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Matt Levine at Money Stuff has a recurring comment of (US) securities laws being the best tool currently available for what many people view as social issues.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-25/climate-c... and the linked https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-11-06/exxon-mig... are the examples I've found so far, but I remember him making the comment repeatedly.

There is also [Detroit-style pizza][]. Buddy's is great. I've enjoyed Emmy Squared in NYC, and I'm looking to make one following the [Serious Eats guide][] sometime this year.

[Detroit-style pizza]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-style_pizza

[Serious Eats guide]: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/02/detroit-style-piz...

I understand part of the scalability concern being about the physical network capabilities ("Today's networking ecosystem evolved for the client-server model, what kind of problems could this create for switching to peer-to-peer model...") as opposed to the scalability of the IPFS protocol and node implementations.

I use dryer balls to prevent stiff clothes and static: eg https://www.amazon.com/Dryer-Balls-Count-Assorted-Colors/dp/...

A few random thoughts:

IPFS sounds a lot like what you want. Tahoe LAFS plays in this space a bit

The newer distributed file systems I've seen don't like permissions. They like cryptographically-backed capabilities. You have the permission to read the file because you have the ability to decrypt, through the key. (Of course, key management is easy </sarc>).

Some user-facing distributed filesystem talks drift into FUSE (or similar) territory. A TahoeLAFS dev talks about how users probably don't actually know what they want: https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/ZrgdgLhV... (QUIBBLES: REAL FILESYSTEM VS. STORAGE APP section). This is probably less relevant for a package manager.

The first time I read about BitTorrent based deployment was from Facebook.

For me, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection

I think of Bob as a team communication tool. Hopefully, most people on the team are familiar with Bob. When I'm working with someone else on that critical thinking thing about the end product, I can ask "What about Bob?" and teammates know what I'm talking about. Bob is a mobile user might not be complex enough to warrant a persona. I think personas are more likely to be a useful tool as the number of user types/goals increases.

Personas can also be a kind of checklist as a change is made, ensuring that the change makes sense (and doesn't break) in the most common product scenarios.

In my experience as a Brooklynite, the time trade-offs really depend on the time of day. Outside of commuting hours, taking a car is usually faster than taking a subway for me.

There are, of course, other benefits of the subway, including lower costs and the possibility of doing something else like reading.

I've never heard of statista. I'm interested in hearing experiences and opinions from anyone that uses it! Why is it useful for you? How does it compare to other sources for you?

I have read here that the commercial market has competition [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926613

There is some related (old) discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699862.

That posts link is dead, but the wayback machine is awesome: https://web.archive.org/web/20140828011618/http://blog.level...

Google Fiber did some variety of this:

> Google Fiber works better when communities are connected together. So we’ve divided Kansas City into small communities we call “fiberhoods.” We’ll install only where there’s enough interest, and we’ll install sooner in fiberhoods where there’s more interest.

https://fiber.googleblog.com/2012/07/how-to-get-google-fiber...

I viewed sports as a major obstacle for people ceasing their cable television subscription. I think YouTube TV offers a viable option for this now.

So, work on that referral from your ISP to YouTube TV!

It goes the other way too, with military surgeons getting training in US cities: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/intense-training-for-military-s...

ledger-autosync [0] does similar things with more data sources available

[0]: https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync

I've used ifttt monitoring rss feeds and pushing articles to Pocket for offline reading

I enjoyed this explanation of crowd-sourcing, especially the featured angel I see that does exercise with this: "I'll bike north in Central Park to an empty station, then run back down the park and repeat a few times."

I have heard from people that military strength (including force projection) and intelligence gathering benefits a nation.

Releasing the code (and thus methods) related to that strength would decrease some of those benefits.

I am not trying to comment on the validity of using military and intelligence gathering as tools in national benefit. I do, however, consider the US federal expenditures on military and intelligence gathering as a partial proxy for others' thoughts.

Looks like this is a new site.

The previous 'post' focused on apartments was discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478

I imagined the tea pot spout being longer than the paired tea cup. It isn't clear if this is the case or not.

Pouring might still be workable from an edge, but I'd consider it broken if the spout doesn't fit in the cup.

Some shipping networks may be more amenable to swapping than consumer markets, too.

If I were swapping batteries, I would have some concern about the condition that battery was in. In the consumer market, it's hard to manage that in a trustful way.

Some shipping networks will allow swappable packs to remain in the possession of one entity. Hopefully, that entity trusts itself.

I have heard Eric Schmidt say that he discusses Google's preference for on-site employees in _How Google Works_. I cannot comment on what or how much he discusses.

That said, my personal experience at Google has been flexible. Most people I interact with work from their home office most of the time with large schedule overlap with their colleagues. But people do shift their schedules as life needs and occasionally work from other offices for up to a couple weeks a year.

In addition to selling purchase history, CC companies may also be (at least partially) funding the rewards with transaction fees.

Some cards (e.g. Amazon Store Card) get you relatively high rewards at a specific vendor (Amazon). I predict there are special deals in place with the banks/transaction processors involved that make these rewards more possible.

Google Search, Gmail, Hacker News, Reddit, WSJ, NY Times, Google Play Music

I hadn't heard of skip locked before, and very much enjoyed this article walking through it for postgres: https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/what-is-select-skip-locked-for-...

IPFS [0] and it's sibling Filecoin [1] are dealing in a very similar space as your wonderings

[0]: https://ipfs.io/ [1]: https://filecoin.io/

My anecdotal NYC experience has been that private cars are useful for leaving the city (upstate, Long island, Jersey shore, etc) and occasional off-peak trips.

The outer parts of the boroughs can also be far from transit, and cars don't seem such an inconvenience to deal with.

You (and children) may be interested in ofxclient: https://github.com/captin411/ofxclient

I notice a big difference based on where I am.

NYC, Bay Area: full-timers. Mid-west, PNW: "casual" part-timers

You can access all the Blue Apron recipes without a subscription: https://www.blueapron.com/cookbook/all/all/Next%20Week

We still use these, and buy ingredients ourselves. I don't usually do the farmer's market shopping, but I do find some of their recipes respecting the season.