L_Rahman

Vendors in Bangladesh, where I grew up and where my family is from and where I look like I was born, try to rip me off the second they get the slightest inkling I'm American.

Very little to do with skin color, it's just most often the biggest giveaway that the buyer is a foreigner.

Places like this ask about your dietary restrictions during either the reservation or before the beginning of service. The chef will make on the fly adjustments based on each diner's needs.

My brother and I went to Eleven Madison Park back in 2016 and mentioned my allergies ahead of time. Not only did they plan alternatives for me, they even included them in the printed out menu that they give to each diner as they leave as a memento of the meal.

The French Laundry was only $250 back in 2017? No wonder it was booked out forever, they could (and I believe now are) charging easily 2x that number.

One of the weirdest things about going hiking around Kyoto is coming across valleys of identical trees spaced evenly in neat rows. Absolutely eerie feeling, I was so creeped out I didn't even stop to take pictures.

So many things in Japan are terribly inefficient. They just get some things right that we don't out of sheer necessity. Those clearly marked subway stations are there because of the inhuman rush hour crush that is the Tokyo Metro at 5PM. No Western country would find that acceptable, there would be weekly demands to build more rail capacity.

I used to think this until I spent some time bouncing around East Asia. Tokyo is not even that dense relative to other high functioning Asian mega cities. Seoul is 3x, Taipei is 1.5x. They're much less polite places than Tokyo and manage to function really well.

I've always thought that a team like this is critical to keeping a company running. Any org that's 1000+ needs a 5-7 person team outside of any department that the CEO can throw at problems, but no org that I'm aware of has adopted this structure.

Critically, if someone within the org volunteers to organize and manage the cross departmental knowledge they'll be shut down by people within the company for trying to accumulate power or stepping into someone else's turf.

Only an outsider can safely talk to everyone. They aren't a threat because they aren't part of the company and therefore can't take over.

I spent a few months in São Paulo working on a project with Hospital das Clínicas.

No matter how many times I saw it, the sheer number of contests in which people and websites would ask for a CPF was astonishing.

For Americans, imagine if you were asked if you want to enter your Social Security Number at the supermarket, or when ordering online, or to sign up for a gym membership.

This a peak comment of a particular style of hacker news commentator - the I will die on a hill for one very specific thing and I don't understand why other people cannot see it my way.

Question to OP: do you see a distinction between addictive scroll and like based social media versus Windows/Gmail/Zoom or are they all Big Tech heroin to you?

This examples fails to account for the fact that radiant floor heating is a default feature in all new Korean homes.

Which is why I find it better to get business analysis from people who've made it their job and not overly excited tech journalists:

https://diff.substack.com/p/to-understand-jio-you-need-to-un...

Where do all these roosters live? I kept an eye out for them wherever I went in Da nang, but I never saw any of these roosters. Definitely heard them every dawn though.

Let's leave Vietnam out of this. They're not hiding their numbers. It's difficult for the rest of the world to admit this, but Vietnam beat the virus because their leadership acted quickly, ruthlessly and over time.

In the early days of the outbreak Vietnam didn't have rigorous contact tracing setup, so if a case turned out positive they simply shut down the entire neighborhood for two weeks. Once the source was mostly international cases, they also shut their borders and made no exceptions, not even for trading partners begging to let a handful of people in. But most importantly, even when case numbers went down into single digits, they kept up total lockdown for an additional two weeks.

This saved them from making the mistake Korea made in removing social distancing restrictions the day before a major 5 day weekend which seeded the country and we've been squashing spot fires here ever since.

Authoritarian regimes that have earned public trust through effective governance are probably the countries best suited to manage a pandemic like this one. It's just there are very few of them so it's hard to think of such countries as a category.

> DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams

Has this is water become so widely known that we can simply reference it in conversation like this?

I respect the call out in this comment.

In the interest of intellectual honesty, it's possible that I'm an extreme outlier in this respect. I've spent the last year traveling around the world, I find it really easy to share emotional vulnerability with strangers, and I've made meaningful connections with people in every country I've lived in for more than a week.

This is likely not true for most people.

The final claim is hyperbolic. There absolutely is another option which is to find people who aren't interested in performing amiability or socializing exclusively in the safety of their ethnicity.

I made friends because we loved talking about healthcare policy, from being on the debate team, from a shared love for Mad Men, from being interested in starting companies. I did all of this as someone who'd spent the decade preceding college growing up in Bangladesh, with a thick accent and somehow ended up with a group of friends from all around the world.

I'm not saying any of this was easy, but I do think there's a self-defeating element to believing what the parent does.

I went to Hopkins to study bioengineering. This ended up being a tactical mistake - the media hype around the field gave me unrealistic expectations, the life of an underpaid academic no longer seemed appealing, coursework was incredibly difficult and graded on a harsh curve.

But it was incredibly useful because it took me off the default track. Had I gone to Harvard and enjoyed its attendant grade inflation and reputation advantages, I'd probably be floating around McKinsey and feeling self important right now.

Instead, I had to ask myself some difficult questions about what is important to me and how to make it happen in my life.

As someone who was accepted and got to see their financial aid package, I have to mention that it's extremely generous as well. They don't just cover room and board and tuition, there's an understanding that you're poorer than your peers at the university so there's general spending money, money to buy winter clothes, money to fly home 2x-3x a year.

This is a rounding error for Harvard, but I didn't realize how limiting not having that would be at the school I ended up going to (which only covered tuition and most of room and board).

They do not. The higher price for the SUV is a product of American market preferences for SUVs that have nothing to do with utility and everything to do with branding and self-image.

His challenge is that he has to write about bond market liquidity as both an inside joke for the regular audience and as something comprehensible to a first time reader.

I do enjoy the compromise he's found.

I setup Wireguard using Algo on a home server I kept behind a home router with no problems. It was definitely a dynamic IP because Comcast doesn't provide static IPs for residential connections.

Am I misunderstanding the limitation you're claiming?

That is the case now, but this does not have to be true. It's entirely possible for Arizona to meet its household energy needs renewably.

Half of the reason I want to run my own company is build this culture and hire that role. The team librarian position is probably the single best value for money multiplier possible on team productivity and yet almost no one wants to invest in it.

That's even before we get into second order effects of building new pathways into technology work.

Exactly! This is why I chose to put "property values" in quotes. While it is something that they think about, it's mostly about excluding people they have prejudices against.

The prime opponents to new housing construction aren't people who complain about gentrification or luxury housing. Those groups don't have that much political power. The proof for this lies in the fact that most new housing construction in American cities takes place in lower to middle income neighborhoods.

The opponents to transit and living construction tend to be people who complain about "other people" moving in, "my property values", and "neighborhood character".

We are on the same side of this issue, I simply urge you to direct your anger at more appropriate targets :)

It's visually extremely inelegant as well. Seeing a kanji character next to a single stroke katakana character in the same word is ridiculous and yet somehow commonplace.

I would be more surprised that the Japanese haven't done more to clean this up if it weren't for the cultural conservatism deeply embedded in its society.

I'm using Algo right now and it's perfect if I plan to maintain the same server consistently. The problem is that we're constantly traveling around and latency suffers when trying to connect to a box in DO's NYC3 from Vietnam.

It's a huge hassle to take that box down, spin up a new instance in Singapore, distribute profiles and authenticate. This is neither Algo nor Wireguard's fault. I just wish we had some more tooling to make it easier to move between instances.

I completely agree that it should never be part of Wireguard itself. Mostly looking forward to the project and tooling ecosystem that develops around it.