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I can't comment about the minimum number of stores, but I do think its the correct idea. I live in a town of ~12000. We have 6.5 bookstores (including the good local thrift store a…

Within the US, energy prices for are typically split into supply and distribution rates with taxes and fees added to each of these. There are typically a large number of these fees…

This is essentially what some 3rd party vendors do, which is why supply chain malware is typically found in hours now and not weeks. The reason why npmjs, pypy and other public reg…

Other airports do have ads for tech companies (Seattle comes to mind) but the concentration is significantly lower. Billboards are primarily focused on brand awareness since you ca…

For people to care of would have to be like healthcare. The Change Healthcare breach cost 2B+ and led to a huge loss in market share. Or like AMCA, which went bankrupt after the br…

If you're in the northeast US it's very common to have free or have to pay a nominal fee for public tennis courts (this may depend on the quality of your town's Park and rec depart…

This is much more viable than it was in the past with the advent and adoption of nvm, pyenv etc but the limiting factor becomes system dependencies. The typical example from yester…

In new England at least, independent bookstores appear to be thriving. The town I'm in (population ~12K) has at least 5 independent bookstores, all in a town with a great library. …

Something popular in my area, especially in the somatics community, are grief ceremonies ala https://www.earthdance.net/event/grieving-ourselves-whole-ex... although there are seve…

VC funding is often required for companies that require a lot of runway prior to selling. The example that comes to mind are database companies like Mongo, dgraph, scylla etc. Thes…

It's rare but does happen. And frankly I'd only include AWS in the counterpoint. Google really struggled with GCP. Outside of Bigquery and Spanner many/most of the services were cu…

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/germa... discusses some places that are moving to Linux and some places where migrations have been reverted. But from persona…

Daily stand-ups, the main benefit of which is that managers (EMs/PMs) get daily updates on status. Sprints themselves which promise that a certain amount of work will always get do…

Something adjacent is the Underscore dance's glyphs ( https://globalunderscore.com/underscore-glyphs/ ) which describe the patterns/phases of contact improvisation

Cloudflare historically included trace IDs which were helpful for troubleshooting for customer support/support engineers.

Playbooks that I've found value in: - Generic application version SLI comparison. The automated version of this is automated rollbacks (Harness supports this out of the box, but yo…

One issue I've found with cultures that emphasize no jerks is that the pendulum can swing too far that way to the point where its difficult or impossible to provide critical feedba…

The market over the last 2ish years is significantly worse then it's been over the past 10 years with the exception of Covid due to the rise of interest rates and change in tax inc…

Parts have been. Sourcegraph is basically the code search post built by ex-Googlers originally. Bazel is the open source build tool. Sadly, most of these things require major work …

Its pretty common to see "easy" algorithm problems or potentially build a small simple app as a way to test that you can actually code. I'd say 75% of companies I've interviewed at…

If the OP is in the US, Chinese cars are unavailable since they don't meet US standards. Additionally, there is a level of protectionism that will try to prevent them from being in…