skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Homejoy failed for more reasons than Disintermediation. One major issue all the early versions of this model missed is that a service like this are not a car ride. One time service volume doesn't cover customer acquisition. Logistics and customer service plays a huge role as well. Homejoy had a hard time handling not normal situations like: cleaners not showing up, substandard work (subjective), or locked doors. It appeared to me that scale was the main mission.

BTW, how do you justify cutting out the company in these services? Because they are contractors? If they were FTE's would it be different? Seriously asking because I want to understand.
Please tell me where I can get a train from the US to Europe.
I'm thinking more "Google builds your face model in exchange for some cool messaging app" -> "Google allows advertisers to give Google some clothes models (as in 3d models)/etc to show on the user's actual body with their face"
Well the issue behind that issue IMO is that so many US streets can be used as main roads. They were built overly-spaciously with only the interests of car drivers in mind.
It's interesting to see you post that because I feel like I've read articles where cities in the US have tried the same approach with Google and they generically responded with "Formally change the rules/laws/speeds/whatever and we will follow that but we don't make random, single changes for the whims of the city" (my rephrasing of what they said).

I'm having trouble finding the source but I believe I saw the link here on HN and it was to an article about a city asking for Google's cooperation in regards to a sharp/blind downhill turn or something? Hope that jogs someone else's memory.
I imagine he had an intuitive grasp of elasticity of demand.

From what I know his audience is quite "hardcore", and there is hardly many substitute "Indie Hacker esque" stories out there.
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> Do we know how effective the SSL certificate verification has been in browsers at influencing consumer behavior?

Considering how EV is essentially dead, I would assume it hasn't been very effective.
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This is the Jocko Willink approach:

YOU are responsible for making the best you.. and it always feels better if you have crushed out a daily workout before most people are awake:

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Waste into space is a bad idea, mostly because it is much easier to dispose of here on Earth than it is to put it up into space.

(Personally, I find the arguments about how hard waste is to dispose of deeply unconvincing. It's treated as a stick to beat people with, rather than an engineering problem to be solved, and one that is, frankly, almost entirely solved already in a number of ways.)

There are a wide variety of ways to use nuclear power for propulsion, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket NASA has recently been renewing investigations into this, as nuclear rockets have a much better story for getting into the rest of the solar system in some reasonably period of time.

You can ride on explosions, but, I mean, it's kinda brute force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... That said, if there was a "asteroid impact in three years that will wipe out humanity", this would be our best chance of lofting enough $STUFF into space to maybe survive as a species.
My grandfather was taken in by a Ponzi scheme a few years before his death. He poured tens of thousands of dollars (his entire savings) into the sceme, despite my father's protestations. At one point my father gathered as much info about the "investments" as he could, and forwarded it to the authorities. He and my grandfather were on less friendly terms after that, even after the scheme's author was arrested and sentenced. My grandfather was convinced that my dad singlehandedly shut down a legitimate operation. My grandfather passed away about 6 months after the swindler was sentenced to 20 years in prison. https://www.forbes.com/sites/billsinger/2011/11/18/botfly-ll...
I have nearly no information about this scheme because the post got removed.

It has to be partially online, how do you pay without an online connection? Is there some kind of amount you have and then you can redeem them offline?

At one point you do require an online check in, that's for sure, that's when you find out whether the tickets were bought only when checked or not.
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> As a reader you wouldn't be weirded out if the first section of the article was to justify why an affiliate link was used?

Nope, and as the flagging of this article shows, it's worse without disclosure.

It's not just an ethical requirement, it's a legal one. (I believe Amazon's affiliate program guidelines requires disclosure)
It would be an opinion piece, not news. News have to bring new facts, by definition.
This is literally why people (like me) keep buying further and further out into the suburbs. If you want quiet and nobody driving down your street then you need to live on a dead end or cul de sac somewhere way out on the edge of said metropolis.
> Conservationists need to [...]

Nuclear boosters need to start showing numbers proving this point instead of taking potshots on HN. Nuclear needs to be worthwhile on a balance sheet before anyone is going to take it seriously. Even now, it's cheaper to build out wind and solar. And the new technologies are rapidly getting cheaper.

Show numbers.
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There is a difference between a world where social security is taken away, and one where it never existed. Not having SS means people would have the money that was instead paid into SS. Ignoring that, many people planned based on having SS. If they could retire fully without SS, this would mean that they overcontributed (I say this as someone planning for a retirement with 0 SS).

I am not sure why you discount real estate. You might not think it is a good investment, but it is still the idividual managing their retirement.
Besides, in this context "real estate" mostly means owning your own home. The main benifit here is not the paper value of the house, but the imputed rent. If this value goes down, by definition, cost of living went down a corresponding amount. (There is admitadly the risk that you want to move, and the local market tanked).
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This misses the social component, which I think is pretty important.

Why isn't Set a Functor? Because it doesn't obey the functor laws (because a == b doesn't imply f a == f b). Why are those the functor laws? Because that's all that Functor means.

Why isn't Set a Mappable? Because it doesn't obey the Mappable laws. Why are those the Mappable laws? Because they're the Functor laws? Why should that be the case? Maybe we should pick (or have picked) different laws for Mappable? Maybe we'll find better laws for Mappable, but we've given up that rarefied connotative linguistic real estate. There's extra room for drama and bike-shedding that isn't present when we're using already established names that precisely describe the interface even if they happen to be unfamiliar.
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The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skeptical-Environmentalist-Measurin...
1. Its not uniformlly distributed.
2. China has GDP/person of ~$9,600
3. South Africa merrilly mines 4km below ground
4. Previous efforts included a nuclear weapons programme
5. Whole parts of Amazon's infa a built in CT

Get out more.
You literally can't brute force SHA-256, there's a very tiny physical limit on the amount of energy it costs to flip a bit of information. Turns out that, summed over all the possibilities, that adds up to way more energy than is in the entire solar system.
Agree with how quickly they lost their reputation, but FYI: they didn't do any tax evasion that we know of because tax evasion is illegal. Companies minimizing tax burdens through legal means is called "tax avoidance".
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"why are technical interviews one-way"
Because you should sell yourself. Sometimes people at company's side are polite, sometimes they are full of crap. If you don't like an interview that company is not for you, basically. Just continue to search or set up your own company :)
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The problem is multi-fold.

1) A good size chunk of California is seismically active, which is generally a bad idea for nuclear power plant placement.

2) Nuclear power plants require large water sources nearby for cooling. Large chunks of California where power is actually needed are essentially deserts without lakes or reservoirs that can be easily used for this without environmental concerns. You could place them on the coast, but this brings its own set of environmental problems and potential dangers.

3) Nuclear power plants are not quick to build. We're talking 5+ years to get one up and running, even in the ridiculously optimistic estimates from industry proponents. So you need to make the case that in 5 years when one is running it will be better than if we had built more solar + wind + battery over the same period of time (a solar farm can be constructed in a few months, battery storage can be installed in weeks).

4) Nuclear waste is not a solved problem, no matter what proponents tell you. The solution right now is to just kind of keep it hanging around mostly secured locations and hope for the best. Long-term storage proposals have still not gone anywhere, so you're basically just hoping that nothing terrible happens until there's political and financial will to do something about it.

5) Power requirements per capita have been mostly flat or dropping for years in the US, and this is expected to accelerate as homeowners continue to install their own supplemental power systems. Building more gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants is a huge investment with a questionable ROI given this fact.

To me, nuclear power is a solution whose time has likely already passed. It just doesn't make much sense to install more baseload power via nuclear these days when we have non-coal alternatives available and dropping power requirements overall. Continued pushes for efficiency improvements, green buildings, residential solar+battery installs, and grid-scale renewable installs are cheaper, faster, and have less risks.
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It works very well, no downsides, apart the fact I need to pay. I'm not the product.

Gmail web almost eat all my memory and is kind of shitty and not snappy at all. I think even office 365 looks better atm. I don't know what happened to google, but it's probably something really wrong. Maybe it got too big that nobody cares anymore?
True that. Unless you try to drink from the trays you should be pretty fine.
This is just routine disclosure and it might be legally required. There's been a lot of noise about it in recent years as a lot of blogs, reviewers and influencers started getting paid to pitch products without disclosure.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/if-influencers-are...
Your desktop PC is regularly running largely unverified code, some of it potentially hostile: all the javascript in your browser.
Not much different from people buying cheap[er] houses near an airport and then complaining about airplane noise (and sometimes trying to get the airport to close).
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Think how relatively often rockets blow up during launch. Think about how disastrous an explosion during launch would be.

Things just have to go bad once and we likely have a disaster worse than Chernobal. So not good odds when safer options exist.

As for the rocket fuel comment, take a look at Project Orion.
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That's interesting. In that case cash in a safe would be the better option. You still have negative carry(insurance, rent, security, etc.), not sure how that would compare to the negative yielding bond.

Hmm, if enough did this and put it together in some vault and perhaps lent some fractional amount of this money if an appropriate opportunity presented itself you might even make money on this. I just described a working banking system.

Makes me wonder how banks could even be solvent in this environment. Are they just regulated into existence.

It all sounds like a house of cards at this point.
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Windmills can’t provide steady base load power all the time. They need to be paired with some sort of storage technology.
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If every car did two daily round trip commutes into the city center instead of one, that would double congestion. I just don't see this being workable at all.
I'm usually in agreement with that, but I admit I've found the occasional article that drew my attention from Firefox's new tab page. Maybe once every week or two over that last couple months. That may or may not be enough to justify its existence (for me, at least), but it's not nothing. I obviously got some value out of it.
I'm not sure i follow the reasoning nor the example you gave. You can change and/or update the OS, both being outside of the computer manufacturer's control and that is assuming there was even a computer manufacturer and wasn't a desktop PC you built yourself (are you going to blame yourself for allowing Windows to install updates that slow down the CPU?).