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Is there an idea of why tropical kitsch took off when it did, around the 1950s in America as I understand it? I always thought it had something to do with WWII Pacific theater veterans coming home and bringing that imagery with them, but maybe it has some other explanation, like air travel to pacific islands being within reach at that point.

My bank was like that for my debit card...I ended up just using dev tools to remove client side validation and put a 0 in there, and I guess they don't do any server side validation for that field

My trick is to get text messages/app notifications live when a credit card charge goes through (Chase at least supports this).

Then, I either dismiss the message, or deal with it immediately. I find this much easier than going over a statement at the end of the month. Usually the context for the charge is front and center, instead of and puzzling whether "AMZN MKTP US*TO10VLA93" is something I really bought 28 days ago or if someone used my CC.

Not paying is not the same thing as canceling service. Many services will not let you continue using them if payment fails, but others will, and you will still be on the hook for the charges from a collection agency.

The only time virtual cards are particularly useful is if you're giving your CC# to some very shady merchant, probably one without any recourse if you decline payment. But, perhaps, just don't give those people your cc# in the first place.

Looking up comparable ICE cars to a Model Y, google tells me Audi SQ5, BMW X3 M40i, and Mercedes-Benz GLC43.

Their curb weights in lbs are:

Model Y: 4,555

SQ5: 4,288

M40i: 4,392

GLC43: 4,233

So, yes, a model Y is heavier, but only by about 250 lbs. At a 4th power that could be an extra 30% damage compared to an ICE, but even the lightest SUV here is doing something like 3.5x the damage compared to a Honda Civic. So, if you think road damage is a valid concern, electric cars aren't particularly special - SUVs in general should be a bigger worry.

It's an entry for a high school essay contest run by the site, with the prompt

"Tell our readers about a problem facing American society—and, more importantly, how you would fix it. The problem could be technological, cultural, political, or social in nature, or something else entirely. But we are especially interested in problems facing young Americans that older generations have misunderstood, missed, or maybe even created. In 2,000 words or fewer, please illuminate the problem and how your generation might break out of it."

So he wrote about how he was addicted to tech, and what he did to get un-addicted. It seems reasonable.

Why wouldn't McDonalds just not do that, and charge more to franchisees, and pocket 100% of the amount instead of whatever cut they have to give to Taylor?

Surely, franchisees and potential franchisees talk to each other, and if any appreciable amount of money was going out the door to fix the ice cream machine repeatedly, it would be a known cost of doing business.

Wouldn't the wrench attack in this instance just make you type your password to your broker, sell the ETF, and then transfer the money to some third party bank account?

Perhaps that's an end-around for water rights issues. You can't "just" take the water rights from long established players. But it might be easier to simply apply a water tax, a base rate multiplied by how much water the product required to create, divided by the abundance of water in the region.

Huh? That's how people did it for all of eternity until about 75 years ago.

It seems there is still a possibility for passing information. For example, you can shove the little table across the barrier, or slowly slide it to indicate something. That's how the guy in the upper right passed it the first and second time.

But not by Bloomberg. He was saying a version of "Everyone should know how to code!"

Not really, digging through the sources show it is really just a single random person interested in local Scottish history posting their opinion on a forum 14 years ago

I disagree - nobody "should" read Moby Dick. As in, don't read it because you saw it on a "Top 10 books" list, or had it recommended to you by a friend. Everyone on their reading journey is at a different spot, and got there a different way. So I never recommend Moby Dick to anyone, even though it was one of my favorite reading experiences of my life, for fear that it isn't for a person at a certain time. Once they're ready for it, they may find it, and love it.

Neither here nor there, but that "meat by a different name" is most likely due to class divides in England after the Norman conquest. The French(ish) speaking Normans were the upper class getting the finished product, so the language reflects that - beef(boeuf), pork(porc), and, a mostly forgotten one, but poulet for chicken. Whereas the farmers/lower classes - those dealing with the animals themselves, were speaking Old English with Germanic derived words - pig, cow, chicken.

Heck, even C++ is getting out of hand for Herb Sutter. He might say "ISO C++ is the best tool in the world today to write the programs I want and need", but then he also says "My goal (with cppfront) is to explore whether there's a way we can evolve C++ itself to become 10x simpler, safer, and more toolable."

https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront

The most interesting thing about time capsules is the way they inform us of how bad we are at thinking about the future.

Well then the content creators can just set up their own site, register a domain, set up a video stream service, payment processor, etc. After all, it's not much.

1.87mb is the size of the encoded protobuf. Almost certainly, it is being sent over a compressed connection, and I bet there is a lot of easily compressible string data in there, so the size over the wire is probably closer to 500k(just guessing).

Saying "learn to code" is different from "oh, you got laid off of your trucking job? Learn to code"

I've wondered about these for a while and I feel like it has to be the result of war. "Oh, you want to hide behind your big wall? Okay, we'll just light a huge fire near it and smoke you out"

I'd be curious if any of the partially vitrified stones are more commonly present on the windward side of the fort, if there are prevailing winds.

It sounds like a system where it would just be really hard to get a loan for 5 years every 50 years.

Right, I would more ascribe that viewpoint to some journos on Twitter. I think if that viewpoint is referenced on HN, it is done so derisively.

No, the average US commute is 16 miles one way, whereas OP was saying 30 miles each way:

https://hbr.org/2021/05/that-dreaded-commute-is-actually-goo...

Stop looking for work in tech places. It may require you to take a pay cut and work in a place viewed as a cost center though.

30 miles is an outrageous commute. To put it another way, there are 2800 square miles of land closer than your job.

Almost all http clients send Accept-Encoding headers that will significantly shrink the response. Try just gzipping an example html response to get an idea of how good it will be.

I guess COPPA doesn't count.

Are you sure? Maybe most people will search with aspirational scores

How wealthy were his parents and family? How many other people have parents and family that wealthy, or wealthier? How many of them end up being $100+ billionaires?