“The evidence is clear that oral phenylephrine does not work,” said Dr. Hatton. “If it doesn’t get into the blood in the first place, it can’t go to the nose and cause nasal constriction and therefore relieve your congestion.”
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Sometimes getting lost can be tricky, especially if you’re familiar with your city. Here are ideas to help you get lost.
Follow the noisiest direction
Go to a station on the city loop. Get on whichever train is leaving next. Get off the train when you reach the first station to have double letters in the name.
Not all price endings are created equal: Price points and asymmetric price rigidity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
• 9-ending prices exhibit an asymmetric rigidity compared to non 9-ending prices.
• Asymmetry is counter-Keynesian: 9-ending prices are more rigid upward than downward.
• Consumers use 9-endings as a signal for low prices, influencing their perceptions.
• Retailers set 9-ending prices more often after price increases than price decreases.
• The findings hold for regular/sale prices and for inflation/no-inflation periods.
Having studied these companies for years, Connie Chan (a16z) observed that leading Chinese membership models have a set of common benefits that they combine and remix in different ways to create a successful paid membership framework.
The four most common components are:
1) a mixture of earned and paid perks
2) an intricate leveling and points system
3) a balance of flexing and functionality
4) partnerships with other companies.
Her latest a16z post explores each of these four elements and how they contribute to a membership ecosystem through gamification as a way to deepen engagement with existing users and turn average users into super users
Albertsons, Arrow Electronics, Applied Materials, AT&T, CDW, Dollar Tree, Estée Lauder, Mastercard, Synchrony and U.S. Bancorp
For those who are hearing about Nocodb here for the first time, it was listed in 'Show HN' about an year ago [1][2]. It had 2M+ docker downloads in 16 weeks when it showed up in HN and ProductHunt. And, a user/customer found Nocodb in HN and wrote an angel check [3].
The project has 30K Github and is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the world. All of the code + integration plugins like storage (S3,Google cloud storage, Minio, DO spaces), Email (SES,SMTP) and chat (Twilio,slack,Teams) are all open source too [4][5]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176436
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606258
[4] https://docs.nocodb.com/setup-and-usages/app-store
[5] https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/tree/8b863ca3d822abc5a24b29...
The twitter thread makes some assumptions - Amit works alone, 5% of the downloaded users become paid customers.
“It is a very, very precarious moment in the public capital markets,” the former Facebook executive said.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spac-king-chamath-palihapitiya-...
Careers are not the mere linear progression of titles ascending toward the “C” acronyms: CMO, CTO, CEO. Better to think of your working life not in one dimension, but in two: the horizontal exploration of ideas, skills, and tasks, and vertical commitments to a single line of work that really fits.