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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:51PM (#22529665)
Interested to see how this works with allowing people to pay with cash and other non-credit methods.

A few regions have started passing laws banning cashless establishments for being exclusionary towards people without bank accounts, or who use alternative banking sources (In NYC it's something like 11% and 22% respectively). I would expect that trend to continue.

Re:Ask HN: Which headphones are you using? on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:38PM (#20291296)
Sony WH1000XM3 for great ~$400 noise cancelling cans. I feel like I'm in a different universe with them on.

Only problem is that it's a little clunky switching connections between my phone and laptop. I also tried B&W PXs before that handled that a little better, but overall preferred the Sonys for the NC and comfort.

Is this a marketplace or an agency?

The fixed price point of $99 seems like it would have to rely on some geographical arbitrage to make any sense. Why not establish a quality baseline and let the marketplace take care of the price points / team sizes?

I think the focus on tech debt is an interesting take though.

Re:Bottle: A Bitcoin SV Browser on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:59PM (#20278232)
Interesting concept. Looks like it would be possible to add analytics / monitoring to the request transformer to track content access though. Wonder if it would be possible to open that up?