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80c is a convenient temperature for activating naturally occuring enzimes in food for breaking down complex sugars. Similar, but food specific, holding temperatures are used for beer brewing, french fries, and other foods with complex sugars.

Turns out cities are loud! In NYC, at least, heat pumps are far more quiet than the endless window unit A/C's, or larger traditional A/C's, in my experience.

Outdoor noise is less of an issue in the winter in big cities because windows are closed.

That's unfortunately not possible everywhere, but purchasing things daily is necessary.

It can be procedurally very long and drawn out, especially in less welcoming states.

To your point, transitioning is a massive process. Making something bureaucratically painful significantly easier is very welcome to an overwhelming process.

It seems like people in this thread are unaware of the very real threats, harassment, and assaults that happen as a trans person in public. Using a name that matches your gender identity is important for both psychological safety, as well as avoiding being outed and threatened by others in public.

Laws in different states can make changing your legal name incredibly complicated and time consuming. Having an easy process to avoid some daily danger is wonderful for trans people, regardless of the motivation from MasterCard.

If it were only a very minor psychological discomfort, you'd be right. Unfortunately, other clientele in the store may harass you and follow you out of the store.

As someone who has been on the receiving end of incredibly violent threats, being able to not be outed publicly is critical to everyday safety for trans people.

The article briefly mentions the definition, but not in detail. They're part of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) programs for affordable housing in big cities. SROs have fallen out of favor with no good alternative, but they've been a lifeline for friends of mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

Eschew labels, be yourself, be free.

It's not taboo.

It's interesting that the author refers to unspecified "partisan stances". Many of the political positions of the last year that have been described as partisan are actually globally regarded as human rights.

Human rights are nonpartisan. The ACLU has stuck to it's guns on that, despite the the overwhelmingly biased political climate.

I think it's silly that this thinly sourced hit-piece is on the front page of hacker news.

Imagine living in one of the densest cities in the country and also being this dense.

Oh good lord the pedestrian islands don't have curbs. I hadn't considered that a possibility.

The pole literally has pedestrian buttons on it. I'm fairly certain that humans are intended to push them. Maps might help, though!

The scary part isn't that it's about to hit a pole, it's that it jumped the curb onto a sidewalk!

The author clearly has never cleaned toilets for a living, yet waxes philosophical, completely missing the point on why public services are kneecapped in this country.

The article linked blames stabilization, but fails to account for many other factors: the almost required 12-15% broker fee on move-in, the year long leases that never go month to month. Moving in NYC is a larger burden on the tenant than most other cities, and that makes it harder as a tenant to move and keep the housing market dynamic.

It seems like there's a lot of missing analysis in this article rather than just a jump to conclusions, blaming tenant rights, and calling it a day.

Why didn't they name it D4

There's not a lot to say other than: find a mentor now.

Start cold-emailing CTOs in the same portfolio as your company. They'll be happy to help.

I appreciate that the article referenced Bowie's "Space Oddity" and "Starman"

I still want to know: How many dentists _are_ there in Poland?

These would get so messy so fast in NYC.

No you're stupid. :P

This is just a rant. I was hoping for an actual study, but the title should have given it away.

Somehow the critique lost clout at "Winblows"

"Rides the Rocket" is a reference to Quake. It's a pretty crude joke about getting shot by a rocket launcher in the classic Quake deathmatch. It's likely there because of the similar, "frags", which is what they called kills, gruesomely short for the same "fragmentation"

Great! I was trying to figure out how to import twitter into eXist.