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by ng12 7y ago
There are plenty of American toothbrush manufacturers which already compete on price (I use Preserve, made from recycled material in America for $3). It's mostly the big guys (Colgate + OralB) who are trying to maximize profit by outso
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by ng12 7y ago
I don't understand why globalism rarely, if ever, factors into the debate. It boggles my mind that if I walk down to the drug store to buy a toothbrush that toothbrush was likely made in a Chinese factory, shipped across the Pacific oc
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by ng12 7y ago
I am extremely excited about it. I think of it as a form of IOC for front-end development. Almost constantly we run into a problem where a third party React library gets us 80% of what we want, but that last 20% is where we spend most of ou
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by ng12 7y ago
This is what the article should have been elaborating on instead of discussing the fundamentals of the junkyard business.
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by ng12 7y ago
I just don't understand dumping my entire development environment to solve one of the easier parts of package development.
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by ng12 7y ago
I take it you don't live in New England! Most cars start struggling at 10 years.
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by ng12 7y ago
I don't get why the article is treating this as an exciting new business. It's as old as automobiles are -- every town has a junkyard or two that buys junked cars for a pittance. If you've had the displeasure of trying to kee
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by ng12 7y ago
Up until 2015 I had a wonderfully curated comedy Twitter created in this manner. It was selected from the set of my favorite comedians, actors, writers, and internet people with particular focus towards those who posted humorous or insightf
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by ng12 7y ago
Which is in itself a symptom of the housing crisis. Instead of fixing the root problem they accelerated it.
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by ng12 7y ago
Well, this is what free market capitalism is for. If it weren't for the loads of regulation whole neighborhoods in SF would have been replaced with high-density housing a decade ago. However, California has decided that "housing a
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by ng12 7y ago
Yes, it's not as bad as OR but it's on it's way up -- especially for a small city in an underpopulated state.
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by ng12 7y ago
https://news.kgnu.org/2018/08/the-affordable-housing-crisis-... I believe that certain cities have better ratios but I'm also inclined to think those places are just slightly earlier in the cycle.
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by ng12 7y ago
Oh -- do you mean to ask how state/national politics play into San Francisco's housing crisis? California state law is a big part of the problem: it gives individual cities way too much power to decide what gets built and what doe
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by ng12 7y ago
It's not at all a SF problem, it's a metropolitan city problem. NYC, Boston, Denver, Austin, Boise, both Portlands, etc all have the same housing crisis. The truth is well-paying (i.e. middle class) jobs are coalescing in a small
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by ng12 7y ago
What is the methodology for classifying human vs. animal waste?
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by ng12 7y ago
> I don't think that the cheaper goods that China gave the world only benefited the %1 I look at this from the perspective of the rust-belt. It doesn't really help that you can buy a Chinese-made couch for only $500 if you&#x27
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by ng12 7y ago
Because the API is really ugly. I can't see them ever taking off except maybe as an implementation of another library with a cleaner API.
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by ng12 7y ago
Things like this make it really hard to follow a discussion as it evolves over time.
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by ng12 7y ago
I have an Awair. I don't really trust the baseline values but I do trust the deltas. I mostly use it to inform me when I should open a window or turn the air purifier or humidifier on.
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by ng12 7y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Personally I've advocated for something more similar to "React Hooks are redux for devs who know when not to use redux", which is _most_ of the time.
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by ng12 7y ago
> React Hooks are redux for devs that can’t be trusted to use redux I can't imagine this statement coming from someone who doesn't grotesquely overuse Redux.
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by ng12 7y ago
> forcing management to pay higher wages, Independent truckers don't have management. They make more money and don't pay union dues. That's the whole point, and why the Teamsters want them gone.
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by ng12 7y ago
Where do you see that? The CTA does seem to represent independent truckers (owner-operators): https://www.caltrux.org/owner-operators/
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by ng12 7y ago
I believe that they exist. It's just Venice ranks shockingly low on the list of cities I would like to live in given it's cultural and historical significance. You say there are other priorities that make Venice attractive -- like
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by ng12 7y ago
Right -- and I would absolutely put Venice in the overwhelmed category. When I travel I try to experience the local culture as much as possible and I simply wasn't able to find it in Venice. I walked around the city for hours (which is
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by ng12 7y ago
> Venice is actually a great place to live if you don't prioritize for comfort but appreciate other aspects of life. Perhaps, if you're prioritizing access to hordes of tourists.
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by ng12 7y ago
I feel like there's something poetic about a site complaining that people do HTML "wrong" having terrible UX.
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by ng12 7y ago
And then after the war ended the US rushed in to get access to as many of the mythical Nazi scientists powering the mythical Nazi war machine as possible.
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by ng12 7y ago
> whether it's the "right time" to protest oil companies doing bad things. What are the bad thing oil companies do? Extract the oil you and I pay them to extract?
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by ng12 7y ago
Would you care to explain your position rather than expressing shock that someone disagrees with you?

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