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cbron··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Spokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.
cbron··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Spokane is not desert. Even surrounding territory is more plains. Some desert military training happens at Yakima much further west.
cbron··on Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"
Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under. As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.
cbron··on WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week
Reuters has some info, no apparent buyer: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/wework-plans-file-bank...
cbron··on 17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF
"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.
cbron··on Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability
Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.
cbron··on Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later
Rest would give you energy regardless, both physically and mentally. Nearly every sport has built in sitting breaks.
cbron··on The Problem with Go
It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don't know enough about the wider project to make valuable contributions.
cbron··on Alaska Ranked Choice Voting Cast Vote Record [JSON at the Bottom]
> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...

Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way. Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.

cbron··on I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message
Has anyone tried this with real estate solicitors ? I get a message per day about selling my house.
cbron··on Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate
> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information.

Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.

cbron··on Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...
cbron··on Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life
ditto
cbron··on A harassment campaign on Goodreads
No improvements on old features or adding new features, basically no updates at all for the past few years. Recommendations and rating system are crap. Usability around core features like bookshelves are terrible. The awards are just a popularity contest.
cbron··on White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.
cbron··on Alan Moore on superhero culture
religion != entertainment
cbron··on Alan Moore on superhero culture
Mythology has served various purposes over the course of human history. This is referring specifically to modern superhero culture which may be derived from mythology but isn't comparable to it.
cbron··on 700k Choice Hotels records leaked in data breach, ransom demanded
> The message claimed that 700,000 records had been stolen and backed up elsewhere and demanded 0.4 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $4,000 at the time of writing, from the owners.

Not even a full bitcoin.

cbron··on Death of the Country Club
Well, then go get a job with work/life balance that pays less.
cbron··on Wave to be acquired by H&R Block for $537M
Wave is for small businesses or consultants. The government doesn’t know about most of the things that happen at low levels until the business reports it. End of the year bookkeeping can be a nightmare.
cbron··on Wave to be acquired by H&R Block for $537M
If wave could pipeline directly to H&R block for automated tax filings it could be a really nice experience. Can't expect too much though, I just hope they don't kill it.
cbron··on I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
Of that difficulty no, but I've been asked plenty of whiteboard questions from small and mid-size companies outside of the west coast.
cbron··on Shane Parrish has become an unlikely guru for Wall Street
Not in the "think/work smarter" genre. Taking in diverse content, like reading medium posts all by different authors, can inject new ideas. But it seems this genre has a limit to how much useful info there really is.
cbron··on Shane Parrish has become an unlikely guru for Wall Street
I read FS regularly for months, but eventually had to give up on it because it started to feel like one big regurgitated self-help book. Maybe he really wants to talk to interesting people and this is his way of doing it, but to me it seems like mostly just noise.
cbron··on Paul Allen has died
As a kid who grew up outside of the tech scene but in Washington State, Allen had a big impact on the wider community through his philanthropy and his love of sports, he was well liked everywhere.
cbron··on How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
What replaces slack rooms where any user can jump in and out, or search history ? Not group chats or emails. Only IRC comes close.
cbron··on AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner, Create Media Giant
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297853
cbron··on Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss
Same. I was off all caffeine for a month and I much preferred going back. However I stick to tea now and save coffee for emergencies.
cbron··on Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads
It's a gamble to make the state look attractive for R&D shops/departments to either relocate or setup permanent testing sites. Automakers already use the desert conditions to test cars, so this is just an extension.
cbron··on Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads
Yes Waymo is still active. I live in the testing zone and see an enormous amount of their vans. About 1 for every 5 minutes of driving.
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