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gormz··on Ask HN: How does one start tech company without CS/programminig background?
Find people that do know what they're doing and partner with/ pay them a lot.
gormz··on Ask HN: How much money would you need to feel comfortable never working again?
Your savings does not care about inflation. When you have a diversified portfolio you gain way more than you would lose to inflation.
gormz··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
They rent a cable burying machine at home depot to do things like this and invisible fences for pets.
gormz··on Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
I used to get a lot of throat infections when I was a kid and had the discussion with my doctor to whether I should get my tonsils removed. My doctor was heavily opposed.

recently, I've been having allergies and more throat issues and wished I would have got them taken out. Pretty glad I didn't now.

gormz··on Ask HN: Why Can't Phone Carriers Stop Spam Calls?
Just write me a quick script to find all spam callers, we'll cancel their numbers even though we make money off them. Ohh, and you can't mess up at all. If we cancel someone's number that isn't a spam caller their going to be pissed. Ohh, and also these spam callers can change their number 100 times a minute because of voip. good luck!
gormz··on Ask HN: Apple shutted down our 30k/mo business. What now?
I think it's more of the fact that he doesn't want people coming on HN and whining everytime someone does them wrong just to get attention from the business.
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
:) i try
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
I have a feeling this was completely serious. He's a product lead a Google. He's more important than the rest and shouldn't have to pay attention to the road because his mental time is just so damn valuable.
gormz··on Getting Google to ban our entire company
Doesn't look like there's anymore active signup :/
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
Personally, I have no idea what cars have these kind of features. I know that civics had these features as of lately. I like to have as little technology in my vehicle as possible. I think disengaging in driving is very dangerous. I am not happy with the trend as I love riding motorcycles, but don't want my family publicly shamed by Tesla when one of their camera's overlooks me and kills my ass.
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
Yup. There are plenty of sensible options that you can buy outright. Plenty of japanese cars will last well over 200k miles. If you can't afford a new car, get a used one. There's a culture in the US that makes us way to comfortable taking out loans.
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
Okay, but you can expect a car to last upwards of 10 and you own it. If you decide you want to drive down the coast, you can do just that. I think services like this are way overhyped and wouldn't exist if they saved you money.
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
Exactly. He had two very expensive vehicles. If he leased or bought a used car that is not luxury, he could spend less than he does on ubers.
gormz··on Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
I think the real problem is that you had expensive cars. No shit you save money when you take ubers rather than owning a BMW M3 and (what I assume) was a decked out wrangler. If you bought a sensible car, your monthly costs could be much lower.
gormz··on Getting Google to ban our entire company
What's a good gmail alternative?
gormz··on Ask HN: How to motivate employees?
If their client and team is happy, then what could they work harder at? Should they have bags under their eyes when you come check on them? Should they be the one to turn off the lights and lock the doors at the end of the day?
gormz··on It’s COBOL all the way down
>The language ostensibly self-documents, because it’s so verbose and requires so many explicit declarations about what it’s doing

You know, I just finished a COBOL class at university and this makes sense. One of the main things I hated about cobol was how strict and weird the syntax was. It uses so many full verb identifiers rather than just operands. The language just really feels like it was built to be rock solid.

gormz··on Ask HN: Do you care about grades from the Better Business Bureau?
I know there was a big thing in like 2010 that tried to discredit them. They were forcing people to pay for good ratings and giving lower ones to people who wouldn't. Honestly thought they died out after that.
gormz··on Ask HN: Do you care about grades from the Better Business Bureau?
do people check that still?
gormz··on Ask HN: What are the smartest people you know working on?
Alcohol dependency.
gormz··on Hollywood Is Wrong: Netflix Is the Future of Film
I hope not. If people want to hate on hollywood for holding so much share in film, why would you want it to go to ONE company. Netflix is a corporation and we all know corporations are inherently evil. Given enough time, Netflix may murder all people who don't subscribe to make smut for it's subscribers.
gormz··on Ask HN: Does anyone use Fedora Server in production?
Pissing off the IT guys I guess
gormz··on Ask HN: Does anyone use Fedora Server in production?
I couldn't see why someone would use Fedora on a server just like no one would use a non LTS Ubuntu for a server.
gormz··on Ask HN: Why would you prefer Signal over WhatsApp?
yes, but it just went to shit. It used to be a dedicated app but it just switched to a chrome extension and forces you to switch. Pretty shite imo
gormz··on A lesson in wireless engineering from the Raspberry Pi
My brother works for their main distributor. He always says the day they get them in stock, they go out of stock. Demand is crazy for the things.
gormz··on Ask HN: Why would you prefer Signal over WhatsApp?
Signal was just much easier to start using. The desktop app is seamless. Also, no one I know uses whatsapp.
gormz··on Show HN: Umbrella Note – Simple app for notes and journals
Any plan for a mac version?
gormz··on Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert
sounds like a trick question
gormz··on Apple’s HomePod Isn’t a Hot Seller
Yeah for sure. I just think that the full sized echo or the google home plays fairly good music. I don't see much of a use for the home max or the homepods.

What do I know though, I have 3' tall cerwin vegas in my living room and can't comprehend why someone would want something smaller

gormz··on Apple’s HomePod Isn’t a Hot Seller
consumers are happy because no one listens to music from an echo dot
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