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I make my own all natural energy drink. I too don’t like coffee much, no matter how hard I’ve tried, but also those things have a lot of chemicals other than caffeine in them. You …

Things aren’t poorly thought out just because they’re a short internet comment. I could easily have delved into the background belief that’s deeply-rooted in Buddhist philosophy. T…

It was a Hacker News comment, not a doctoral thesis. People like you are why this site so desperately needs a block feature.

And yet the cheapest car can easily outrun any human who ever lived. Everything is unique if you look into it closely enough. I would say that’s not the same as special, though I a…

You could say that about any religion given only a one sentence high level summary. “A guy in the sky made us in seven days.” has no serious, philosophical grounding.

I see all of this as the cognitive dissonance created when humans are confronted with what scientists have been telling us forever: we’re not that special. We’re just piles of atom…

Well, I don’t think I’ve gotten to mc-festival scale yet so I don’t know. I’ve got a few festivals in the 25k attendee range, which is big but I have vended at some that are and or…

Mine are food-focused.

It’s more than just that (though I’m sure that’s part of it). The thing about festivals is they have real economies of scale. For instance sponsors value getting in front of 25,000…

Interesting. I’ve been debating starting a social media channel teaching people how to do it.

Everyone does. That’s why publishers put care into cover art.

“I’ve come to believe that part of today’s problem of social alienation is a problem of too many free riders.” I started planning street festivals a few years ago. It’s now a lucra…

I assume that of all of them as a basic security precaution.

Fair point. But they still have more potential customers than any other individual ISP. Lack of potential customers is not their limiting factor.

Their potential customer base is literally everybody because they are the only ISP that can cover the entire globe. Everybody’s potential customer base is technically limited becau…

It’s cute he thinks Jeff Bezos thinks about this. Whoever made this decision has probably never met anybody who has met Jeff Bezos.

Good old HN. Me: they’re great but their tech sucks You: their tech is good Me: it can’t do basic stuff You: ok you’re right but they’re great I can tell you I’m a member of both, …

Ok, load the app and search for Heinz ketchup and tell me what it would cost to go get some in store. You can’t. You can only get delivery pricing. They don’t have the basic functi…

Costcos give a scanner to the person running the self checkouts, not to the customer, so you have to wait for them to come over. They are very attentive usually but still. (Perhaps…

I bet you’re real fun at parties.

Costcos tech stack is frankly unconscionably bad. It’s the one way in which Sam’s Club crushes them. There’s no reason they couldn’t do basically all of the good things mentioned i…

Came to say this, it would be hard to handicap this one. Shopping tends to be clustered, so if I’m methodical, I can go fill a car load with a lot of stuff and that might be more e…

If you don’t think fireworks are explosives you’re buying the wrong ones.

Right and my point is that whether or not it’s a bad investment makes absolutely no difference to the people who own the shares because the price is divorced from that. SpaceX shar…

2. You’re misreading that. They do it before the rebalance date, not before it is added to the index. Rebalances only happen every 3-6 months generally, so they definitely are buyi…