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Spokane is Eastern Washington, the college in Cheney is literally called Eastern, its just not a desert.

Spokane is not desert. Even surrounding territory is more plains. Some desert military training happens at Yakima much further west.

Interesting video, but it's all from the pov of the city's tax revenue and nothing else. Taking the first example, if they don't build the new food complex and keep the old one, less people will want to live in that city, and eventually the tax revenue will go down. Plenty of ghost towns around me that prove that point, you have to stay modern or you go under. As far as the suburb part, if those high income areas spend all their money downtown, then tax revenue downtown goes up but the source of money is still the suburbs. You have two sources of tax revenue in downtown (business + residents), but only one in the suburbs. So naturally tax revenue is lower in suburbs, but without them the downtown businesses wouldn't survive at all. It's a relationship, and it's odd they don't address this point. Also in the southwest there are plenty of suburb-only cities that grow rapidly without a downtown district playing major part.

Reuters has some info, no apparent buyer: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/wework-plans-file-bank...

"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.

Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.

Rest would give you energy regardless, both physically and mentally. Nearly every sport has built in sitting breaks.

It's not about ignoring editors, it's about taking constructive feedback, and the ratio of constructive feedback to noise is very low in complex projects. In those projects, people that aren't heavily invested typically don't know enough about the wider project to make valuable contributions.

> I've never understood why it's somehow considered more 'consensus'-oriented than say FPTP. Biden won his election with 51% of the vote...

Odd example here. That election wasn't FPTP, it just happened to work out that way. Overall people don't think FPTP is consensus because you have to vote pragmatically for people you don't necessarily like. Therefore the winner is not the consensus "favorite" choice of everyone who voted.

Has anyone tried this with real estate solicitors ? I get a message per day about selling my house.

> Importantly, Facebook helped people to get accurate, authoritative health information.

Surely the author experienced some form of cognitive dissonance while typing this out.

Yes. I worked for a major newspaper and would guess that all the people in editorial make up less than 50% of the staff. You have business, accounting, tech, delivery, support, sales, security etc...

ditto

No improvements on old features or adding new features, basically no updates at all for the past few years. Recommendations and rating system are crap. Usability around core features like bookshelves are terrible. The awards are just a popularity contest.

+1, that was a great episode. The iOS hack story is especially crazy.

religion != entertainment

Mythology has served various purposes over the course of human history. This is referring specifically to modern superhero culture which may be derived from mythology but isn't comparable to it.

> The message claimed that 700,000 records had been stolen and backed up elsewhere and demanded 0.4 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $4,000 at the time of writing, from the owners.

Not even a full bitcoin.

Well, then go get a job with work/life balance that pays less.

Wave is for small businesses or consultants. The government doesn’t know about most of the things that happen at low levels until the business reports it. End of the year bookkeeping can be a nightmare.

If wave could pipeline directly to H&R block for automated tax filings it could be a really nice experience. Can't expect too much though, I just hope they don't kill it.

Of that difficulty no, but I've been asked plenty of whiteboard questions from small and mid-size companies outside of the west coast.

Not in the "think/work smarter" genre. Taking in diverse content, like reading medium posts all by different authors, can inject new ideas. But it seems this genre has a limit to how much useful info there really is.

I read FS regularly for months, but eventually had to give up on it because it started to feel like one big regurgitated self-help book. Maybe he really wants to talk to interesting people and this is his way of doing it, but to me it seems like mostly just noise.

As a kid who grew up outside of the tech scene but in Washington State, Allen had a big impact on the wider community through his philanthropy and his love of sports, he was well liked everywhere.

What replaces slack rooms where any user can jump in and out, or search history ? Not group chats or emails. Only IRC comes close.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297853

Same. I was off all caffeine for a month and I much preferred going back. However I stick to tea now and save coffee for emergencies.

It's a gamble to make the state look attractive for R&D shops/departments to either relocate or setup permanent testing sites. Automakers already use the desert conditions to test cars, so this is just an extension.

Yes Waymo is still active. I live in the testing zone and see an enormous amount of their vans. About 1 for every 5 minutes of driving.