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Shoreline Blvd is a street in Mountain View, CA.

You do realize WeWork doesn't have a monopoly on shared office spaces? In fact, they aren't even the biggest player in the space - Regus is.

Asahi has been doing this for years with their Super Dry Extra Cold (-2°C≈27°F). Might not have caught on in the states, but I grabbed one of these as early as 2016 in an Asahi brewery in Japan.

This is why I'm a proponent of genetically modified organisms in agriculture. The world needs to be fed and needs to be fed properly, and it is pure privilege to deny use of tools in our toolbox that abet solutions to global hunger. I won't deny the issues around the corporatization of farmland, vendor/seed lock-in and IP issues, and the litany of other issues around its use - but damn is it a viable solution for vitamin deficiency and a way forward through changing environments.

I don't understand why I can't mute certain people or group DMs when I can mute channels. Sometimes I need push notifications if I'm messaged from a specific person, but can't/don't want to be bothered by other specific people. There are ample productivity reasons for implementing this feature aside from the added bonus of tamping down on harassment.

I can’t imagine the pivot to alt-right conservative pundit is all that profitable. Going off the fact that he’s not a public figure at Google and the anecdotal data that any two (or 32) bit engineer will tell you that “tech is dangerous” - me included, I doubt this gets much traction other than him getting immediately terminated for cause.

Fun fact: Grindr majority stake is owned by a Chinese mobile game company and has been ordered by the US Government to divest as it poses a national security risk.

You may be surprised to hear that it actually is the case that retail stores are very much in the business of selling shelf space (at least in the United States - I cannot say for the EU).

It is known as a "slotting fee" and manufacturers pay it for limited shelf space in grocery stores for example. It is particularly important for the distribution of new products as stores would prefer not to take risks on an item that may or may not sell very well.

Further reading:

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

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...

This was discussed previously on HN[0] before being subsequently flagged down for being rather misleading even after a title change to mention that it is "Free" Slack that is being banned.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250426

Interesting to hear. I've heard the opposite in that in dry counties in the US the incidence of alcohol related driving accidents is 3x that of wet counties. A quick look at the Wikipedia[0] article corroborates this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county#Traveling_to_purcha...

Tell that to Daniel Shaver, who when shouted at by police to perform conflicting commands by multiple police while begging for his life, was executed in cold blood. I'm sorry, but that is a frighteningly naive stance to take and must come from a position of extreme privilege.

I wonder how they're going to deal with Steam Workshop stuff. I guess that's probably just going into the dumpster.

It's likely part of his plea bargain is that he needs to publicly admit to the crimes.

The joy of recursion or the joy of induction? :)

"Be yourself" as advice is bad advice if you take it uncharitably. It's good advice for individuals that repress their identities and discard their own happiness - e.g. gay men and women that force themselves to act straight (though not without caveat as death/execution/persecution is very real). If you reinterpret it as "be authentic" or "become yourself", it again takes a better meaning for those without fundamental crises of identity. Self-actualization is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for good reason. Despite this I don't disagree with the advice to "be less yourself". I don't think article is wrong and this advice still resonates with me - taking detours is part of life. If you need to take a step back to take two steps forward, it's worth it - but god damn it you should still "be yourself" at the end of it all. If you have to lose who you are, it's not worth it.

On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

-Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 1864

I'm unsure as to what counterpoint you are trying to make. If you were implying that I thought anyone could manage to be financially comfortable in the Bay Area, that is patently false. To respond your apparent reading of my comment, the "you" that you appear to be referring to is an example of a person who is financially comfortable in the Bay Area and why that would amount to a net worth of approximately $1.1 million.

If you actually dive down into the study by Charles Schwab that this article is taking their numbers from, it doesn't look unreasonable at all. $1.1 million dollars is the figure stated to be financially comfortable in San Francisco and the exact same number that was polled for New York City. It is approximately double the $540,000 average response from Charlotte, North Carolina. It's also definitely worth noting that this is net worth. If you have paid equity into a home, have other savings, own a car etc. you'll likely be hitting this number living in the Bay Area - this would easily fall into my personal definition of financially comfortable. I would go on to say that this number is likely only double that of somewhere like Charlotte because of real estate costs.

As for the quotes from financial planners... In my experience, they have no idea about the finances of a normal American and deal exclusively with farfetched wealthy individuals. One of my friends in Seattle making $200,000+ was told he could never afford to retire on such a meagre salary by one of these financial planners (note: he was referred to this financial planner by their father who happens to be quite wealthy).

In South Korea, tattoos are illegal, but it hasn't stopped artists from creating - and creating some truly beautiful work. Tattoos have become relatively mainstream and millennials (though I hate the term) have widely adopted tattoos as commonplace. It's striking to see the cultural differences between East Asia and the western world, perception around tattoos being just one of them. Tattoos are particularly interesting because of the influence Asian artists have had on the culture and ethos of the art despite the widespread suppression of it. I'd love to hear a perspective on why it's evolved to be so different - and I do suspect it has to do with organized crime playing a large part (i.e. the Yakuza and the Triads).

S-1s only list >5% stockholders - you'll note that the co-founders have been diluted down to 7.1%. Y Combinator has definitely been diluted below that amount, that being said random back of the napkin (aka pulled from my ass) numbers for their share count is probably 700,000ish so their return is pretty damn good.

The full paper can be found here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...

Also probably worth mentioning that this paper is from 2015.

I recommend this article for another essay on this topic: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-di...

It really boils down to quality over quantity. After all, I'm sure most would choose to die comfortably in their bed after a week rather than in a few months all while in excruciating pain.

I ran into this a lot during in university at the end of terms. Lots of people moving out without a lot of time to get rid of their items - in particular international students that couldn't bring items home with them for the summer. Though I never took advantage of the situation, being a student that was also moving myself, I'm certain I lost count of the number of mini fridges, tables, lamps, etc. that were simply being tossed.

I wouldn't be too concerned as renewables and nuclear technology should be at the point where it would be able to pick up the slack - we know the end is coming and we can prepare for it.

An interesting thought experiment is whether or not humans (or some future species) would be able to reproduce the technological advancements that oil enabled given some sort of apocalypse scenario that resets us to year zero.

It does seem very similar to the implementation of HIBP's Pwned Passwords by Junade Ali[0]. I haven't delved into the nitty gritty details/differences between the two, but they do seem to use similar techniques to guarantee k-anonymity.

A key difference, at a glance, is the inclusion of usernames to be paired with the leaked passwords.

[0] Junade Ali's write-up https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...

Just thinking about how much work and research from organizations like the CDC put in to preventing another Spanish flu-like pandemic for humans, it seems shockingly obvious that pandemics would be occurring for other species where technology and quarantine are not as strictly used. Its only through observations like this that I've realized how devastating the impact of contaminated ecosystems must be. I suppose that's why I've needed to check all those boxes about visiting farms/smuggling produce whenever I go through customs.

Since this article is specifically about frogs, I can't help but wonder if the drastic reduction of insect biomass isn't contributing to their decline. With numbers as drastic as a 75% decline in certain areas[0], it's hard to imagine frogs/birds/etc. aren't suffering from population decline due to reduced food availability.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-insect-populat...

Nitpick, but given how widespread Buddhism is in East Asia, I would not be surprised if it were also quite practical to be vegetarian in both Korea and Vietnam. I do agree that there are locations where being vegetarian would be more difficult - more rural, meatcentric towns in America come to mind for me.

By "whites" here, I assume you mean "white-collar workers". Usually, in vernacular, "whites" is taken as a slightly derogatory metonym for "white people", so I was initially slightly taken aback by your comment. Sorry if I was being obtuse, but I have never heard the term "whites" used in this fashion.

From that bit about Jack Horner, I can't help but be reminded of this panel[0] from a Spider-Man comic.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/lmeZ6SD.jpg

Albeit, it is slightly stranger in the Trump situation as the majority of voters didn't actually choose him as their president. Not to mention the fact that voter turnout is rather low in the US compared to most other democratic countries.