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Merchants have to pay a decent sized fee on every transaction, and that fee is definitely passed on to the consumer via higher prices. But it’s also (arguably unfairly) equally pas…

Household income.

Almost certainly they detected the earthquake and decided not to notify people because it was too small to warrant a notification.

Not just Silicon Valley, Boeing has had similar problems. I imagine every industry with manufacturing has been affected.

The article makes it seem like this hasn’t been studied in depth before (maybe just in the UK?). Sound like they were just trying to get baselines, and the next step would be to un…

They explain _exactly_ how it works in the 2nd paragraph. 100% of the tip goes to the dasher, and then the base pay scales to hit the “minimum”. That’s obviously lame, since you’d …

The real take away is that they’re sending all text typed in, including credit card and social security numbers, unencrypted to a third party.

Even “ships from and sold by amazon.com” products are comingled with potentially conterfeit products, unless a brand pays extra money for them not to be. No way for the end user to…

Baseball is a very local sport, you play the teams nearby you considerably more than you play any other teams. Also, as others mention, they’ll play multiple games in one location.…

Most people probably shouldn’t have coffee after 4PM.

I’m not sure what you mean by “address the root issue”. The root issue is that batteries degrade over time, for everyone, not just apple. iPhone’s did a good job hiding that away b…

You’ve clearly never lived in a city like LA or New York. Sometimes it takes 45 minutes to drive a few blocks. And Boring Company plans on using parallel tunnels, for safety and fo…

It’d be fairly easy to designate a spot on every block for scooter/bike/etc parking. Much easier and space efficient than creating parking spaces. Here’s an example that Santa Moni…

Most things outdoors are visible from space with a high enough resolution/zoom camera. I’ve always thought the statement “viable from space” was closer to meaningless rather than e…

Sails are crazy efficient, and are most effective when wind is blowing across the bloat. So if you point a fan across the boat you’ll get a forward force vector and sideways force …

Prices will go up and it’ll balance out.

I’m not a grafter myself so I don’t know the specifics. But I do know it’s not cheap. Labor intensive and I don’t think the branches are cheap, despite them growing on trees. And y…

It’s a curse if you were a small orchard happily growing another apple variety. No one wants your apples anymore so you have to rip out all your trees an plant new one. (Side note:…

There’s not many options for what it could be, so it’s pretty easy to figure out. The color is most important, with some additional info like utility (which are few and welol known…

Milk is pasteurized differently in the US vs Europe. I’d bet that has the most impact on taste.

This only protects when the lid is closed, but many people leave the lid open on their desk. I would love to see a light come on if the camera or microphone is receiving power, and…

Gay marriage rights and now weed legalization are two recent examples of policy that I don’t think would have been possible in America (at least for a long time) without decentrali…

SpaceX is a Los Angeles based company, and Elon Musk also lives in Los Angeles. I’m not sure if that counts as Silicon Valley.

The dockworker union is too strong.

It's NOT open source as per the readme: "I purposely have not added an open source license to the project and am intentionally retaining copyright for the code, meaning that it may…