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When you think “this is terrible, maybe I need a new printer” it is time to change the ribbon…ink ribbons don’t die all at once, their print just keeps getting lighter.

And yes, people bought new printers instead of replacing the ribbon because the print from the latest model in the store looked so much better than what they had at home.


Even if you ride it a full 2 hours every day, storage still accounts for more than 90% of what you do with your bike.

Where do I keep it is the problem Brompton’s solve really really really well. And incidentally, if you don’t ride a Brompton, the tires don’t get flat spots because when folded the tires don’t touch the ground.

They are amazing pieces of engineering.




The floor price of books is higher these days because the ordinary paperback is dead and and trade-paperbacks are the lowest cost option and they tend to be most of the cost of a hardback.


yeah fair, a lot of this exists in different forms already

for me it wasn’t really about the idea itself, more how often this still trips you up in real systems

things look identical at the API level, same response, same logs, but the actual outcome drifts depending on what happens after

that’s the part that kept biting me in production, so tried to break that down a bit more concretely


RCU == Ready Copy Update

Random remarks from the internet.

- In most markets with money, shipping is a solved problem.

- Businesses can only survive in markets with money.

- The chicken and egg problem is one form of the general problem of markets: Trust.

- Experience shipping is the only way to understand shipping.

- This is an idea. If it is not impelling you to actually and physically ship, it is a bad idea.

- For generalized shipping you are under-capitalized and no amount of VC funding will build a general shipping company.

- The model has no way to ensure integrity.

Good luck.


The US edition was US focused. Until this thread, I had no reason to know it was published for other markets.

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