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The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)

marketplace.org
132 points·by thetopher·2 years ago·59 comments

Islam and Cats

en.wikipedia.org
5 points·by thetopher·2 years ago·4 comments

Austin Google workers learned of layoffs as City Council prepped public support

austinmonitor.com
2 points·by thetopher·2 years ago·0 comments

Ask HN: Is it possible to verify the source used to compile a mobile app?

1 points·by thetopher·2 years ago·1 comments

Salad the Silent Killer (1988) [pdf]

baghwallah.files.wordpress.com
6 points·by thetopher·3 years ago·2 comments

Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life–and Now Threatens to End It

newyorker.com
1 points·by thetopher·3 years ago·0 comments

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thetopher
·5 months ago·discuss
I just resized my browser window, so the bottom of the window is above the GIF, but below the NEXT button.
thetopher
·last year·discuss
Sounds like they were following some advice from “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by separating the business groups.
thetopher
·2 years ago·discuss
Is not just the meat industry. Dairy cows eat silage too.

Everything I know about silage I learned from watching 10th Generation Dairyman on YouTube. As somebody who loves learning about the tedious details of other people’s professions, I highly recommend this channel.

https://youtube.com/@10thgenerationdairyman61
thetopher
·2 years ago·discuss
This looks like a scam. They’re asking for $5k - 20k individual donations for a statue that (according to the supposed sculptor’s website) will only cost $6,000.

https://www.monumentallabs.co/commissions

Why are they asking for so much money?

Also, the website claims that donations are tax-deductible, but there’s no mention of a registered non-profit organization.

No transparency. So many questions.
thetopher
·2 years ago·discuss
“Our basic philosophy when it comes to security is that we can trust our developers and that we can trust the private network within the cluster.”

This is not my area of expertise. Does it add a significant amount of complexity to configure this kind of system in a way that doesn’t require trusting the network? Where are the pain points?
thetopher
·2 years ago·discuss
I wonder if he realizes that his behavior (substantiated by compelling evidence) was “grotesque”.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
I wonder what would happen if they published a list of all their users who are not currently under surveillance, or gave them a nice little icon. I feel like somebody tried this before, but my Google searches are coming up empty.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
Directly below the paragraph about Alcoholics Anonymous was an advertisement for Absolut Vodka. Hmmmm.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
Article by Jeffrey Steingarten. He’s a wonderful food writer with two books that I highly recommend to anybody who has ever been called a foodie.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
Great point. It’s never occurred to me until now, but Amdahl’s Law has great application here.

I never want to be the “weak link” in the chain, but overworking myself to deliver my piece in a large project usually has negligible impact, if any. Usually it just ends up providing buffer for other teams that end up using more time.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
I don’t know if these are good examples. Money and electricity both have inherent liabilities that don’t seem to translate to stock. At the end of the day, cash has to be transported and stored somewhere. Negative interest rates can be used to effectively pay somebody else to store your cash. A similar situation has happened with oil prices going negative.

Negative electric rates could be used to increase load on a grid that would otherwise be generating too much electricity.

Is there any kind of liability that comes with owning stock in a company? I don’t see any motivation to ever pay for somebody to take ownership of your stock.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
Here are two lectures about Blood Meridian from a Yale literature course.

https://youtu.be/FgyZ4ia25gg

https://youtu.be/7ZFmf4T5L3o
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
One approach to solving this problem would be a mass distribution of fake courtesy cards. I wonder if the NYPD has an effective way of verifying that a person has a real card that they received from a real cop.
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
In case anybody is looking for the link for discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002808
thetopher
·3 years ago·discuss
(2021)