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Comparing to the 1980s maybe misses that the population was much younger then, and there’s still a general trend of people moving more when they’re younger and settling down when t…

Zipline is growing fast… it’s drone-based, but it definitely delivers packages to your front door. ( https://www.zipline.com/ )

It's interesting to me how different the tone sounds if every time he said "users" you substituted "people" (or if that didn't make sense in context, substitute "customers"). I fin…

This is presented as an interesting and kind of positive take on the AI going to surprising lengths to “solve the problem.” But I couldn’t help thinking of the paperclip factory wh…

Property tax is the workable wealth tax. There's no such thing as a perfect policy, but in the context of NYC this seems worth trying. I'll be interested to see if it helps create …

One nice thing: Denver has already repealed parking requirements, so, they don't have legal standing to complain about it.

I’m pretty sure those were drawn in SketchUp

What I said is this is what I struggle with. In general I think too much regulation is what caused this problem. And the question on my mind is, from where we are today, is there a…

I think the case is well-made, but it's not a game of chicken, it's an arms race.

Mind blown. Thanks for sharing!

Traveling cross-country at age 10 and 6. Amazing that all they needed was a letter saying they weren't runaways, and people seemed to think this was a neat adventure for them.

The thing about status pages is they have to be up when you're down, and (if your service is non trivial) they have to be able to handle a traffic profile that basically looks like…

There’s a huge difference. Everyone sees the same front page on CNN, or HN for that matter. Nobody sees the same page twice on YouTube or TikTok. That’s a fundamental distinction b…

Each blog you follow in the RSS model you opted in to. And each post comes from a person, or a publication, who can be held accountable for what they publish. Ordinary media, like …

I think a better solution would be to repeal section 230 protection for any kind of personalized or algorithmic feed. The algorithm makes you a publisher, and you should be liable …

Sad, although I guess I'm not surprised. I think it's fair to say that, if not for Heroku, I would not have had a career in software. I learned how to code web apps from books, and…

Feels like watching emergence in real time.

I have a 4-5 year old ultra wide monitor which is a lot of pixels but low dpi. I really like the single monitor containing two screens worth of pixels, but I wish it was high dpi. …

My recent Sony TV does this. But also I pretty much never use the TV button to turn it on, I click a button on one of the connected devices to wake it and the TV turns itself on wi…

I don’t know why websites even bother having text when it is this badly destroyed by advertising.

Airfare in the US costs less today than it did in the 90s, adjusted for inflation: https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2024-annual-average-domestic-ai...

> The issue with an industry awash with cheap dross, is that it becomes prohibitively expensive to produce high Quality stuff. This seems to be one of the brutal truths of the mode…

I LOVE this idea. I’ve specifically been looking to buy a tiny truck or van, “can hold sheets of plywood” being a major criteria. I love the idea of that being a simple electric I …

I feel like Haskell is easier to use than it is to explain, and in my experience a lot of these kind of tutorial / explanations actually make things seem harder and more complicate…