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by acwan93 6y ago
I noticed this when I started working after college. If there was a dentist, or a bank, or something that stayed open until well after business hours every day then I would go there because of the convenience. I once walked into a mall (pre
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by acwan93 6y ago
Vox did a video on this several years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D420SOmL6U I recently did a rewatch of older Simpsons episodes lately and aside from the 90s references a lot of the economic conditions seems incr
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by acwan93 6y ago
This is the future of my company’s vision and technical product line (an in-house homegrown ERP that is 30 years old). Our company used to attempt do everything in-house, mostly due to technical (in)expertise and lack of accomplishing wha
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by acwan93 6y ago
Yeah I got the book as soon as I heard that quote from Master of None. It’s an eloquent novel that really highlights mental health and self-identity.
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by acwan93 6y ago
This reminds me of “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath, which has a quote Aziz Ansari used in his series “Master of None”: > "I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like
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by acwan93 6y ago
(Former Apple engineer) It’s funny, a friend of mine who’s been jumping around tech companies and recently joined a (non-Apple) FAANG had told me that I was taking the Apple secrecy way too seriously. It’s kind of a unspoken rule at Apple t
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by acwan93 6y ago
Los Angeles has several examples, which I personally attribute to red-lining in the 1930s that led to current transportation policy and infrastructure choices. -Boyle Heights was a predominately Latino community in east LA, which had the Ea
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by acwan93 6y ago
Disney has been removing its focus on Mickey Mouse over the years as (I speculate) it knows at some point the mouse will be part of public domain, so it's been going on an IP shopping spree for most of the 2010s. Mickey is still huge a
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by acwan93 6y ago
I'm so glad there's a site that's been keeping around the corporate-speak and well wishes for acquihires (no sarcasm intended). It's part amusing and interesting to see how founders or leaders of an org spin a acquisitio
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by acwan93 6y ago
I would imagine Asian culture doesn't help with this at all, where you're expected to build your empire through career and education (the 996 rule where you work 9am-9pm 6 days a week, as Jack Ma would put it) while suppressing th
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by acwan93 6y ago
I’m going to call it as it is: sharrows are the answers from cities that simply don’t care about cyclists but want to “show they are doing something” to silence the complaints from what they think are niche groups. My hometown (and where I
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by acwan93 6y ago
Filled up with La Croix.
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by acwan93 6y ago
AirPods, Away bags, and Allbirds.
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by acwan93 6y ago
This sends a much different and much more coherent message than what I’ve heard in LA County, which makes me believe the Bay Area has this more under control than SoCal even if San Mateo isn’t following in lockstep with the other Bay Area c
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by acwan93 6y ago
It's like when you're studying for a test and fail to study that one topic cause you think it's never gonna show up, only to find that not only did it show up, it ended up being 20% of the entire test.
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by acwan93 6y ago
I know you probably mean this tongue-in-cheek, but perhaps task management (Asana/Trello/etc.) and customer helpdesk (Zendesk/Freshdesk/etc.)? Having all those tools integrated with the rest of another suite like Microso
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by acwan93 6y ago
I wonder if Reddit is hitting the same issue as Twitter did with regards to third-party apps. Like Twitter, Reddit has a robust API that allows for really full-featured apps to fetch/post content, which is great as a user, but horrible
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by acwan93 6y ago
Original McDonald’s fries and New Coke are two 80s things I would try if they were available today. Even if the companies brought it back for a limited time I’m sure there would be enough interest. I just checked and New Coke was available
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by acwan93 6y ago
Maybe they over leveraged?
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by acwan93 6y ago
"Windows" should be on there too: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-wind...
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by acwan93 6y ago
That's my initial thought as well. Abstaining from sex (or contact in the context of the pandemic) is a near impossibility for mental health, societal/economic benefit, and just human nature, so it's better to teach how to do
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by acwan93 6y ago
Are you using anything to track it? I’m doing this too and using CityStrides to keep track.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Those are as useful as Yelp reviews for how <dish> in <city A> isn't as good as the one in <city B>.
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by acwan93 6y ago
American Express's passwords are (still! after 10 years!) case-insensitive. An attack on the US Banking system is a matter of when, not if.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Just curious, do you know of any ones that tout walking? I realized this during stay-at-home orders back in March. When I stopped bike commuting I started walking for 1-2 hours a day on days I didn’t go on runs, and realized I was burning a
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by acwan93 6y ago
I think state governments go after large purchases, like (pricy) wedding rings, aircraft, cars, or anything like that simply because that's where they'll get the biggest return. It might be an urban legend now, but I've heard
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by acwan93 6y ago
To add to that: In California it's gotten so ridiculous that almost every city has its own sales tax [0]. This leads to some mild arbitrage where if I live on the border of LA County, I can go over to any city in Orange/Ventura&
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by acwan93 6y ago
On a much smaller scale, this is achieved in the US by going to a no sales tax state like Oregon or Delaware. With the sales tax in Los Angeles at 10.25%, I’ve ended up queuing up large purchases together, buying a round trip ticket to Port
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by acwan93 6y ago
It’s part of the SiriKit Media Intents that was introduced in iOS 13.
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by acwan93 6y ago
Oh nice! I haven’t tried to in a while, and have only seen it recently with services that connect to Strava.

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