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Maybe it's closer to a No Trespassing sign, written in a language that only certain classes will understand.

What type of competition do you have among your ISPs? I think this is a fear in the US because many people are locked into a single ISP because of geography.

PM = Project Manager or Product Manager?

The primary argument in my mind is that the US has known standards for labor conditions. While they may not always be perfectly adhered to, the assumption is that labor standards (wherever set) are not adhered to worldwide. Therefore, the higher initial standard in the US (and other developed countries) leads to a better working conditions for that product.

For basics and a kick in the ass - Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover. (Or listen to the Radio show for a bit)

Also, the Mister Money Mustache blog for a anti-consumerist viewpoint.

Beyond the basics, I haven't read much, but enjoy the Radical Personal Finance podcast. It is a mix of really in depth content, like a multi-part series on disability insurance, and the more "radical" bits, like strategies for living out of your car.

> I think it's unethical for a platform to accept payment on my behalf without my permission.

Would it be similarly unethical to accept donations to {charity} without first getting their approval?

I think I found this through HN a while back: https://getchipdrop.com/

For the 24/7 aspect, some version of an automat, perhaps with an amazon now or uber eats delivery model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

I've been intrigued by the idea of establishing a blockchain for the sale and transfer of art. It has the similar characteristics of currency: several parties who do not have trust, a finite number of items (at any point in time).

A challenge would be to devise how new items are added - are there a few nodes (trusted galleries) that can add new pieces.

This would prevent a work that is in a private collection somewhere from being "discovered" by a forger. Anyone would be able to query the ledger and see that a different collector currently owns the piece.

Something on the scale of the Raven UAV would make sense for that application:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_RQ-11_Raven

Or the modern instances of battlefield drinking - there's many tricks for circumventing the prohibition on alcohol in current warzones.

https://www.workday.com/en-us/company/careers.html looks to be the right spot

Also consider searching 5k

HN will post jobs from YC - usually they put which YC class they are from. You can see only these posts under jobs at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

I think that there should always be more work, but there should not always be more critical work. This minimizes idleness while allowing non-critical tasks to be pushed aside when handling emergencies.

For example, my team has a backlog of work to be done. There are certain things that cannot slip. There are plenty of things that could be pushed out to handle a production outage, or a shiny object, etc.

I saw that when I looked for a transcript (a recent, not the recent I guess). I'm two months behind in my podcast feed, so I'll catch up to the next one eventually!

I believe in Dan Carlin's recent Hardcore History, The Destroyer of Worlds* he talks about the changes in military commands and micromanagement that have occurred with advances in telecommunications.

He compared the discretion given to commanders in the American West vs. Civil War battlefields. The more realtime the communications, the more that higher commands interjected in lower level decisions.

With advances in telecommunications, we shift decision-making up the chain of command, leaving subordinates to manage inspections and admin-weenieness.

*I can't find a transcript to verify, and as much as I'd like to re-listen to the 6 hour episode, I just can't at the moment.

It also could have a Harvard Business Review episode, after reading this: http://www.leadingageoregon.org/assets/docs/Other-resources/...

I wasn't able to find a source in a quick search, but I wonder if (traditionally) the charring of the barrel is also done with peat.

I have a '16 Mazda 3 without. I agree that it is non-economical, but interesting.

I'd like to have it with a larger lithium-ion that can remote start only my AC for a few minutes while I walk to the car in the summer.

They also have an interesting somewhat-hybrid called i-eloop that uses regenerative braking and a capacitor to power auxiliary systems:

http://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/env/i-eloop/

They have an interesting somewhat-hybrid called i-eloop that uses regenerative braking and a capacitor to power auxiliary systems:

http://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/env/i-eloop/

Do you have any revenue coming from these projects? From what sources?

I see BTC as the crypto reserve currency, so it would make sense for the others to fall with it.

If only we had an executive branch focused on removing government regulation of business, and the deconstruction of the administrative state...

Hi Mike - can you clarify this sentence from near the end of the article? I'm only seeing two payments to Amazon.

It’s now gotten to the point where it’s quite easy to pay Amazon three times in one order: for shipping, which you get access to through Prime, and for a product that’s actually just an Amazon-made product.

Yes and no. On the useful side, they own some of the process inherent in large organizations. But they also act as a conduit to push that process to team members.

In practice, our scrum masters have been a place for the PMs, Analysts, and QA leads to go as their positions have been displaced. I would like to see more technical scrum masters that can own technical impediments, but that doesn't seem to be happening yet.

I also think that spreading scrum masters across teams will disconnect them from the specifics of the work and allow them to act more as coaches than non-technical team members.

I'm a lead on a team of 13 right now: myself, 6 developers, a QA lead, 2 testers, analyst, scrum master, and product owner.

We're one of ~15? teams in my organization (part of an overall IT shop of ~3000), but we're fairly separate from the others in business and technologies. We have a delivery manager for our team and a couple other efforts. There's a dedicated tech lead of tech leads, program level PMs, lead product owner, 2 architects. There are also some other folks from the business side, change management, etc that we work with regularly.

We're going through a bit of a change at the moment, removing the QA and analyst roles, spreading scrum masters across 2 teams, and limiting team size overall. So by the end of the year, I expect to have myself, the product owner, analyst is moving to scrum master, 1 QA as developer, 1 QA maybe as developer (we'll see how he adapts), and 4 developers.

It is a really big organization with dedicated departments for security, security testing, application security, performance testing, accessibility testing, brand management, change & release, test data, DB, DB security, gateways, shared components. And those are only the folks I interact with - there are mainframe folks, server maintenance (linux and windows), and the list goes on.

Some of that is moving to the teams now, some later. It's a pendulum though, things will be more generalized and distributed until something breaks spectacularly and someone will ask "why don't we have dedicated testers? why are we trusting every ol' dev with DB access?" and so on.

Reminds me of a "game" some friends would play in the early days of turn-by-turn GPS.

"Garmin Knows Best", where you input a location and follow the GPS exactly. Driver beware.

I would look to expand into one additional vertical at a time, and maybe consider related ones. Instead of jumping from churches to D&D, just from churches to bible study groups, where you can leverage your existing network of customers into the new vertical.

Yeah I would have one app per segment. If I'm a trivia fan (spoiler: I am), then I am interested in going to trivia nights 2-3+ times per week, and this would be a good central location without being locked into a single trivia group (ex. Geeks Who Drink). This would also allow the app to be a source of trivia nights while on vacation or visiting family.

For the farmers market example, I might be interested in learning what's in season across multiple markets, and what farms/vendors will be where.