https://selectube.app/ Working on curated YouTube for kids. Trying to make a place where my kids can watch the good stuff without getting sucked into all the mindless junk.

Also it’s been a fun excuse to try out Cursor and other AI tools I don’t normally use in my day job.

I have 1 user - my 8 yr old son.

So, you need to have a youtube subscription to watch through selectube? As a parent, can't I just set more than 1 category and whitelist what goes through?

You can watch without a subscription. But unless you have YouTube premium, they can inject ads into the videos.

I don’t add any ads.

This is cool!

Thanks! Any and all feedback always appreciated. It’s been fun pulling together.

Yep. Not great data science, although the conclusion is likely true-ish.

Also I suspect big urban vs suburban vs rural differences in current EV buyers given range and charging factors. That happens to also mostly correlate to politics.

Many times, the best solutions are very simple. These often seem obvious in hindsight, but were at the time either non-obvious or dismissed prematurely.

Your explanation is so much more succinct than the article!

I believe buried in there is one other factor that is somewhat related:

- reducing friction helps drive more legitimate business. Accordingly, over-aggressive anti-fraud practices can result in reduced sales.

A toy example: a business could eliminate exposure to credit card fraud by not accepting credit cards. That would however reduce overall sales.

I guess this can all fit within a “marginal cost” explanation though.

>reducing friction helps drive more legitimate business.

A very real example in retail. I can minimize the possibility that I'll be hit with fraudulent returns. Require a receipt, short window, store credit only, must be in like new condition with all packaging, etc. (Or just sell everything on an all sales are final basis.) Different stores do many of these things to a greater or lesser degree on at least some merchandise. But you'd probably better be offering really good prices if you do.

And with all that effort all that friction, you still get hit with chargebacks no matter your policy for returns.

Yeah, the system is set up so the payment processors benefit from fraud.

> I guess this can all fit within a “marginal cost” explanation though.

Yes, but it undermines the first point, a bit. There's costs-- direct and social costs-- to making transactions hard; so perhaps optimal for a society is still not 0.

Also, there's nothing to say that the amount of fraud is stable and that we can't find a world where we have better mechanisms to reduce it for the same cost. (Improved technology, legal structures, norms, etc).

> a business could eliminate exposure to credit card fraud by not accepting credit cards

A business could eliminate all fraud, abuse and theft of every type by shutting down completely.

Totally not equivalent in my view. In traditional interviews, I’m also interviewing the company to see if I want to work with these people.

A take home assignment only shows me that they like unpaid work.

Despite all the caveats / problems on statistical significance and methodology, 1 key takeaway:

“Unemployed” engineers communicate better than those at Uber, Twitter, Amazon, and Google.

:)

Not to mention every other company outside of the top 10.

Was wondering how much temperature matters, and thinking probably a lot. Do I even know what room temperature white wine tastes like? Not really.

Usually, it tastes pretty bad.

Oh, and I’d recommend chilling your reds in the fridge for about 10-15 minutes before drinking. I often find true room-temperature reds to be on the warm side. I had a particularly bad experience with a “room-temperature” wine at a restaurant in Turin that had been sitting in the 35C heat…

Room temperature in wine is cellar temperature generally. That’s why you put reds in a wine fridge as well in many cases, just not as cold as white.

Wow, so many replies that boil down to “because typing is better, you should just type”.

This is fairly insulting as RSI’s are very much a real thing.

Does this community also think that wheelchair ramps should never be invested in because stairs are clearly superior?

I’d rather see the brain power in this community focused on solutions. Keyboard + mouse have lasted so long because they work surprisingly well, but I hope there is a day that we dream up something better that does not require slowly giving ourselves carpel tunnel.

+1 anecdotally I think it is often a combination of factors. And once you start looking/ exploring and realize you can get a comp adjustment, then that becomes an easily quantified motivator to pull the trigger.

Super helpful. I didn’t know about individual 401k’s.

Thank you!

You in particular should also benefit greatly from a SEP IRA. Expensive to run but lets you sock away much much more.

Actually Solo 401k lets you put away just as much if not more, and has a Roth option. But both are worth considering for sure.

What's expensive about running a SEP IRA? Are you referring to the fact you have to contribute to an employee's IRA as well as your own?

I had to jump through hoops and pay a specialized firm to administer. Maybe it no longer applies?

Both are basically plug and play now with places like fidelity or vanguard. Zero admin fee for mine.

Seconded on no cost with at least Fidelity. They start having reporting requirements at $250K of assets. They are also something of a pain to close if you have multiple participants.

I can’t say what happened, but SEP was always the simpler, cheaper option, nearly DIY compared to a proper 401k.