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I've been using Kagi over the last few days and have actually been pleasantly surprised with it performing better than both Google and DDG for my use cases. It's still free during the beta so might be worth giving it a shot.

Amperon | Full-stack Engineer | Fully remote (+/- 3hrs from EST) | https://amperon.co

Our platform involves ingesting and modeling hundreds of thousands of high-resolution smart meter timeseries and surfacing analyses and insights to our users at utilities and energy suppliers. We're looking for a senior front-end/full stack software engineer to help us build our user facing applications.

Our stack uses Python (Flask), React, and Google Cloud Platform. You'll be responsible for building user-facing products on top of Python APIs and interactive React visualizations. The product work revolves around transforming smart meter and weather data into exploratory insights for enterprise customers. Visualization expertise (D3) is a big plus, and if you have an eye for product - even better.

Our engineering team is still quite small, so the right candidate can have a big impact on our tools and infrastructure. We are strong supporters of open source and we encourage our employees to publish and give talks about the work they do at Amperon.

See the full job description below, or reach out to [email protected] for details/questions.

https://angel.co/company/amperon/jobs/361674-senior-applicat...

There are advantages to living in cities! I live in an expensive major city (working remotely) and find it hard to imagine life outside of it (at least in the US). All of my friends/family are here, I have restaurants from practically every cuisine in the world, there are plenty of interesting cultural events, and best of all I don't need a car in order to do things.

Rent sucks, yes, but I live here because I like it here, not because I need to for my job.

Or you could take the AirTrain from JFK and NJ Transit from EWR? There are other options for getting to/from these airports than just taking a cab.

In certain parts of the US with retail choice this is already a reality, check out Griddy[0] in Texas. They'll give you wholesale electricity prices which is all sweet and dandy until there's a shortage of supply (generally on the hottest days of the summer) and the price shoots up to $9000 per MWh. Honestly it's a great deal if you're willing to accept the risk associated with it (or work from home and can quickly race to your circuit breaker and shut off the power when the price spikes).

[0] https://www.griddy.com

What about an Ode to the MTA? Or an Ode to Amtrak? Or an Ode to MUNI? An ode to the bike lane!

I think the last thing the United States needs is more people glorifying the horrendous car culture that has been built up in this country.

A notably omitted section: “use cases.”

Seriously, the whole blockchain industry reeks of technologists who don’t understand business needs and business people who don’t understand the technology. Having worked in the industry myself for long enough to hit this realization I’d highly recommmend others to steer clear and not try to base their career on this stuff.

Conflictingy, I do think it’s worth most programmers’ time to at least read up on how blockchains work, as it is certainly an interesting and worthwhile academic experience in applied cryptography.

I'd also highly recommend "Tweak the Vote" from Radiolab, which discusses Ireland's election process: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/tweak...

Have you found that your users really want a decentralized marketplace vs what the one you've built already (which I think is really good!)? Additionally, remember that all transactions on ETH are public, so if anything transactions would be less private than if you were to contain them to a normal web2 marketplace.

Hey, your product looks super cool but I’m a bit stumped as to why you’re trying to force a token into it. It looks like it’s a simple payments token, which doesn’t usually turn out to be a great idea if you look at the remnants of blockchain projects that did the same in 2018.

Is this just a way to fundraise or do you have other ideas to make your product ‘decentralized’ aside from using a cryptocurrency?

For the record, everything else about the product looks amazing and I’m really excited to see an open and privacy conscience alternative in this space :)

Personally I use vimwiki. It stores everything in plaintext files that I can search, keep track of in git, and also comes with quite a few useful features for building articles.

The main downside, as someone else has mentioned here with org-mode, is the lack of a good mobile editor. This is something I’ve wanted to find time to fix for years but still haven’t had a chance.

It'd be interesting to see a service that automated this process for you. Ie if you select your flight it displays a list of ATC streams for each airspace you pass through and allows you to easily switch between said streams.

What is the problem with implementing bag taxes/bans then? Even if it’s simply symbolic, don’t you think it sets a good example for the rest of the world and further ingrains the idea of “reduce, reuse, recycle” in our own societies?

Not really. The price of iOS is baked into the (usually higher) costs of the hardware. The parent comment is presumably referring to the fact that Android phone manufacturers are allowed to put Android on their devices for free, as Google instead makes money on the advertising/service revenue they get from your usage of the OS.

New York is a much larger city than Boulder. I'd assume Google would have a much tougher time trying to tell the NYC government how to operate considering how small their presence is relative to the city, even if we're just talking about Manhattan.

Stocking up on drinking water or having a source of water to flush the toilet with (by manually refilling the tank).