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brandonscott··on China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work
it was shared from the apple stocks app
brandonscott··on How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success
like <1% of people are realistically burning 4000+ calories in a day
brandonscott··on USCG says ‘debris field’ discovered within search area for missing submersible
at that temp decomp will slow drastically, so it would for sure be consuming less
brandonscott··on Cannabis is no better than a placebo for treating pain – new research
They used CBD, not THC.
brandonscott··on Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
Very cool and I love how clean the code is
brandonscott··on Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign joke that cost £25k
how does it cost $1,500 a year to maintain it?
brandonscott··on If Silence Is the Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It
ramen tatsuya and it's not close, imo
brandonscott··on It’s hard work to make ordering groceries online so easy
HEB is using Favor for deliveries (which they bought a few years ago)
brandonscott··on Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
I'm an engineer in Austin. We definitely get bonuses and I have RSUs at my current company.
brandonscott··on We quit our jobs to build a cabin
Usonia! 99% Invisible did an excellent episode about this:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-1/

brandonscott··on My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
We don't live in a static society, it is wild to me that so many grown adults are blind to this. Don't want things to change? Too bad.
brandonscott··on Self-Management of Fatal Familial Insomnia: Case Report (2006)
It's truly wild that he was taking cross-country road trips
brandonscott··on We found the world's oldest modern bird skull
So cool. How many other uninteresting fossils are sitting around waiting to be scanned?
brandonscott··on How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
not very good is the understatement of the year.
brandonscott··on Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
There are studies that show merging late actually reduces congestion:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-m...

brandonscott··on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
fwiw i have a series 4 and i sleep in it every night. much better battery life than the first gen
brandonscott··on Couple wins millions using lottery loophole
Any of the millions of poor people that buy lottery tickets every week could have spent a much smaller initial sum and worked up to the millions. It just would have taken longer.
brandonscott··on Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed?
H-E-B does exactly this in Texas. They have packed-daily boxes for $12 - $30 depending on the serving size.