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txsh··on The Gluten Project: A Search Engine for 35K Certified Gluten-Free Products
Talking specifically about celiac disease, not non-celiac gluten sensitivity, 4 out of 5 people who have celiac disease are not diagnosed with it.

If your brother has it, there's a 1 in 10 chance you do too.

txsh··on Facebook spamming users via their 2FA phone numbers
$0 if you own enough lobbyists and congressmen.
txsh··on FBI Says Chinese Operatives Active at Scores of U.S. Universities
Every country spies on every other country. But not every country steals foreign technology for its companies.
txsh··on A 'Walden' for the YouTube Age
If you've watched all of Primitive Technology, Survival Skills Primitive is not quite as good but has a larger variety:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChUP6B_3zcdFYZnOdMM21og/vid...

txsh··on Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude
The 401k was a way for companies to stop providing pensions to their employees.
txsh··on America Needs a Nationalized 5G Network
Separating concerns prevents these problems. There should be one company responsible for the infrastructure and other companies competing to provide service to customers.

Deregulation of the Texas energy market should be the model. In Texas, I get an electricity plan that is 100% wind power at a third of the cost of electricity in California. They even gave me a free digital thermostat and installed it for free. The service is reliable and gets restored quickly if there's a natural disaster.

If only telephone service and internet access worked this well.

But I agree, if you give billions of dollars to customer-facing companies to improve the infrastructure, they'll squander it.

txsh··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to hire good engineers?
I have reservations to take my wife out on Valentines Day. Should I instead divorce her so I can spend more time balancing binary trees? Would that get me hired, sir?
txsh··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to hire good engineers?
> There may be many "engineers", but they are not really dedicated to their field.

What qualifies you to decide someone isn’t “dedicated” enough?

txsh··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to hire good engineers?
Because nobody wants to train good engineers. It’s not like the people you’re interviewing set out to be bad engineers. It’s just that people like you won’t hire them unless they’re already perfect.
txsh··on For first time a dedicated conversation on cryptocurrency in US congress
The US dollar isn't "stable" and "predictable".
txsh··on Detroit has outlawed Airbnb for R1 and R2 zoning
Detroit is an interesting project in forest reclamation.
txsh··on In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat
> Sorry madam the last person I dealt with broke my camera, I'm not a cop at the moment"

He could help in any way a normal citizen could help someone in trouble until another officer arrives with a working body cam.

> Political policing That’s not what I said.

What’s wrong with allowing the public to petition for a police officer to be fired?

> I'm also sure housing the police where they work would definitely no in anyway make them, their family and property, any sort of target being as everyone loves the police.

Everyone hates the police. That’s the point. It’s a lot harder to curb stomp a kid’s head if you know you’ll see his mother at the grocery store. It’s a lot harder to force a woman to blow you at a traffic stop if she’s in a book club with your wife.

If your profession requires you to have a secret lair, you’re probably a villain.

txsh··on In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat
There should be a body cam on every officer and their police powers and privileges should deactivate the moment its turned off deliberately or “accidentally”. A time delayed feed should be made public and an independent federal agency should randomly audit the recordings for civil rights abuses.

Police should be treated like other political officials and there should be a democratic mechanism for the public to remove them from their position.

There should be a national ban on psychological profiling during the police hiring process. Police departments should compensate their officers with substantially higher salaried instead of their current compensation: poor pay with perks like the chance to exert power, abuse people, steal things, and almost completely avoid prosecution.

Finally, police officers should be required to live in the areas they police. They should be provided with the same public housing the general public enjoys if they have trouble finding or affording a house.

Of course, these ideas are too sensible to be ever become real.

txsh··on How to Disrupt the Daily Grind -- Lessons from Jim Carrey, Poets, Artists and Me
No. I'm thinking about how he was sued for giving his girlfriend an STD and then giving her the drugs she killed herself with.
txsh··on Slack: Other browsers require significant effort so we're focused on Chrome
Why should they support browsers that make dramatic, arbitrary changes on a whim? Chrome is the only browser that remains stable. Who knows what Firefox or Edge will look like next year?
txsh··on How to Disrupt the Daily Grind -- Lessons from Jim Carrey, Poets, Artists and Me
Taking life advice from Jim Carrey seems like a bad idea.
txsh··on Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists
You seem to think I'm talking about residential areas. I'm talking about downtown Austin real estate.

Here's photo of land Whole Foods owns or leases (mostly owns) in downtown Austin that I pieced together from information in news articles. They likely have much more.

https://i.imgur.com/AxOp9Xl.png

txsh··on Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists
I think my comment went over your head.

Whole Foods started in Austin and has been buying real estate for decades. They famously purchased land based on the percentage of college graduates in an area. They purchased land in urban areas. I don’t why you would assume otherwise. They purchased land and held onto unused real estate to keep their competition from building new stores.

They own a lot of land in prime locations. Often they’re the landlord of all the other business near them. Ever wonder why you see natural pet food stores and eco-friendly dentists next to a Whole Foods? It’s because they own the block.

Let me know if I need to explain this further.

txsh··on Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists
In the early days of Whole Foods they built stores with cash and bought land to build shopping centers instead of renting. I believe HQ2 may be the real reason Amazon acquired Whole Foods, because it owned a lot of real estate in Austin.
txsh··on Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
It’s like bittorrent which requires a tracker but the transferring of content is distributed.
txsh··on Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
If I understand it correctly, it is decentralized. When pages are accessed they are automatically copied and hosted by nodes. Eventually, garbage collection will delete the copy. Pinning prevents it from being deleted so that the node hosts it permanently.
txsh··on Online Communities Are the Best Thing About the Internet
I remember when people were generally more tolerant of people who were different. If you were weird you kept the majority of your unpopular beliefs or behaviorsr to yourself and hung out with people with different interests.

Today, people seem to only want to hang out with people who are like themselves, who completely accept them. If someone has a different opinion or a different interest, they’re a predator trying to eat your herd.

txsh··on How Does MoviePass Make Money?
If you believe what MoviePass is saying, they’re not losing money hand over fist. They claim most people stop going to the movies after the first couple of months. If someone doesn’t see 12 movies in a year, they aren’t losing money. They say the average is closer to 4.
txsh··on Ivy – A static website generator built in Python
In HTML you cannot reuse code or split the code into multiple files without using copy and paste, iframes, or Javascript.

Software like this allows you to create templates and generate multiple pages with different content.

This can be achieved with server-side scripting languages. However, it is slower than static HTML. So if the content doesn’t change often, generating static HTML might be the eay to go.

txsh··on A look inside Amazon’s Spheres as they get set to open
Biodomes that aren’t called biodomes because of Pauly Shore.
txsh··on Blockchain Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90%
I believe some of the people in this thread are talking about tokens and some are talking about coins.
txsh··on Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
That has nothing to do with what I quoted from the article. It would benefit you to suppress your religious fervor for a few minutes and examine the facts for yourself.
txsh··on Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
Think about what you wrote. If I am giving you one apple per hour and you are giving me 100 apples per hour, is it accurate to say you are feeding apples back to me?

No, I am feeding apples back to you. I am the feedback loop. You are the source.

txsh··on Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
> In fact, there's more carbon in the permafrost, Douglas says, than all the carbon humans have spewed into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — first with steam trains, then with coal plants, cars and planes.

> Scientists don't know yet how much carbon will get released from thawing permafrost or how fast it will happen.

In a nutshell why not accepting anthropogenic global warming is scientific and accepting it is anti-science, not the other way around.

txsh··on Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
Would you mind adding sentiment analysis to this?

Ex:

bitcoin: negative; ethereum: neutral; bitcoin cash: very positive

I would love you forever.

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