btmiller

No chance of passing the Senate unfortunately

WT:Social for the name of a Facebook rival makes it a total non-starter.

Having limited SFH zones does not prohibit a person from pursuing any number of housing option that works best for them.

Density is solving itself. If you live on the hill then you must have noticed the incredible explosion of massive apartment buildings and condos going up across the city. Note how it's concentrated in centers of commerce, and that's totally great. It reduces your (burdensome? I guess?) 30 minute walk, makes housing cheaper, and doesn't impede on those with the means to afford a century old work of art; they absolutely can be and to deny so is delusional, go walk east of Volunteer Park and see for yourself.

A diverse spectrum of zoning is important, but we also have a diverse free market that doesn't all want high-rise condos and apartments absolutely everywhere. Some people want a beautiful neighborhood, lots of space, privacy, proximity to the city, and have the means to get that, so that's what they will pursue. You should be okay with that because it's part of the same system that allows high-rise condos along the city's arteries.

My only point of contention against the apartments/condos themselves is the incredibly cheap materials and trendy designs that will look terrible in a decade's time. Look back on other periods of housing like the 70's Brady Bunch-style ranch houses to see how other trendy houses have aged.

> Capital Hill

With an "o", not an "a".

Situational depending from where on the hill.

Improvements to Link notwithstanding, any of the available bus routes I take typically get me downtown faster.

Link will get better over time of course and I'm happy for that, but I haven't seen any traffic crisis on the hill that's severely affecting peoples lives day-to-day: 30 minute commute is not bad.

I'm a SFH owner in Capitol Hill, and I have 3-4 bus routes options that get me to downtown in ~30 minutes. Subways are cool(!), but not always necessary.

I think there's a balance to be had with high density versus SFH neighborhoods. One example I think is worth considering, do we want to be knocking down turn-of-the-century craftsman and tudor homes? They can bring a ton of character to a neighborhood. In cases where that happens, the 3-story cookie cutter townhomnes or cheap construction material apartments take their place and look outdated in less than a decade.

Pair that was demand forecasting for this relatively obscure feature, they probably made the call that simple polling was good enough for now.

Most reliable method in my own experience: simply eat less.

Eat your normal amount of meals, shovel it in your mouth, but stop before finishing the whole portion. I eat maybe 75% of each meals and toss the remaining bits. Do it for a couple months and watch the weight magically shed off.

It works because it requires no change in meal-type habits; it’s simply fewer calories. End of the day, that’s always the goal and this way is the most direct and simple

When the meals come where it’s hard to stop at 75%, I force myself to toss my napkin and utensils on the plate ensuring the food is now “dirty”. So altogether, it’s very few behavior changes make for a foolproof method.

Comments like this one are outside community guidelines. You really shouldn’t be begging for votes on here.

That'd be a good start.

One thing, however, that bothers me lately is the pursuit shareholder value above all else. The commentary always arrives at that end (shareholder value) in order to justify the means every time a company's direction might not translate so nicely for customers: YouTube ads, Uber rate increases, Boeing cutting corners, etc.

Being a profitable company is one thing, but I can't help but watch and think, I don't feel any sense of compassion for shareholders losing a few bucks because they were impatient or made a bad investment. Of course Boeing's shareholders want <insert new Boeing thing> delivered yesterday, but the "bloody ROI"[1] can't be what drives Boeing development.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim...

How does this work? I thought Slack deprecated their IRC gateway; is this all API-based then?

Shoot. Guess I’ll have to go back and verify :)

Interesting that not all trail signs at our NPs use this font exactly. For example, I wonder if this is a separate font carved by a router: https://www.instagram.com/p/BmmACyogjEe/?igshid=12jeudc1pasu...

It’s going to depend. If you’re going into the web front end field, you’ll be able to make that determination yourself.

For me, as an SRE with higher priorities, you can pry Bootstrap from my cold, lifeless fingers :) I have zero interest in keeping up with latest and greatest in CSS developments; like you said, Bootstrap gets you something up and running fast without much fuss. It’s good enough and it allows me to focus on other important areas.

However, the reverse is not true: 3M doesn't employ 3 million people (nor 2,998,000 ;))

The point isn’t that there are solutions to keeping it charged. The point is it’s a needless concession for Apple to make when other wireless mouses have found elegant ways to achieve simultaneous use and charging. This wasn’t an instance of Apple reinventing something that will later seem so obvious.

Is there a valid comparison between Uber and a company like Amazon? Amazon's loss leader strategy paid off and they're doing well now, so can Uber "become profitable whenever they want to" and be fine?

All words are made up

Good riddance! It’s high time companies stop gravitating to the local maxima for every decision. As a user, I want thoughtfully developed experiences; not everything has to be a news feed.

You can use something like SeatGuru before you book a flight to confirm the model. For instance, the LH490 flight on 4/9/2019 will be a 747-400: https://www.seatguru.com/findseatmap/findseatmap.php?airline...

In terms of project management, aviation software is one industry where the "three-legged stool" should always, always favor quality, so I'm more than happy to see Boeing take the extra time to get this right. Though the nose-pusher system's entire existence is due to the aerodynamic design of the entire MAX...which seems to be driven by the other 2 legs of the stool (i.e. budget and time).

Deliberation is slowly going extinct in favor of throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. I see it as the "news feed"-ification of video content.

Agreed. Content is king, and I think HBO understands that very well. I go to HBO for curated, high quality entertainment.

I see this less as a business problem and more of a technology problem with regards to their streaming platform. All big platforms suffer (possibly painfully) in the beginning (e.g. Twitter's fail whale), but that's when it's up to business leadership to stay the course, dive into the problem, and commit to solving it on your own. Look at how much emphasis in this article is placed upon HBO getting away from rivals running their platform! Yet a short period ago they surrender in-house operations to MLB AM? Constant pivoting gets you nowhere.

I see AT&T swooping in to "pick up the pieces" as they see it, and the sad conclusion I foresee is exactly what you described.

This makes me wonder how we'll view space travel generations from now. Will the descendants of companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin face outrage and calls for criminal charges like Boeing is receiving now?

Risk is inherent in fast modes of transportation, and I think it's very easy for us to ignore the underlying complexity of these feats. Great example: regular air travelers I'm sure are use to the preflight safety announcement run by the cabin crew, but when was the last time you (of the royal variety) actually stopped what you were doing, focused on the briefing, and made a mental note of the plane's safety features?

Perhaps related: the frequency of FB Production Engineer recruiters reaching out to me has increased in the last couple months.

I simply can't sell myself to an immoral organization where, I’m afraid, any concerns of mine would be drowned out, ignored, or silenced by the incumbent powers at Facebook that are dead set on their current path.

There might be good engineers at Facebook trying desperately to change the culture, but I encourage others to resist fighting the (in my view futile) good fight.

That might work. I envision something close to Ikea (but in a much smaller footprint) where product collection is batched at the end of the store route. In fact, surely they (Ikea) have tossed this idea around. Probably encountered some roadblocks due to the size and weight of some of their furniture offerings. And how about insincere actors who just want to make some heavy furniture fly around the store?

> A website that only works in Chrome is preferable to a website that does not exist

I think the only scenario where that's acceptable is experimental/nightly features that haven't yet made their way to the majority of browsers.

> Using a website is a privilege

Some would dispute that. My bank, for instance, doesn't have physical branches. Is it considered a privilege to access my funds via website?

Some acquisitions make sense, some don't, but the propensity for founders and investors to push for an exit depresses the free market consumer in me. I want lots and lots of choices for anything I consider buying, yet nearly every acquisition making headlines lately seems like it falls into 1 of 2 categories: 1) a marketshare power grab, or 2) a mechanism to gather more customer data to an already massive empire.

Somewhat related: are there any viable open source mesh network solutions for home use?

Hope yall are doing well! I had no idea this industry existed until Ryan showed me one of the tiny cubesats in the office!

Curious if you receive any branding confusion over Kubos versus Kubernetes?