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I'm going to take a safe bet and guess that you are quite young.

If you grew up in any past era where owning a physical 'thing' was the default, you naturally feel the inherent lack of ownership in a digital version of that same thing.

If you grow up in a time of mega platforms that can give you almost all of a certain media type for a subscription fee, the idea of lining up at midnight to pay 3x that fee for one plastic disc from one artist/publisher must sound insane and suboptimal.

It was a good time though.

A really smart ad for a privacy focused company.

I, for one, appreciated finding this on HN as it gives me ideas for my own company where data privacy is a core feature.

Another issue with startups is pivots. Years ago I went all in with my company on a calculator startup, then they pivoted to an AI-focused solution that was so far from their original value prop that they became useless. Left a gap for our customers and that company doesn't seem to be doing well present day.

Stick to what your customers want!

Distraction from what? Yes, taxing plastic/pollutants would be ideal. Designing new biodegradable synthetics would be great.

But this organisation has inarguably done good in the world. There's no need to detract from that.

I have a question about calculator building, if anyone has a suggestion. My industry revolves around quite complicated calculators, with anywhere from 10 to 50 data inputs - and the result are large projection tables and charts.

These still live in excel, but I would love to move then into a web app.

Is there a best practice way to go about this? I've tried basic html forms that pass to python for the number crunching (there are optimisations and Monte Carlos). But it gets so messy as the number of input fields increase. Does a tool exist to simplify this process?

I believe they finally added it in an update last year

Feel slightly qualified to comment as I've been on twitter since close to Day 1, and also exclusively use Following (despite more aggressive attempts to push the algo feed since Elons purchase)

The #1 reason I had to leave Twitter is the degradation of replies. Prioritising blue ticks ruined any productive conversation in the comments. Much like HN is (imho) most valuable for the comments, old twitter was great for the expertise in the replies - where the cream rose to the top. Now it's impossible or takes a lot of scrolling to find useful dialogue.

It's not perfect, but for now Bluesky is scratching that itch of smart commentary immediately after a post. That was enough to get me to completely move to the platform.

Understand this is targetted at financial planning for startups/SMBs, but I'm curious as to if it could be adapted to work for personal financial planning (retirement wealth projections, modelling market downturns)? Curious if that's a use case you considered or a path the product may go down in the future

That sounds delicious, I love how much flavour is packed in Thai curry paste. But how can you make a fully cooked curry in 2-3 minutes?

If I do HIIT, I'll definitely need a shower which takes time and resources. A 30 min walk? Not as much.

Sometimes the practical solution isn't the most efficient.

But can a bot pass a whiteboard session?

I think a nice feature would be if the description pages linked to the relevant MDN page - for when you want more extensive information about an element.

Otherwise, I love this OP. Will likely use it regularly!

Thanks for posting. I've just had a quick glance over the first chapter of your book and I like the simple approach you take to explaining the core elements of vue.js and SPAs.

Will be keeping an eye on your progress.

Hi Chris, question about a very minor part of your sales funnel.

The question about sharing the customers photo & painting on your site defaults to YES (which is 'free') and offers a NO option at +$3 extra charge.

Pricing theory, I'm particularly thinking of loss aversion, would suggest you'd get more customers selecting your preferred option of YES if you offer a discount for making this selection (-$3) and leave the rate unchanged for those declining to share.

I'm curious if you A/B tested this pricing option and found the +$3 charge more successful (assuming you are trying to maximise customers opting to share their photos)? Anecdotally I'd be more inclined to pick the option that gives me a discount, if it existed.

Absolutely not the case.

Here in Australia city and state hospitality organisations are very vocal in opposition to airbnb. The usual argument is why should they be paying to meet licensing/safety requirements when airbnb hosts can rent out their home without regulation. I'd guess 90%+ of these premises are standalone homes.

In my city the local council just announced plans to limit a property to 42 nights of airbnb per year, or face significant fines. Not sure it'll stick.

How can they advertise 6 to 12% annual returns (12%!!!) for lenders when 1) PeerStreet have to take out their 0.25-1% fee && 2) All of the Big Banks are offering home mortgage rates of <4%?

When the numbers are this far apart, I can't help but be suspicious.

Thanks for sharing, some really useful resources here that are new to me.

Has anyone taken this course that can speak to its content and usefulness?

Is this aimed at those completely new to Poker Theory?

Simon Pegg expressed a similar sentiment in May of this year http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-05-19/simon-pegg-critici...

"part of me looks at society as it is now and just thinks we’ve been infantilised by our own taste... Now we’re essentially all consuming very childish things – comic books, superheroes... Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously!”