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It's not very common in the modern era, though I would add in RFK Sr., who was assassinated while running for president several decades ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Robert_F._Ken...

Bowling pins are much more uniform and rigid, and therefore easier to grip. Food is mushy and messy.

No surprise here. Labor costs in CA, NYC, and other HCoL areas are driving this trend. It started with self-checkout and ordering kiosks, and this was obviously where it was going to end up.

I wonder what this will do to fast-food and fast-casual prices in the medium- and long-term. Will it ever result in price drops, as the technology is commoditized and rolled out at scale? Or will it only slow the rate of increase, as machines are swapped in as a substitute for the least economical human labor?

There are some reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeIw9rXzUQ

Isn't it transreflective LCD, not eink? Looks like it's too late to update the title, but this is sort of a big deal. Many people have been confused about this critical point, and some have blamed the company for the confusing/misleading language regarding the display technology.

It does not have the viewing angle or battery life of an eink device (though it doesn't have the lousy refresh rate, either).

I have a different perspective. When considering purchasing an app, I always weigh the possibility the app will go away. This can happen because the back end disappears, or because the app is not updated and Apple phases it out (so you can't install it when you get a new device).

Having a reliable stream of revenue makes it less likely that the app dev will give up on it. I don't love subscriptions, but I do recognize that they help ensure ongoing maintenance/development.

Do they offer the sort of cash management that is Mercury's hallmark?

Separately, I have heard a lot of bad things about Chase, and experienced some as well over the years. I'd be hesitant to open up an account there from a customer service perspective, although I assume the deposits would be safe at such a large mega-bank.

So then Mercury waving a big flag about how accounts are FDIC-insured is more about them being made whole if one of the banks they contract with goes under, not about ensuring that their customers are ultimately made whole?

But if the money is deposited in an FDIC-insured account and is stolen (by an external hacker or Mercury) isn't it insured against that loss?

I considered mentioning in my first post that the school's behavior does not maximize overall learning because such a large portion of the students are at/above grade level. It is possible that their method of teaching the below-grade level students is consistent with maximizing learning for those students. I would think that for students who are behind, you would want to increase engagement/fun in order to increase the likelihood of maximizing learning in the long run. If you just wanted to get their scores up that year, you might focus more on drills instead.

I thought this was going to be about the no-child-left-behind mindset, which results in teachers spending most of their time focusing on the slowest learners and very little time on students who are already at/above grade level. That mindset is certainly common in our school, and learning for the latter students is closer to flatlined than maximized.

Maximizing learning via SR is interesting, but it seems like it's the furthest thing from our kids' teachers' minds.

nit: the word "accessibility" is misspelled in your acknowledgments. Looks like a cool project!

> Mercury itself is not FDIC insured. If Mercury collapses, your money is not insured.

How is it not false advertising on the part of Mercury to describe their accounts as FDIC-insured if this is the case?

I wondered about this also. Seems like the virtualization that allows for spreading risk also introduces opacity, and risks of its own.

In another article currently being discussed, [1] Mercury has said they may be affected by a breach at Evolve. Yikes.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40916260

It seems understood that people typically go about 5-10 MPH over the limit. I assume that speed limits are set with the knowledge that this is common. If technology like this becomes widespread and results in the actual speeds more closely matching the posted limits, will the speed limits eventually be increased, since it was always understood that people could safely drive a bit faster than the old posted speeds?

Secondly, I remember hearing that some car companies calibrate their speedometers to be a bit conservative (reporting a higher speed than is actually being driven), in part so they aren't sued by customers who get tickets. If different cars show different speeds, what will this do to the flow of traffic? Will everyone end up going as slow as the most heavily down-calibrated vehicles?

The thing that changed is now students do not have to select into non-smoking dorms. They are the default — or in many states, the only option.

I was recently talking with a student at the small college I went to a couple decades ago and he said that many students go to a different, nearby college to party on the weekends. This was very surprising because we tended to look down on that college — our primary rival — when I was in school, and we never would have gone there to party. The student said the parties weren't much better, but that they wanted to avoid the possibility of doing something stupid and having it show up on social media that all their friends see.

I suggested that there could be a smartphone-free dorm, and students who live there would have to have dumb phones or no cell phones. Parties hosted there would have the same rules for all attendees. It would be like how there used to be non-smoking dorms for students and visitors who preferred to live in a smoke-free environment.

I remember being surprised the first time I saw this "feature", which was with my own startup's recurring charge on a credit card that was replaced with a chip card. I didn't understand how the charge had gone through, since the new card had a different number, and I was sure I hadn't updated it in my startup's payment system. I called the credit card company and they didn't know either. When I contacted Stripe (my payment processor), they were able to explain what had happened. I can imagine that people who encounter it in less-controlled situations would be even more confused.

As another commenter mentioned, this is just correlation — not causation.

Can't this be approximated by using the share feature with timestamp, pasting the URL and then just reloading the page each time you want to loop? Not as convenient, but a bit less overhead.

This is also generally frowned up on for a "Show HN" post. HNers are supposed to be able to go and look at something and provide feedback — without paying or handing over an email address.

Some posters solve this by creating a generic HN account or workaround, so that people can tour the system with less friction.

> I doubt the drivers were stealing food, but the restaurants obviously thought they could get away with theft and not be penalized.

I wouldn't doubt the drivers were stealing food. We've had occasions where the "wrong driver" picked up the food, but then "got a flat tire" and couldn't bring it back. This was a multi-hundred dollar order. I don't buy that crap for one minute. Some driver stole the food, and the restaurant may also have been at fault for not checking to make sure the proper driver got the order.

As another commenter said, I wouldn’t make different orders. I’d just pick a restaurant based on what other neighbors have picked, and be content with whatever it is.

I wonder if the problem is that they're trying to coordinate/optimize drivers and routes after the orders have been placed.

What if they tried to coordinate before the order was placed? There have been many days where I would have been happy to eat food from one of 10 different places, and we picked a restaurant more or less at random.

If a platform could coordinate my choice with the choice of 4 very close by neighbors, then they could send one driver to pick up maybe $300-500 of orders ($60-100 food per household) and give us some sort of discount.

I would actually allow notifications from an app that sometimes messaged me to say "several of your neighbors have ordered from X Restaurant, which you've liked in the past. Do you want to order also, for a 10% discount?".

Of course, if they bullshitted and tried to fake-it-till-you-make-it with the order momentum (telling 50 neighbors that several already ordered), that would be annoying and potentially fraudulent. But I would be happy to see a competitor arise and shift the coordination from delivery to ordering. It could make the business model work much better, and would also cut down on travel time, food sogginess, etc.

Whoops, in my edit I obv meant "Biden" not "Trump".

Fun fact:

> Ironically, it was Gorsuch’s mother, former EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch, who made the decision that the Supreme Court upheld in 1984. [1]

1: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-chevron-regulations...

Plus all the kids advertising on Nextdoor, including members of Stanford's team.

Aren't all of the branches of government supposed to represent the public interest? What makes the executive uniquely qualified to do so? I would think that there are few people who would say that the past two administrations have both represented the public interest. People tend to think that their favored administration was serving the public interest, and the disfavored one was tearing down the progress of his predecessor.

> The true unfortunates, though, were the ones who were talented enough to rationally hope to advance. These were people who grew up as the best tennis players in their country, but were stuck between 300 and 600 in the world, not quite contending for the Challenger Tour nor the qualifiers at grand slams, but winning just often enough to keep their tennis dream faintly alive.

Seems like a familiar pattern.

Of course expertise will still influence the application of law and policy. The same people will still write the regulations, serve as expert witnesses in trials, and write amicus briefs. The thing that has changed is that the executive branch's preferred interpretation of laws passed by the legislative branch will no longer be granted deference by the judicial branch. They will be on a level playing field with other parties when it comes to putting forth proposed interpretations of laws.