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Hey nice site. With cache cleared:

79.2KB to load home page

sub-second load

7 total requests

In contrast... where I work, to load our enterprise webapp's home page (running on Angular, WebAPI, many external CSS/JS "plugins"):

5.7MB to load home page

28.95s to load everything

173 total requests

Granted we're serving a way different goal, but still... i admire how lightweight your site is.
Good cause, I like.
It worked fine in Android 7, when I updated to 8 my scripts started getting permission-denied errors on writes.

I don't see anything in that link that says that sdcard (outside private folder) is read-only.

The way I read "Each app has a private folder on the external SD card, and interchange between them needs to use a special API not yet available in Termux." is that I can't read another applications private folder, but I'm not trying to - I just want (write+delete) access to the publicly accessible parts of the sdcard (lots of other applications do this, and termux did in Android 7).
Our packaging is 100% recyclable and compostable! We take eco-friendly packaging very seriously. We use a single 4"x6" aluminum packet for each product, and ship all orders in thermal bubble mailers with compostable liners in recyclable boxes. Orders come with 2-4 gel packs that are all reusable and can be sent back to us if you don't need them.
Vancouver has a vacancy tax, which strikes me as a really good idea to avoid these problems. Does anyone know why these aren't more popular?
It takes a brave soul to wake up every day and face the world after sustaining facial damage like that. I start feeling insecure after getting some acne on my face. May she be blessed for remaining strong.
You assume that the ratio of buildings to locals is the sole input for real estate prices.

If an external rentier enters the market and realizes yield, other rentiers will follow. This increases demand for housing assets, not necessarily housing utility. this is the problem they are trying to solve.
Dude, if this works, you're sitting on a goldmine!

I love Indian food, but I live in the middle of nowhere (more specifically in a rural area 10 miles from the nearest town). The closest Indian restaurant is at least 45 minutes away and the closest good one is probably over an hour away.

I'd buy this in a heartbeat.
Mitra Raman, If you would please consider Celiacs... it's so hard to find suitable/delicious food. South Indian food can be quite friendly to Celiacs. That said, my wife is so sensitive we almost never eat out due to cross-contamination, we even avoid products that are "made in a facility that handles wheat". So, it's not just ingredients but the chances of cross-contamination that matter to us.

Speaking of which, I'd love to know of Indian restaurants in Chicago, ideally closer to south side, that are truly friendly to Celiacs. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the recommendation. I'll definitely give this a read.
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Yes a few are South Indian specialties (rasam, uppuma). Most indian restaurants in the US serve dishes from the north east of India that originated during the Mughal rule.
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> Much of Katie’s care is being paid for by the Department of Defense, because her youth and ballistic trauma make her a stand-in for wounded warriors. For the rest of her life, she’ll take powerful antirejection drugs with risks of their own, becoming a lifelong subject in the study of this still experimental surgery.

Kudos to the DoD for doing this. The military historically has been the driver for advances in surgery. This will not only benefit Katie, but the knowledge gained from this will also benefit many wounded soldiers in the future.
Developing an appreciation/perspective due to adversity is mostly unavoidable. It can be good, or bad. Learning that you don't need so much stuff is probably good; becoming a hoarder because you developed a fear of losing your possessions is bad.
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> NZ has a terrible attitude where everyone must have a backyard, and public transport is horrendous, so moving further out often isn’t much of a solution.

Oddly enough, other places with that attitude are the same ones where moving further out is a solution. Pejoratively dubbed "sprawl", there is less focus on centralized things like limited property sizes and intra-city public transportation. If the land is available, it offers reasonable scale despite the detracting urbanites' cries of culture loss.

Maybe it's not the attitude that's terrible, but the inability to support it possibly caused by people not embracing the reality that the attitude exists.
Thank you! Definitely -- we are a Seattle-based company so we have a huge community of campers and hikers eating our meals! Our products are not actually dehydrated, so they are great for 1-day hiking and camping excursions but not for much longer unless you're able to keep them cool.

That is a great point, and we will definitely update our website to make the nutritional information more readable.
You are the one using rhetoric like "taking of my property" and "repulsive manipulation", rhetorical questions, dictating that "there is no contradiction" and trying to bury the discussion by referring to larger theories and now even invoking climate deniers. If you don't add anything to the discussion then don't expect anything back.

If your resistance against something is motivated by a theory, then clearly what you are against exists in opposition to that theory. So by definition the theory, or at least its connection to what you are against, can't, or is very unlikely to, be well-established. At least not among the people acting against it. Which makes your argument faulty and the majority of this discussion meaningless.

I certainly think people have a greater expectation to control their living costs than they have to control companies. But that isn't even the issue.

The issue is that you say that stocks have an expectation of control regardless of justification. But then justify why there shouldn't be rent control with the same justification you were warning people against. You say your motivation for this is that, based on these theories, you agree with control over stocks, but not over rent. Which means that you are effectively saying that an expectation is only as good as its justification and not that an expectation shouldn't be affected by justifications. Leaving little practical argument left about why you can't move control away from stocks if there is a good enough justification.
Wheels on a trebuchet?
> Whatever happened to small government and small bureaucracies?

It doesn't protect citizens against wrong-doing by for-profit companies, hence the regulation. There was a time when the medical field was largely unregulated[0], and it was a dangerous/misleading time. Snake oil, anyone?

0. https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/look-back-old-t...
I agree that it is and I'm not arguing it isn't made up of people. It isn't the only thing it is made up of though. Its also made up of news coverage, editorial, opinions, bias, and agendas/direction as some examples. I'm sure there are more examples makes up media but these are just some I can think of. These things of course are created by people but there is a difference between attacking the people and attacking a platform/object or ideas. I can't speak for him (nor would I want to), but I think that is the question of what he means. It looks like Twitter decided it was inciting violence toward people and/or violated their rules and suspended him.
Yes, that is true. Our products are completely fresh and don't include preservatives so you get the same convenience as Tasty Bite, but the quality and freshness of a meal kit or making it from scratch. We'd argue that the taste is better, too ;)
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> MTR provides just the spices, you have to bring everything else. This includes vegetables/meat, seasoning, additional spices, oil/salt, etc. Our products include all of this so that the only ingredient you add is water which makes it much more convenient.

Sorry, this is not accurate. If I buy an MTR Sambhar rice, or Paneer masala, everything is included. I just need to heat it and eat it.

> Our packets are 100% fresh and don't have any preservatives, whereas existing packaged Indian foods are packed with them. This makes our products tastier, fresher and much healthier, although it comes with a shorter shelf-life.

I can't vouch for the freshness of MTR's products, but I know they don't use preservatives (as it's printed on their cartons). They use a combination of food engineering and package engineering to preserve the food without using preservatives. That's why when you buy their ready to eat products, you will find a lot of oil in them (which you're supposed to drain away) as it helps to preserve the food for months, if not years. This is no different than storing dead specimens such as rats in biological laboratories, I assume.

> Our recipes are curated from people in the community (for example, the rasam is my mom's!) This lends a very homemade taste to each dish.

Ok, this sounds good.

> We deliver to you! All existing pre-packaged authentic Indian foods are only available in Indian stores, so we're making good Indian food available to a much larger audience.

So, basically a uber type of service? So that almost makes you guys like any other restaurant, no? I mean, what's the difference between calling an Indian restaurant to have fresh food delivered vs calling you guys?

> At the end of the day, the taste just isn't comparable. Microwaveable chana masala from Haldiram's, let's say, comes out looking/smelling/tasting not at all like a homemade dish. Ours is made completely from scratch and you as a customer can feel that difference.

This is subjective. Like I said, if you call up a decent Indian restaurant (HSB / Anjappar / Raj / etc.), you can get a similar experience.

> MTR/Haldiram's are 'last-resort' type meals, and we aim to be a meal that you actually crave + is good for you :)

Sorry, but I am still not convinced why your product is worth $24 and based on what you answer, seems like there isn't much difference between ordering from a decent Indian restaurant and you guys?

I appreciate taking the time to explain your points so far.
MTR is definitely decent, but it’s a far cry from authentic, quality Indian food. I’ve had many MTR lunches at work, but I don’t see myself eating it for dinner where convenience is not my primary concern.

It seems like Buttermilk is definitely competing for quality, not price.
Holy shit. It’s incredible that someone could survive such extensive damage, never mind recover in any way. I’m impressed by her fortitude and the skills of her many doctors. At the same time, I would rather die than go through all of that myself. I guess she’s just a stronger person, much much stronger.
CSS generated in the server still means it’s not pegging user CPU for 50ms like they said.

I think these meandering rants are a tad silly.
To me, what makes it 'lite' is that it doesn't have a client-server architecture that requires a running daemon. It's just a file format and a library designed to interact with it.
> It looks to me like the biggest difference is that these are not sealed, they're perishable. Tasty bite can be kept at room temperature for 9+ months.

Yeah, which isn't really a positive unless it saves on sodium/etc. If it does, its really a niche "healthy" version of TastyBite and they need to market it as such.
Yes, what is the target problem really?

Do you want to ban vacant or mostly vacant housing stock for its constriction of housing supplies? Why only foreign owned? Don't vacant holiday or investment homes of residents have the same impact?

Do you also want to ban renter occupied homes where a landlord is profiting excessively? How do you define excessive? Why only foreign landlords? Don't domestic landlords have the same impact? Don't investment trusts have the same impact, regardless of who owns the shares? Or is there a problem with your tax system, so the foreign-consumed profits are not taxed at the source?

If you dislike speculative investment, shouldn't you really dislike renter occupied homes where the landlord isn't profiting? They might accept a tenant at a partial loss, as long as it costs less than holding the property vacant, but this behavior depends on their speculative expectation that the future value is worth the holding costs. It is not sustainable for rent to be lower than the total holding costs (taxes, maintenance, depreciation, risk).

It is interesting to imagine a strict owner-occupation requirement. Nobody can own a home they don't live in as primary residence. Obviously, that means nobody can own a second home unless you zone some special vacation-home areas. And nobody can become a landlord, owning and operating rental properties. No person and no corporation nor trust. Ignoring the obvious disaster of how to get there from here, how would such an economy work? Does everybody at every income level get access to financing to buy their own home? It's hard to define a similar rule for commercial properties, since corporations can fractionally live in many places and it will be hard to define a minimum occupation density to distinguish real use of a commercial property from token use of a speculative holding. The same problem applies to wealthy home owners---what's the difference between a huge estate/mansion and an apartment building other than resident density?

At the other extreme, what about a strict public-owner requirement? What if every property had to be owned by a trust available on open markets? Everyone could buy into shares of every trust, and everyone would pay rent to some trust owning their residence. Everyone could benefit from real estate investment whether they have enough assets to own 1/100, 1, or 100 homes. Independently, they would decide what kind of housing and cost are best for them. What would happen to rents and property values...?
tasty bites are super cheap at costco, 12 pack for like $16
Also take protein powder. I hate tuna. Peanut butter is more expensive. Olive oil has no protein.
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Gets me thinking of an episode of the original Connections, where the host muses about how computers will make corporate management mostly obsolete.

He envisioned them doing little more than sitting idly around waiting for the computer in the basement to churn out the game plan for the next business period.
I never made any such claims. This kind of poor quality conversation is not worth engaging in.
Lol, I wonder if it would've been received better if I didn't hint at Mr. Hilter. I'd rather have someone smoke on the street than someone with the flu coughing my way.
China's actions seem horrendous from our perspective, but at least they are only operating within their own borders. How do you feel about the decades of war and destruction wreaked worldwide by our own government, including the bombing of schoolchildren just this week?
It's definitely better than software claiming to have military grade encryption.
Ehhhh... I don't know if it's the marketing doing its job or what but sifting through DDG and startpage meta pages I just get a better feeling from DDG. It's a little more modern, seems a little more transparent, I like the total break from Google, I like that DDG has other projects and a living community behind it. Frankly even the name DDG, while kind of dorky, is a lot easier to sell friends/family on than some generic term. Somehow I just don't trust them?

If I had to guess why startpage hasn't felt the ban-hammer yet, I would say it simply isn't big enough for Google to care.

That was a lot of hand waving.

Anyway, I will continue to use !g over !s because personally I'm not _that_ paranoid (yet?) and between 1) not being signed into Google, 2) uBlock/privacy badger/decentraleyes I'm not at all concerned about them doing a good job of tracking me. My trust for Google is still greater than startpage.
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No, definitely not! It just so happens that our first dishes ended up being vegan. We have a few recipes in our pipeline that are not strictly vegan but have the same convenience factor as all our current dishes.
Breaking frequently has been a hallmark of BMWs for over twenty years.

New complicated features aren't as reliable as simpler old ways, but "breaking occasionally" and "expensive to maintain when old" aren't really turn-offs for the people who buy those cars, especially on short term leases with covered maintenance.
There are property taxes here in New Zealand, known as ‘rates’.

You can look up what they are for a property and get an idea of the property value on local government websites.

https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/property-rates-valuation...
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It doesn't seem to have any less sodium.
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Thank you for taking the time to explain the background.

I totally agree that consultants working from quantitative data about past projects are much better than the usual cargo cults.

However, there are a lot of dangers in the process:

- If you are a consultant in automotive embedded software, you will be contracted for these projects, so your data will be quite useless to guide startup Web application development (for example, LOC can make sense for embedded C, but not for languages like Scala or Haskell, where you can implement the same feature elegantly in 100 lines or clumsily in 1000).

- As consultant, you want to generate revenue. So there is a strong incentive to oversell how solid your insights are. There is no counter-force in place to balance that bias out.

- While scientific publication is somewhat broken, it is (in CS) a quite good quality control with respect to scientific method. The book did not undergo any quality control by other experts. So now it becomes a matter of personal trust towards the author.

Summarized, I think that practitioner's data collections and their personal reports about them are useful in some cases, but cannot replace scientific empiric research.
San Francisco is not an American big city. It's American, and it's a city (and county!). But it's not particularly big.
I saw Mitra's reply downthread, but adding my 2c as an Indian:

Buttermilk is commonly drunk with meals in India (both North and South, although lassi is very popular in the North too), and also separately as a refresher, more so in summer, often lightly spiced with cumin, hing (asafoetida), etc. and sometimes with a few green chillies in it (for the brave - heh:), and is considered a soothing drink, and also healthy and wholesome. In fact I remember a childhood friend of mine saying that (as we both drank a glass each of buttermilk at lunch at his house), and it stuck in my memory. And it is really that - soothing.
The eggs and milk that aren't the most expensive ones at whole foods? Also, whey powder.
Right up my alley. Thanks for using Amazon/Paypal/Google checkout integration properly, and not just to pre-fill some info while making me create Yet Another Shopping Account.

One bug: the Amazon cart discarded my old items after I added new ones.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Add a sampler to the cart
2. Try to check out using Amazon
3. Discover that shipping is $6, or free shipping at $35+
4. Go back and add a few more items
5. Try to check out with Amazon again

Expected result:
The items all show up, now at the $35 level

Actual result:
Only the newly added items were show
HPP = High Pressure Processing or Pasturization. It's essentially doing the same thing to the product as dehydration would, but maintaining the freshness and quality of the food. While dehydration makes a product shelf-stable for an extended period of time, HPP food still requires refrigeration but can stay fresh for up to 90 days (sometimes more)!
There are a ton of pictures of WW1 soldiers who had similar injuries. This type of surgery is definitely very important for military.
True, but the people with whom you want to partner understand that money is only a medium of exchange, in time and space, not a goal of its own.
Noted. Will definitely update the website accordingly. Thank you!!
So what are you suggestions on fixing the problem? I'm assuming you think there is no problem to start with...

We don't exactly have unfettered capitalism in the US. Corporations are successful because the government stimulates demand in certain areas, creates incentives for people to do certain things (buy electric cars or grow corn for ethanol) and as the article points out, provides a charter to corporations to operate. We have antitrust laws that promote healthy competition to protect the consumer...

I think her proposal is not overreaching... it still allows the market and shareholders to determine where a company is headed...
Current zoning laws prohibit a commercial solution, which is a warehouse style dorm of 100sf 'apartments' for minimal cost.
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I love the family story on the site, and the design is beautiful. I agree with others that suggest the nutrition info should be a little easier to find.

We just subscribed to the Buttermilk Suite. Looking forward to trying it.
Hard to feel any sympathy for them when they've been doing stuff like this (Feb 2018) http://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirel...
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To be perfectly honest, a lot of your complaints sound like, "Why do I need someone who is an expert in plumbing to fix my pipes?" "Why do I need someone who is an expert in medicine to diagnose my illness?" "Why do I need someone who is an expert in development to develop my software?" And the answer almost always comes down to, because they've been doing this a lot longer than you have; they've been studying it more, and they know more about the pitfalls and potential issues than you do.
We don't alter our recipes at all, so the sodium amount is unfortunately what's in our products to begin with. We are actively working on a low-sodium option to be released in the Fall!
> if it breaks the back button of the browser

Good luck getting a group of people to agree on what "non-broken" back button behavior is.
You seem to be unaware of the multitude of areas where there is no affordable housing for all sorts of local reasons.

I've been homeless before. When your income can't make basic rent+utilities+everything else, there's no good alternative. Either you're squatting in illegal conditions, truly homeless and migrant, or somehow be the 1% that get a complete change of life circumstances and get more money coming in. I enlisted based off by prior job history. Not everybody can do something that drastic.

And no, not more efficient. Simpler, maybe, cause no toys or excess possessions, but everything costs more until you can afford to stock up on basics, and get transportation cheaper then buses and taxis, etc etc etc.

All around, a hard problem, stepping up out of that economics into even "I have a few bucks in my pocket left over" economics.
I checked just a few items and saw 910mg, 1220mg, 1430mg, and 1760mg of sodium per serving!

That's an incredibly high amount of sodium. It would probably be unhealthy for most people to eat one per day, let alone 2-3. Maybe you can do something about lowering the sodium levels, but until then I don't think "healthy" is a fair word to use.
Sure, max-width will restore reflow, but now your code listings and images break out of their container: https://i.imgur.com/utCVxg1.png

My point is that absolute positioning/pixel perfect designs are easy because they solve a simplified project "How to have my content look correct at a fixed size". But it breaks down once that fixed size is no longer reasonable for the target device.