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The transit stop use case really does seem to be ramping up, including the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority currently adding them to most surface Green Line stops: https://www.m…

The site only lists rents for studios/one-beds, but the application plan approved by the Tempe City Council includes a number of 2br apartments and a handful of 3br. The mix is as …

Red light is typically used at night in order to avoid destroying the eye's rhodopsin, which helps with night vision and takes at least 30 minutes of non-exposure to blue light to …

>2. Lobby to get the flight training school to practice over unpopulated areas. This is fairly typical — even in urban centers there's typically one or more "training areas" for st…

On the other hand, Chrome for Android killing off Duet a few weeks ago has made it actively painful every time I need to switch tabs.

Dominion and Duke Energy also cancelled the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline the same day this deal was announced, citing mounting costs from legal uncertainties. https://www.…

>Sounds like it's still above 0 Because of frictional unemployment, it's neither possible nor desirable for the unemployment rate to reach 0. >which means you should be forced to s…

Note that the reserve is currently at 87.4% capacity, with 635 million barrels in inventory (250.3m sweet, 384.7m sour).[0] Plans to expand capacity to a billion barrels with the a…

>you'd probably perform the same home treatment as any other respiratory illness. Notably, you should not take ibuprofen or other NSAIDS. Stick to acetaminophen/paracetamol instead…

The near term is precisely what monetary policy affects...

Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14234223

That's not accurate. CPI adjusts both in basket composition and the more nebulous hedonic quality adjustment. The TV you bought for $500 today is not the same as the one you bought…

>Why do people use CPI instead of labor How would one differentiate real and nominal wage/salary increases? >housing Shelter expenditures presently constitute 33.2% of the CPI bask…

The difference is that the projects mentioned by grandparent are under cost-plus contracts, while the Commercial Crew Program is under a fixed-price contract.

HNers have been launching this criticism at Mint at least since I signed up for this website. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mint+password

>9/10 times, my net displacement for the day is 0. If my net displacement is zero, I would prefer to own the medium I'm using to move. I don't. 9/10 times, despite zero net displac…

How many externalities are you offloading onto society with the choices you just described?

This is a myopic view. In my city's experience, when infrastructure like parking corrals are provided scooter users tend to behave properly. When there's nowhere to leave your scoo…

Cars kill 37,000 people in the United States each year.

Curious how many of the scooter-haters in this thread drive cars daily. In my experience they're a huge boon to walkable, car-free or car-lite lifestyles, and all but useless in th…

>impending announcement of the Model Y The Model Y was announced in mid-March, to generally negative reviews/market reaction.

It's a 70kg satellite. Would have to be a rideshare, not a primary payload.

>If I put on a tinfoil hat I could say that the AATIP’s purpose was to instill doubt that aliens exist, but that would imply that they do exist. I thought it was well established t…

Atlas V burn was nominal, this error didn't happen until the capsule was out of the atmosphere.

Enormous parking requirements, though.