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Comment · 4 years ago
Elon thinks that because humans can do all this with two eyes his cars should be able to do it with just cameras. Literal truth.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah Denver turned one of the residential roads in my neighborhood into an official bike road two years ago. They replaced stop signs with roundabouts, put up tons of signage, and where there are lights at major crossings they put sensors that are triggered by bikes.

Even though it’s still shared with cars, it’s so much more pleasant and safe because they are more aware and polite.

Went from biking being just a thing I do to get around to taking my son to and from school on his bike every day.

Comment · 4 years ago
I did Galvanize in the first half of 2016. 6 month program that I’m glad I did over some of the shorter ones.

Salary was 90k coming out. I make 125 now, could be making much more but I chose to sacrifice some salary to be at a place with a mission I support.

I was a special ed teacher before and had never made more than 70k.

Comment · 4 years ago
From one YC nonprofit to another, this looks awesome! Amazing work and really interesting to read about the stack powering it.

We run a free tutoring service for low income students and this is something we deal with pretty regularly so def gonna look into this more and may reach out directly.

Comment · 4 years ago
Even as someone who has invested time in learning to write regexp, they are still hard to read and maintain. This project looks super cool!
Comment · 4 years ago
Totally, the problem is all expectations. I bought a NordicTrack S22i (their peloton competitor) in early 2019, and love it. I pay like $450 a year or something for my family subscription to them and occasional maintenance on the hardware. Pretty sure NordicTrack has a decent profit margin and is a nicely sustainable business given that my mom had a NordicTrack 30 years ago.

They have the same features as Peloton in terms of classes and stuff, but nobody is looking to them to be the next Netflix. That’s the space Peloton is playing in.

Comment · 4 years ago
I used to pride myself on my ability to fit into small parking spaces and parallel park even big vans pretty precisely, and a backup camera blew all that out of the water because I can fit anywhere now.

My little GTI with a backup camera made me an invincible parking machine.

Comment · 4 years ago
The thing that kills me is even these investors seem to see Peloton as a hell of a lot more than it is. The “peers” they list are Netflix and Roku. No. Peloton’s peers are NordicTrack and, you know, other companies that make exercise equipment and sell fitness subscriptions.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wow, real comic book villain energy here.

“A video game company messed with my favorite spell, so I decided to go all in on wrecking the planet in the name of capitalism.”

Comment · 4 years ago
I think the OP was trying to reference the difference between libel laws in the US and UK regarding who has the burden of proof.
Comment · 4 years ago
Jason, leader of the Argo-nauts :)
Comment · 4 years ago
This. We use a non-Google analytics product that we could even move to self-hosting if needed. But the marketing director basically was like “This is better than GA, and I will use it for almost everything, but we have to have GA also because it shows as conversions.”
Comment · 4 years ago
Another classic is his review of “North”

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/north-1994

I remember for the Friar’s Club roast of Rob Reiner one comedian just read that review.

“ I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.”

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Comment · 4 years ago
My Bachelor’s is in marketing and the main thing I learned from it is I didn’t have the stomach/moral flexibility for marketing.

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