hawkoy

Why not hire a salesman to do the online dating for you until they have managed to get a date offline?

I think most people absolutely suck at being original or appealing in texting. Going through tinder or any dating app makes you see the worst of humanity. Scams, lot of them. Catfishers. Kids pulling prank and laughing at desperate middle-aged men. Exaggerations, too high expectations. It makes you compare with others. It makes you desperate. Just avoid it.

I laughed so hard at the doctor example. Thanks.

Patient: decides to ignore the advice and seeks medical advice on the internet

From: https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/11/san-francis...

> The tax will levy an extra 0.1% to 0.6% on gross receipts made in San Francisco for companies whose highest paid executive makes 100 times or more its median worker’s salary. The amount levied will increase in 0.1% brackets proportionally to the pay ratio. A company whose highest paid employee earns 200 times more than its median San Francisco worker will get a extra 0.2% charge on its gross receipts. For companies whose CEO makes 300 more, the charge jumps to 0.3% and son on. The tax caps at 0.6%, and only companies with gross receipts over $1.17 million will be targeted.

> Under the measure, gross receipts and CEO compensation will include money made from stock options, bonuses, tax refunds, and property, a caveat seen by many as a way to target the tech sector where CEOs are often compensated in non-salaried bonuses. Tech is expected to account for 17% of the tax revenues, according to an estimate by the city’s chief economist, while retail and financial firms are expected to account for 23% of the revenues each.

> The CEO tax is expected to generate between $60 million to $140 million per year.

Doesn't seem that big in comparison to what SF annual budget is.

From (because the article doesn't give exact figures on transfer taxes): https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Econo... ?

> Proposed legislation would raise the Transfer Tax rate on properties in the city that sell for more than $10 million. For properties selling for between $10 million and $25 million, the rate would rise from 2.75% to 5.5%. For properties selling for over $25 million, the rate would rise from 3% to 6%.

How productive it is to talk about how productive you have been on twitter?

Is there a standardized productivity test?

Be careful. That can also be actively harmful as people copy paste years old code from stackoverflow and don't know that it is already doable via primitives language provide.

Example, all the answers that tell you to import jquery.

You should use cloudfront, cloudflare or some similar service. They take care of caching your assets as well and I think are more trustworthy than some random caching plugin on wordpress.

Edit: I see you mentioning cloudfront on your blog post, what problems did you encounter when using it with wordpress?

Also, any reason for not using sanic, strapi or any of the headless CMS and building from scratch?

I take them positively as you but I have failed so hard at taking constructive steps to improve the situation.

I keep getting sucked into negativity online and I feel I am toxic as well.

I will take a break from HN and go play with my dad.

> If we really want them to see shouldn't they be tweeting this instead or may be in India post it on WhatsApp.

The letter is for parents and old people.

> Woah. That's a huge generalization.

What do you think the letter does?

But I will agree with fpip. India has so many fundamental problems that will require serious government and public change.

My state will not have enough drinking water for 30%+ of its population by 2030. Prices of food will go up as ground water becomes non existent. How do you think that will impact people?

Educated people are fleeing the country. They are willing to take any jobs to get out before it's too late.

Another abuse of DMCA on the frontpage earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867212

Indian startup taking down dissent, whistle blowers and leaks using take down requests to youtube and social media.

I know at least 2 people in my town named after an animal in english. Definitely not nobody.

Search on facebook.

Trendy english sounding names are getting popular in India.

How does byjus have that valuation? That seems a little too much.

Is there something shody going on here? Their financial report says they are profitable since last year.

This probably explains it a little: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/ifjh95/ho...

Unless you are a high profile target, the most important factor would be whether you trust it more than your ISP (which you should in most part of the world).

Reminds me of the popularity of implants for insects around 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rp4V3Sj5jE

It depends on how much trust they put behind the domain name and operating company. People trust amazon which trickles down to sellers on it.

People trust few domain extensions more than others even though many of them are similarly priced and available. It's all about who else is using the same extension. .com? Used by most companies. .news ? no one? not trust worthy then.

It's somewhat fascinating to me that the bigger the company, the more trust people put in their verification of actors employed on the platform. Intuitively, I would think the more actors in a company - the less trustworthy or verified the actors would be.