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I remember the moment I switched from phpbb to vbulletin...the licensed nature of the latter did cut down on the constant exploits.

Agreed. Every time my kid naps, I find myself with an hour of "free time", but right around the time the existential questioning would begin, he's screaming for a diaper change.

The National Geographic journalist left a few interesting comments on HN a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913

In the US, the major airlines prohibit use of e-cigarettes onboard. Do not vape on a commercial airliner.

It's amazing to look at the AmazonSmile form 990. It's a 2000 page pdf with a list of every charity that received a donation along with the amount:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/46262...

If anyone's interested in learning how to wing walk, Mason in Sequim, WA, will teach you: https://masonwingwalking.com/

Beautiful...and up to date.

15 years ago, can you imagine how weird it would have been to know there's a future where 'GoDaddy is retiring the Media Temple brand"?

Your opinion on the barbarism of the auto industry will be considered heresy by many, but I applaud your ability to think outside the century of precedent that makes us feel that there are no options beyond what Henry Ford pushed on us.

And how has that shell set-up been for your international team members?

In my experience, it added just enough of a layer of obscuration to perpetuate a caste system, similar to how full time temps and vendors are currently treated in tech. US FTE employees had full HR support while Indian subcontractors had really poor HR/payroll/benefits resources from Remote. YMMV

This is great advice. So many dads told me what it was going to feel like to be a dad. By the time I arrived there myself, I found the experience to be completely different and that I had spent lots of mental energy preparing for an experience that wasn't my own.

One could argue that the EGT and other secondary engine items could be hidden on secondary tabs on something like a G3X. Unless they own their own aircraft, I don't think most GA pilots can do much with their eyes closed.

> Don't think of car enthusiast, think people who like the car because of the shade of its color and feel of the leather - which is most people.

Precisely. Millions of people (intelligent, rational, highly-educated) still buy cars with specific color/trim as their primary motivator. Until the trend reverses, a screen will continue to be a value-add to any vehicle because of the "modern" association.

> When I look at the world unfold in the 2020's, it seems very few people accounted for how much corruption, economics, social media, propaganda, etc. would factor into geopolitics.

While I agree that propaganda has never quite been as hyper-targeted to specific micro-populations as it is today, you can't forget the larger role propaganda has played since, say, the printing press. Especially propaganda tied to the same concerns as today: economic insecurity, racial and cultural in-groups and out-groups, etc. Ask a Southern male US citizen in the 1850s what he thought about the island of Cuba — although he likely never would have any interaction whatsoever with the island, its inhabitants or its politics, he would've encountered (and probably adopted) talking points given to him by propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostend_Manifesto

I'd love to see similar testing conducted on "consumer" avionics boxes used in general aviation. Garmin has moved many of their units from fully-tactile buttons and knobs to touchscreens. This puts the onus on the pilot to fully master the system before entering a situation where you can't simply swipe/scroll your way to success. But using a touch screen in turbulence is nearly impossible; Garmin engineered a physical lip edge around the unit to hang onto to assist the pilot in stabilizing their finger.

There's a reason professional cockpits still largely eschew touchscreens when 250+ lives are at stake in the back.

Also worth seeing: two photographers followed the route of the old Milwaukee Road on a diesel speeder in the 1980s. The photos are neat: https://newwww.weedroute.com/

Abandoned Rails is also a great resource: https://www.abandonedrails.com/

> Cabs are terrible. Driver's are mean.

I'm sorry they hurt you, but I assure you this is not a universal trait of taxi drivers everywhere in 2022.

Similar to the level of healthcare one receives in the US as a function of wealth, so is the level of mobility.

Litmus test: if cost was not a factor, wouldn't you prefer to travel via private jet?

Tells me that we're still hurting for better mobility in this world.

Also applies to the small mountain towns of the American West. Having all that billionaire money buying ranches does inject a small bump into the local construction/food/services economy at the cost of affordability for the workers themselves. Locals eventually get priced out.

Good point. It's interesting to think about this outsourcing as a relief valve Congress uses. Feels like a function of the monetary stakes for any decision are too high. Even freshmen congressional reps are too soaked in the financial implications of their own function that they punt their appointed power to the judicial branch.

To piggyback your comment:

I'm a new parent - 15 days in with my first!

As I watch public school education in the US get squeezed (first from pandemic, then politicization), we naturally start to think about homeschooling in general. I know it's a vague topic, but a basic guide of entry points and recommended resources ala "could you really manage the systemic shift required to successfully homeschool your child" would be useful for us. I'm sure a lot of parents think they can manage homeschooling, but a reality check for the millennial generation would be a help!

That quote parallels something that sticks with me from Umair Haque about how "the point of capitalism is to escape capitalism": https://kottke.org/18/10/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-es...

Yes, presuming the credit card company's "monkey behind the curtain" actually finds Dell culpable in this scenario. Despite ample documentation, I just had Chase side with a hotel that accidentally charged me when they couldn't honor my reservation and failed to issue a refund.

I see your point, but I also raise you: if a test was available for any asymptomatic illness, and you could take it easily before engaging with a population whom would suffer if they contracted it from you, would you?

It's like an Intro to Ethics problem...and as I observed in that class during undergrad, the answer is not obvious.

Northern Virginia has seen this with food trucks. Since late 2020, I'm starting to see food trucks posting up in the evenings in various residential neighborhoods (almost like how ice cream trucks trawl the streets in summer). This would have been unthinkable just a few years ago -- not worth it for the truck owner. But now they're moving to where people are, which is the upper-middle-class neighborhoods where everyone still WFH. Incredible to see a line for dinner at a food truck parked in the middle of a residential summer street in the suburbs.

All this to say: there are ways to keep evolving how things are usually done.

Relevant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/10/meta-fa...

'Living in fear' is such a charged, politicized statement. Can you dissect what you mean by it?

For me, testing before I visit my elderly parents isn't a decision made of fear - it's a basic precaution I can take, causes me no more than 5-10 mins of extra effort, and costs nothing to me (a privileged position provided by employer-subsidized insurance, of course). Is this fear making decisions on my behalf? Is this pragmatism prompted by fear?

And pinterest!

It's not a direct analogy (nor a particularly robust comparison) but I think of the pivots most countries made during WWII. A factory goes from making Ford automobiles to aircraft and back to automobiles within a span of four years. It'll depend completely on how much (or little) the government and facilitate and directly incentivize the needed changes on multiple levels.

It's also been nice to see retailers like Patagonia playing along the trend. Buying a $250 coat, trading it in for a $50 credit, Patagonia reselling it for $80. Unclear about the net gains when factoring in shipping + cleaning, but at least it keeps objects with a 20-year-lifespan out of the landfill by year 4.

https://wornwear.patagonia.com/