just have an idea of the stock we need for certain kinds of ingredients, and make a high percentage of the shopping list just an exercise of comparing what we have with our ideal stock.

This only works, however, because we aren't really looking at dishes individually, and we cook almost every meal. Someone that cooks once a week, and isn't thinking about efficiency, in either ingredients or time spent preparing, will end up spending a whole lot more and eat less. Unfortunately, there's no money in teaching people how to understand a kitchen like this, and how to add recipes that will both add variety while minimizing waste.
The bags contain something like a shredded pulp. Basically it's as close to being "juice" as you can get without having to call it "juice"
The people who use Blue Apron and such are mostly educated, wealthy people who would order takeout/delivery otherwise, but are now cooking.

I also think getting ingredients at your doorstep from some VC backed startup with YouTube recipes on how to cook them is one of the most privileged things you can do, but at least people are cooking. Anything to get more americans cooking is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things.
Sure, but you're not a reckless teen with an undeveloped sense of self-preservation.
Paul Lutus, you a mith of my Apple ][ times. cant believe (and SO happy..) you online!! IIRC you were programming in a bungalow out of nowhere at that time.. right?

me, 50 yo, still coding embedded sw..
Many countries have that and CEOs don't set up this way. Illegal and bad for PR.
Amazon through audible.com is an unethical rebiller, billing you every month for literally nothing once you hit 6 credits. You keep getting billed, yet you never accrue more than 6 credits max. This scam is why they can pay $50 a signup.
To me, cold pressed orange juice I buy tastes 3X better than any other orange juice I've tried at the store. To me, that's worth 3X more. Some people value taste more than others, to each his own.
It is hard to tell, but it appears the death of the lifeway ceo in 2002 had very little lasting impact.
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/411/921/aaa...
Personal consumption is the leading 'driver' (or one of them) of the U.S. economy.

I also don't see the distinction: Why shouldn't corporations pay their share, and why should private citizens have to pay more to cover it (taxes are a zero sum game)? Why is a citizen's personal budget somehow of little value, but corporate budgets are sacrosanct? I'm more concerned with protecting private people than corporations.

> corporate taxes should be lower

Lower than what? On what basis do you say they currently are too high (or too low)?
You quite frankly appear to have somewhat of an attitude. You come off as defensive and carrying a chip on your shoulder. Why on earth would you get yourself involved in a petty fight over people writing comments that aren't "useful" on your post? Have you never used this site before[1]?

People try to give you feedback that your site feels fake to them. You're not internalising it, you launch straight into a hurt defence. Someone quoted from YC policy, presumably to shed some light on the situation, and you dismiss it as a stock response written by a lawyer, lecture them on what they should be doing and start praising a competitor.

In short, if you already have all the answers, what do you need YC for?

1: Frankly, your apparent confusion as to how commenting works is a bit jarring - it befits someone asking for help to acquaint himself a bit with how things work, but that's the least of your problems.
Here’s Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
> This could become a collectible piece of hardware. A sort of beautiful tech historical folly. Might be worth the actual price over a 50 to 60 year timeline.

Remember CueCat? (Actually I was a young kid back then, but I'd really like to have one. I like cats.)
Yes, but the argument is that there would have been no showing of weakness that incentiveized corporations to hoard money for the next round.
It was 1.5 minutes by hand vs. 2 minutes for the Juicero. But I'm not sure if you get my point. Even if I could hand wash my washing in 30 minutes and the washing machine took 45, I'd still use the washing machine because I don't have to be there washing it. I'm assuming of course that you don't have to stand at your Juicero and babysit it while it squeezes your juice.
I use minimalist. This colorscheme is inspired by material theme from sublime text.

https://github.com/dikiaap/minimalist
There will be a need for something like that. But maybe it already exists. I'm pretty clueless about smartphones.
Isn't most Hydrogen made from Breaking up Methane anyway?
Mayor de Blasio Signs EO Banning City Agencies from Inquiring Abt Salary History
What is an example of a country that is set up this way?

This part of the Trump plan I actually do think is completely bonkers so I assume that it won't get anywhere.
dupe, please check before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14188342
0.5% of revenue. I bet corporation spent more on accounting.
My assumption has always been that companies large enough to have a security team also have better security practices than my small company. E.g. I'd guess Atlassian infrastructure folks don't share ssh keys over chat. Maybe they do.
Isn't that like saying "It takes about 5 seconds to start the juicero - try squeezing it by hand in the same amount of time"?
True, I don't know why nobody seems to point this out. Either what's inside the packs is already contain juice- therefore it's a scam to pretend it's raw unprocessed vegetables; or the Bloomberg "hack" only works with a specific pack that contains very juicy fruits.
Sounds better than doing nothing while hoping a mob stops beating your mother because she doesn't have anything to give them.

Does any transit have actual security we give them millions per year where I live and there's not a visible cop in sight ever unless they are parked in front of a busy station handing out fines.
I mostly agree, but reducing the spread does decrease the handicap a bit.
I'm not a good cook, but I like the idea of cooking. I don't have time to plan a week of meals. I want someone to tell me what I need, and if they can also send me exactly what I need so that I don't get it wrong, that's fantastic. It may be so fantastic that I am willing to pay twice as much as it might cost in the grocery store.

I'm sure with a bit of culinary expertise and experience I could probably do it all on my own, but I don't have that experience, and I don't really have the time to acquire it, but I sure don't want to order out every night.

I haven't tried it, but Blue Apron sounds pretty great to me. I can cook but I don't need to worry about having no real idea what I'm doing? Good deal. That is way more approachable than doing a bunch of independent learning.
I couldn't care less about the recipes and tutorials; for me the thing that such a service provided was small portions of ingredients. At the time I ate at work for all of my meals during the week, and so needed to cook maybe 3 meals/week (for one person). There's no other way I've found to get 1tbsp of butter, or flour, or 1 green onion. So for me it eliminated a fair amount of food waste.

That being said now that I don't get free food from work, I'll be buying groceries and cooking often enough to use the larger portions.
A significant part of the Blue Apron value proposition (and I am not a subscribed or otherwise interested--I cook for myself, mostly from scratch), is:

"You don't have to think or plan anything."

And that is where your one paragraph about how easy it is to cook for yourself falls down. You have to think up a menu. You have to find a menu (and hope it is good), plan, get ingredients, get the right odds and ends and figure out portions.

That is all fairly easy to do (and I do it myself), but not cost-free. If you have more money than emotional energy and time, the Blue Apron value proposition may appeal to you.

I hate the amount of waste it produces too, but "waste for wastes' sake" is not what is going on there.
useless? those expressions have become common in our language. to me this shows the analogy was extremely useful, but maybe not for understanding the mind from a neuroscientific perspective, but from a human one!.

and no, 'reset' and 'reboot' are simply not going to become colloquialisms.

the analogy has been inverted, we are not contrasting the mind to a computer as we were the mind to a steamengine.

we are contrasting the computer to a mind. if future computers are supposed to be more mind like. it is because current computers are more steam engine like.

perhaps in the future when computers crash or glitch up, we will say they are under pressure and need to let off some steam, because they are getting more human.
Agree. Also just like in India, if you are crawling around in a traffic jam most of the time what's the point of all that safety? Local cars are designed for local conditions.
Of note: the CEO of Mylan, Heather Bresch, is also the daughter of the senior senator representing West Virginia, Joe Manchin, who was also the governor of the state from 2005-2010. Joe's wife (and Heather's mother) Gayle Manchin took over as the head of the National Association of State Boards of Education in 2012, and helped push through the 'EpiPen Law' in 2013 that gave funding preference to schools that stocked them. [0]

Much like fish, the head tends to rot first.

0: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/20/fami...
Instagram Could Potentially Be Snap's Biggest Threat
I agree that deployment isn't a UX problem, but I think having a one-button (or one-command) deployment process is a goal that leads to more reliable and safer deployments.

The vast majority of consumer applications can (and should) be able to deploy in one command. There's complexity behind deployments, but it's complexity that's almost always best handled by automation.
Many of the greatest physicists of that generation worked on atomic bombs. And even more were involved in other military technologies. What are you supposed to do, not give your country the best tools possible? Hope the other side is just really nice and does likewise? Risk your country getting conquered? Your family getting killed?
Believe it or not, some people are not sensitive to price and are not looking to do more work to save money.
I did Google for "remote SMB". And your point was made in most of the top forum threads. But sure, people like the easy fix.
Let's Kvetch About Sending Money Overseas (PayPal/BTC)
How important is packaging for a physical product sold exclusively online?
And synergy, don't forget synergy!
> while you can train someone to do a job, you cannot train their personality

The idea and context reminded me of the identical Mr. Prestos in The Stars My Destination:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2123
> Wouldn't you hire these guys and pay a premium, if you wanted to manufacture great hardware?

Well, according to another source* one investor said that he expected the machine to be a lot smaller and that it would mush large chunks of fruit and veg. When the startup demoed at early stage, there wasn't even a working prototype - which is fine but I think it's fair to say that there was a bit of misleading. Only way to justify how it managed to raise $120 million...

*https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-v...