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Oh man we went to Costco today to purchase a membership, was finally convinced after all of the $1.50 hot dog memes

It was a used car tier hard sell to get the “executive” membership, after saying no a half dozen times literally everything we said was an invite to highly recommended the damn executive card.

Then they offer $20 back on your membership if you sign up for auto pay (and install the costco app on your phone and give up your email and phone). But you need a card, and it can’t be Amex, Mastercard, or Discover, so of course the very highly recommendation is to get the Costco Visa. It has no annual fee and you get %2 back, and even if you don’t spend enough you'll get a minimum of $65 back, which is the difference between the regular card and the executive. So the executive card is basically a no brainer.

Well we couldn’t get the $20 back coupon and at this point im feeling like Costco isn’t as customer friendly as the internet says, but it turns out we can actually use discover (debit only) on the phone app. Even though honestly the executive card pays for itself, also the Costco visa has no annual fee you can just get it and never use it.

I ended up getting the plain gold star card, got some free samples and was thoroughly impressed with the $1.50 hot dog. But I think I hate this store, onboarding was such a shady process.

> However, in June the biggest plunge came from what is defined as “prime age” workers, or those between the ages of 25 and 54. That rate fell 0.6 percentage point to 83.3%, its lowest since December 2023.

It's great how two sources can tell a completely different story about the same numbers.

Even crazier that they sway elections in districts they've never even visited nor intend to ever visit

Users coming from Chat or Claude or the likes would be very high intent if done correctly, advertisers would pay a lot of money. I'm certain people would pull budget from Google.

Haha hilarious, nice one, do the sixth next, or the second

Can try this for unknown numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106, most will just hang up

> Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)

I guess if you enjoy drinking, and would miss it in its absence, then you can call it "not living"

Okay so "belt and suspenders" is an LLM-ism, it's not just me who recently learned that expression.

I think if they were more honest it would have been a nonstarter.

The amount of money these companies need seems to be all of nothing, they’re raising like it’s life or death and if you read their books or tweets they’re not shy about it

Why do people not like gitlab? I’ve always found it a better experience than github

The “you wouldn’t download a car” meme applies here

I could be wrong but Id expect eth and nfts to have similar fluctuations, so this wouldn’t be surprising at all. What about compared to USD or another investment like spy

Man HN was a different place back then. People sharing ideas and getting constructive (even if comically wrong) feedback. It reads more like founders and hackers helping each other. The discussions lately are more like folks armchair analyzing or speculating companies that are already incumbent tech giants.

Or maybe I just click those headlines at a higher rate..

Investors by nature lap up hype, and it seems to work for them

This, but make sure to check the comments for best times to skip to.

Not sure why this is so funny the more you watch it

They're sizing these data centers now using "Manhattans" as a unit: https://www.techradar.com/pro/utah-just-approved-a-data-cent...

I know you're being facetious, but you're going to need a lot of molotov cocktail to burn them down.

So Google remains as Google

Not with that attitude

> A cc is a ml is a gram. A liter is a cubic decimeter is a kg

Okay but what about the off chance you’re measuring something other than water?

Well I mean styles that are actually global I put into CSS, but it’s generally not too much

I’ve mentioned this before here, but originally I was against Tailwind because it breaks the Cascading part of CSS, however I think a lot of websites lately work better with “locally scoped” styles as there are just so many different components that many things just dont need to follow a global style sheet. So now I usually reach for tailwind first, unless is a relatively simple vanilla html site

I guess it’s time to have Claude rewrite my Bun app in Deno

Why am I all of a sudden getting ads for rope and large amounts of Tylenol??

Colleges are far less “individualistic” than most places in the country.

> Cohen last week offered $125 a share — consisting of 50% cash and 50% GameStop stock

So he's basically looking to launder his freshly minted meme stonks into legitimate real company stock. It's shocking they don't want it.

Yea fine I see that, but their entire business model revolves around exposing people’s otherwise private lives, and they are making a lot of money doing so.

It’s like using a web browser distributed by a an ad company whose business model is all about tracking folks

So don’t use Meta products if you care about privacy?

If anything this was great free advertising for their platform

Do chatbots click ads?

The 1s and 0s are meant to be used, the code is meant to be read