hanging's comments

Almost every Panera I've been in was poorly run. Poor service and bad, old coffee more often than not.

SF at 4th and King was the lone exception.

That's one thing I miss about record stores like Tower. The music was chosen by workers on shift, a full album side at a time. I discovered some great music that way, including "popular" artists before they were popular.

Call forwarding to whatever line you do have in the bedroom.

The broad market is in equilibrium. SV doesn't define the broad market, nor does Flint MI or Gary IN.

This doesn't explain the more severe measles epidemics in low-Internet-usage countries like Vietnam.

Measles doesn't spontaneously appear within a community; it's brought in from the outside.

Were you WA and NV residents aware that you live in "Third World states"?

And AFAIK, the US has never exported domestic reactor waste.

  I can never understand those protesters

I think it's hypocrisy to say that defense/intelligence work is evil but manipulating individuals into giving away their privacy to the entire commercial space is fine and dandy.

  not having to lug a traditional gearbox around

You mention the Prius. Are you unaware of the complexity of its complex, heavy drivetrain?[1] Much heavier than even a traditional gearbox.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive#Transmiss...

And to legally use radar enforcement, there has to be a current survey affirming the limit.

There are oddly strong parallels here to the H-1B visa debates: raise the price and/or broaden the geography.

“I would be remiss if I didn’t ask if you were okay” is all he said.

The father later hunts him down and confronts him with, "Excuse me, sir, but you just embarrassed me in front of my children and strangers. And what you said was racist.”

He later proceeds to write an editorial about this perceived denigration.

Um, okay. Somebody certainly embarrassed the father, anyway.

Meanwhile, the world becomes, incrementally, less likely to look out for his family's safety.

"Contrary to popular memory, the event familiarly known as “Pearl Harbor” was in fact an all-out lightning strike on US and British holdings throughout the Pacific. On a single day, the Japanese attacked the US territories of Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island and Wake Island."

This is horrendously sloppy journalism.

The first attack on Wake was three days later and was repelled. The successful attack was another 12 days after that.

And the Midway attack was six months after Pearl.

"Contrary to popular memory, the event familiarly known as “Pearl Harbor” was in fact an all-out lightning strike on US and British holdings throughout the Pacific. On a single day, the Japanese attacked the US territories of Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island and Wake Island."

This is horrendously sloppy journalism.

The first attack on Wake was three days later and was repelled. The successful attack was another 12 days after that.

And the Midway attack was six months after Pearl.

Note: "Volkswagen", not Volkswagon

And would it be possible to sabotage via a botnet that submits all-incorrect responses?

Related article from 2012, 230+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4307136

Reposted in 2014, 190+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945283

Another view on their methodology:

"The (K12SSD) table at right shows that the majority of “school shootings” over the last 48 years occur outside while on school campus. When tied in with non-shooting “school shooting” definitions, such as brandishing, we get a very different picture. By this project’s definitions, if someone on the sidewalk outside the school brandished a gun, that was a “school shooting”. Three percent of “school shootings” in the database involve no shots being fired at all. And if we include single shots (regardless of from where they came, or if they were suicides, or if they were late at night, etc.) those add up to 63% of all incidents."

http://www.gunfacts.info/blog/school-shooting-database-and-p...

I hardly think K12SSD's releases come "with no editorializing".

Agriculture (including aquaculture) work visas are a different category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-2A_visa

(2014)

"A switch to water that’s been ultrapurified by reverse osmosis (plus “carbon polishing” and UV sterilization) has proved revelatory."

This can mess with one's electrolyte balance to a dangerous degree. (She makes a vague reference to buying an "electrolyte mix", but that's before switching to purified water, and she makes no mention of using any.)