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I’ve long wanted to be able to have a directory of male clothing options grouped by price, so I’ve made one after a week of research. Lists all 95 brands I could find that offer domestic shipping within the US.

Microbrands like socks-only brands were excluded, only included those that several different categories of clothes.

Women's prisons don't affect the ratios much but male prisons do because all (I think?) of them are located outside of populous metro counties.

> I remember there were some cases where a place looked like a sea of women but if I adjusted the numbers to exclude married people then the resulting gender ratios were way less skewed.

Isn't there a married man for every married woman, meaning that the gender ratio of single people shouldn't be affected by the marriage numbers? I guess the only explanation would be that there's lots of women aged 30-34 married to men 35-39 in a given county?

> It also included corrections based on data from Gallup in regards to what percentage of single people are interested in dating vs wanting to remain single

There isn't granular data for this question, unfortunately - and the estimates vary widely from survey to survey. If you know of a data source that can provide at-least state level data for this, let me know!

> Also his own photo is terrible.

Thanks for the feedback, I've replaced my own photo with a good one.

> I'm rarely so negative but seriously guys please save your money.

You can do it all 100% free per the guide which describes the process end-to-end: https://nsokolsky.substack.com/p/how-to-take-a-perfect-datin...

Most HN readers already know about "Man Francisco" or "Man Jose", but this adds in some Census numbers to explain just how many men there are out there.

Did a write up to collect all the bits of publicly revealed info, HackerNews/Reddit theories, plus my own inference based off the incentives driving the Big 3 (Tinder, Hinge, Bumble)

Don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I suspect you don't even need a microwave in most places.

>Email unsubscribe links have worked well, and click-to-cancel hopefully can too!

Yes but that's not what my complaints about the FTC are. My complaint is about them trying to stop Microsoft from buying Blizzard or trying to stop Adobe from buying Figma. I don't believe there's such a thing as 'monopoly on video games' or 'monopoly on website design software'.

Them working on general, consumer-friendly, sane policies is fine! But they shouldn't be preventing M&As/investments unless critical goods are involved without a substitute - which Call of Duty and Figma clearly aren't.

Monopolies can only be harmful for essential goods that don't have alternatives. The water supply is essential. Access to the internet can (perhaps) be essential. "Software to design website mocks" is definitely not essential.

Such as preventing Microsoft from buying Blizzard to prevent a monopoly on checks notes... video games? :-)

If you're worried about a 'monopoly' on Call of Duty, then I guess it's great. Otherwise I sincerely don't understand why the tech community would be supporting the FTC policies of the past 4 years.

Could you name the top-3 examples of the FTC's work over the past 4 years that were net-helpful to the future GDP/capita of the US economy?

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OK so what % of the GDP goes towards roads in Texas vs Germany?

Why does the US have a higher GDP/capita than France then?

I'd bet good money on your life being overall easier in a less dense city and two cars. But yes, you can do it and people have raised kids without cars for millenia.

That figure includes every single government-owned street, AFAIK. Total infrastructure costs are higher but don't seem that much higher than in Germany?

> has huge ongoing costs in terms of resource and energy use

TxDOT (government organization responsible for road maintenance) has a budget of $30B/year or about 10% of the total state's budget. Not that big of a deal for Texas.

> Lugging your children around on public transit builds character that chauffeuring them around in a car does not

I'm talking about ages 0 to 3 when parents need to use a stroller. It's a huge pain to do this in public transit. It's easier when the kids are older but if you have more than one child the car still wins.

True to a degree but cars also make parenting easier: you get bigger houses, bigger backyards, don't have lug your kids around on public transit, deal with the weather, don't need to worry about rail worker strikes, etc.

All America's missing is laws that allow kids to walk to school and adding more sidewalks to enable this, but this is changing over time (see Utah's free range parenting law).

How much of the increased rail use is helping increase GDP, though, rather than being purely leisurely trips with little long term value for the economy? More people going to hike in the forest on the weekend technically increases GDP but doesn't add much value to the economy overall.

Is Texas "coming to terms" with it, though? Cars don't scale infinitely but are also way more flexible than rail lines could ever be. If your goal is to have everyone work in downtown Dallas then yes, they suck. But you can just build offices and manufacturing facilities all around the state instead, avoiding the creation of single bottlenecks.

Yep, ideally OP should formalize their theory into a bet and accept people to bet against them. Say, $5k on OpenAI <insert some horrible outcome> in 10 years. Money could be kept in escrow with a trusted third party.

Same applies to every other API in the world, yes.

Or just give yourself permission to not reply to people. Make a big visible unsubscribe button and relax knowing that anyone can just quit if they don't like it.

> we hold teams accountable to delivering the milestones on time and on budget

Holding someone "accountable" means firing them very quickly for a drop in performance. This is hard in large companies for many reasons.

> Stepping “in the arena” with odds like those, I’d say the vast, vast majority will back out and/or break down sobbing if forced.

Something like 10 million people will accept those odds. Let's say 1 million are healthy enough to actually go to space and operate the machinery. Then let's say 99% will back out during the process. That's still 10,000 people to choose from, more than enough for NASA's needs.

When's the last time this happened?

Also... no one's forcing people to use their products. Photoshop doesn't have a patent on editing images. Lightroom doesn't have a patent on sorting through photo collections. Plenty of paid and free alternatives exist, they're just not as good. But it's a completely free market out there and Adobe can't stop you from building a better version of Photoshop tomorrow to make billions.

A friend of mine owns _the_ best website by far on how to become a student in Czech Republic. 15 years of effort, hundreds of excellent articles, all the content is regularly updated, etc. Google's ranking for "education in Czech Republic" (in Russian)? Not even in the top 100.

The #1 website in Google's ranking belongs to a company that significantly overcharges future students and has outdated/incorrect information on their website.