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Hi HN, I've been having a lot of fun with ChatGPT over the last couple of weeks and wanted to build a game with it. This is my first game, but I collaborated with a friend on the d…

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The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits is a great book on this topic. It makes a great argument that, unfortunately, merit based admission to elite universities does nothing to i…

Scratch your own itch. Solving a problem you have will motivate you, but more importantly it’s the only way to be able to navigate through a problem space. Without being the custom…

The article ends with: "It doesn’t mean it has an evolutionary basis." If not evolution, then what? Doesn't all behavior have an evolutionary basis?

We have a tracking analytics API for this at EasyPost that'll do the analysis - feel free to reach out to me for the details: my username at easypost.

Sawyer from EasyPost here. Yes, we're generally upstream of Shippo - we power a bunch of their competitors in the app / shipping UI space. We focus more on developer APIs and all o…

My gut is that this product will add more noise than signal to the process.

Yes, most carriers will assign a unique tracking code (and shipping label) to each shipment in the order, and also a "master" tracking code for the entire order. Depending on who t…

It'll probably depend a lot on marketing, and how much Uber and others spend to grow the market. Same-day delivery's already provided pretty economically by the regional carriers (…

We offer all three (Postmates, Deliv, and Uber) at EasyPost if you want to test them out with only one API integration.

We call them Orders, and support them for all carriers including Uber. https://www.easypost.com/docs/api#orders

This is not a company where micro-aggressions will fly. This seems like such a toxic philosophy to me. One of the worst things you can do for a workplace is stifle honest conversat…

Failing to gain traction upstream, not failing to keep the lights on.

drop me a line at my name @ easypost if you want a hand looking into some of the shipping options - I think it's amazing that you guys are offering this a few hours after the annou…

You forgot to include the pre-order form!

As a quick fix you can add a target attribute to the big anchor tag: It'll still open the PDF in a new window but the underlying site with email prompt will still exist!

Last week: We'd be happy to respond to requests submitted via the handy dandy online form - these paper copies are invalid. Today: We're sorry, if we told you of the existence or n…

Hi ck, we take care of the whole insurance process from purchasing it to dealing with claims. You'd buy your shipping labels and insurance through the EasyPost API; and if you ever…

Great example of how to make seculars feel like religious people when confronted with science; and actually quite educational! I had no idea wood smoke was harmful, but am now glad…

Hehe, I have a recent relevant experience with this topic: I just finished a simple gift certificate purchase page[1] for a client where I attempted to cut out all unnecessary deta…

Your final sentence is cruel and out of line.