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> I see. One similar food delivery business I consulted at had a healthy (for the startup) margins at 30% from each order, so I suppose it's beefy enough to absorb some fraud. Alri…

That’s what I felt as well when I read it. Maybe it’s as industry-redefining as it claims to be, but surely there must be some tradeoffs. Rust’s tradeoff in providing safe and fast…

Possibly interesting supplemental read - South Korea’s Intelligent Robots Development And Distribution Promotion Act: https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=54151&type..…

Sometimes I wonder if we should try building a news site optimised for seeing the effect of appeals to authority. To write an article for the site, we would need to: 1. Write a hea…

I am struggling to think of a more fitting analogy to describe this overvaluation of self-assembled items. What’s similar to IKEA, as in the self-assembly bit, but also doesn’t hav…

This post reminds me of this excerpt from the book How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard: > What many organizations do to assess risk is not very enlightening. The methods I p…

From what I’ve read on this page[0], Ghost does allow other providers which I presume includes self-hosted emails. > I still want to use a different provider to send email newslett…

> *All together, here are some alternate email providers: - ProtonMail - FastMail - Mailbox* Anyone uses or used to use Tutanota? That’s the only privacy-focused email provider I k…

> We are all experiencing what happened when politicians regulated the web. I hope you are enjoying your cookie modals; browsing the web in 2022 is an absolute hell. What would the…

> To chain science to objectivity or to any kind of formulaic process may help everyone to agree on results, but it impedes the evolution of the scientific process (or better, proc…

> After a decade of discussion about the replication crisis, open science, and all the ways we could reform the way we do research, we’re more aware than ever of how biases can dis…

She’s a psychologist, isn’t she? Maybe a lot of her clients had said: “It’s all just semantics. I don’t want those, I want solutions. I swear I should’ve just taken meds only and n…

> This illustrates a difference between proper nouns and common nouns. Common noun phrases describe their referent. Proper noun phrases do not describe, they merelydesignate. A wom…

> In large part by not asking restaurants for permission to list them on DoorDash's platform and publish their menus. A lot of restaurants complained about this but DoorDash didn't…

Woah, flashback to was it Crossing the Chasm or Inside the Tornado? I’m not sure if the latter has an updated version, so it’s probably that.

> (d) Compute the mean age, and print it out as the median. It's much easier to program, and Mary Jones will probably never notice the difference. Lol. If it’s not the most importa…

A sensor to detect clothings blown away by strong wind, maybe? It’s been ages since I had used a clothes line, so I don’t remember if that has ever been an issue.

There should be a different lifetime attached to these cloud-based smart home devices. It's an implicit lifetime separate than the hardware: how long can the company last? And what…

Accepting that people make mistakes is one thing, but reducing those mistakes is another. If it’s a simple change, why not do it? Though, I can see your point if the change is monu…

> Strictly execute *peer-surveillance approach*that requires at least 3 peers to engage in the deployment process > - We will adopt a peer-surveillance approach which requires at l…

Great description. I’m constantly impressed by how much people nod when I spout some nonsense. It’s dangerous, especially if you’re prone to believe every praise you receive.

What the author meant by innovation seems to be limited to world-changing innovation like the telephone or internet. Following that, I’m unsure if world-changing innovation is slow…

Seems like a sizeable collection to use as props for a horror story. Cuckoo clocks are scary.

> In fairness, books have a complicated history in my family. One delayed my own fretful entrance: When the doctor wanted to induce my mother’s labor, she asked him to come back in…

> If your free tier is too valuable people won't be compelled to upgrade, not valuable enough and people won't be compelled to give the product a try or stick around long enough to…