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Prices in developing countries are low because ingredients/labor/location is cheaper than in developed countries.

The lack of frills (e.g. signage, interior design, tables, dishes, etc.) are not what make the prices low (relative to developed countries).
Maybe.
However cellmapper.net shows few cell towers where they actually exists and this map doesn't show them.

Credibility?
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I don't buy this. At a fast food chain, drinks are $1 with free refills. A burger is $3 for the fancy ones, $1 for the dollar menu ones. The windows also have all sorts of 4 for $4 or $5 value meal deals. So $5 without any coupons at Wendy's. Two people can eat for $6 if you use a coupon.

Ruby Tuesday burgers are $9.50 with fries. Add a soda, tip, tax, and it's $16. The multiple is still 3-4x.
One of the comments lays out why I probably never use things like this:
And this is exactly why I tend to wrap compound logical comparisons in parens, I simply can't remember the syntax across all the languages I use, and it's not worth the risk of leaving them off and having unexpected behavior

Apart from unexpected behavior it is also about readability: with parentheses in place you can just read left-to-right and the parsing overhead is minimal. Without them though, you have to read almost everything first, parse what is there, figure out what comes first (and hope you remembred it correctly), then read again to get a mental image of what is actually going on.
all restaurants want to be a 'dining experience'.

But only restaurants that can be this are famous ones which have a lot of celebrity pull. So the remaining ones that don't have such pull will need to adapt, or die.

It's not that all restaurants will die - just the ones who aren't celebrity/famous and can sell an experience.
I'm sorry, but it's simply not possible to square your comments with the content as presented. Let me quote it directly, in case you missed it:

> Studies proving the virus was not "engineered" do not prove the spillover event occured outside of a laboratory. We are not claiming the virus was engineered. They also do not prove that the spillover event did not involve an animal or organism sourced from one of these labs.

> To start with, we will once again state that we are not claiming SARS-CoV-2 has been engineered.

> Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.

I'd like to engage on this, but it's pretty clear you aren't discussing this in good faith, or even reading the content you're talking about, so I'm going to have to step out.
What are you basing your disagreement on? Can you explain to me in which sense "x" is evaluated before "y" in this example?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}

import Data.Functor.Identity
import Debug.Trace

f = let !_ = trace "Evaluating f" ()
in return 1

g x = let !_ = trace "Evaluating g" ()
in return (x + 1)

example :: Int
example = runIdentity $ do
x <- f
y <- g x

return y

> example
Evaluating g
Evaluating f
2
Yes, and times have changed, maybe because of the “market pressure” by those platforms or simply because they were just a minute ahead with their value prop for restaurants sleeping on the digital transformation.
Lately (new) restaurants in my experience just post delivery contact info and menu to their facebook page or instagram and cannot even be found on delivery service platforms.
Seems to work for them.
The Oculus quest is 400$ and it's pretty amazing.
Business side it's 30% cost... so you pay 30% to Grubhub for that hour and they nickel the customer too... Honestly I've worked with someone who basically would put a card in each Grubhub order saying 'Call us for a 10% discount, use code "PHONE"'
I’m familiar with the argument but I think people overstate the importance of unrented high price to refinancing. Banks (and CMBS investors) don’t simply look at market rent levels in isolation. They also look at percent vacant and length of tenancy. Except over the very short term, no one is being deceived.
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What exactly do you think happened to Polonius?
It's even more infuriating when certain words have a link you would expect to be the source, but it turns out the link only leads to a sub-category of news about the word.
We've been ordering a delivery every Friday from a different local restaurant every week. It's something to look forward to, but we also want to support the local places that we used to be able to go to until we're through this. If everyone stopped ordering and just cooked at home, there would be no restaurants that survive this at all.

And let's face it, small local food shops have the same problem as restaurants - they're too small to have their own websites for ordering. So everyone is ordering groceries from the big chain supermarkets - or Amazon Fresh. All of that money is going straight to giant corporations instead of local businesses.

This is a good opportunity for some small producers to keep going. We ordered from one place I saw on insta that had a stall in a food market hall which is closed, and now they're doing delivery orders from their flat. There's no way this person could organise relationships with drivers and payment processors all on their own without using a platform.
Perl is Awk on steroids :)
And why do we have high real estate prices? Because of cheap money (low interest rates).

Good thing central banks around the world have been cutting rates. /s
I've never worked in a place that had 'release cycles'.

Maybe it's just me, but maybe not.

So I'm glad that Jira doesn't force its 'release cycle' shenanigans on me. Like with git, not being opinionated is the road to success.
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That wouldn't work for the even parity case.

"(x in odds) == expect_odd" gives the intended behaviour and I think is easier to read as well.
Pretty much every programming language has a nicely parseable context-free "rough syntax" (my term I just invented) that can be written down formally for the language documentation and a parsing tool. And then every language also has a notion of "well-formed programs", which introduces a whole bunch of additional constraints on what programs should actually be accepted by compiler frontend.

Well-formedness includes type checking. But even without full type checking that can be done later, it also includes things like being aware, in C, of whether a given identifier is declared as a typedef in the current scope. So while C has a nice context-free "rough syntax" formally specified in the standard, its actual input language is context sensitive.

As for Java, the first example that comes to mind is that constructors must have the same name as the class they belong to. This "choose whatever identifier you like, but at some later point repeat that exact same identifier" is a very typical example of something that is not context-free.

You might disagree whether this constraint is part of what you consider Java's "grammar". So the answer to your question depends on what language level you are thinking of. But whichever level you apply to Java, you should apply the same to C++. C++ also has a context-free "rough syntax" in its standard.
Buses are good short term but suck long term.

Where I live, in Seattle, the bus system has been wildly popular over the past several years and the transit system has had high ridership growth (in total rides and as % of commutes) in North America while most of the peer agencies have seen total declines. The problem is that they stopped scaling:

- For a while Seattle has been unable to hire enough drivers to run the schedules, because there is simply more demand than supply of bus drivers in the entire US

- Seattle has also run out of space to store buses, and for various reasons people do not like having a bus depot located in their neighborhood (parking lots are unsightly, the bus depot generates traffic and lots of diesel buses are unpleasant; electric is not mature enough for widespread fleet replacement and it would be a massive capital cost)

- the amount of buses being run is now so high that buses get stuck in bus congestion, even with a whole four lane road dedicated only to buses in the downtown area, and several more bus lanes on parallel roads

So now we are hurriedly spending $50B to replace buses with rail, because

- trains carry more people in one vehicle and with one driver

- trains have full or mostly full separation from traffic, which means higher average speed and thus better fleet utilization and running less vehicles for the same frequency
>I believe that a system focused on reformation would be much better for our society than a system based on profit. Why should a corporation be able to take control of communication between an incarcerated individual and their loved-ones meahwhile charging high prices knowing that it's their only option?

fantastic points. I totally agree with you.
I think in language design there’s an expectation that if an expression or statement doesn’t make any sense, then people won’t write it that way.

I think that’s a pretty reasonable expectation, too.

In JavaScript, {} + [] evaluates to integer 0. That doesn’t make any sense, but it makes more sense after reading the ES spec for the addition operator.

There are many expressions you can write in dynamically typed languages that don’t make any sense, probably most of them actually, but they have to be considered valid because it’s a dynamically typed language. So they’re valid, they will evaluate to something.

The language designers aren’t so concerned with identifying every possible combination that makes no human-intuitive sense. The important part is that when it seems like types should be inferred and coerced in a particular way, then that’s how it should work. It should match human intuition.

I don’t have any intuition or opinion about how True == False is False should be evaluated, this kind of thing is going to receive superfluous parentheses from me every time for the benefit of the reader, and if someone else wrote it this way I’m always going to look it up or test it in a REPL...

10 < x <= 100 though, if that’s considered a valid expression and it doesn’t evaluate to true for numbers in the range (10,100], I’m going to stop using that language...
This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization? It honestly drives me crazy.

How in the world can a majority of major news organizations not overcome the hurdle of... adding links to what they're covering..?

It makes digesting political news all but impossible.
Multiple string literals in sequence is the worst feature ever. If i had a penny for every time someone forgot a comma in a list of strings... ["foo", "bar" "buzz"]
oh, and another one is in here [1] which turns the legend into the tooltip :)

[1] https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/demos/candlestick-ohlc.html
Tobacco leaves have sticky hairs on their underside, which is what makes them different from other crops: it’s these hairs that absorb the radon and prevent it from being washed away with water. Also, the type of fertilizer used for Tobacco might be different than fertilizers used for other crops.
Harvard Square isn't a good example because Harvard owns so much of the property. That's why Davis/Porter/Central all have liquor/wine stores but Harvard doesn't. Businesses exist because Harvard allows it--not a free market within that limited zone.
What you want to do reminds me of an episode of Futurama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL7e05pClKM
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Mainly I'd like to see the extent to which you're planning to overbuild renewables. How much storage we need isn't really a value that can be answered in isolation.
All it takes I one deviously altruistic group of hackers to build an online delivery market maker that links couriers to restaurants, and all of the GrubHubs and Deliveroos would collapse.

I feel like a lot of the work in something like Deliveroo is marketing, dispute resolution, money and payment management, inventory / menu tools (and transcription?).

If everyone paid cash, restaurants typed in their own menus, and left marketing to some other third party, is the rest just craigslist-for-food? “1995 ... written in Perl”.

I’m hesitant of coming off as “this could be built in a weekend” but the reason why most things cannot be built in a weekend is because they are the publicly visible front of a machine designed to be worth $1bn through analytics, marketing, ad tech revenue, content moderation etc. Drop all that and the front end is much simpler.
>we’re so used to free garbage pick-up at home that I never anticipated having to pay for it

What locales have free garbage pick-up at home? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing.
I want small restaurants as much as I want shoe makers instead of automated Nike factories.

The way forward is not by enabling people who can serve 500 people/day to exist when we can have a robot serving 5,000.

We want automation, we want people doing what they choose to do because we've automated away things they had to do, such as work for a living.

The way to get there is more automation.

Restaurant cooks/servers are the equivalent of hand washing clothes. We have washing machines - technology has enabled humanity to do a great deal more with their life, let's move in that direction please.

The other piece of the puzzle is this - technology alone is not enough - technology alone is why we have nuclear weapons and idiots with nuclear codes. The time will come soon, when we have to have a frank conversation about the number of idiots inhabiting this Earth and that it's not climate change, it's idiots, that will be the end of all of us if this keeps up.

Anyhow :)
Does it? I could just see two major platforms connecting business to their customers. I believe it’s similar in China. There is Alipay, Wechat and one more
Common lines between 2 files

awk 'NR==FNR{a[$0]; next} $0 in a' colors_1.txt colors_2.txt

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Woops, I guess I was thinking more about ordering online and picking up the food myself. I usually just call the restaurants to place my take out order, but tend to prefer places where I can order on their own app or website, pull up and re-order the last thing I got, and then hit submit. Like someone else mentioned, there is a lot of friction with calling and placing an order, explaining the modifications, paying in the store, etc, etc.

I thought this was such a fabulous idea, I bought a domain name for it: https://inmytown.org/ As usual, I just haven't done all the other hard work. But, in the old days last year, I thought it would be cool for local shops to have an online presence so that online shoppers could see where to buy stuff and place orders and then pick it up. So, have an e-commerce platform for shops, restaurants, delivery would be great. Try and keep money local instead of shaving 10-20% off of all transactions and sending them to big tech. Does anyone want to help me build this? Totally committed to non-profit and great apps for local companies.
Ask HN: Should I build a weekend job websites for programmers?
I've looked online and seems like there is no job sites targeting weekend hours. Should there be a need of a website which allows people to seek/post jobs which and can be done on weekend ?
This is especially will be helpful to developers who have 9-5 jobs and seeking for extra/different work on weekend.

I'm interested to validate this idea with HN community ?
If I were to start a company right now, it would be a restaurant.

Not joking there. The whole industry is begging to shaken up. People are always going to need to eat, but I'd argue that the avenues they have to get food on the table are tired and inefficient.

You have grocery stores, which have hardly changed since their "modern" incarnation over a century ago. Think of all of the inefficients around grocery stores--you have to travel there, wait in a bunch of different lines, pick out everything you need yourself, travel home, put a bunch of what you bought into a big, cold box, and then when you're finally ready to have a meal, you have to know how to cook everything yourself, and deal with the pain of cleaning up the mess you made doing so.

Food delivery seems like it should be more efficient--you don't have to waste time by going to buy ingredients and cooking food, but it's horribly expensive. That's because there's a lot of middle men in there--the delivery guy, the cook, the restaurant manager, the restaurant owner, the coders buying the app you ordered on, the marketeers who you learned about the app in the first place. All those people need to take a cut of cost of putting food into your belly.

Meal kits were supposed to be a middle point, but they've all pretty much failed, unable to bring the cost down much further than restaurant delivery. And people really just don't want to cook and clean up.

Fast, good, cheap. I think you can get all three if you focus on finding efficiencies.

1) Only do drive through or walk by pick up. People can pick up food on the way home from work.

2) Order ahead on an app. Maybe days in advance. That way, food is ready at a specified time and can be handed off as soon as the custom drives/walks up. And restaurants will know the exact amount of ingredients they need and don't need to stock extra.

3) Have a rotating menu of items that people could eat everyday. All of you working at Silicon Valley tech companies probably love your catering service, since you're getting different, quality options everyday. It's tough to living off a limited selection of unhealthy delivery options.
So that kind of reminds me of this comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-11-21

I really don't get how people assume that the US (or anyone else for that matter) was just sitting on its hands this entire time not doing anything at all about fatal, potentially-epidemic viruses. As a matter of fact, we have been developing antivirals.

The new hotness in COVID antivirals is remdesivir, which was originally developed in 2015 or so to treat Ebola and Marburg viruses. Marburg and, to an even greater extent, Ebola viruses have caused deadly outbreaks and epidemics in recent years.

Tamiflu was also developed in the late 1990's as an antiviral targeted against influenza. We also have influenza vaccines that we update on an annual basis. Influenza is a massive area of research and public health work, largely inspired by the legacy of the 1918 "Spanish" flu pandemic as well as intermittent scares and smaller pandemics since then, including the H5N1 "bird" and H1N1 "swine" flu scares of the 00's--the latter of which did formally reach pandemic status.

HIV is one of the fundamentally scariest viruses out there, and enormous resources have been invested in it for decades to develop effective antiviral drugs and provide them at large scale. Starting in 2003, the US government deployed massive amounts of humanitarian aid under the PEPFAR program to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, saving 18 million human lives.

Tens of billions of dollars were invested in these efforts. We got kicked in the nuts with a fucking coronavirus anyway. The fact of the matter is that Mother Nature is just a real bitch sometimes.
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I was wondering the same and once when I asked someone who knows about the topic the answer was basically: Don't want to give free backlinks for SEO, don't want people to just scroll to the link and leave the site.

It might just be a policy to not add links except if it's to articles on the same site, which is obviously stupid from the user's point of view.
> their system is likely to be better

More than likely to be better IMO--if it's not better then the food delivery app is going to be out-competed by some other one that is better. Providing the app and its infrastructure is the app company's core business. It's not the restaurant's core business. And network effects mean the app has a strong incentive to be a centralized platform and to commoditize its complements, which are the individual restaurants.