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I shop at whole foods frequently mainly for fresh produce and dairy. this is largely because of its proximity to my home. My other regular grocery chains are my local mom and pop grocery store who is about 300 feet from my house, Costco and target. I avoid Safeway as far as I can.

My observations are 1) my local mom and pop store carries the freshest and cheapest vegetable produce. They are alert to my needs and are doing brisk business with a regular clientele. They source their produce from the central valley ave Sacramento area using a network of independent farms. 2) Costco is great for some produce while making up the true per pound cost for other items e.g. Tomatoes. Additionally I find Costco produce to perish faster. 3) whole foods has dependable produce but at over 50% Mark ups.

One often neglected risk is the risk to the ramp crew from lightning. For a quick turn around in the middle of a storm like this, someone needs to neglect their own personal safety. Many times lighting is less risky to the plane but even before the storms roll in the lighting picks up.

This is the second such instance in the past month. - For a longer discussion on the topic see this thread on airliners.net http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1373093

- On August 24 Typhoon Hato hit HongKong hard. All airlines canceled their service in and out of HKIA, except a lone KLM flight from Amsterdam. Similar to the delta flight into San Juan, this flight created a large media storm into the risk involved. http://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2017/08/24/klm-747-ty...

While I am not a pilot, I know that such flights involve sophisticated planning (route, fuel, approach), weather prediction as well as diversionary plans if things do not work out. No airline would undertake such a high-risk move without the confidence that they are not putting lives at risk.

This is an amazing monopoly and patent play between Costco and the parent company of titleist.

Here is the original case: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/03/21/rough-costco...

Couple of random ramblings about the article

- IT jobs as in do they mean IT admins/Biz Analysts or programmers and software engineers. There is a smaller market in the area for IT admins than for programmers and software engineers. additionally, It seems to mix data between tech jobs and hotels etc.

- Why the random cheap shot at H1-Bs. Is this focused on employment or immigration ? typically in a healthy market employment trends follow immigration (employment based) trends. Seems like an effort to stir up some traffic to a poorly sourced article.

- The social media bubble? This is the first time I have heard of that term. Appreciate if they did some basic homework to see 2016 investment trends https://www.wilmerhale.com/uploadedFiles/Shared_Content/Edit...

Isn't this a very healthy statistic? In theory, not all companies are meant to last forever. Heck, no company should last forever.

Infact, I would argue that he should be doing 7-8 a week. Clearing out the deck and making way for the new is a good way we can maintain a long term healthy eco system.

Frankly, many iffy biz models that escape startup death aren't survivors but are just long term zombies that are propped up by investor stupidity with no clear path to sustainable growth.

How much of the problem is actually the way (big) pharma conducts research? ( I know that I am over simplifying and dozens of startups are focused on improving the way research is done)

From a manf process standpoint, there are cheaper ways to create these compounds. Generic drug manufacturers have proved that ignoring the cost of research, the drug itself costs next to nothing to make, market and sell.

From an economics standpoint, healthcare costs are a significant part of GDP. In an ideal model if all research is funded directly via government grants and the key research is licensed through a free licensing - It should create a very competitive drug cost model.For a healthcare practice standpoint, legislation can really help. Stripping down some of the malpractice laws are a good starting point.

Additionally, the monopoly on medical education should be broken - Making medical education a national priority is a key step. We also need to make sure, that doctors are not the only healthcare providers. Enabling entrepreneurship among non doctor(nurses, mid wives etc) medical practioners can increase the market supply.

These 2 actions in theory should create more doctors and reduce the cost of practicing medicine.

Airline flight path scheduling is a complicated process where wind and weather patterns are only one aspect of the route taken. Most trans atlantic and trans pacific routes operates with well known "highways" that are strictly adhered to. Apart from weather/wind, load factors, crew certification, craft certification, traffic congestion are some of the factors that existing automated flight route programs already factor. There is a youtube documentary that details the flight scheduling process. Additionally, for the more interested airliners.net's forums has a large trove of information talking about the same topic.

In fact Air India is one of the most generous in terms of legroom and seat width (An artefact of it being a govt owned entity). They have been slow to adopt the 10 seat across(in Y) that has become standard with the 777. Try flying in EK or UA and see the difference. Trading seat comfort to entertainment choice (among other factors) is an individual choice.

While this threat is specific to the renting market, I digress to the general housing market,as renting has steadily turned into a very expensive option for most households in the bay.

We were in the market to buy a small home in the bay and were totally out priced from the market despite being a 2 income high tech couple. While most people talk about the hip SF and downtown areas, desirable homes in even more middle of the road places like Fremont and South Bay(Milpitas, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara) are over inflated. In one instance our offer was declined in East Palo Alto / East MPark area even after being over 22% of list price.

While I am not for protectionist ideas, It might be worth considering a cap on the number of foreign 'investors' in residential real estate -unless- they actually live in the home or area. I have seen that a huge section of the current price inflation is driven by overseas investors putting together a safe home for future generations without actually living in the place. This ensures that sufficient stock is available in the real east market.

Also all overseas cash home sales in the bay area above $'X' should be subject to an IRS audit to prevent overseas ill-gotten gains, corruption money or worse drug money being re-invested in US real estate.

I strongly distrust glassdoor. A former employer used to ask interns to fill out glassdoor reviews during a t-shirt give out party. Needless to say those were the 5 star ratings all happening on a single day.

Here is the original article. https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d...

It would be nice if you could link to the original article

>> Incidentally, if you saw Jessica at a public event, you would never guess she hates attention, because (a) she is very polite and (b) when she's nervous, she expresses it by smiling more.

on point(b) - I do this too. I have seen that very few people pick up on this queue. I smile and hide my nervous energy.

I think very highly of JIRA and would use it again, but at a previous workplace ( over 1000 users) we required to have a JIRA/confluence admin who was spending over 50% of his time either keeping it running, adding connectors, or making modifications to suite various interest groups.

Follow up question: I am assuming this change has not effect on Startup school radio that is hosted by AHarris.

Additionally, how is this going to affect startup school ? Startup school picks attendees from hacker news.

As someone who is about to have the first new addition to the family, the 8 weeks off is further complicated by state laws and company policy. Even though my wife's maternity leave is protected by law in CA, her company can force her to use up her accumulated PTO time before allowing her to use her maternity leave ( I am skipping a lot of the technical details here..., but it was complicated enough that we had to use a spread sheet to figure out which law applies at the time frame, and if and how she is compensated during this time)

IoCs: https://github.com/fireeye/iocs

They seem to be scant on security details. Its great to say you are built on the tenant of security but its the details that matter.

What sort of protection do they offer for phishing , spam and AV ?

Do they offer integration with other security , DLP suits ?

There are tons of ways this is relevant to Hacker news, the ability for labour, management ,customers and vendors to stick it out for a fair society is un-heard off.

Lots of companies (Tech) and non tech speak about ethos and values they espose off but rarely follow up on. I respect those who walk the talk and not just talk the talk. Clearly Arthur T walked his talk and his employee stood up for him. If I ever get to a leadership, I only wish I can do some of the stuff he has done for his employees and customers.

People management is one of the poorly understood and performed roles in a corporate hierarchy. Most middle management ( in technical organizations ) is promoted either due to 'Technical competence' or 'In-the-club'. Unfortunately either of these 2 selection criteria are not necessary functions for good people mgmt skills.

Ace people managers are strategic physiologists. They understand emotion and motivation while developing a great understanding of their employees. Each employee has a profile that determines what motivates them and these managers have a good holding of this. All this while knowing that their employees are humans and not robotic machines.

I appreciate the idea of making startup school a more global event. Frankly speaking for a lot of entrepreneurs making a trip to the bay area can be a substantial dent on their pockets. I attended the previous year's startup school and the experience and outcomes was phenomenal. I hope the quality of speakers continues to maintain the current high standards and provide deep and much needed insight.

Respect

I have 2 Apple TV devices and have loved the product in general. { Disclaimer - I am far from being an apple fan boy }

Couple of things that require fixes.

- Content: Frankly the current content is pretty lame. ABC has a sheepish presence catering to its prime TV shows. ESPN seems to use this as a vehicle for ESPN3.

- Itunes: I had such a bad experience with itunes movie rentals over the weekend. Utterly bad streaming/buffering experience. Unacceptable.

- Radio: Come on .... Do you know they have internet radio support?

-Keyboard: Searching is such a pain. Try using the search on the youtube app.

- Remote: The remote interferes with your Bluetooth receiver on your mac book.

- lack of local storage

The next best story for linux has been enterprise linux. A stable kernel, easily configurable(and free)toolset and a growing engineering pool has driven this market. In terms of dollar value this market is nearly (if not the same) as large as the handheld/portable linux market that android has conquered.

The price hike has been very disappointing and actually biz killing. 10$ for a flight was a smooth price point while 10$ per hr is atrocious.

I agree completely. Lunch conversations are a wonderful time to break into informal conversations that result in ideas/fixes etc. I have worked at 2 places where (informally) the team chose to have lunch together and I have seen that the discussion invariable boils down to work ideas with better results than 'meetings'. I suspect a large reason as to why this works is eventually everyone lets their guard down and results in better/relaxed thinking.

Does it really matter whether he knew to code or not ? Job's area of brilliance was complimenting to Woz's technical competence and they both managed to stay "generally" out of each others way yet focused on the same goal.

Nope/Not as much. That was a mid 1990's issue. Rwanada under paul kagame has made some really good strides in development. Raising coffee and tea prices have helped the local economy to a great extent. I agree problems still exist but they are not show stoppers.

I agree. If it tried to tell that apple reacted with panic to the cross platform nature of kindle - I dont think so.