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Oh no, where will I possibly find weird racist xenophobic takes if not during my taxi ride? It's too bad there's not a million social media sites where I could be exposed to them

You're looking for "Idaho stop"

Subway fares disproportionately penalize the poor and force them into encounters with police. Transit should be free.

SF startups seem like a fucking nightmare. I live in a second-tier city and there's lots of six-figure, 9-5 software dev roles that are nowhere near as competitive. Consider relocating somewhere with a lower CoL and more sane culture?

There's a few levels going on here:

- technologists and startup wannabes feeling like HN is "underground" because of the stripped down aesthetic and weird tech stack

- out of touch VCs who are successful because of money and connections but want to cosplay as technical

- the end users of the startups, who are fed the enshittified products funded by the VCs and created by the technologists

If the US had stronger regulation of airlines they would require compensation in these circumstances. In the EU you would be covered.

Flying in the US is a hellscape now thanks to deregulation and union-busting.

> delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control.

AFAIK if it's one booking on the same airline or a codeshare they are required to rebook you. If you planned a "connection" which is two single flights with different airlines you don't get any legal protections. This isn't just Delta, no airline will reimburse you for missing a flight you didn't book through them

I think it's a "fuck around and find out" situation like Brexit. People love to stomp their feet and complain, but when some big interest group actually organizes the vote and it happens they'll be caught unawares.

People complain about have/have-not provinces, but Alberta would be in a much worse position as a independent nation. There are benefits to Confederation beyond just shuffling tax dollars around.

"AI tend to be brittle and optimized for specific tasks, so we made a new specific task and then someone optimized for it" isn't some kind of gotcha. Once ARC puzzles became a benchmark they ceased to be meaningful WRT "AGI".

BNPL seems primarily like a regulatory arbitrage because of increasing scrutiny of payday loans and limits on credit card interest rates. Do we really think securitization of burrito loans is unlocking new liquidity in the market that Visa and Mastercard couldn't provide?

I organized some grassroots hackathon events 10+ years ago. Turnout was mostly students and die-hard geeks who wanted something to do on the weekend. Even in this small pond we had a local startup sponsor and try to shoe-horn their service into it.

When I attended bigger events with bigger sponsors it felt like 90% marketing to pitch your idea. The actual technical side was never that impressive or interesting.

One community that kicks ass at this are InfoSec people, I've done a lot of terrific volunteer-run CTFs.

Dave needs all the money he can get, he has two families to feed!

Weed doesn't hit for me, but it's so easy to buy good mushrooms near me. It's like a nice weekend vacation to just walk around my neighborhood (or better, go to a cottage and trip in nature).

I find some startup leaders really struggle with this if they come from a Big Corp environment. If you're a CTO or VP or Director of Engineering for like 20 people, you're actually going to have to decide things. Yes at your previous roles you could follow a flow chart or whatever but here you have to actually take accountability. Watch them tap dance trying to avoid committing to anything.

It's an incredibly dangerous job, both in terms of chronic health and acute risk.

Have you been to a bank branch recently? There is almost no staff, and to get help you have to call an offshored call center.

2019 public-facing Tobi is probably the least insane version. He has gotten worse and more egocentric (and more explicitly right-wing) since then.

Early (pre IPO) Shopify had a pretty toxic internal culture with a lot of drinking and sexual harassment. I was lucky to be there around the post-IPO, pre-pandemic era when there was a bit of structure and the techbros were getting reigned in a bit. Once the pandemic hit I think he just lost his mind.

There's a kind of survivorship bias to people saying "he's very smart". I was in a neglected part of the engineering org far away from his micromanaging. If he had been showing up and complaining about my projects I wouldn't have stayed for years.

To be clear this is a pretty modern company, not 10 years ago. CI/CD absolutely was a common best practice.

Having worked at Shopify, Tobi is 100% a try-hard Elon wannabe. Anil is correct that this is about performing "being a CEO" for the sake of his image among his peers.

My favorite stupid Shopify cult thing is the hiring page having a "skip the line" for "exceptional abilities" which explicitly lists being good at video games as a reason to skip the normal hiring process. The "other" category includes examples like "Olympic athlete".

I worked on a product where there was basically no automated testing, just a huge product surface to click around with a bunch of options. Because of technical debt some of the options would trigger different code paths, but it was up to the developer to memorize all the code paths and test accordingly.

After I shipped a bug the Director of Engineering told me I should "test better" (by clicking around the app). This was about 1 step away from "just don't write bugs" IMO.

Aren't there issues with states randomly revoking registration for imported kei vehicles because of emissions/safety/whatever?

This article is missing at least the Mitsubishi Mirage - the 2024 model year still seems to be available for 17k in the base trim?

I use a 2018 Subaru Forester to move stuff like this, with the seats folded flat the cargo space is decent. You can add some cargo boxes on the back trailer hitch as well.

The dream is a Pacifica minivan - they make a hybrid version.

Contrary to people's expectations, it's not actually possible for "number go up" to continue forever. Privileged people have extracted value from marginalized people, the global south, the environment, and increasingly just domestic wealth inequality. There are fewer and fewer externalities you can profit from.

Not to sound Malthusian, but it was never going to happen that 9 billion people on the planet could live with a North American standard of life, and we stop global warming, and deforestation. It would be a sort of heat death for capitalism with no gradient of inequality left to extract value from.

Financialization is the last gasp attempt to make something from nothing. You're just betting on taking money from another person who is betting on taking money from you. The memeification of retail investing and the entire crypto market are the most naked version where there is simply no relation to any real resources.

I've never actually worked in an org where infra could overrule product in such a way. If some director wants a whizbang new database your job is to facilitate the resulting tire fire.

Who do you hold accountable when all the product teams are choosing their own tech stack and there's no consistency?

When I was cleaning my dishwasher I realized there are two ways to configure it: with a in-sink garbage disposal, and without. If you don't have the garbage disposal part hooked up there is simply nowhere for the chunks to go and they accumulate at the bottom of the washer beneath a filter.

My only use of FB is as a glorified forum for community groups that haven't moved to Slack/Discord/whatever else. Visiting the actual FB UI feels like another planet, it's all weird spam content.

Incredibly prescient. This quote from 2011 really sums it up:

> The original promise of the Californian Ideology, was that the computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destiny. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or to change.