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I remember Digg being more popular than Reddit more than a decade ago. What happened that caused Reddit to succeed where Digg failed?

This was from 2019: https://www.switch.com/fedex-signs-10-year-data-center-infra...

This rings true with my experience also. A couple weeks ago I bought a bunch of computer parts online, the majority from NewEgg and a MSI motherboard from Amazon. Hooked up everyth…

When the notifications say 'In Transit' they aren't passing through a FedEx building, but rather are sending GPS ping notifications every 12 hours. Your package was most likely on …

WSJ reported on Amazon's expanding delivery ambitions 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600094

This reminds me of the E-13B font [1] seen on checks since the early 1960s, but in a square format. The goals are similar, produce machine readable and human readable text. There h…

You're on point about the strategic focus. Think long term, who these shipping companies want to align with: Target, Walmart, other companies with physical presence and a need to g…

Five years ago there was a similar situation with the transportation of prescription medications. FedEx put out a public statement that they intended to fight the Department of Jus…

There's nothing wrong with Web Design 2.0, in fact I prefer it when I need to interact with information on a website. When I use Netflix to browse for a movie or TV show, linear is…

In December of 1994 the 10 year minus 2 year was at 0.15 (currently it is 0.18 in Feb 2018), but then we had to wait for the next recession until 2001. It could go back up like in …

That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depressing." ( https://to…

My guess is that is has to do with IKEA's improving smart home trend [0]. I like the fact that the work with all three major platforms so I don't necessarily have to be all in on o…

The 10-2 treasury yield spread looks like a good indicator, with the exception of 1994/1995. In 1995 there were fears of a recession due to the Fed increasing rates further: "Indee…

If you're looking for problems to solve in the transportation / shipping context, one that comes to mind is estimated delivery. Try predicting the day (maybe even down to the hour)…

I agree; it reminds me of the Dropbox comment from 2007 [1]: > I have a few qualms with this app: > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite triviall…

Agreed, caller ID should not be able to be spoofed. My rule of thumb is if it is important, they will leave a voicemail with a call back number. This screens out 90% of the spoofed…

I believe there is a way to do this, if you use Do Not Disturb and make an exception for All Contacts.

This would be a big feature for me, whether spam blocking is done by the telephone companies or by Apple. I don't know why they aren't more aggressive about it either; it's not lik…

I'm not sure I'd want to live in an old mall, but I could see them being purposed for office space. Parking is already taken care of, and most have bus routes already in place. The…

The turn based gameplay, square tile floor design, randomized levels and loot, fantasy medieval world of sword and sorcery remind me of an earlier 1990s game called Castle of the W…

In 1992 Brazil faced similar inflation numbers (80% per month, or 1156% per year compared to what the article claims 1219% for Venezuela). I'm surprised the author does not referen…

We need a new "Falsehoods programmers believe about character encodings" article to be added to the falsehoods list [1]. Joel Spolsky wrote in 2003 about the dangers of the ignoran…

Nothing new here [1], they've been doing this for the past 5+ years. They are still at least half a decade away from taking away any significant volume from FedEx or UPS. [1] - htt…

I'm not sure if it is possible, but for the iPhone Xs would it be possible before deciding to show a notification to use the TrueDepth camera to take a quick peek to see if a user'…