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If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7 billion, that's the bank's problem.

* Take a low margin, fragmented industry littered with failed businesses

* Then take some cheap but kind of profitable behavior in that industry (take local delivery over phone, send your lowest paid kitchen staffer to run it)

* Then layer on some of the most expensive labor on the planet (devs, PMs, tech company workers) to build a replacement for that behavior

* Then treat your lowest paid workers poorly, attracting regulatory scrutiny

Related (possibly): OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

The person we saw was a master of science in physical therapy, and specialized in/had personal experience with concussion rehab. They were based near a ski mountain, and thus a stream of athletes getting concussed regularly.

If you aren't near any skiing, I'd seek out sports medicine/physical therapy folks who work with your local concussion-heavy athletes. Mountain bikers, cyclists, maybe football/rugby, etc.

Unfortunately I don't know anything online, but I would suggest seeking out sports medicine/physiotherapy folks who work with your local concussion-heavy athletes (snow sports, mountain biking, etc). Good luck!

My partner had a concussion many years ago, it was an eye-opening experience.

After months of mostly-useless conversations with doctors, neurologists, etc, we visited a sports medicine specialist who worked with snowboarders, skiers, etc, people who get concussions frequently.

The way the specialist described common concussion symptoms was really interesting: Effectively, your brain finds balance by using a combination of sight, touch (feet), and your inner ear. A concussion can impact the inner ear part of that equation, so your brain is overly reliant on sight and touch to compensate. This can cause all kinds of common concussion symptoms: Dizziness, sensitivity to screen time, etc.

Anyways, after giving us the rundown my partner was prompted to do a few simple exercises to test concussion symptoms. One of them was to stand on one leg and track a moving pen with her eyes. She'd done OK on some of the previous exercises but this one took her out, she lasted maybe 5 seconds and was completely exhausted and dizzy for the rest of the day because of it.

We ended up with a physical-therapy-like balance exercise plan that she stuck to regularly for a few months, and it ended up getting her to complete recovery.

Another one:

> He told me to go to the FTC home page and look up the main phone number. “Now hang up the phone, and I will call you from that number right now.” I did as he said. The FTC number flashed on my screen, and I picked up. “How do I know you’re not just spoofing this?” I asked.

> “It’s a government number,” he said, almost indignant. “It cannot be spoofed.”

Completely insane that we continue to allow caller ID and number spoofing, it's so effective for these fraud scenarios.

Don’t forget the kicker, that IAP at the time was unable to support more than a few thousand SKUs! And (iirc) that pricing, naming, etc for everything would’ve needed to be done through their atrocious web app.

Not exactly doable for the ‘everything store’.

This is not be the market success you’re thinking it is. The fast fashion industry relies on extremely dubious labor practices, massive amounts of pollution, and a culture of constant consumption and mostly disposable goods. 70lb of clothing are landfilled per person per year in the US alone (2018 numbers, today’s would certainly be higher).

The article’s comparison to gambling, and now outright use of gambling game mechanics by fast fashion co’s, is the most troubling part of the industry. It relies on getting people addicted to consumption, on ‘whale’ customers who buy constantly, on a lifestyle of single-use, disposable clothing (with massive negative externalities). Society, unfortunately, pays the cost.

I've had the pleasure of visiting a few cities/countries without much (if any) physical advertising/billboards, it's a change that's both incredibly jarring and incredibly pleasant!

At first there's a bit of an uncanny valley effect, particularly when driving around a city. Eventually that settles down, and the reduction in low-level visual stimulus is really appreciated. Coming back home, you might see the insane levels of visual pollution we deal with in a new light.

Not qualified to comment on the broader economic ramifications of this, but as a normal person navigating the world, it's pretty great!

The most annoying thing about them, that's seemed to increase over time, is that for 'premium' names the renewals are the same cost as 'buying' the domain.

At least if you manage to snag a .com/.net/etc, you'll have low yearly renewal fees.

Couple things to note here:

* As the numbers here show, the high end of Manhattan rentals is very, very high. ~10%[0] of listed rentals at the moment are >$10k/mo. >$100k rentals are not unheard of. Looks like the highest market rental right now is asking $175k/mo.

* ~50%[1] of Manhattan's rental stock is rent stabilized, meaning the rent adjustment rates are set by the city. These units rent for considerably less than market-rate rentals.

* For a variety of reasons, rent-stabilized units often stay in the informal housing market (i.e. not on real estate listing services), which AFAIK these reports do not measure.

* There are a variety of cultural factors here that are a bit unusual for the US, including:

- It's fairly normal here for people with 'good' jobs to have roommates into their 30s+

- The informal housing market here is massive (e.g. I've lived here for 10+ years and have very few friends who've ended up in market-rate rentals)

- Manhattan builds very little new housing (e.g. zero units approved last month)

- It's Manhattan, so there's a LOT of money floating around here.

So yes, Manhattan is getting more expensive, but these market-rate rental reports are not the entire story.

[0] From Streeteasy, a local real estate listing service

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/services/rent-...

Topical, someone just landed a Carbon Cub plane on a ~90ft helipad for a stunt with Red Bull a few days ago. The video[0] is insane, I've flown in STOL aircraft before but had no idea some were capable of landings like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKL7XEnxr4

An anecdote: My NYC neighborhood has seen a building boom over the past decade. As far as I can tell, every new building puts its trash out on the street.

Some particularly memorable examples include a 75 story residential tower with absolutely record-breaking trash piles, and a ~25 story residential tower with a trash collection point on the onramp to the Williamsburg bridge. Garbage trucks have to stop in the road to collect trash, manually, bag-by-bag, at every stop.

This is the policy for trash in NYC, and rats will remain a problem as long as it stays that way.

Not trying to underplay how impressive the tech here is, but could you expand on what you see as the ($) value of something like this? From my perspective, these look like not-so-interesting stock-photography-level photos, nearly all of which have clear tells that they're AI-generated.

4. Running the jail is incredibly expensive. The cost to jail one person for a year in NYC is >$550k[0], ~4x what it was in 2011.

[0] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-co...

Happened to me this morning. Account banned, username isn't even visible, recovery flow ends up in a combination of error messages/timeouts/rate limits. I don't do much on the account outside post ~once a year, like things and watch the occasional story.

Reddit and Twitter are full of similar reports.

The lawsuit[0] is worth a read and goes into quite a bit of detail about the claimed timeline. Roughly:

* Upgraded missile defense systems were deemed a national security priority around this time

* Navy ships compatible with these systems were 5 years out, so…

* Live missile testing happens at a compatible land base in New Jersey, under congested airspace

* Multiple civilians report seeing missile tests in & around the date of the TWA crash

* Missile test hits TWA jet. Instead of the NTSB running the investigation (like normal), the CIA and FBI are immediately put in charge

* CIA/FBI confiscate records, run PR campaign claiming the crash was “NOT A MISSILE”, mislead the families and general public about the incident

* Missile tests continue post-crash

Damning if true, to say the least.

[0] https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Massachusetts_District_Cou...

Drought.gov also has interesting graphs, historical context and descriptions of the various severity levels.

https://www.drought.gov/states/california

The electric Hummer’s battery weighs more than my first car. It has a curb weight over 9000 pounds.

Heavy cars do more damage when they hit things, emit more brake dust, and cause more damage to roads. Exploring ways to reduce (or appropriately tax) their use should be celebrated.

We don’t price much of anything like this, though? There are subsidies for low-income people, sure. But we don’t really do sliding scale payments for food, or public transit, or cars, etc etc etc.

Why does scarce road space in highly-congested (and well-connected) CBDs require a sliding scale when little else does?

This is a frequently-seen argument, and "extreme steps" will definitely require a change in lifestyle for many. It's worth noting though, that many of the countries doing the 'best' against climate change (e.g. the Nordics) also have famously high standards of living.

Some context for those not in NYC:

* Illegal parking and idling are out of control throughout the city. This has been the case for years, but it’s reached new heights since the pandemic. Trucks and cars often idle because they’re parked illegally.

* The city DOT, for a variety of reasons, is reluctant to redesign streets to prevent this behavior (e.g. by adding loading zones)

* The police are reluctant to ticket for this behavior, and frequently idle in their police cars throughout the city.

If a bounty system feels desperate/problematic, it is. Our city agencies have failed to deal with this problem and people are pissed about it. My hope is that this program is a bandaid until larger structural issues with the DOT and NYPD are addressed. We’ll see.

Reminds me of a trip to the DPRK side of the Korean DMZ a few years back. As you close in on the DMZ the roads get narrower, then narrower, then you start to see brutalist-looking concrete sidewalls, sculptures, & overhead signs all over the place.

We all thought they were sculptures (there's a lot of brutalist concrete in the DPRK). Turns out they're tank traps! You can see a few pics at the top of this article[0], they're pretty neat.

[0]https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hostile-terrain-tank-...

EDIT: Looks like South Korea may have these near the DMZ too!

Completely anecdotal, but doing it in-person in NYC was pretty painless for me. Walk in with paperwork, wait 2 weeks, pick up visa. I’ve heard of others having difficulty though, particularly over mail.

I visited Tipasa on a trip to northern Algeria a few years back. It, and so many of the ruins across the country, are pretty incredible, Pompeii-level sites that are mostly sitting there empty.

There’s very little tourism in Algeria, though, which might explain the lack of investment in their historic sites. If you get the opportunity to see them soon and you’re up for a bit of adventure, I’d recommend it.

To give just a few examples of the legal side of this: Here in NY, killing someone with a vehicle is a misdemeanor (unless you're drunk/high). People avoid this charge by claiming a medical incident while driving, and are often able to drive off from the scene of the crime. Hit-and-runs result in arrest less than 1% of the time. Speed cameras are restricted in number, location (only by schools) and hours of operation (they're off on nights/weekends) by the state. And good luck complaining about illegal/unsafe parking, you might start getting death threats from anonymous phone numbers[0].

It won't shock you to know that people are aware of all of this, and drive accordingly.

[0] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/02/10/city-hall-condemns-de...

The thing that's confusing to me about the Miami-tech-hub story is the lack of universities. Good universities + big companies + lots of money floating around, that's the holy trinity of tech/startup hubs, no? Miami has maybe 1.5-2 out of 3?

> But being opposed to it generally, in a city no less, is a bit ridiculous

Here in NYC we call these folks 'Manhattanites against the Manhattanization of Manhattan'. Shockingly, quite a few of them exist.

The 50s-60s were a boom time compared to the following decades, but were nothing compared to the preceding decades. NYC's biggest building boom was the ~1900s-1930s, after which things fell off considerably.

https://www.renthop.com/studies/nyc/building-age-and-rents-i...