Thanks! Separate device is used so your flow is not interrupted. And since iPad sits beside your main computer it really feels like you are sitting at the same desk with your team.
I agree on shifting the peak. I was mostly aiming to get other nerds creative about tiny habits that can help lowering R0. The slower it spreads, the lower the graph, the lesser the queue for breathing machines.
Behavior changes the R0 and the most powerful behavior alteration is through environment. So if we could set up an environment where you would less likely contract something even if you're being clumsy, that'd be the best.
Like an UV light room where you leave your stuff for half an hour to disinfect.
Or a bleach spray box :)
Or an Apple Watch app which would detect when you want to touch your face and vibrate. I guess I'd have to wear 2 Apple Watches then :)
I don't understand "Home country coverage" so maybe you could do some user testing to come up with better explanation.
Maybe a comparison to other insurances like Alianz Global Insurance. I have that and I'm not sure why yours would be better. I think it was about the same price looking at yearly cost.
I suggest signing up for Recurse Center retreat in NYC and learning something new that excites you. Like crypto, AI, AR or VR.
They are not a school, they're a retreat where expert coders and beginners meet and work on self-directed cool stuff. Amazing community and brilliant founders. You only need to provide a place to stay for yourself.
I did that. It was a good.
Besides learning a new language which enabled me to launch my next start-up a month after Recurse Center program was done, I also met few amazing people and programmers that I consider good friends now.
They are still producing them because it's cheap due to "grandfathering" laws.
"grandfathering" means if you'd design an airplane like 172 today they wouldn't meet the safety standards and you wouldn't be able to produce them, but since they were designed back in the days, if they don't change the design, they can still produce them.
I fly 172 regularly. It's a safe plane, but you have to know quite a bit about engine and how it works to be really safe up in the sky. I had engine failure on take-off with extremely well maintained plane. Starting the engine is a pain in the ass for most civilians who don't understand 4 stroke engines.
Cessna 172 uses about 10 gallons of fuel per hour. That's quite a lot. I think in 2017 there's better options out there.
I had a partial engine failure in a fairly new fuel injected Cessna 172 during descent to landing... didn't overfly the airfield to check wind, but landed instead.
The article states:
> Luckily, the Cessna’s engine is about as reliable as aircraft engines gets.
Unfortunately, that's not that reliable. Statistics I've read (can't locate them now unfortunately) indicate about 2 to 10 inflight engine problems per 100,000 hours, which doesn't sound a lot. But if you fly two hours a weekend, making 1000 hours over a decade, that's a 2 to 10% chance of encountering engine problems right there.
Fixed spark timing is not that big an engineering deficit for an engine that runs at a fairly constant power setting.
Road-going cars need variable spark timing because they are called upon to efficiently make wildly varying amounts of power. (Idle, cruise, accelerate are all part of the normal drive cycle.) Airplane engines, many racecars, and other similar applications that need to produce fixed, high power for prolonged periods of time often use fixed timing mechanisms.
I really like how Facebook went about getting as much information about types as possible without the coderess, not forcing her to do unnecessary stuff. Behavior design on the code level at its finest.
And on the side note, I bet Facebook did this just to make nerds install OCaml and show them the light :)
I like the site, because they are the only ones who didn't launch just a landing page full of promises, but they actually calculate how much I owe to Uncle Sam.
Sorry, but this looks exactly like a landing page full of promises unless you enter your Coinbase credentials. This is fallacious because Coinbase is not the only place where bitcoins will be stored.
Without giving up your Coinbase credentials, I was redirected to an email harvesting page to be on their invite list.
Maybe they changed the landing page since you last accessed it and removed that functionality?
Yes, the service currently works only for those with Coinbase accounts. We do not promise anything else at this time. I'd appreciate if you suggest which services should be added next.
I appreciate the difficulty of integrating with other services. It seems that the critical piece of information is figuring out a person's bitcoin buy/sell history based on the FIFO methodology as per IRS guidelines which you do a great job of clearly explaining in your FAQ.
I believe exchanges provide a means for downloading your personal transaction history, typically in CSV format. Thus, it would be great to be able to import/upload transaction histories for US bittax calculations.
This may boost exposure of your service since people could experience your core service functionality without exposing their broker/exchange credentials.
EDIT: If you're going to ask for credentials as the only way to access your service then you may want to also consider other popular wallet services or exchanges such as Blockchain.info, Bitstamp, BTC-E and/or Bitfinex. You may already be working on integrating your service with these suggestions, but I didn't see that listed on your site beyond the "this is an MVP" section and the October 15, 2014 date listed in the FAQ.
Thank you for the detailed feedback. Yes, most of the exchanges allow to download one's personal transaction history. That does make CSV the next must-have functionality.
The challenge for us is not to loose simplicity. It is very easy to end up having bloatware as the result of implementing all of the IRS guidelines. So, we will take a careful one step at a time.
