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>> Are smaller portions of solid blocks of sugar considered a bad thing? No, but it is bad if you're told by economists that prices arent going up.

Except it doesnt only impact minimum wage workers...or does it only impact NYC -- its the same problem in Washington DC, Virginia suburbs, Boston, SF, Seattle. I suppose they could…

>> Putting 2 servings of ice cream in a thick plastic jar was always a dumb gimmick. One gimmick I quite detest is the use of highly concave bottoms some companies use, so as to re…

> And you must ask yourself, is the ability to sell your company to another company a benefit or should there be considerably stronger hurdles for this kind of thing? Distribution …

The best arbitrage was that purchasing a jar like that (empty, a la carte) would cost $3. So you were basically getting amazing ice-cream for $2. Half my pantry became reused Talen…

Yes, there are lots of cities in the US. Most cities dont have job centers. They might have jobs at Walmart, McDonalds, etc but not jobs that pay living wages. People are rational …

Not only is that my theory but that is literally the article we’re all commenting on “labor participation down” and this is one explanation based on discussions with hundreds of fr…

I talk to a lot of people in the Metro NY area. One problem here is -- if you need to commute into Manhattan (job center) -- it demands a certain salary, below which commuting in i…

To begin with, they should make it a legal requirement to list Condo vs Coop in listings, not "condo/coop". One is usually easier to get, the other pushes people thru discriminator…

Congrats. I did want to respond to this >>> The hardest part of building Jamcorder was still, by far, the software -- roughly 200K lines of code spread across the firmware, app, an…

her hit song, along with the nikki french dance remix have been on my coding playlist for 30yrs!

> Sounds more like people retire somewhat early I know many ex-colleagues who have been retired early -- they face age discrimination and cannot find work.

>> There's got to be something wrong at the core of BD. They've been pawned off a bunch of times, Well...there is the uncanny similarity to the T-800 and and uneasy realization tha…

>> But I'm not convinced about their view of having people casually going to a spa every week and getting a full body scan. People are already doing this monthly with DEXA scans!

Seems Cloudflare is now doing this for scraping, so makes sense to continue down the pipeline!

So jealous we dont have this in the Northeast. Hurry up!

>> If you're at $5,000/month, a 4.2% raise puts you at $5,210. If you're spending $600/month on gas (not unreasonable for someone that drives an SUV and lives in the suburbs instea…

>> I didn't quite follow your comment about vector support, are you asking for something beyond what pgvector + diskann provide (both available on Azure)? You dont support ultra-wi…

I'm trapped on Azure at work and we're constantly waiting for Azure pg to catch up with modernity. For example, you cant use this: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/hybrid-search-in-po…

How do we know this is due to AI usage? Perhaps it is because the students missed key in-person learning at the tail end of high school due to the pandemic lock-downs? I cant imagi…

>> Concerts became about filming a DJ twiddling a USB controller. This is one of the worst parts of any concert, performance -- having a sea of phones in front of you recording. In…

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>> That's why a web of trust was suggested. You keep track of who vouched for who and down weight those who vouch for users that prove to be bots. Except eventually it will also we…

Similar! I think my experiences were best captured by the song SOFI TUKKER - Summer In New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuSci5BSyQ A lot of this went away, not sure why. P…