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Oh no, where will I possibly find weird racist xenophobic takes if not during my taxi ride? It's too bad there's not a million social media sites where I could be exposed to them

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Subway fares disproportionately penalize the poor and force them into encounters with police. Transit should be free.

SF startups seem like a fucking nightmare. I live in a second-tier city and there's lots of six-figure, 9-5 software dev roles that are nowhere near as competitive. Consider reloca…

There's a few levels going on here: - technologists and startup wannabes feeling like HN is "underground" because of the stripped down aesthetic and weird tech stack - out of touch…

If the US had stronger regulation of airlines they would require compensation in these circumstances. In the EU you would be covered. Flying in the US is a hellscape now thanks to …

> delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control. AFAIK if it's one booking on the same airline or a codeshare th…

I think it's a "fuck around and find out" situation like Brexit. People love to stomp their feet and complain, but when some big interest group actually organizes the vote and it h…

"AI tend to be brittle and optimized for specific tasks, so we made a new specific task and then someone optimized for it" isn't some kind of gotcha. Once ARC puzzles became a benc…

BNPL seems primarily like a regulatory arbitrage because of increasing scrutiny of payday loans and limits on credit card interest rates. Do we really think securitization of burri…

I organized some grassroots hackathon events 10+ years ago. Turnout was mostly students and die-hard geeks who wanted something to do on the weekend. Even in this small pond we had…

Dave needs all the money he can get, he has two families to feed!

Weed doesn't hit for me, but it's so easy to buy good mushrooms near me. It's like a nice weekend vacation to just walk around my neighborhood (or better, go to a cottage and trip …

I find some startup leaders really struggle with this if they come from a Big Corp environment. If you're a CTO or VP or Director of Engineering for like 20 people, you're actually…

It's an incredibly dangerous job, both in terms of chronic health and acute risk.

Have you been to a bank branch recently? There is almost no staff, and to get help you have to call an offshored call center.

2019 public-facing Tobi is probably the least insane version. He has gotten worse and more egocentric (and more explicitly right-wing) since then. Early (pre IPO) Shopify had a pre…

There's a kind of survivorship bias to people saying "he's very smart". I was in a neglected part of the engineering org far away from his micromanaging. If he had been showing up …

To be clear this is a pretty modern company, not 10 years ago. CI/CD absolutely was a common best practice.

Having worked at Shopify, Tobi is 100% a try-hard Elon wannabe. Anil is correct that this is about performing "being a CEO" for the sake of his image among his peers. My favorite s…

I worked on a product where there was basically no automated testing, just a huge product surface to click around with a bunch of options. Because of technical debt some of the opt…

Aren't there issues with states randomly revoking registration for imported kei vehicles because of emissions/safety/whatever?

This article is missing at least the Mitsubishi Mirage - the 2024 model year still seems to be available for 17k in the base trim?

I use a 2018 Subaru Forester to move stuff like this, with the seats folded flat the cargo space is decent. You can add some cargo boxes on the back trailer hitch as well. The drea…

Contrary to people's expectations, it's not actually possible for "number go up" to continue forever. Privileged people have extracted value from marginalized people, the global so…