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Shounakon What happens to all the stuff we return?

If anyone is in the NYC area there's a huge store called Bingers Bargain Bins that stocks returns and overstocked items from Amazon and other retailers. They have a cool model: on Fridays inventory gets restocked and all items are $7, and the price goes down by $1 each day until everything is $1 on Tuesdays (store is closed Wed & Thu).

https://www.insider.com/new-york-city-store-sells-overstock-...

Shounakon Gitpod has laid off around 20 employees

Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience

Shounakon Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

Another quick reward effect you could do to avoid flashing colors is to make the animals jump up and down, as if they’re happy to get their food

Shounakon Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

Running ads, for one

Shounakon Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge

In Providence, RI, America’s oldest mall was converted to micro-apartments with some retail on the 1st floor

https://youtu.be/HmL2l-bcuUQ

Shounakon How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around

Waymo

Shounakon Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased

Where I live near downtown Atlanta I'm also seeing 3-4x the normal bike traffic. We don't have very good bike lanes here so most cyclists are just riding in traffic or on sidewalks. It feels like Atlanta wants to bike so badly; we just don't have the built infrastructure yet.

Shounakon Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

I use Slack for this, using a chat window with myself.

Shounakon London’s trees are saving the city billions

I hope this will happen soon. NYC passed a green roof law in Nov. 2019 that requires all new or extensively renovated buildings to install gardens, urban agriculture, or solar on their roofs.

https://www.citylandnyc.org/29502-2/

Shounakon WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn

The stats do back you up on this point. Women make about 80% of purchasing decisions in the US [0].

[0] https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-m...

Shounakon Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company

Notably they also recently acquired Looker

Shounakon Remove.bg – A service to remove the background of any photo

I tried it with a photo of a crowd of people and it chose around 20% of the people spread randomly around the photo and removed the others.

Shounakon YC Top Companies List

I love this list! A quick typo fix: In the listing for Instacart it says “Valued at over $7s Billion”, which should be changed to just “$7 Billion”.

Shounakon Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program

Their website states that they launch from a Danish Naval base and they receive help from Danish and Swedish authorities, so hopefully that means the Danish government could be open to helping out with the MTCR too.

https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/about-us/

Shounakon Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

Stripe is a payment processor, so when you type in your credit card info, that’s Stripe processing that payment.

Shounakon The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congress Every Year Since 1789

Maybe inflation is part of the reason for this

Shounakon Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

Can you recommend some good crypto influencers to follow?

Shounakon Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined

I believe the comment was talking about any kind of active trading (i.e. picking individual stocks to buy and sell), not only HFT, which uses millisecond fluctuations in security price to make a profit.

Shounakon The Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb

If you're not traveling with a family, I've found hostels to be by far the best experience. They tend to be cheaper than both hotels and AirBNB, and have a very social atmosphere that's great for meeting other travelers and finding interesting off-the-beaten-path places to go.

Shounakon Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker

Skodas are quite popular in India

Shounakon The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town

Huh, it works fine for me on Android Chrome (Nexus 5) and on PC (Dell Inspiron/Windows 8.1/Chrome).