patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: Companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day (Day 2)
Seems like it's just exploiting the Instagram/"aesthetics" crowd who are too lazy/dumb/rich to go to a nursery. LA has a ton of nurseries, and fiddle leaf fig trees can be found for $60 (4 ft) and $150 (6ft). Actually the planters (pots) are actually more expensive than the plants. Real Case Study planters go for $150-300. You might as well get a fake off of Etsy for half price.
patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
That's just the zaibatsu/keiretsu/chaebol system. Samsung also does everything from shopping malls to credit cards to heavy industry.
patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: Why I Was Fired by Google
The memo literally lists the biological/psychological traits of men and women that may have caused the gender gap in tech. (He tries to clarify that he is talking on a population level and not talking about individuals)
patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: Why I Was Fired by Google
The point of diversity isn't to force everyone to think men and women are identical in every capacity. The point of diversity is to create a desired environment with different kinds of people.
patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: Why I Was Fired by Google
As the other person said, that's a false equivalency. This memo directly affected the workplace environment by saying one group of people had less aptitude for working there. The examples you give are just groups who are seeking certain rights or equality in society have nothing to do with the workplace.
patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It
Public shaming is the only way to get any customer service at all for many shitty companies.
patrickyan
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8 years ago
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on: Prof. of employment law: 'it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer'
It's on the employee to prove that the company fired them illegally. For example, if the employee had an email showing that their boss said "I hate X because he's black" then the employee would probably win.
patrickyan
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9 years ago
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on: Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
Giuliani said on national television that Trump asked him how he could legally ban Muslims. He boasted that he came up with the idea that banning countries would be legal because it's based on nationality, not religion. When asked why he didn't ban countries that we know sponsored terror attacks like Saudi Arabia, he said they have changed.
patrickyan
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9 years ago
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on: Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
Just don't tip. I don't know anyone who actually tips in Lyft.
patrickyan
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9 years ago
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on: Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles
That's only because America is shitty at implementing public transportation. Tokyo and Seoul are fucking amazing.
NYC subway is actually amazingly convenient despite being run down and disgusting. There's no reason to take an Uber in NYC unless you're drunk late at night, want to feel fancy, or are going to the airport.
patrickyan
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10 years ago
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on: Amazon Flex
Might actually be a per package/delivery rate that they estimate to be $18-25 per hour. I highly doubt Amazon would pay an hourly wage when some people might only do one delivery per hour. It's just marketing to attract people, just like how Uber advertises to drivers that the average Uber driver income is $90,000/year.
patrickyan
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10 years ago
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on: Amazon Flex
You can use a service like Doorman in SF or Parcel in NYC. UPS also has MyChoice.
patrickyan
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14 years ago
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on: Court allows Samsung Galaxy Tab to again sell in Europe
IIRC only one photograph was stretched, while the others were the correct aspect ratio.
patrickyan
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14 years ago
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on: Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion
Chocolat (
http://chocolatapp.com) seems like a promising replacement for TextMate, since TextMate 2 is vaporware. Lots of bugs right now though.
