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You’re probably thinking of OTG, the offender in the article linked.

I disagree with your assessment of their quality. As someone that used to spend a majority of the year traveling in the pre-COVID world, OTG takeovers have only improved the quality of food and drinks that are available in the airports they have won contracts in. Yes, they have some establishments that aren’t great, but I still prefer their attempt to be somewhat more appealing than Subway/Burger King/Dunkin Donuts/whatever other garbage tier food option used to be in the same spot OTG took over.

Their prices are stupidly expensive, but for business travelers with expense accounts…it doesn’t matter.
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I’ve done it plenty of times. Sit in the corner and pour in one of the shots, no one notices (the bottles are too small).

I’m not advocating ripping off the bar. But if you and whoever you may be with are already in $100 range, I think it’s fine to do. They markup the prices pretty dramatically and it makes a difference if you are going out a lot.
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> To be clear, we're talking about Chris Coyier right now

People are just human, they will fail to understand changes sometimes and their impact. Or maybe, they're just not going to be listening at all. Or they saw it, and then a coworker interrupted them and they forgot. If you tell people that the Earth temperature is going to raise 1 degree, most will just glance over it and not understand the ramifications.

In the end, I don't know that much about this specific change, it's not my domain of expertise, but I know you can't expect random people to receive random messages from random sources. First it doesn't scale, and second it would be preferential treatment which doesn't seem to me in line with the healthy platform the web should be.

> What view of the web does the Chrome team have if they think the majority of site operators have this kind of testing setup running?

No, it's a personal opinion.

And yes, I believe that if you have expectations on the availability of your website, it should be tested frequently enough, with automation or simply having the regular team working on the product or QA use newer browser versions on the regular. If you're only reacting to breakage instead of being proactive, you'll never be able to have a service continuously running and should lower your expectations. The platform is evolving and changing. Most of the time, the impact will be negligible, but sometimes it's not, and you should be prepared. Or you should just freeze all software updates in your company context until you can vet that every critical component works fine.

> It should not have been a surprise to some of the biggest REPL sites on the web that their products were about to break

REPL websites are still largely working though, my samples are still working the same, I just don't use the affected APIs which I've avoided for a long time already.
If they care deeply about some specific scenario, they should probably be tested. And every failure to catch an error is an opportunity to learn, for all sides involved.
I understand the emotion behind this because I often feel the same way myself. But these businesses already have other requirements from their customers that everybody seems to accept just fine, so it’s not easy to draw a hard line here. No shoes or shirt? Sorry, not serving you. Underage? Not coming into my bar.
>There is little argument against getting vaccinated.

You would be immensely surprised as to the varying reasons and literature and science brought to bear as to why this statement is incorrect.

Longitudinal cross sectional studies, for one, comes to mind.

Never before used technology to innoculate the ENTIRE population at once, never having been used before also comes to mind.

That only scratches the surface for people objecting to being forced, does not get into nitty gritty details.

Those alone should be sufficient to not inject the entire human population on planet earth with an experimental unapproved medical treatment.
People are actually inspired by it.

Their perception is actually being a doctor is so far away that things will be solved by then.
Can you describe why you think the Constitution isn't being followed? That's kind of a generic argument. "People might believe something" without there being any rational basis for it.
Any reason why USA has the worst airports in the world?

Actually does anyone know if the infrastructure bill will improve anything?
Are we bad at doing unit conversions?

Based on this link from relyks[1]....

“It’s just Sam Adams Summer Ale — that’s insane!” said Cooper Lund, 32, of Brooklyn, who encountered the pricey ($27.85) 23-ounce brew"

23 ounces. Almost 1.5 pints? Then at the bottom...

"And after passing on the high-priced Sam Adams Summer Ale, Lund said he settled for paying $11 for a 12-ounce beer."

0.75 pints. Which, in a 23-ounce portion, would have been $21.08.

[1] https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/8/1/22604814/nyc-airport-high-p...
HMS host doesn’t do the upscale appearance and iPad thing. They tend to stick to low end franchise operations and news stands.
I’ve always charged my phone with 1A chargers in an attempt to preserve the battery. My current phone is an iPhone X I bought at release in Nov 2017, and the battery health is still at 89% according to the battery information page. Subjectively I still feel like I have good battery life too.
I understand that criticism but I also have to say that in my personal experience, not having police available seems like it would hardly make a difference in my life. I have many instances where I have personally needed police because my life was in immediate danger and not once did I receive any help.

In fact, in one specific instance the police officer in question forgot to hang up the phone and on the other side of the line I could hear them make fun of my request to a coworker. I'm not too versed on political science unfortunately, but I would be lying if I said I have any attachment to the concept of policing, because it has clearly failed me and the people I know.

Edit: Of course, this isn't to say that my experience reflects everyone's. I'm just giving you some input on why people feel this way towards the police, in case it matters.
I would say: then don't buy it, don't feed the mania.

But you're a captive audience: flights have no food (or charge a fortune); security won't let you bring food through; and if you only have 20 minutes between long flights, you're basically S-O-L and must pay the prices.

I understand travel isn't a right, and air travel reaaaaaly sucks right now, but it's more than just supply/demand. The "Passenger's Bill of Rights" should extend to "thou shalt not extort a captive audience that you made captive."

Or we all just stop flying and reset the system? I have no idea.

EDIT: Apparently you can bring food through security. I haven't tried again since I was denied a while back, didn't want to waste it. Thanks 'astura' for the link: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
I have had a cross-functional meeting at a large company (12+ attendees) to decide a major strategic question. At the beginning of the meeting I wrote down the result of the meeting and passed it to the person sitting next to me. A couple hours later what I wrote down was decided upon by the group. There was no way some new idea was going to come up during the meeting and the answer was obvious.
Which is a silly argument. There a lots of essential raw materials that have a market size of a few billion or less per year. Bezos could theoretically buy the entire years supply and cripple the economy.

For example, let's choose something expensive sounding -- platinum. 170 tons per year of production, at $30 million per ton. $5B will let you corner the market for the year. Yet it doesn't happen, for a wide variety of reasons.
Isn’t this just because most people aren’t paying?

It is like healthcare benefits. There is a cash price and an insurance price. The insurance price is because the person choosing isn’t the person paying, so there is no reason to care.
cooling the balls, so to speak
They've also got a captive audience, almost none of whom are going to go out of the airport to go to a competitor because they'd have to suffer through the traffic, parking, and security lines to get back in.

It's a similar thing with ski resorts, skating rinks, bowling alleys, etc.. all of whom tend to charge exorbitant prices for mediocre food, or worse.
There will always be things about browsers that are different from vendor to vendor. It seems impractical to expect that you would be able to access all the relevant resources without going to the vendor's website.
What do you think enabled these things?
The only airport I've been to in the US that doesn't appear entirely beholden to this dynamic, or one very similar to it, is PDX. Portland International seems to have several eateries and establishments which are representative of some of the more popular local "name brand" establishments, e.g. Stumptown, Country Cat, Kenny & Zukes, etc. As a result, it's one of the only airports I don't dread eating at when I'm coming & going.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. As a guy that travels 200k miles a year you have hit the nail on the head.
Cant wait for a YC startup to build a marketplace matching travelers with extra snacks to hungry folks at the same airport! Hmm or maybe its "just add water" beer you can get through security. What reaction will make ethanol? ;)
After 981 years, I'm not surprised that they know a thing or two about brewing.
There are _some reasons_ but cost/benefit would heavily favor vaccination. That's what I'm saying. And. like I said, while I don't agree with the stand, I also disagree with the proposed draconian measure as it clearly impinges upon liberty as afforded by our constitution.
About a month ago I had gone to the airport and realized I had completely forgot my headphones. I had limited money on me at the time so I figured I could pick up some cheap ass pair for the flight. Sure prices are inflated but maybe I could get something for $10.

Nope, rows of the mostly painful knockoffs of actual brands for $25-$50 dollars. The type of stuff you’d expect to see in r/crappyoffbrands. The only pairs they had that I’d consider paying for were ones which had the headphone jack, which ofc my phone doesn’t support and the adapter was being sold at something like 100%-200% more than somewhere like Target or BestBuy.
Some airports are just terrible and it doesn't make any sense with the traffic they receive why they don't just spend the money. Ohare has semi permanent buckets to catch leaks from that notorious roof. We welcome people into the U.S. at these airports and that's the first thing they see off the plane, the ceiling pissing water in Ohare even on a sunny day.
I'm all about cryptocoins but wow this is just about the glass-est house to throw stones from. Smart Contracts are notorious for things going wrong. I'm no expert but I kinda doubt a smart contract could make an autonomous margin call. Can't know the value of collateral without trusting a human or two in there somewhere.
Noticed the same thing on the local Helsinki Airport. Most of the restaurants are actually operated by either HMShost[1] or SSP[2]. Seems to be part of the business model that they partner with global and local brands.

[1] https://www.foodtravelexperts.com/international/
[2] https://hmshost.international/
OTG is much, much smaller than HMS Host. If they appear to be in all airports, it's probably just because you happen to go the airports where they operate. A list is on their site: https://www.otgexp.com Once you're out of the East Coast, you will not encounter OTG.
> I realise that these topics are unpopular, but you cannot divorce the economic and social downfall of Lebanon from the demographic changes taking place there.

You could run a global regular expression substitution and replace Christian with white, Muslim with black, and Lebanon with the US. It would also work by replacing Muslim with Hispanics or illegals with the other substitutions as mentioned earlier.
About the cishet thing, I think that's fair use in this context. When discussing diversity, it is normal to name the groups discussed. As the cishet is usually seem as the default, I'd say it is important to address it properly, as not to assume that as universal. Is this divisive language? In some way, yes, but that's the point: we use it to discuss the divisions we observe in society.
How is this true for generally appreciating assets like a house? It makes sense for commodities but until location and style don't matter I'm unconvinced there's a such thing as cost driving price in the housing market on any timeline.
Well, I'm happy to get into more detail as to why I and many others argue that they aren't communist.

From first principles [1] for example, a communist society is one whose:

> socioeconomic order [is] structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

To start, I hope we can agree to leave aside American McCarthy-esque definitions of communism, which I will rather glibly but also partially seriously describe as "anything and anyone Americans don't like." If you'd like, I can provide ample examples of American politicians throughout history describing things that are unarguably not communistic, as communist. Good faith means I think we can avoid this.

Ok, so first principles.

1. The PRC doesn't have common ownership of the means of production, nor did it ever. At the start, production was done through enforced labor in camps. There's no common ownership there, merely what I would argue is some kind of serfdom, if not outright slavery. Nowadays, there still is no common ownership, not only because PRC industry isn't very nationalized, and the parts that are couldn't be considered "commonly owned" because the People have very little say in the activities of the government, and those that do have dramatically larger net worths and buying power, which brings me to

2. The PRC has massive income disparity [2], with each income class having very different standards of living and material comfort. Not even housing or food is guaranteed in the PRC. This isn't classless society. It isn't even close.

3. The PRC obviously operates in a moneyed society. They not only print currency, they also operate many international banks. I really can't think of anything more capitalist than a bank :P

4. Though an oft-argued aspect of the first principles of communism (when I looked at this wikipedia page a few days ago, it was written as "sometimes state," and the week before that it was written as it reads now), at the very least one could argue that a totalitarian centralized government with utter control of the currency, speech, media, and general activities of every one of a billion people across several thousand square kilometers, does not satisfy the "lack of state" requirement of communism.

Marxist-Leninists and tankies would at this point say something like "the PRC needs to industrialize before it can achieve Communism" or that they're on the path to communism for some other reason, but I argue that productivity was at a level that could support communism as early as 30 years ago, and furthermore, the PRC has quite obviously no plan for achieving commuism, and Xi Jinping's multiple power-grabbing moves indicate to me that the CCP will never voluntarily rescind power back to the People.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_China
If you had ever had an expense account then you wouldn't. It's part of the deal.
TL;DR some establishment blowhard is flailing around in a panic, because with the internet and a functioning market, censorship is just a trivially-corrected malfunction - as it should be.
The obvious solution to the web page's problem appears at the bottom of the page:

"If a problem persists, we recommend that you contact
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> Think CAD/CAM, not plumber.

Have you tried to hire a skilled plumber, landscaper, carpenter, or mason in a major city lately? There's a massive tradesperson shortage.
What are the key resources you have used to learn flask?
Huh? There's no reason you can't bring your own food through security as long as it's not liquid.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
From what I've read, glyphosate alone may not be carcinogenic, but it may interact with nitrite to form an n-nitroso compound that may be carcinogenic.

>>An email by Michael Cunningham (Monsanto) to several other colleagues found them discussing N-nitrosoglyphosate (“NNG”), a known carcinogen, that can be formed as reaction between glyphosate and nitrites, which are found in many foods. Specifically, Cunningham quoted Dr. Ruth Shearer from 1984: “The problem with glyphosate… is that it combines readily with nitrites, found in normal human saliva, to form an N-nitroso compound called Nnitrosoglyphosate. Although that particular compound has not been tested as a cancer-causing agent, over 75% of all other N-nitroso compounds so tested have been shown to cause cancer by way of tumour formation.”

https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2018/08/27/dewayne-johnson-vs-m...

https://www.science.gov/topicpages/c/carcinogenic+n-nitroso+...

Regardless of whether glyphosate and nitrite can interact to form a carcinogen, I suspect we often miss potentially dangerous chemical interactions because of the way we test things.
> Then what, walk through airport security with them?

Last year I watched a few people down a fifth right before they were up for screening.
Just do what people do for drugs and go into the bathroom stall.
My life changed so much for the better once I got lounge access.

Unlimited free food and beverages (restaurant quality at The Centurion), free WiFi to do some work, and a clean relaxing space to decompress a bit or even shower before a flight.

Will never pay $18 for a mediocre airport sandwich again.
Yes. That's what I do. Even with an expense account I buy the single serving vodka at the liquor store nearby.
No code still has a bit to go. It's main focus right now is having a model and can generate a UI and have a method to update a database. When you get into the weeds of what companies want, it's that person in group A is allowed to update, group B can create things, and group C can only view. And on top of that there is private stuff that only the same user can see. It's that shit that makes no-code a non-starter for Google, Amazon, ...

Perhaps a company that wants to display the current Bitcoin price on a screen and let you do currency conversions you can do that in "no code", but then again, a programmer can also do that with code in 15 minutes...
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I particularly like how they have this written at the bottom of this article about price-gouging:

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Apparently, the Chief Strategy Officer of OTG is Larry Schwartz, a Cuomo staffer[1]. The fact that the prices are illegally high (apparently airport concessions may charge no more than 10% higher than "street" pricing for things) combined with the fact that operations are headed by someone close to the institution responsible for enforcing this sort of regulation smells a lot like a racket.

[1]:https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/142235397825221836...
Terminal 5 (International arrivals) doesn't have the leaking Helmut Jahn ceilings like T1, but it also has absolutely zero amenities between the gates and customs.

And, when you do exit, there is a single shitty McDonald's with no room to sit down and eat. There might be a Starbucks too now.

It's pretty pathetic.
The point isn't that physical limits will only be a problem in 8200 years, it is to counter the defective idea that such growth can be sustained indefinitely. We don't have access to all the atoms in the galaxy, and can't even make use of most of the ones we have here on earth. We will hit a wall much, much sooner.
You got downvoted, but I generally agree that it is garbage for the amount that you pay, but remove the price and airport food isn't bad at the ~$30 range.

That's the point though right? OTG prices at the highest point they can, which is likely 50%-65% of a per-diem @ $75/day.

As a non-business traveler though, it's a nightmare for the monopoly, but I'm agreeing w/ the quality part.

Airline food, now that's terrible, even in Premium Economy.
There are plenty of lawyers out there already who are perfectly capable of making cogent arguments as to why lockdowns are unlawful. But the problem is that they are lawful, so even the most eloquent argument will still lose in court. Adding more voices to the chorus won't help, in the same way that having more attorneys arguing that speed limits and income taxes are unconstitutional won't help.

On the other hand, going to law school will help you learn the law, so perhaps you will come out with more realistic views than when you went in. :-)
Your last line rubs me the wrong way. Prices always matter, especially in business.
On the flip side:

I remember scoring a pint of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout for $10.50 (?)
At MSP about 4-5 years ago.

To this day the best surprise beer deal I’ve ever had.
Anecdotally, I have an iPhone 8 Plus that for the last 18 months or so I've nearly exclusively charged with my Macbook Pro charger, and the battery health is at 82%.
It is a crying shame how the official Apple cables seem to be almost intentionally designed to be as fragile as possible. Everyone I have ever known with a MacBook MagSafe chargers has a cable that is in tatters and when I see them it genuinely scares me. And when I ask them about it the response is usually akin to “well it still works and they’re expensive to replace”. True enough if you want to replace it with an official one. Admittedly I haven’t seen any of the newer usb-c ones.

The lightning cables tend to hold up a little better but the jacketing still seems extra thin and flimsy. I've actually only owned 2 iPhones (6s and SE2) and one iPad because I'm not someone who cares about having (or spending the money) on a crazy fancy phone but I do prefer iOS. I've bought a few nice third-party MFI-certified cables after the one that came with my 6s disintegrated and haven't bought a new one since. They were a bit expensive, but they're in as good of shape as when I bought them and well worth the upfront cost.
But Shake Shack!

Have a family, we travel. My expense account is my wallet.
La Guardia was renovated/built with taxpayer/public money... and these guys are holding a captive audience which doesn't have much choice.
At some point we should require some kind of decency, where the vendor can make some profits, yet it doesn't turn into a total shakedown.

NYC is full of these shady hustler/operator types, trying shake down or make a buck in a place that there is a 'new fool' coming in every day. I have experienced it myself even in harmless things like soccer leagues. People trying to squeeze as much profit as they can.
They exist. Check out the energizer hardcase ultimate cables, like so: https://cdn0.woolworths.media/content/wowproductimages/large...

I’ve been using them for a few years and they’re virtually indestructible. They have a thin wire braided into the plastic overmold so they’re extremely tough, and the strain relief on the cable ends is about as good as it gets.
artsd.... now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time!