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Check out https://socket.dev/ Been super impressed by their approach to identifying and securing codebases against supply chain attacks (and I believe they have a special deal for open source repos too!)

I had a similar experience where a host canceled on me a day before check-in for a 3 night stay. However, the host canceled over messages, not officially through Airbnb, and Airbnb support couldn't do anything until the host officially confirmed to Airbnb six hours later that they were cancelling (the message in the shared channel wasn't enough).

After getting the official cancellation, Airbnb offered a $100 coupon for my next booking and asked me to book another option that fit my criteria. They asked for some "must-have" and "nice-to-have" criteria but basically just did a search for me and couldn't book for me; I had to book myself. After calling them (Airbnb's phone support is actually quite responsive, which is awesome), I was able to up the coupon to $300. Luckily there were alternative listings available for the dates I found at a reasonable price so it ended up working out, but I wonder what would have happened if I had instead booked a very unique stay in a remote area with no alternatives nearby...

As someone who enjoys eating Asian-style jellyfish, this article was quite weird to read, as the author made it a big deal of his personal experience being disgusted by it as a food. While I'm glad that the author eventually ended the article on a positive note having enjoyed the jellyfish (and relating it to the introduction of tomatoes to Italy!), describing his disgust in such detail was quite offputting. It's very normal for many cultures around the world for jellyfish to be a part of the standard diet. It reminds me of the stereotypes surrounding normal food of other cultures (especially Asian cuisines) that we see so often here in the US.

On that note, the fact that jellyfish was banned for consumption in the EU was mindblowing.

Oh, now that's actually really cool and useful! If you pair that with a way to preview what the email looks like in different email clients (like Litmus), that would significantly increase the value of this tool.

I didn't see any mention into how the tool's able to translate modern CSS into email-client-supported CSS; might be worth calling that out as the main value prop, as that's the real thing that I care about when building emails.

Check out https://browserflow.app/; I've been really happy with it so far

The issue with building emails is the lack of modern CSS support across most email clients. It's incredible the fallbacks you need to go to (raw CSS tables) if you can't use flexbox, css grid, or any number of modern CSS rules.

This project is cool, but doesn't solve the fundamental issue that CSS support in email clients is just very poor.

If people want to see some prettier graphs, CA ISO has a more dynamic page available here: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/index.html

Interesting...would it be accurate to say that the issue you're facing is being able to generate and access mock data for testing purposes?

I'm working on building something in this space. Would love to chat with you about your use case; mind emailing me at hq@ withcodex.com? Thanks!

This is a tough problem! Every quarter I have budget in the same range as yours that I try to fill up. Some good things that have worked for me outside of the normal board games/order takeout are:

- Team Japanese cooking class via Kenji Y--we really enjoyed this one! The recipes are simple and super tasty and he's a great educational host. https://kenjiskitchen.com/

- Mixology class hosted by Avital--I have one scheduled for next month and I'm pretty excited! https://avitaltours.com/

If I have leftover budget I use that to buy a nice gift/box of chocolates/macarons/etc and send it out at the end of the quarter, but I agree, it's tough to plan bonding events while remote. Any little bit of planning an event helps though!

Thanks for doing this analysis!

After riding other transit in the US (NJ Transit, LIRR, Amtrak, BART, misc Subways), high speed rail in China and Japan, and trains in Europe; Caltrain stands out to me as the most jerky train I've been on. Often times high speed rail in East Asian countries are so smooth that you can balance a coin on its edge without falling. Comparing apples to apples, even NJ Transit and LIRR are noticeably smoother than Caltrain. It would be interesting to see what the difference is between systems.

> Looking at data from a few different trips, Caltrain does a good job subjecting passengers to no more than 1g of roughness in any direction.

This at first to me seemed like a low bar (relative to other trains out there), but then I forgot about the sudden jerks and direction changes the SF Muni and NY Subway often subject passengers. 1g in any direction I suppose is good for subways, but still poor for trains overall.

Unfortunately I doubt Caltrain's current Electrification project won't solve any of these issues, given that it seems like more issues with the track, not with the power source. Perhaps the new trains might help?

Great article! I learned a lot about human decomposition, and I'm glad there's a facility out there doing this kind of research.

One nitpick: The author mentions a recent study claiming that cell phone use can cause bone spurs on an individual's head as an example of how quickly our bodies can change while we're still alive (vs what happens over generations and while decomposing):

> Changes in DNA can take generations to occur. By contrast, our skeletons can show widespread changes in as short as 10 years — from the bony protrusions now increasingly common on the back of our skulls (“text necks,” some are calling them) to our increasingly low bone density as we transition from manual labor to office work.

There have been serious deficiencies identified in the original study, from not actually measuring and providing data to back up their claims, studying the wrong thing, and did not have a random, representative sample. This doesn't detract from the main point of the article, but goes to show how easily an inaccurate study can permeate the societal knowledge without being corrected.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/smartphones-arent-makin...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/questions-raised-...

I'm surprised that this article doesn't talk about a real, scientific, threat about 5G: that it occupies the same frequency spectrum as water vapor, affecting how accurate satellites that track clouds and water in the atmosphere can be.

Given that these satellites have contributed significantly to how much more accurate weather forecasts have gotten in the past 10 years, being unable to predict storms could arguably have a significant human health impact (ie. not being able to announce evacuations, sending aid to the right regions, etc)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01305-4

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-5g-wireles...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/5g-networks-will...

This line stood out to me, after the op-ed argues about having "gardens" that exist in the "invisible parts" of the city that are only visible to people without iGlasses:

> We are fighting a piece of legislation on the governor’s desk that would change the augmented reality settings of the entire city, making the invisible parts visible again and destroying our gardens in the process.

The legislation sounds like it would make the invisible parts visible again to everyone, even when you're wearing iGlasses. Isn't that what she wants? No, what Mary wants is a space where people wearing iGlasses can't discover her. Making the "invisible parts" visible again would remove the only gardens that she has. She's not fighting for more transparency and freedom, she's fighting for a private space where she can't be observed.

A nice touch that I almost just skimmed past.

This is a really interesting read! This gives me a much better sense of how investment banks are actually involved in IPOs, and how you can essentially require banks to support certain prices of your IPO using legal agreements.

Also really emphasizes the role of having personal relationships with directors (not just a corporate relationship):

> The first lesson is that the only way for a bank to develop a relationship with a client is for human bankers to develop a relationship with human client executives and directors.

The issue with conclusions of reports like these is that yes, Uber/Lyft contributed to a congestion increase, but what would that increase have looked like without Uber/Lyft? How much would congestion have increased by without Uber/Lyft (due to the strong economy, jobs, etc)?

Would people instead have purchased cars and driven them around instead? Would we actually have had higher congestion?

Publishing reports like these without controlling for the economy/jobs/popularity of these cities seems to me to be an unfair attack on Uber/Lyft, where the real culprit might just be a strong economy.

Great Thread (with pictures) of what this warehouse used to sell: https://twitter.com/drahardja/status/982872448906346496

I believe the original article was here, but poorly substantiated: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-...

But Alex Halderman (the professor mentioned) posted a clarification, saying: "Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked. But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other. " https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-wa...

"In the end, a CEO has got to know her limitations."

I love how he switches between gendered pronouns in this article, and ends with a female one.