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I also use the $5/month plan, and the few times I have exceeded the 300-search limit, Kagi simply renews my monthly plan early. For me it's just happened a few times towards the en…

I have been using Acorn since...wow, 2009! After the first $49 purchase, I spent another $15 and then $19 on upgrades over the years. It's very effective. The interface is extremel…

What they actually tend to do is have someone in management call to congratulate you and invite you to discuss banking products. I know this from personal experience.

I agree the name is pretty terrible for a mass-market company because everybody associates it with price, but I believe the origin was due to the fact that they offered direct sale…

The 14th amendment to the constitution would seem to disagree with your assertion.

You can make it work with iTunes Match. It will upload all your music (it's not just filename or metadata matching, apparently it uses audio fingerprints). Then you can play your o…

Great customer service, too. Punch in your account number and you get a smart human immediately. No scripts.

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-pillow-for-side-sleep... I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade p…

I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd. My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through …

I use Blue Apron sporadically; it can be a good thing on a busier week because it removes both menu planning and shopping while still letting you make home-cooked meals (take-out m…

At https://chunkhost.com about 25% of our revenue per month has been in Bitcoin since 2014. Since the price spike it's actually increased to more like 40% (from new accounts, not o…

In the last 18 years or so I've been reading kottke.org, I don't think a single day has gone by without finding something delightful or fascinating. It's the best site on the inter…

I don't use Apple Music either. I just dislike the idea of not owning something so near and dear to me. It works OK for me after turning off the "Show Apple Music" option in Settin…

They're not really that cheap to rent, although they're competitive with bike share prices. If you, say, used one to get to & from work on a commute of a few miles you'd break even…

The law requiring wearing a helmet makes no sense to me. I think Bird is great. The helmet law seems to have something much closer to a Vespa in mind. And while a Bird can move alo…

That's a specious argument. You linked to short, mild a speech on the House floor from 2005 encouraging primary home-ownership as a means of investing, and a Fox News report about …

Sendgrid allowed attackers to social engineer control of my company's account and intercept password resets, despite an explicit warning from us a week prior (we received a chat tr…

I remember "Please Let Me Die" very well...watching it in a biomedical ethics class caused me to faint (for the first and only time). Twenty-five years after his accident, Dax is a…

The promise of Coin is that you don't have to carry anything else. It is a fantastic idea. However, unless it worked at least 95% of the time, it's useless, because you have to car…

That's a whole other problem with surfing! Surfing regularly is a terrible hobby. Time-consuming, expensive, cold (depending on location). Wetsuits are annoying. Waves are crowded.…

Like other small subcultures appropriated for their "cool factor" by the mainstream, there is a lot of internal policing for poseurs: people who don't know or care about the values…

An interesting example from the past is the LiveJournal "Express Lane": http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74 I wasn't a LiveJournal user, but saw one of Brad F…

This reminds me of the recent New Yorker article debating the social value of Wall St.: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...