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tangent: ridiculous that a site called designbloom has such an atrocious user experience. popovers, things that take over your reading space, and just general shiftiness all over t…

It is stunning, particularly so if you read up on the history beforehand and then see all the elements in the painting. It’s the first time I was able to appreciate a Picasso for a…

Just look at the size of Kinect and compare it with faceid embedded in a phone. The word “just” is doing a lot of work in the parent comment.

If a country enters and leaves accords and organizations on a whim, at what point does it become a liability to have that country be at the table at all?

That’s an odd comparison to make. The ‘school system’ isn’t a monolithic system that is actively refusing to acknowledge or take action against sexual predators. Is there an exampl…

It's also crazy that people are buying into the idea of 'Founder Mode' when Airbnb is one of the companies that is very much riding on the moat it created a while back while not do…

This is great. You are missing True Nutrition. Also if you could add a simple way to reset the filters, that would be great.

Any product that uses this is more than just the chip, so you cannot get a proportional change in battery life.

Worth mentioning the depaving efforts in Mexico City, particularly in Pedregal in an effort to replenish the ground water. In this case, for the lava bed, not earth and plants. htt…

Curious to know where in SF you lived. Generally there’s bodegas all over the place and you can find fresh produce there. Not to mention, the city has good bakeries everywhere. Fas…

Sorry to be pedantic, but not up until, but from the 15th century or so (Babur) until some time in the 18th century (Battle of Plassey). And not all of India but a northern region.…

Article gift link (if you cannot get past the paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/health/coolsculpting-side...

Having read many of his books, that’s absolutely not the case. His book ‘The Anarchy’ (and the podcast) goes into great detail about the excesses of colonialism.

So interesting to see William Dalyrumple pop up on HN. He has been writing fascinating history books for decades, particularly about India. He’s currently hosting a podcast called …

Tangential to the article itself - the page is fairly unreadable, at least on mobile due to the silly number of ads, an overlaid video ad that doesn’t seem to have a close button a…

It doesn’t always work that way. We sometimes have friends we might not stay actively in touch with, but are able to pick up where we left off when we are back in contact. Friendsh…

>California has the same age-adjusted excess mortality as Florida, so the destruction was wrought for naught. Seems arbitrary to compare with Florida when the linked data shows Cal…

>San Francisco has replaced its DA and now re-funded police When was SF police de-funded? Budgets have only increased [1] each year, any rhetoric notwithstanding 1. https://abc7new…

With smartphones and GPS, it would seem that self guided audio tours would be a no-brainer. With all this focus on augmented reality, why isn’t there a bunch of high quality apps t…

The 87,000 additional auditors is a misleading interpretation [1] Summary: - IRS used to have over 100,000 employees a decade back. This number has fallen due to funding cuts etc t…

Unrelated to the product itself, please make pricing/licensing clear upfront. “Try for free” leads to a page that says “signing up is free”. Great, but what comes after that? Pleas…