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It used to be financial modeling but they realized they’d get more attention with the esports audience this way. It’s gone quite far now - one of the many challenges was a mock ter…

I just visited China and seeing it as 3rd lowest on the list makes sense. Everything is done by QR Code with AliPay or WeChat. Even the old man selling bamboo cane for less than a …

This might actually push people to upgrade their hardware. And Apple retention rates are high. Apple will be fine.

You left the last sentence out of the paragraph from their ad copy. It doesn’t make their practices OK, but it’s important for those who don’t click through: > We should note, howe…

This. Only 5% of post-consumer plastic waste in the US was recycled in 2021.

This is impressively very close! It uses Pirate Weather, a thread on accuracy from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34198683

Most of the apples in grocery stores have been in storage for months since most are harvested in fall and have been sprayed with diphenylamine (DPA), an antioxidant that slows the …

Agree, ambrosia is my #1. The fact that it is 55 and the mealier, less tart, less sweet Gala apples are 70 tells me we have very different tastes. It is closer to a Honeycrisp, whi…

Check out The Silence of Others (2018) on Netflix, produced by Almodovar for more background on the Franco atrocities and how it still is echoing today.

Black Mirror Nose Dive anyone? Nice concept but the "invest" idea introduces friction that could be too much to overcome. What about a PageRank system based on recommendation / tes…

I wonder how long this been in the works, and is this playing catch-up to ClickUp and Notion? I find Trello's UX much more responsive and their apps much more functional. However l…

It doesn't have to be one or the other. Wear it to protect yourself and others.

This is a common and dangerous misconception. Wearing a seatbelt causes you to be a projectile that bounces around the car, into other people. YouTube "not wearing a seatbelt" and …

Anyone interested in dynamic sitting or creating a workplace that encourages movement and strengthening that goes against this passive lay-down desk, check out Katy Bowman's work: …

Exactly. This is where sketchnoting / graphic recording can be extremely beneficial. It's also fun and I'm far more likely to review handwritten notes that contain graphics organiz…

What does Voss' class have that's not in his book?

Everything is a remix

Good point about not being rated back! For me, I like that AirBnB's are available in much more locations, and often at a lower cost. And for longer stays, it's nice having a kitche…

I think you meant Gabriel Werner's excellent Fluent Forever.

It's not for everyone, but the hourly cost for a therapist is typically between $90-$200. Also these new services could be covered under some insurance programs (I'm curious for so…

...and https://www.peloton.com and their oil & gas software.

Assuming artists could predict demand and supply (versus spending time creating music), if they become popular, with this simplified logic they should only play large venues (which…

Some artists want their concerts to be accessible. Not every creator is in the maximizing profit mindset.