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I learned today that 7/11 in Japan wasn't a pure licensing play but a technology enabled business model disruption of large grocery stores and mom-and-pop convenience stores. The l…

You can just implement Prosemirror from one of the greatest web teams on the planet and get pretty much every text editing nicety for free - markdown rendering, document version hi…

One of the things we got really lucky with is that Claude Code and not the ChatGPT app won the war for the defining AI product and it runs on your filesystem. There's a different r…

We are all ignoring the obvious solution to this. One of the benefits of being a global hegemon is having close allies who are good at things we are not. Intel fell behind on semic…

It is also happening to restaurants and HVAC installers and plumbing businesses. They just got around to buying those up a little more recently. We should expect the price and serv…

/u/dhouston has turned into "the guy in the article" what a day important piece of hacker news history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

N=1 disclaimer but this also happened for me with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for my peanut allergy, soft boiled eggs for my raw egg yolk allergy, and shrimp based broths for my shr…

It takes much longer than 70 seconds to heat up a 12 inch stainless steel or carbon steel skillet on a home burner to a point where it can be used to fry an egg or sear a chicken t…

it's probably l reuterii https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917019/

They did encrypt the vaults. The problem is that for accounts that were opened before 2017 the used an encryption algorithm that can be cracked with modern hardware. Not a typical …

If you think humans are heat and humidity sensitive for their productivity, I have some news for you about robot servos.

Stripe is paying for health insurance over that time too.

Roosevelt Island isn't car free, but if you're willing to accept 15mph max speeds, no through traffic in exchange for living in NYC with some of the most incredible views it's a ni…

Your guess that this is driven by a SaaS is built around assumptions of how process and repetition is structured in the West and its labor markets but this doesn't hold in China. I…

Echoing this to say I took a full two years off and came back to a 30k raise and that too as a product manager - meaning no hard skills to show in a leetcode type setting. The righ…

This is a problem in many places, but it is absolutely not a problem in Korea which adds housing units in every one of its metro areas at a rate that would make community approval …

Not the type of book whose review I would expect to see here. The reviewer was evocative enough for me to pick up a used copy on Amazon. Thanks for sharing.

Three things could be happening: 1. The heart is a giant muscle and needs balanced sodium and potassium to function. There are electrolyte blends in the market designed for fasting…

Miami is gross and sticky even in March and I'm surprised it's listed next to Californian cities.

Tokyo summers are miserable, as are the ones in Seoul and New York City. I have lived in all three and every July/August I wonder if this is the year I start cooling off in Bogota …

If this is true, why do the cities with the tallest buildings have the highest cost per unit area of housing and commercial real estate, population density and GDP per capita?

You might find that aka miso or doenjang have a flavor profile closer to what you're looking for.

0% APR over 12 months for a big ticket purchase like a mattress in an inflationary environment and a bull market can easily equal an additional 5-7% discount on 2000 dollars. Admit…

The piece is based on a talk given a conference on cycling optimization. The author is not in any way recommending that day-to-day cyclists change to a different form factor. It se…