I suppose there is something to be said for solitary moments. The clandestine excitement is funny.

It brings to mind Daniel Craig in a DB5, nonchalantly scrolling the web, catching a peripheral glimpse of a uniform and peeling out down a staircase.

Call me dull but unless spaces are egregiously hard to come by, I’d pay ~£2 to not babysit a car looking over my shoulder and instead have a few extra minutes with my better half.

There are some little organisations like Pedal People that collect and dispose of waste via bicycle. I don’t have something like this in my area, but it’d be nice.

Kill death ratio - or rather, kill save ratio - would be rather difficult to obtain and more difficult still to appreciate and be able to say if it is good or bad based solely on the ratio.

Fritz Haber is one example of this that comes to mind. Awarded a Nobel Prize a century ago for chemistry developments in fertilizer, used today in a quarter of food growth. A decade or so later he weaponized chlorine gas, and his work was later used in the creation of Zyklon B.

By ratio, Haber is surely a hero, but when considering the sheer numbers of the dead left in his wake, it is a more complex question.

This is one of those things that makes me almost hope for an afterlife where all information is available from which truth may be derived. Who shot JFK? How did the pyramids get built? If life’s biggest answer is forty-two, what is the question?

I’m not sure cost can be set aside from a price discussion when they’ve explicitly stated it won’t be a Costco rotisserie chicken.

With the number of consoles sold this generation, I’m not sure where the limit is for what people will spend to play the games they want. With console pricing has trailing budget gaming PC’s, I could see a number of people getting a Steam Machine in lieu of the next Playstation or Xbox.

What would be interesting to see in the future is the split between units sold to lifelong console players making a change, and pre existing Steam users with stuffed libraries buying one for the couch. If the latter make up the majority of sales, but they priced it like a chicken, that’ll be a problem pretty quick.

Hopefully it shakes out well and indie game developers reap some well deserved rewards.

Are you asking about single family homes specifically, or commenting about the architectural uniformity this place appears to have?

Part of the reason we chose Tempe is it’s right in the middle of Waymo’s first market. Today, you have investors that were skeptics saying things like, "My daughter sends my grandkids to school in a Waymo and thinks Waymo is the best thing that ever happened because she doesn’t have to be a chauffeur anymore.”

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I’m adding this to the list of things that I would have used if not for learning about it from a shutdown announcement.

I disagree they are bozos. I’m actually coming around on the idea. Not the mirror thing of course, but the VC grift using a flashy idea. Millions of dollars and the only thing you make is a slideshow? Brilliant.

This reminds me of the venetian shade idea. ‘Trillions of dollars’ hahaha okay let’s see who wants to pitch in.

Fruit Ninja comes to mind.

Perhaps the two areas should recolour as one another for the next Halloween season. It would make for quite the postcard.

Ours is steel, so that would probably help. Though if you have raccoons in your area, it might require a large safe to keep the bin secure.

For some time we had a bin lined with a bag in the garage large enough for two weeks of our waste. Within the house were small bins, about the size of a shoebox stood on its end, with no bags. When they fill, we tipped it into the garage bin. Two bags a month is pretty good in my mind.

Smell, vermin, rotting exposed food waste were all solved by the garage bin having a lid.

Don’t tell Santorini that.

Could you elaborate on this comment?

Surely the definition of ‘recession’ would just be changed again. Easier to move goal posts than to admit you lead the horse to a mirage.

I’m going to call bullshit on the underlying assertion that Signal is using Amazon services for the sake of lining Jeff’s pocket instead of considering the “several” alternatives. As if they don’t have staff to consider such a thing and just hit buy now on the Amazon smile.

In any monopoly, there are going to be smaller, less versatile, less reliable options. Fine and dandy for Mr Joe Technology to hop on the niche wagon and save a few bucks, but that’s not going to work for anyone casting a net encompassing the world.

I’ll echo food banks. $10,000 isn’t much money for a municipality of more than 100 people, but a food bank might be where that money goes the furthest.

Knowing from my local outfit, while they would of course accept a donation of actual food bought with that money, they can do much more with the money than the food it buys in the grocery shops.

They do that by reaching out to vendors themselves and getting discounts that would put Costco out of business. I once heard that monetary donations being stretched 5x is typical, oftentimes going 10x or more.

Most people don’t even consider things like this. That’s why companies keep getting away with it. It’s not the customer’s fault.