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I wrote to Sainsburys (large UK grocery store chain) in 1993, suggesting an idea for a "self checkout", where you would scan items yourself as you put them into your shipping cart.…

I'm stuck at the same point, and would love a hint / spoiler!

It wouldn't solve every issue. Nothing will. But hopefully cameras could prevent the situations that I've heard about directly from people, where drivers wouldn't let them out the …

The book "Happiest Baby on the Block" goes into a lot of detail about this. I've not read it, but watched the ~10 minute video that accompanied it. It was possibly the most useful …

Well, we looked at those gigantic pyramids, translated the hieroglyphs in some places to mean that a dangerous curse would afflict anyone who entered, and then went in to explore /…

There's every chance this is true. Except I just checked the listing, and it's now $181.

It definitely varies. In NYC, I stayed in a 4000sqft Chelsea apartment, with a private bathroom, grand piano and incredible art, for $125 a night. It does depend on more than just …

There's more details on Rob Walling's blog here: https://robwalling.com/2018/10/12/my-next-act-the-first-star...

What are they wasting? Per the article, this is material that was already destined for the trash. And now a million people get to enjoy it as an enhancement to their evening.

Except the Touch didn't have a data connection. 'Voice calls' isn't the killer feature of a contemporary smart phone, an always-on internet connection is.

Abacus launched easier this year, to fill some of that gap: https://www.abacusnews.com Though they're still more long-form editorial than "here's what happened this week."

Make sure you're signed in, and then File -> Make a copy...

I was in Manila last month, and mostly took Uber; the experience was exactly like using it in the US. I took one Grab ride, and the experience couldn't have been more different. I …

The company has been around since 1981, but you wouldn't recognize it as the same company before ~2004. https://moz.com/blog/the-history-of-seomoz

I don't know how well known Rand or Moz are on here, but it's great to see this posted. I feel like SEO has been an area that gets looked down upon from certain sectors. In the 10+…

I grew up in the UK, now live in Seattle. I've never heard anyone use that. My wife does talk about "pick up the lounge" though, to mean tidy it up & put things away.

I've never heard 'up to London'; being from Manchester, London was definitely "down South". Coming 'up' to Cambridge had a specific meaning, of matriculating at the University. For…

Last time I was in an Amazon Book store, BOTH prices were displayed on the shelf - Prime and regular. Has this changed?

Ask Twitter?

I'm just inferring, but it sounds like it's possible to get a car loan/lease through Uber. It might be more tax efficient to have Uber take repayments directly from your earnings? …

Great resource. The one name in there I didn't recognize was '7search'; I clicked through, but it seems to have shut down within the last week, so you can probably remove that.

My building has individual mailboxes in the lobby for each unit, and then a bunch of large boxes that packages can fit in. The mail deliverers put a package in, lock it with the ke…

It depends on the country. In the UK it's very common, and relatively easy to do the 'premium sms' that you describe. It's not at all common in the US, and Twilio doesn't seem to s…