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My current swiss army knife is Rails+Vue for web/api, plus React Native for mobile if necessary.

Of course, I'd use something different if the project necessitated anything in particular.

AFAIK one of the causes in Seattle (can't speak to SF) is a lack of police resources - the population boom left them kind of far behind. Seattle has ~20 officers per 10k residents. To compare, Atlanta has ~30, NYC has ~40.

See my other reply in the thread, but basically, they were doing a lot of stuff that at first seemed like proactive customer service initially, but later seemed much more like scouting to determine if i was going to give them 5 stars or not.

They were very pushy about asking "are you going to give me 5 stars?" before/during the stay, and saying things like "my business depends on 5 star ratings". Obviously there are lots of paths out of that situation that don't involve someone giving them 5 stars, but I'm sure it works on people.

Edit: it did not work on me

Particularly since Airbnb is a two way system. I once stayed in a place where I was basically being told to give them 5 stars or else they'd give me 1 star for being a difficult guest.

Sounds like they did the switch to avoid getting caught running an illegal or otherwise somehow contract-breaching Airbnb. If they used their correct address, their building would figure it out and shut them down.

> I think the answer is not to retire and go rot in a chair while taking 5 naps a day.

Yeah agreed. I think the key to retirement - both early and standard aged - is that you don't stop doing stuff. You just get to do the stuff you really want to be doing. If all you do for the remainder of your life is park yourself on the couch and watch TV, yeah of course your both mental and physical health is going to decline.

> why are they selling the car in the UK in the first place?

Pure uninformed speculation, but it seems to me like its about sales pipeline and leveraging momentum. It doesn't make sense for them to fully pump the US dry before then expanding into other major international markets. You want to be entering a new large market on an upswing, not on a downswing. Also, waiting would give a lot of space for other international automakers to catch up in their local markets, since people are increasingly interested in buying EVs today

I did in fact try, and was rejected either immediately or after a few weeks of reviewing my request.

IIRC one provider did let me in, but it didn't have the functionality I needed.

Agreed. I had a side project I wanted to work on a few months back, and had to icebox the idea because the current flight related APIs are not great, and access is geared towards larger, established companies.

I feel like there's also something to be said about old media and their revenue models. Commercial breaks are written in to most shows, and show length matters.

With newer media, it doesn't matter if you have a 22 minute episode 1 and a 47 minute episode 2 - you create the scene, shot and/or episode length that works for you artistically.

> But if properly diluted

That's the key phrase here. Obviously, if you dump it back into the ocean such that it actually does not impact local salinity levels, its fine. But that's also true for essentially anything dumped into the ocean - if you can manage the dumping of a toxic chemical such that it has no impact, wouldn't it also be fine?

> Nobody holds on to a winning lottery ticket that long. You cannot exit at the top and trying to do so will drive you crazy.

The only people that do hold on to a winning lottery ticket that long are the people for which that $ would not significantly change their lives.

I bought AAPL at ~$20 pre iPhone, AMZN at ~$50. And sold them when I doubled or tripled my money. The only reason the choice to sell those looks stupid is hindsight. I'm still happy I sold, because I'm not independently wealthy. I used that $ for good purposes that impacted my life at the time. I cashed out for an immediate, excellent ROI instead of risking it.

Edit: If I find myself in a position at a startup where I could liquidate shares for a currently fair $ despite the strong potential for growth in value over time, I probably would, in order to de-risk the situation. I'd sell some and keep some.

XML Data Islands were also an early version of XHR that MS introduced in the late 90s. It allowed you to load XML sort of like an image, and then hook into the loading events .

Or the fact that a lot of larger steampunk-related conventions are in the fall.

> what should my MVP contain so as to provide value and test market fit?

This is a question you should be asking your prospective users/customers. Ask them what they need. If you're charging money, ask them what they'd pay for. If not, ask them what they'd need to see before using your OSS software. I like to frame it as "if I had a product that did this for you right now, would you pull out your credit card and sign up for it today?"

Take what they tell you, look for commonalities and trends, and then use that to determine what should be in your MVP. Build the MVP, go back to the people who would pay for it, and get them to pay for it.

That's generally how you build an MVP (IMO). Though its much harder to do than it sounds.

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. It isn't perfect, but it fits my goals and limitations due to injury fairly well. Due to other sports, my lower body has always been stronger than upper, and this program focuses a little bit more on upper vs other comparable programs like starting strength. Helps me play catchup

25g net carbs, which is a concept specific to the diet. You subtract the carbs that have no body impact, like undigestable fiber. So for example, 1 cup of broccoli has 6g carbs, and 3g fiber. Net carbs would be 3g.

> Even with all being low carb 25g is very easy to attain unless you are very strictly tracking macros.

It really isn't that hard. Not sure what to tell ya. I read the labels on things and keep a mental count every day. It's much easier when you're only eating one or two meals a day and not snacking.

Sometimes I'm over 25g, sometimes I'm under. Being perfectly 25g every day isn't required; there isn't anything specifically magical about the 25g line, since the actual goal is inducing mild ketosis in the body and everyone's body is different. 25g is my guideline, but I don't feel bad about it if I'm a bit over.

I don't have a ton of consistency here. Things that are most consistent for me right now:

- I'm a pretty big fan of riced cauliflower blends, which you can get in basically any frozen foods section. Great replacement for rice. A quick easy meal is ground beef + a half bag of riced cauliflower stir fry mix.

- Another quick meal - Trader Joe's green vegetable foursome plus chicken. Add tons of butter, salt and garlic.

- Another quick meal - 3 or 4 egg omelette with shredded cheese topping. Put it on top of a bed of greens, and add some guac or an avocado.

- I make shoyu eggs pretty regularly to snack on.

- I snack on nuts and beef jerky a lot.

- If I'm not feeling very hungry, I'll eat an Adkins meal bar instead of anything bigger. Adkins stuff cuz its convenient, available in a lot of places, and low carb.

- After a workout, I'll drink a muscle milk pro series shake (the premade type, specifically because its low net carbs). Currently looking for better options that aren't just straight whey mixes.

- Adkins also makes some nice low-carb candy type things that I also grab when the notion strikes.

Lastly and probably most importantly, I drink a ton of water and have an increased salt intake, because cutting carbs leads to retaining less water and dehydrating easier. You just feel thirsty a lot more often. Drinking more water just so happens to also help you feel more full

I lift weights 3x/wk as well as a few other activities, and have been since long before I started the diet. I just didn't care at all about what I was eating all that much.

Not very heavy, but I was and am still doing Phrak's GreySkull LP.

I have been working back up to it that way, but consistently plateauing at about 20% below my previous peaks.

I do plan on changing my diet once I'm at a place I'm happy with to be a bit more friendly towards weightlifting goals.

To add my strictly anecdotal experience:

I recently started to diet for the first time ever. Never really needed it, but getting older, I noticed my weight steadily increasing despite regular exercise and finally decided to change.

I always skipped breakfast, but I became a bit more strict about timing and snacking at night in order to align with IF. Switched my diet to a lazy keto (basically adkins) diet - still don't track calories, just intentionally reduced carb intake to below ~25g net per day and increased fat intake. Occasionally I have a cheat meal.

Down 35lbs in ~2.5 months.

Side effects: I feel like my energy levels are much more consistent throughout the day, but also very discernable. Which is to say, if I'm working out, I can really feel it when I run out of gas. Related, I can't lift as much weight as I could, but that is expected while I'm actively trying to lose weight. I feel like there's a bit more mental clarity, but that could be related to energy levels.

I think many people are, but it's not something that can be put first in your decision making process unless you are already successful.

If you're financially unstable, paying down student debt, etc., it becomes much harder to justify picking a lower-paying job that is more personally motivating if you have other options on the table.

There are a lot more EV companies cropping up now. So, a bigger paycheck might be a major draw for many. Probably compounded by other issues as well, but still. If you're a new EV startup and you know you can't buy out Elon, who else will you try and poach? High level leadership.

Perhaps. The company I helped out built out rev share as well as other things to help encourage bouncers to use the app, like a shared capacity counter so that multiple bouncers on multiple doors (maybe one person doing an "in" door and someone else on an "out" door around the corner) could keep an accurate capacity count. Was still a tough sales problem. Had to sell the club owner, had to sell the bouncers, and then had to reach and sell the club-goers.

FWIW the company closed down because they couldn't solve the business problem.

Edit: This is also a concept I've seen at like Startup Weekends before. IMO for Qwest to make this work, they need some really strong business connections or a really fresh take on it, which they may have.

I actually consulted briefly with a company that tried to do what Qwest is doing.

Popular bars and clubs have lines out front for a variety of reasons. It exists, and while "we're at capacity" is one reason, its not the only reason.

The issue they encountered was that right now, "skipping the line" is something you pay the bouncer to do in cash. They're also the ones you have to convince to use this app. But you're asking them to use an app that kills that revenue stream for them, it transfers all that $ to the club owner instead. So bouncers would only half use it, or "forget" to use it, or quit and go to another club.

Its a fair point because its a generic point.

Changing something that already works well enough introduces risk. You might make some things better, you might make some things worse. If things are already pretty good, making changes might result in making more things worse than better.

True with most things. UI/UX, art, software, architecture, writing, etc etc

A lot of good answers already, but to add a slightly different perspective:

I'll always add a money back guarantee to any SaaS product where it makes sense. I believe it helps conversions, but I don't have data to back that up.

What it really does is help more easily identify the type of customer who would be a pain in the ass and costly to support, and give an easy way to fire them without it being a straight up "we don't want your business". Instead, its a "we're sorry we didn't live up to your expectations, per our guarantee, we're refunding you your last month and deactivating your account." or something to that effect, with variations based on circumstance. It turns a likely negative customer support interaction into a potentially positive one.

Rails + Vue

That's only true assuming there's enough time for the contents to reach the target temperature.