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Re:China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:39AM (#37406720)
it was shared from the apple stocks app
like <1% of people are realistically burning 4000+ calories in a day
at that temp decomp will slow drastically, so it would for sure be consuming less
They used CBD, not THC.
Re:Show HN: A color picker for named web colors only on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:00AM (#33694018)
Very cool and I love how clean the code is
how does it cost $1,500 a year to maintain it?
Re:If Silence Is the Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:07AM (#29095730)
ramen tatsuya and it's not close, imo
HEB is using Favor for deliveries (which they bought a few years ago)
I'm an engineer in Austin. We definitely get bonuses and I have RSUs at my current company.
Re:We quit our jobs to build a cabin on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:25PM (#24052968)
Usonia! 99% Invisible did an excellent episode about this:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia-1/

We don't live in a static society, it is wild to me that so many grown adults are blind to this. Don't want things to change? Too bad.
It's truly wild that he was taking cross-country road trips
Re:We found the world's oldest modern bird skull on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:18PM (#22632346)
So cool. How many other uninteresting fossils are sitting around waiting to be scanned?
Re:How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:26PM (#22322055)
not very good is the understatement of the year.
Re:Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:33PM (#21774727)
There are studies that show merging late actually reduces congestion:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-m...

fwiw i have a series 4 and i sleep in it every night. much better battery life than the first gen
Re:Couple wins millions using lottery loophole on Monday June 10, 2019 @05:41PM (#20151165)
Any of the millions of poor people that buy lottery tickets every week could have spent a much smaller initial sum and worked up to the millions. It just would have taken longer.
Re:Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed? on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:50PM (#19259107)
H-E-B does exactly this in Texas. They have packed-daily boxes for $12 - $30 depending on the serving size.