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Grubhub sets default tip to $0(arstechnica.com)
36 points by mike_h 6y ago|37 comments
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by mike_h 6y ago
Who would have eaten at a place like this? e.g. wealthy tourists, middle class, laborers? I’m trying to contextualize this in the cost of living in the region in those times. This is the best source I found, but there’s no entry for takeo
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by mike_h 6y ago
A 49-key will cover 90+% of what you’d want to do in the first year or two of traditional training. A 25-key will get annoying sooner, but if you know space is going to be a real issue, it’s just a percentage question again. You could jus
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by mike_h 6y ago
Even the cheapest midi keyboards are velocity-sensitive. Weighting is nice, but the choice isn’t between button-presses and expression.
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by mike_h 6y ago
This advice is debatable anymore. If your goal is to really go deep on acoustic, traditional piano then sure. But if you just want to make music in a modern way (on the computer), or even just want to try it out for a year or two before d
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by mike_h 6y ago
Every evening when it's warm enough to not wear a thick coat, every park has people of all ages dancing, but mostly old people. In the cities I've been to, there are parks in every neighborhood. They have exercise equipment and
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by mike_h 6y ago
Definitely some potential confounding variables there...
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Walking the dog increases the risk of contagion of Covid-19 by 78%(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by mike_h 6y ago|2 comments
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by mike_h 6y ago
The quarantines are only one tool in China’s response. They were also quick to adopt masks and contact tracing. Characterizing quarantines as “locking people up” seems to me the root cause of the mass deaths in the West. The iconography o
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by mike_h 6y ago
Do you see anything happening in the US public sphere to make you particularly hopeful about how we’ll handle the next one? These people are literally dying on the hill of “covid is a hoax”. Half of the country claims they won’t take a va
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by mike_h 6y ago
Covid is turning out to be a disease of culture. The same virus hit the East and the West. The East got through it, the West is on its knees.
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by mike_h 6y ago
It's not an unsolvable human nature problem. Look at just about any country in East Asia.
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by mike_h 6y ago
It's not just Taiwan, it's all of East Asia. At this point it's beyond irresponsible for people to keep comparing the US's handling to other Western nations – EA showed how it's done (in both democratic and autocra
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by mike_h 6y ago
This is one really important counterpoint. The internet made it more economical. Another is that in days before the internet, the technology for small numbers of people to cause mass violence did not exist.
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by mike_h 6y ago
How many Chinese have you had intimate conversations with about this?
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by mike_h 6y ago
Google was an active collaborator with the state, on not just intelligence gathering but on soft-power influence-pushing (according to that article). Maybe they have lost some influence in the current administration (maybe not), but Faceboo
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by mike_h 6y ago
It’s not just that. Now the Trump administration has control of the world’s best propaganda tool. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/technology/oracle-tiktok-...
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Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy(daringfireball.net)
6 points by mike_h 6y ago|0 comments
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by mike_h 6y ago
He says he’s talking about the written language on signs.
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by mike_h 6y ago
I wouldn’t consider NYT approval a great validation metric. Their reporting on Xinjiang in particular really made it sound to me like someone has an axe to grind and they know they’re preaching to a choir over here. There was one massive
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by mike_h 6y ago
Amazon needs to pause all USPS usage in the weeks leading up to the election, and we need to organize to eliminate all but essential load on them ourselves.
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by mike_h 6y ago
Yes. And the harder problem (if this weren’t hard enough) is getting the ballots delivered to voters in the first place.
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by mike_h 6y ago
This is a critical threat to democracy given the circumstances of the upcoming election.
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by mike_h 6y ago
Nobody would miss the pockets on top for a place to hang your hands? I depend on this to take some load off my spine sometimes. And I feel like pocketing away my hands is like a “mute button” on a certain amount of proprioception when I n
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by mike_h 6y ago
If you’re curious about CO2, there are a number of home CO2 monitors available these days. It was really enlightening to me to see the levels rise well above optimal within just a few hours of sleeping with the room sealed.
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Pulse: DIY pendant to warn you when you touch your face(medeng.jpl.nasa.gov)
7 points by mike_h 6y ago|0 comments
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by mike_h 6y ago
Just don’t call them from the Yelp app: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-r...
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by mike_h 7y ago
This is a red herring issue. The problem isn’t that Chinese won’t sell the US masks. It’s that the US is trying to buy too many too late. We could have spent the past decade stockpiling them. American protectionism is actually part of wha
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by mike_h 7y ago
Hey thanks, these are great ideas and inspiration!
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by mike_h 7y ago
Any interesting outsider / trainer experiences?

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