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I thought 99 Ranch would be the grocer that “sparked an Asian American revolution” as the article suggests. 99 Ranch started expanding back in the 80s and had a lot of what the author mentioned.

I read somewhere that because people don't live that long, we don't have a collective memory of previous disasters or pandemics (anyone who was alive today during the 1918 pandemic wouldn't really remember it), so human history simply happens in cycles or waves. The underlying conflict is the same, but a new set of humans deal with it with the technological tools of the day.

Simply put, if the human lifespan were longer, we might give less fucks about natural disasters because we've seen them before.

Not just here, Reddit and even MacRumors as well [1].

[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...

At this point though, there’s so many EVs on the road in LA/SF that the HOV lanes aren’t necessarily faster.

I’ve thought about this while cycling to work that I’m inhaling a bunch of exhaust, but with the push to EVs will this no longer be an issue?

Dust and particulates that settle on asphalt will still be a problem though.

San Jose, California does this for the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton, although I think they're switching to blueish LEDs. The sodium-vapor lights are frequently mistaken as yellow traffic lights though, in my experience.

Even in the Bay Area, the Lincoln Ave road diet in Willow Glen (San Jose) was severely divided, and I considered the Bay Area to be way more bike friendly than other regions in America.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/06/16/san-jose-lincoln-aven...

Don't forget the active recreational cyclists ("middle aged man in lycra", or MAMIL) who only cycle on the weekends. The city planner in the LA suburb I was referencing said that the councilmen were all weekend cyclists, so didn't see the need for bike lanes as a form of commuting.

There's a demonization of cyclists in general if you live in an American city. Until this stigma goes away, which will usher in infrastructure and mentality changes, this will not occur.

City councils believe cycling is recreational, not for commuting or for "real" use. I mentioned this about getting my LA suburb to actually embrace Class II bike lanes previously, and there's simply no political will.

Simply put, it's sexier to put EV charging stations than bike lanes as a form of virtue signaling.

I wonder if in another 400 years some distant society will look at ours as the "Dark Ages" since all information is locked behind services that have since disappeared like Yahoo Answers, Geocities, AIM profiles, MySpace, and (maybe) Facebook.

But children wouldn't necessarily be learning in a classroom the entire day. Even today there's a bunch of extracurriculars (band practice, sports, etc.) that occur between dismissal up until dinnertime.

If these "after schools" or "buxibans" (as I grew up around) became integrated into the school system itself that seems the most ideal. It would certainly kill off a secondary market of cram classes, for better or for worse.

Homework might not even be a thing at that point since they could just do it at school, as you mentioned.

I can't find the website, but there's a site that specifically tells you everything it knows about you just by keeping the page open.

It tells you if it knows where your cursor is, what pages you've been to, what your computer is, etc.

It was intended to show that you, the user, give out a lot of data without even realizing it.

EDIT: I did a search on reddit and it looks like it actually is https://clickclickclick.click, but because the site hasn't been accessible I can't be sure.

I pulled it straight from Reddit, so most likely

It's funny how often this actually happens:

2013: https://elpeji.com/2013/12/03/study-abroad-gringa-takes-five...

2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/comments/5lqnxb/redditor_bo...

And the opposite, landing in San Jose, CR https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/san-jose-travel-plane-...

One thing that irks me about The New Yorker is their liberal use of diacritics. They've added umlauts to words with consecutive vowels like "cooperate" (coöperate) and "reelect" (reëelect), when it hasn't been a part of conventional American English (or any regional variant?) for quite some time.

It comes across as pretentious, which may be what they're going for and what their target audience wants to feel when they read The New Yorker.

One way to combat this (if you’re physically capable): long distance running without headphones.

It forces you to focus on one thing alone: finish your route. I’ve found that my mind wanders, but the pain exerted by running for an hour or so inevitably brings you back.

There’s also Clarion, whose platform is intended to generate code for you and you input your own custom programming and business logic if needed for a basic B2B CRUD desktop app.

I guess like history, SW dev trends also rhyme.

I was wondering if this would be a solution to the privacy issue that surrounds 23andMe. I would gladly pay a significant amount above $99 (or whatever 23andMe charges) for an offline version of DNA insights.

Canberra, Australia was built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne as well. I think it was the closest city that was midpoint between the two largest cities.

Yep, the old Russian proverb that’s falsely attributed to Ronald Reagan [1].

Getting back on topic, that’s entirely Visa’s business in being a payments network. When I first heard about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, I wondered why Visa/MC/Amex/Discover and even (newer) real estate companies like Redfin weren’t looking at this seriously, since it could hypothetically be used to verify contracts and transactions in a decentralized way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

It’s like how people equate rattling of facts as being smart. When you’re effectively carrying the equivalent of all human knowledge with you at all times, memorizing facts and historical dates seems obsolete.

Now it’s about filtering out the “noise” facts and figuring out which facts or dates are relevant.

Do electric planes make any difference in terms of noise? When an electric vehicle is in motion most of the noise I can tell are from the tires.

A electric powered propeller plane would most likely still have most of its noise generated by the propeller, not the internal combustion engine. I presume the same is with jets.

I think (and this is probably why this is part of the general tech conversation now) that we're on the verge of a massive legal shift with data ownership.

A child born since Facebook's inception will be approaching 18 soon, and might have had parents who posted the child's entire life on Facebook from the ultrasound all the way to (maybe?) high school graduation.

When that child turns 18 and the child does not consent to tracking, what happens to all those photos, behavior, and YouTube videos that kid has watched? Maybe the kid starts as a clean slate since they've reached an age of majority, but how can you technically even keep track of that?

The area above the SGV (Pasadena to Pomona area) is the Santa Fe Practice Area. A lot of first-time pilots, private plane or helicopter, practice and learn how to fly out of El Monte or Brackett (Pomona).

I've checked FlightRadar24 during the protests of June and it seemed like most of the tail numbers of the helicopters flying around the SGV were either Pasadena Police Department, LA County Sheriff, or a private (news?) helicopter. Lately the ones I've seen aren't showing up on FlightRadar24, oddly enough.

A lot of it really is having heated discussions or disagreements with parents about how a business should be run or a decision that needs to be made, and trying to leave that back at the workplace while maintaining the personal family relationship (taking the "colleague/employee" hat off and putting on the "child" hat).

For me, it was a matter of exposing my "professional" identity alongside my "child" identity, and a lot of the times these conflict.

This is a great list. I’m taking over a bootstrapped family business, and a lot of what you wrote echos the founders’ (my parents) sentiment.

> 2. Do not think you/your product/your team/your approach are any different or unique

I have a hard time struggling with this, especially as I’m trying to SaaSify the business and see a never-ending list of competitors and substitutes out there. Maybe that’s being too product focused, but I’m curious to see how you got past this. I think there’s non-product aspects to consider (support, pricing, etc.)

> 6. Do not be afraid to charge

> 8. Only those who pay you money have to decide which features to add

These two are so true, and my parents say this all the time. So many prospective/existing clients express interest in a particular feature, only to never follow through with committing to contracts or paying anything.

They usually come with the excuse of one of the three buckets:

-The product should’ve had feature X to begin with

-They’re willing to be a guinea pig to beta test feature X in exchange for the whole product to be free (not a discounted price) since without feature X it’s a dealbreaker

-They can’t afford the price and we’re charging too much

For the latter, we’ve done price analyses across similar products online and found that our price points are competitive, so we can (usually, if the salespeople of our company have backbone) push back.

It reminds me of telling artists and graphic designers to do work “for exposure”, to which I really want to reply with the Goodfellas reference of “fuck you, pay me”.

> 9. Carefully choose co-founders

Corollary: NEVER choose your spouse or family members as co-founders. I can’t speak about friends as I don’t have personal experience, but the personal and professional get really intertwined even if both sides try to set boundaries. My parents and I still get along fine, but I just don’t like having the burden of mixing professional and personal.

> 11. Things that no one actually cares about at the beginning

In my experience (which is very likely wildly different), I find the logo and the founders’ background to be important. With our clients I’ve found that I had to name drop a couple times on my background (ex-FAANG) or pull the nepotism card several times to close a deal or reassure a client. A new logo and a new UI also gives a great first impression to our existing clients who’ve seen a 90s style UI.

I visited Austin in the summertime and after a day of 100+ humid weather, the evenings go down to the lower 80s/upper 70s. It felt like a jacket or a light windbreaker would’ve been needed.

And this is coming from someone who normally lives in California. I guess the body adjusts to the climate of the region after a couple days.

My broker said it was a standard $3K closing cost if at zero points, but I ended up taking some negative points as a credit towards closing costs.

I went through 3 refinances last year (also in CA) all at little to no closing costs for a 30 year fixed (4.00% → 3.25% → 2.5%). The math made sense every single time when factoring in the lower monthly payments and negligible closing costs.

At this point I don't know what the point of the loan is anymore. Is there really any realistic intention to ever pay it off? Every single time I thought I had timed the bottom, but rates continue to drop.

This might be a meta question that’s unrelated to the topic, but is there a breakdown of the demographics and location of HN readers?