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petewailes

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About petewailes

Founder of a marketing/tech company in the UK. Games designer, marketer, programmer and writer.

Writing and things at https://hirund.in/

Email is first name at watson-wail.es

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    I'd absolutely love that opportunity. I'll be out there with my wife and son next year. Would love to drop by and meet a hello HN-er. I'm pete hat watson-wail period es.

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    Comment #34071967

    I could go into the physics, but in short, no. Two hard contact patches just grab way more than a propeller can on air. In water it'd work, but then you've made a boat and the whee…

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    You're not wrong, but not entirely right either. They've not done it on a road surface from standing start. I know a reasonable amount about the tests that have been done to make t…

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    Not the OP. You're right, it was always 1.9. They're still talking out of their backsides though. If the Rimac supercars can't do it without a fan to suck the car to the ground, Te…

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    Rural person here. We've been having this argument in the UK for the last... Oh, 400 years at least. It basically boils down to, some muppet in Whitehall shouldn't be making laws a…

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    I'll put together a list. Ping me an email - you can find it on my profile.

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    Comment #33529766

    You looking for help with pricing? Or just looking for reading material?

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    You looking for help with pricing? Or just looking for reading material?

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    I'd say it's worth noting that this only applies to SAAS. There's a giant pile of things missing from this if you have inventory, manufacturing or anything else more complex than s…

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    I'd second this. It's a bit waffle-y, but the shout for starting with a Van Westendorp PSM is pretty solid. Would like to have seen a mention of Gabor-Granger as that then helps br…

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    Comment #33441341

    Every successful company. Segmentation, targeting and positioning 101.

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    It's likely being used in place of a propane set up for heating something like chicken houses, or maybe lambing sheds if it's somewhere cold. Propane bills generally run about $30-…

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    Obviously Ethan knows this and just isn't going into it because this is more a history lesson than a theory lesson, but the same applies to white keys. So B♯ and F♭ are perfectly v…

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    You're missing 37-38, 45, 53, 58, 73, 81 and 90, and that's just the ones I can't think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there's probably double that number I can't remember, be…

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    Got the second to last module finished on the theatre of mind focused VVT I'm building. We're launching in Sept.

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    Currently building this. We're launching in August.

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    Actions and tactics in this sense are different. An action at a strategy level might be "cull products not aligned with a focus on the athli-leisure market" or "create a new line o…

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    It's not uncommon. Most Roman mosaics were laid using tesserae made of of local stone (most commonly limestone, sandstone and marble, but varies by area), glass and ceramics. Even …

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