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Great writeup! I work with NYC open data but did not know about this dataset! > Garages make up one-fifth of NYC buildings I'm quite surprised by this.

Veritasium has a great video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pir_muTzYM8

https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=ana+peru

Yes! He organized a barebones conference out of the Meetup office in New York. The premise was that all attendees would do a 10 minute talk on any subject (I think it was called 10…

This was an aside at the end of the article, but what an interesting strategy: I bought the stock for the same reason I buy stock in every hotel, airline, bank, and similar I use: …

It sounds like this is already the case, somewhat. The article says: > Ambetter was obligated by state law to provide one outside of its network if Ravi couldn’t find one in a “tim…

Compared to overtime, though, which cost $800M+ in 2023, lawsuit settlements by the NYPD only cost $115M in the same year[0]. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/nyregion/nypd-polic…

Similarly, I was surprised by the "lawsuit settlements" section on this Lieutenant's page on the referenced 50-a.org site https://www.50-a.org/officer/JPRP

> Right now if you want to create content for Netflix you need to buy like a $30,000 camera . Just noting that the official guide[0] lists a number of cheaper cameras, including on…

I laugh when I see these because I've witnessed the process that leads to them. It goes something like: 1. Relatively confusing UX is designed and built. 2. User testing or executi…

I just have to say the the entire Hokusai exhibition currently on view at MFA Boston[0] is very very cool. Great Wave is on display (as shown on this site), but the dozens of other…

State and local laws matter a lot. I moved to a tenant-friendly state (NY) from a tenant-unfriendly state (Texas). NY has much stronger protections for renters. Better eviction law…

Yesterday's post about Ikea[0] reminded me of this company that exclusively sells cardboard furniture. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35700751

Further afield, but may I also recommend the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas and the smaller but also great Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ. http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ ht…

> can you give me examples where fire codes are over-zealous? There's a small movement to eradicate the requirement for midrise buildings to have 2 stairways. Advocates point to Eu…

Wow, bad timing for Eve Air Mobility, who just started trading on the NYSE this morning. https://evtol.com/news/eve-goes-public-nyse-zanite-sharehold...

For electronics, B&H photo is good, too! (Also I'm in NYC and they're a local company with local distribution centers)

They could, but WeWork has a nice network of spaces. We have seamlessly moved from one WeWork building to another in the same city, opened up satellite offices in other cities, etc…

I'm impressed with how small the dev team was, how much fun they seemed to have working, and how much freedom and creativity they had. I wonder if we stifle innovation by building …

I noticed this the last time I was in Berlin. A cafe can process a line of 10 people paying cash very quickly.

Is that a fair comparison? I'm actually asking, I don't know anything about CPU development. It just seems like it's a different kind of work entirely.

Ah, gotcha. That makes some sense to me. Would you call pre-streaming Netflix a tech startup? It feels like a startup to me, but at first it was just Blockbuster through the mail. …

pg has some thoughts on what a "startup" is [0]. I used Warby Parker as an example because their business model is disruptive, they're high-growth, and they leverage technology. I …

I live in NYC and the main difference I noticed about food in CA is how produce-centric it is. NYC food is incredible, but eating out usually means meat, cheese, and bread.