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There is another alternative that is getting more popular in the US, which are Olipop sodas. They are sweetened with stevia and have only 2-5g of sugar, plus a lot of added fiber.

As someone who very rarely drinks soda of any kind, I find typical Coke or Pepsi products overwhelmingly sweet and feel sick if I actually drink a whole can. I can stomach Olipop though. (No paid endorsement here, I discovered these through my partner. She is a health-obsessed person with a sweet tooth.)

The other one that smells horrible are female gingko trees. The fruits smell like rancid butter or garbage.

These days you can really only buy the male ones but older plantings are awful. https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/extension/ginkgo-stinkgo-are-boys...

They would not have had a market cap of more than $100 billion dollars without it

Zoom was a successful enterprise business pre-pandemic, but it was unequivocally the lockdowns that accelerated their growth and valuation. In one year they went from 10 million monthly meeting participants to over 350 million (https://www.vox.com/recode/21726260/zoom-microsoft-teams-vid...).

If I recall correctly, they didn't start bundling it with Office via force installations with no uninstall until mid 2019?

A less grandiose version of this aphorism: timing the market matters just as much as what product you ship.

People tend to focus on product attributes and pricing because compared to timing, it is more in your control.

An example of this that I think about a lot is Zoom. Zoom nailed video/audio quality more than most of other competing products, but otherwise they didn't offer anything that new compared to legions of other enterprise A/V platforms. They just happened to offer unlimited free meetings for <= 100 participants right as the pandemic happened. This was all pretty much lucky timing and some good choices around freemium growth mechanics. This window of opportunity closed quickly for competing products as behavior changed and network effects took hold. The only new competitor that emerged mid-pandemic was Teams, because MSFT could literally force install it on every Windows machine.

This will be great for customers. Figma is going to have to innovate and compete more to justify their valuation in an IPO, like they have been doing with previous work on Figjam (competing with whiteboard tools like Miro, etc.) and dev mode (i.e. a reason to pay for engineering seats). This will probably also push them to work faster on generative AI design tools.

More recently, this exact effect caused the spread of invasive feral hogs in the United States. States allowed unlimited hunting of feral hogs, which generated companies doing guided hunts, and then...

"hog hunting became so popular that vehicles were used to transport feral hogs to new locations to provide additional hunting opportunities (this practice is now regulated ). These transportation efforts allowed independent populations to pop up all over the map and greatly expedited the range expansion of this species."

https://feralhogs.tamu.edu/introduction-of-feral-hogs-to-tex...

There is also compelling evidence that hunter-gatherers had even more daily leisure time than both modern industrial or historical agricultural societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

The thing is they already have that. It’s called an e-bike.

We don't need a $1,200 Chinese electric deathtrap to accelerate EV buying, we need a better charging network. Range anxiety and reliability are the factors that have put EV purchases in a slump (not to mention interest rates).

The article itself acknowledges this briefly: "one of the biggest challenges that EVs face here is not the cars; it’s the chargers. In America, charging stations are still too hard to find, and they are too unreliable. China’s charging network is much more extensive than America’s, even in rural areas. Ash Sutcliffe, of the massive Chinese carmaker Geely, told me that in the eastern part of the country, you’re generally never more than a kilometer away from a charging station".

This isn’t that unusual. Google has both their own search app on iOS and also partners to be the default in Safari, Firefox etc.

> The Kwid was also criticised for being one of the Indian models not having airbags as standard.

Even better

Yeah if what you want is espresso, then a pour over setup is not going to make what you want. Technically a Moka doesn't make espresso either though. The pressure is not the same.

The biggest knock against the Moka is that a simple pour over filter is far easier to use, clean, and maintain while also making dramatically better coffee.

When it comes to both style and function, it's hard to beat a Chemex. Ubiquitous enough you can buy it in Whole Foods, and so well designed it's in the permanent collection at MoMA. If $50 is too pricey or you don't want to use glass, you can get a Melitta-style drip cone for less than $10.

Maker schedule vs. manager schedule https://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

You’re making an argument of false equivalency. Anyone who has used Siri can tell you that its listening capabilities are vastly overstated. There is a reason they make smart speakers and don’t just leverage your phone, despite the fact that almost everyone with a smart speaker has both.

The one where you actually have meaningful and personal conversations with your partner and family in the kitchen. You know, like a human.

Also a lot of people rent studios and one bedrooms or otherwise have open floor plans.

I’d suggest making a demo video for your landing page. The concepts make sense, but to grok how they can be used, some demos (perhaps with SEO landing pages like “Nino for project management” or “Nino for documentation”) would be helpful.

That article is technically true but misleading. Most of Manhattan eliminated parking minimums back in 1982. Seattle eliminated or reduced minimums anywhere close to transit (which is a huge part of the city obviously) back in 2012. The entire state of Oregon eliminated parking minimums and single family zoning last year. Austin isn't setting a trend here, they're just catching up because the city has grown so quickly recently.

This isn't really a new trend, Texas is just a laggard because it is an unusually car-dependent state. Most major cities have been trending toward eliminating parking minimums, at least in downtown cores.

Here's a map from 2015: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/11/18/a-map-of-citi...

And one updated as of 2021: https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/

If you need a menubar calendar, Cron (cron.com) is particularly nice because it gives you a universal keyboard shortcut to join the next meeting.

Two more little utilities that I cannot live without on Mac:

A tiling window manager like https://rectangleapp.com/

Muzzle, which automatically silences desktop notifs when you're screensharing https://muzzleapp.com/

Which city are you in? All of the major West Coast cities have not had downtown office occupancy return to pre-pandemic rates as far as I am aware.

No, actually we should be trying to fix the stupid mistakes that were made in implementation of the plan, not roll it back and keep on fighting an equally moronic, ineffective, and racist War on Drugs elsewhere.

The best available evidence is that decriminalization essentially had no effect on overdose deaths (https://www.opb.org/article/2023/10/03/ballot-measure-110-di...). It was going to go up no matter what because of the nature of fentanyl. The only thing the failure of Measure 110 has demonstrably done is waste taxpayer funds and give businesses in downtown an excuse for why they are failing (when in reality it has more to do with the death of downtown for purely economic reasons post-COVID, just like other major West Coast cities).

   "Portland did everything! They invested huge sums in shelters, treatment programs, counsellors, etc."

This is not even remotely true.

Everyone in the city, from the mayor [1] to the head of the largest services non-profit [2] has been yelling from the rooftops about the glacial slowness to effectively spend the allocated funding for drug treatment. Until just months ago, Multnomah County has been sitting on tens of millions of unspent funds,[3] and has been perpetually criticized for spending on harm reduction instead of treatment.[4] We actually closed the only local sobering center in 2020!

1. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/03/20/wheeler-slams-mea...

2. https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/11/15/the-ceo-of-portlands-l...

3. https://katu.com/news/local/multnomah-county-chair-fast-trac...

4. https://www.kptv.com/2023/07/08/multnomah-county-implementin...

This is an incredibly weird comparison. Chimps are wild animals. Dogs are fully domesticated animals. Almost half of households in the US have a dog. If packs of wild dogs roamed around occasionally eviscerating children you can bet people would shoot them too.

That series is really good, but chimps can be incredibly dangerous when in close proximity to humans. In rural Africa, there have been numerous reports of conflicts with wild chimps, including them abducting and killing children. https://archive.ph/2b4MJ

Peer-reviewed research papers have always been allowed in citations. The nuance that evolved over time is this "For example, a paper reviewing existing research, a review article, monograph, or textbook is often better than a primary research paper." Meaning, you can cite a research paper, but something more secondary that summarizes a body of scholarship would be better.

Individual research papers that haven't been reproduced often present conflicting results with one another, especially in fields with poor quality research like nutrition. Experts often run into this issue when they try to cite their own research or a narrow set of papers in a given field, especially when recent research conflicts with prior scientific consensus. It's why tptacek's comment above is apropos.

This is not correct at all.

The sourcing policy says: “If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources on topics such as history, medicine, and science.”