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Ironic that this is #1 on HN, as I’m hellbanned here for calling out the mods for doing nothing about members of this site spreading this conspiracy.

Barbour is probably the most well-known waxed canvas jacket. They’re great, especially in areas where rain comes suddenly.

Are you clicking with the pointing finger? Every time I see someone do that (which is common), it looks incredibly awkward — especially a click and drag. Fingers for pointing and g…

There’s a non-death outcome that seems pretty bad and pretty common that’s hit the young and healthy, which is “seriously fucked up for an indeterminate amount of time”. As someone…

Absolutely. The Apple-Google-Intel-Adobe collusion to keep salaries down was an example of this.

Part of the problem is that there ends up being an effect where, when customers go first to the big delivery apps rather than to restaurants themselves to look for delivery, the de…

> why should someone have to liquidate personal possessions to pay someone else anyway The issue is there's serious moral hazard where owners of a private business can, rather than…

I’ve found boring in this context to be a function of 3 things (in no particular order): - Your experience using the tool in question to solve this problem or very similar ones - Y…

The interesting thing about this puzzle is that it is in some ways easier than many regular sudokus, in that at any given time, you're working with a very narrow space of immediate…

I spent years following Lowe for the Things he Won't Work With, but somewhere a few weeks ago I was made aware of his coverage of COVID drug development, which has been phenomenal …

There aren't regular Cosa Nostra elections.

> While most landlords are actually middle class people trying to make a side income Maybe elsewhere in the country, but in New York, the entire real estate industry is a bunch of …

I think the two places I'm seeing this right now are in the Processing/P5 community ( https://editor.p5js.org ), and interesting things built on top of Glitch. Hydra is fascinating…

Within the US, of the cities I've lived in (NYC, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Chicago, SF), it's thoroughly mainstream in DC, and that's it. In NYC, Ethiopian Food is something I can ge…

Fried pizza is most certainly an authentic Italian thing -- it's street food in Napoli, and it's absolutely fantastic.

If you shorten the JFK-LHR flight to around 3 hours, something along the lines of 6pm departure into 2am arrival becomes viable, after which you get a half-night of sleep in an act…

Their logistics are absolutely phenomenal. The general practitioners I attended before One Medical always was overcrowded, any appointment required sitting in a waiting room for an…

There's a big difference between people specializing and teams specializing. In every organization I've seen, when you take all of the individual specialists with the same skillset…

Java, Ruby, and ML had a wild night that resulted in some massive scrambling of DNA. The child was then adopted by Haskellites and raised in a fundamentalist commune.

> Engineers are infamous for not wanting to deal with pesky things like customers and usually don’t care whether their designs can lead to products that can be produced at scale. T…

FWIW, the resolution for me eventually came when I was able to get a nice feedback loop of breaking off what I thought was a day’s work at the beginning of the day, doing a day’s w…