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by acwan93 5y ago
I thought 99 Ranch would be the grocer that “sparked an Asian American revolution” as the article suggests. 99 Ranch started expanding back in the 80s and had a lot of what the author mentioned.
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by acwan93 5y ago
I read somewhere that because people don't live that long, we don't have a collective memory of previous disasters or pandemics (anyone who was alive today during the 1918 pandemic wouldn't really remember it), so human histo
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by acwan93 5y ago
Not just here, Reddit and even MacRumors as well [1]. [1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...
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by acwan93 5y ago
At this point though, there’s so many EVs on the road in LA/SF that the HOV lanes aren’t necessarily faster.
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by acwan93 5y ago
I’ve thought about this while cycling to work that I’m inhaling a bunch of exhaust, but with the push to EVs will this no longer be an issue? Dust and particulates that settle on asphalt will still be a problem though.
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by acwan93 5y ago
San Jose, California does this for the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton, although I think they're switching to blueish LEDs. The sodium-vapor lights are frequently mistaken as yellow traffic lights though, in my experience.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Even in the Bay Area, the Lincoln Ave road diet in Willow Glen (San Jose) was severely divided, and I considered the Bay Area to be way more bike friendly than other regions in America. https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/
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by acwan93 6y ago
Don't forget the active recreational cyclists ("middle aged man in lycra", or MAMIL) who only cycle on the weekends. The city planner in the LA suburb I was referencing said that the councilmen were all weekend cyclists, so d
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by acwan93 6y ago
There's a demonization of cyclists in general if you live in an American city. Until this stigma goes away, which will usher in infrastructure and mentality changes, this will not occur. City councils believe cycling is recreational, n
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by acwan93 6y ago
I wonder if in another 400 years some distant society will look at ours as the "Dark Ages" since all information is locked behind services that have since disappeared like Yahoo Answers, Geocities, AIM profiles, MySpace, and (mayb
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by acwan93 6y ago
But children wouldn't necessarily be learning in a classroom the entire day. Even today there's a bunch of extracurriculars (band practice, sports, etc.) that occur between dismissal up until dinnertime. If these "after schoo
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by acwan93 6y ago
I can't find the website, but there's a site that specifically tells you everything it knows about you just by keeping the page open. It tells you if it knows where your cursor is, what pages you've been to, what your compu
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by acwan93 6y ago
I pulled it straight from Reddit, so most likely
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It's funny how often this actually happens: 2013: https://elpeji.com/2013/12/03/study-abroad-gringa-takes-five... 2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/comments/5lqnxb&#x2
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by acwan93 6y ago
One thing that irks me about The New Yorker is their liberal use of diacritics. They've added umlauts to words with consecutive vowels like "cooperate" (coöperate) and "reelect" (reëelect), when it hasn't been
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by acwan93 6y ago
One way to combat this (if you’re physically capable): long distance running without headphones. It forces you to focus on one thing alone: finish your route. I’ve found that my mind wanders, but the pain exerted by running for an hour or s
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by acwan93 6y ago
There’s also Clarion, whose platform is intended to generate code for you and you input your own custom programming and business logic if needed for a basic B2B CRUD desktop app. I guess like history, SW dev trends also rhyme.
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by acwan93 6y ago
I was wondering if this would be a solution to the privacy issue that surrounds 23andMe. I would gladly pay a significant amount above $99 (or whatever 23andMe charges) for an offline version of DNA insights.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Canberra, Australia was built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne as well. I think it was the closest city that was midpoint between the two largest cities.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Yep, the old Russian proverb that’s falsely attributed to Ronald Reagan [1]. Getting back on topic, that’s entirely Visa’s business in being a payments network. When I first heard about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, I wondered why Visa&#x2F
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by acwan93 6y ago
It’s like how people equate rattling of facts as being smart. When you’re effectively carrying the equivalent of all human knowledge with you at all times, memorizing facts and historical dates seems obsolete. Now it’s about filtering out t
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by acwan93 6y ago
Do electric planes make any difference in terms of noise? When an electric vehicle is in motion most of the noise I can tell are from the tires. A electric powered propeller plane would most likely still have most of its noise generated by
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by acwan93 6y ago
I think (and this is probably why this is part of the general tech conversation now) that we're on the verge of a massive legal shift with data ownership. A child born since Facebook's inception will be approaching 18 soon, and mi
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by acwan93 6y ago
The area above the SGV (Pasadena to Pomona area) is the Santa Fe Practice Area. A lot of first-time pilots, private plane or helicopter, practice and learn how to fly out of El Monte or Brackett (Pomona). I've checked FlightRadar24 dur
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by acwan93 6y ago
A lot of it really is having heated discussions or disagreements with parents about how a business should be run or a decision that needs to be made, and trying to leave that back at the workplace while maintaining the personal family relat
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by acwan93 6y ago
This is a great list. I’m taking over a bootstrapped family business, and a lot of what you wrote echos the founders’ (my parents) sentiment. > 2. Do not think you/your product/your team/your approach are any different or
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by acwan93 6y ago
I visited Austin in the summertime and after a day of 100+ humid weather, the evenings go down to the lower 80s/upper 70s. It felt like a jacket or a light windbreaker would’ve been needed. And this is coming from someone who normally
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by acwan93 6y ago
My broker said it was a standard $3K closing cost if at zero points, but I ended up taking some negative points as a credit towards closing costs.
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by acwan93 6y ago
I went through 3 refinances last year (also in CA) all at little to no closing costs for a 30 year fixed (4.00% → 3.25% → 2.5%). The math made sense every single time when factoring in the lower monthly payments and negligible closing costs
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by acwan93 6y ago
This might be a meta question that’s unrelated to the topic, but is there a breakdown of the demographics and location of HN readers?

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