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Family homes rarely exceed $13M but farms and ranches can get up there. Seems like it should be easy to exclude agricultural land, but there's second-order consequences. If farms a…

NYT did a great article on True World Foods: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sush... Archive version: https://archive.ph/ZAy6D Pod version: https://podcasts…

it thinks it knows how and then produce good looking code at a glance but with wrong logic. This is so accurate. I still like copilot and I might even pay for it, but I will never …

This has always been Amazon's strategy. Amazon is not a server company, an ecommerce company, a grocer, or any of the other seemingly random things they do. The common thread runni…

If you have all the cash you need and a bare lot in Vancouver with services set up, you're still two years away from getting shovels in the ground. The permitting is straight out o…

A while back there was an article here from someone who moderated their social media use by throttling the connection speed for facebook - with the site getting slower the more tim…

I don't know anything about this industry but I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I have always wondered how the narration actually works, what the job is like. Sometimes I can hear t…

Pemberton had historically high snowfall last month, followed by a massive rain event. If the roof didn't have issues in January it's probably not going to have issues for a very l…

I went fully remote about 8 years ago. About 3 years ago I realized I turn into a hermit. Being home alone all day is bad for me. The problem is that I live in a small mountain tow…

This article is great. The one thing I would add is that once you pick your base color, the lighter shades are probably going to be low saturation and the darker shades are going t…

Battery life is easier to market than an acronym that sounds like it's either related to trucks or sheep. RAM eats battery. Apple has made a strategic decision to pretend RAM doesn…

That is... exactly what the author is advocating.

The people who like to work in offices will still work in offices. There will be more of them, they will be smaller, and they will be wherever their employees want to live. Some wi…

#BADA55 - hex for some key lime pie in the web UI

Agreed, most of them are completely open. Here's the best effort I have seen to document all the parallel efforts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9o...

Also https://github.com/Corona-Trace

This is a good thing, and I think in the absence of this solution we would see intrusive solutions backed by governments and mandated by law. I do have two questions: Is there a pl…

Airpods dominate because when you put them in your ears, they work immediately. They also have a great case, which means you usually have them with you when you need them.

I recently stayed at a hotel built with this quality. Everything was rusty, from the door hinges to the windows, to the front gate. There were cracks in the foundation that shot up…

It's worth listening to the podcast that the screenwriter put out alongside the show. He discusses the decision to collapse the scientists into one character, and explains why he c…

PLAYBOY: But there’s a catch. You have stated that you will scan e-mail in order to target advertisements based on its content. As a San Jose Mercury News columnist wrote, “If Goog…

Coaching raises scores on both aptitude and intelligence tests. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1984-16352-001 https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2007-03270-007 https://onlinelibrary.wiley…

My mom is a professor, all of her DVDs are low-distribution educational and historical documentaries that she can use in her classroom. Most are not available anywhere else.

I don't think I have seen a Netflix DVD advertisement in a decade. I would bet that the majority of those 2.7M subscribers joined before Netflix streaming began and never saw a rea…

Another bonus to rolling -- it is initiated with your core, so it uses large powerful muscles. Once the roll is initiated you can feed your kick and your pull with that momentum. Y…