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For me it's just happened a few times towards the end of the month and I was happy with how they handled the situation.

After the first $49 purchase, I spent another $15 and then $19 on upgrades over the years.

It's very effective. The interface is extremely familiar if you're used to Photoshop, and it's wonderfully Mac-native.

I highly recommend it!

Then you can play your own stuff without needing an Apple Music subscription.

It's $25/year.

I moved to Apple music a while ago, but iTunes Match worked great for me before that.

I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade pick mentioned in the article just to see if it's much nicer.

I've spent years trying different pillows (usually super-expensive ones) and the memory foam is by far the best for me (I am also a side sleeper).

Other random insomnia advice: try to focus on relaxing each and every muscle in your body so that you are totally slack. Mindfulness apps/podcasts can help you do this. It helps me a lot. Low-dose melatonin (1mg) is good when you're training yourself to sleep but I wouldn't take it long-term (very vivid dreams are a side effect).

My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly "Waze-y", when it's basically just gridlock on our little streets for an hour. I imagine it's due to apps re-routing people.

But I don't really think it's any faster for the commuter. I'm reminded of this article (seemingly now password-protected, so I'll link to a summary) that Waze chronically underestimates your travel time, while Apple Maps chronically overestimates (and therefore overdelivers):

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/22/informal-testing-...

From my anecdotal experience, Waze does vastly overestimate the benefits of a crazy route, like making a left turn from a stop sign across 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic.

It can also be a great break when your go-to recipes feel too repetitive.

But often one of the three recipes ends up being a dud, and if you forget to skip a week and get a bunch of stuff you don't feel like cooking it's an expensive and annoying obligation to prepare meals you didn't really want or make an ersatz recipe out of the ingredients they sent.

There is absolutely zero chance I would go to a store to buy a Blue Apron box. Without the convenience of home delivery, it really loses its appeal.

Since the price spike it's actually increased to more like 40% (from new accounts, not old ones switching away from credit cards or Paypal).

It's the best site on the internet.

It works OK for me after turning off the "Show Apple Music" option in Settings->Music.

The only really annoying bit left after that is touching a band name link doesn't take me to that band in my library, it goes to some Apple Music type page with everything available, not just what I own.

If you, say, used one to get to & from work on a commute of a few miles you'd break even on buying your own scooter pretty quickly.

The big advantage is not having to deal with storing or charging the scooter, ever.

In Santa Monica & Venice there is usually a Bird or two within a block of you at all times.

The helmet law seems to have something much closer to a Vespa in mind. And while a Bird can move along at a good pace, it's slower than a bicycle at speed. I believe they lowered the max speed after launching.

You aren't required to wear a helmet on a bicycle if you're over 18, and I think bikes are much harder to control in low-speed contexts.

The law should change.

However people should definitely not ride Birds on sidewalks (although a majority of people do).

You linked to short, mild a speech on the House floor from 2005 encouraging primary home-ownership as a means of investing, and a Fox News report about responding positively to a question about hiring a qualified ex-lover for an entry-level job 14 years prior to that speech.

Neither has anything to do with the advice or article.

Then they had the gall to try to convince me on the phone that it must have been my fault (after our blog post about it blew up).

Needless to say, I think they are terrible.

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7476836

Twenty-five years after his accident, Dax is adamant that he would still want the same thing under identical circumstances, that he would still want the freedom to refuse treatment and die: "Another individual may well make a different decision. That’s the beauty of freedom; that’s his or her choice to do so."

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/10105

However, unless it worked at least 95% of the time, it's useless, because you have to carry at least one backup card.

My experience with the Coin 2.0 is that it worked about 20% of the time and was very, very frustrating in every respect. It went in a drawer after a week.

Surfing regularly is a terrible hobby. Time-consuming, expensive, cold (depending on location). Wetsuits are annoying. Waves are crowded. People are jerks. People are dangerous. The ocean is dangerous. Injuries are fairly common.

In a two-hour session that starts just before first light (waking up at 4:30am in summer) I maybe get 5-10 decent waves to myself that last a minute, maybe two.

The fact that people still do it tells you just how amazing it feels to ride a wave.

This particularly matters in surfing, where a crowded wave is frustrating and dangerous. It's annoying when some dumb dickhead who doesn't know what he's doing (and doesn't care to learn) ruins a wave and endangers your life.

Buying a board hand-shaped by a local shaper indicates a knowledge of the community and a commitment to its values. Shapers are generally making boards because they are obsessed with surfing their local breaks and have spent years or decades honing their craft. They live for surfing and their surf community. They do not, as a rule, get rich.

One easy way to spot poseurs is by the board they ride.

Beyond the cultural reasons, hand-shaped boards by long-time shapers tend to be:

- better made

- more interesting

- more beautiful

- particularly suited to the breaks that shaper surfs (and where their customers surf)

- most importantly, support the people most committed to the sport and its values

They're making boards for the love of surfing, not for a profit motive.

But mostly it's so people know you're not a poseur.

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74

I wasn't a LiveJournal user, but saw one of Brad Fitzpatrick's excellent scalability talks years ago. I think he had a special flag that could be set for paid requests that would give them priority in perlbal, the load balancer he wrote.

Obviously it doesn't do much when something big is broken, but Brad did have a way to make sure paying customers' requests were processed first, and had realtime stats on average request latency for paid vs. free accounts.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...

http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.p...

It's not very flattering of Deborah Solomon.

Put about:flags in the address bar, and at the bottom is an option for adding back the "click to play" setting.

It's called The Bug, and I'd recommend it much more than I would this Salon article.

http://www.amazon.com/Bug-Ellen-Ullman/dp/1400032350/