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Here's one in Leavenworth, WA, a town where they have a Bavarian themed design requirements.

https://goo.gl/maps/LaCgUjQLbMX3nGuv5

The McDonalds is a bit subdued, the Starbucks is perhaps a better example.

https://goo.gl/maps/nFemv8G1n7toUa4h6

Generally the government does not pay/augment wages for companies in the US.

Is it an African or European pigeon?

The fire department can do surprise inspections of businesses to insure they are complying with fire codes.

If it’s unsafe, they can close the business until the issues has been resolved.

I wouldn’t call it heavy enforcement, and it’s not perfect. People die in commercial fires not too infrequently in the US.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct...

https://cbs4indy.com/2019/04/29/messy-aisles-causes-speedway...

I would be curious if Amazon is using Fedex for its deliveries which are the most expensive to perform (rural area) while delivering all the lowest cost deliveries themselves (urban areas, a few miles from the distribution center). Fedex maybe losing money on every delivery.

From the article:

> Superhuman doesn’t even let its own customers turn images off. So merely by using Superhuman, you are vulnerable to the exact same spying that Superhuman enables you to do to others.

Boeing's defense contracts make it too big to fail.

Sure, huge fines might deflate its shares/exec's comp packages, but I don't think the risk of giant fines endangers Boeing the way they might other businesses.

Does this only apply to Chase credit cards? Or also to other Chase services?

If you ban sites with paywalls and those which show ads, what’s left?

Ive always thought ovens could do fine with a five setting control.

Warming (180-200F)/90C

Low 300F/150C

Med 350F/180C

High 400F/200C

Broil

Part of the issue is that the speed limit often times dictates how the street is designed.

In my city, the default speed limit for city streets was 30mph. Safety advocates lobbied for and achieved lowering that limit to 25mph.

The goal was not that cars would immediately all start driving 5mph slower, but rather to direct the city's traffic engineers to start designing the street layout to lower the 85th percentile speed by about from 30mph to 25mph.

How are dollars I have paid to the government any more mine than dollars I have paid to a company?

The only people who can vote federal judges off the bench are 67 senators.

I wanted to love the XR, but it was too big.

I’d prefer a 4.5” phone, but ended up with an iPhone X as a kind of cheaper, smaller, currentish iOS device.

They probably think the money is fungible.

“We gave the driver 100% of the $10 from your tip, and withheld our $10 from their wages.”

Do all monitors have subpixels ordered RGB, left to right?

Ha. In 2000, there were about 9 million Americans between 18 and 20 years old, and about 200 million people older than 20.

Even now, people 20-40 are a minority of the voting populace.

It is unfair to blame the outcome of all the elections, and hence the policies of the last 20 years, on a minority people eligible to vote.

I am interested by society's desire to blame an entire generation's worth of young people for how they turned out.

Millennials did not ruin the economy in 2008, make a college education cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or impose 40 years of wage stagnation in this country. These kids and young adults are just a product of the environment that their parents and grandparents built for them.

We should instead talk more about what Gen Xers and Baby Boomers did for the fortunes of Millennials rather than how insufferable Millennials are.

Where in Seattle are you located?

It would be great if apps could know the display is in grayscale mode (perhaps it is?) so they could switch to a more appropriate design.

The fact that those brands are used storewide make them more identifiable as store brands.

You can buy simple truth milk, chicken, soup, and diapers at Kroger stores.

Amazon has multiple distinct brands per category, which makes keeping track much harder.

I am always amazed at how little of the total bill insurance pays for normal visits. By the time you include copays, coinsurance, and the insurer's negotiated rates, nearly half of what the doctor gets paid is paid by me.

Thanks for this. I have been thinking about getting an academic yet beginners education in neoliberalism. Can you suggest a good primer?

I found value in understanding how disconnected chains of command/advising can impact decision making, as well as lessons in assuming how your adversaries will interpret your actions is not always correct.

It certainly is an approachable layman's novel, not an academic piece.

Definitely worth the few hours it took to read.

If anyone is interested in reading a modern, hopefully fictional take of a similar situation, I recommend the 2020 Commission Report by Jeffery Lewis.

https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Aga...

Did both pedals break off at the same time? If not, how did you keep riding with only one pedal? This sounds like the beginning of a great story!

Walk Score was acquired by Redfin in 2014.

Walk scores are on their listing pages, but I am not sure why they don't allow you to filter by Walk Score in the Redfin search UI.

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/redfin-buys-walk-score-marking...

Interesting. I don't think many have the expectation that they have the right to watch a Netflix movie they streamed in perpetuity, as they do with Kindle books or iTunes purchases.

Does anyone know the probabilities of HN moving between states “animated Markov chains article at the top” and “animated Markov chains article not at the top”?