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An underground train network is the pinnacle of public transport—right now, in New York and Chicago... people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city

Chicago is almost entirely above ground. Very little of the network is below the city.

Out of 224.1 miles of track, only 11.4 are underground (5%).[1] Only two out of the eight lines run that 11.4 miles and the majority of their time is spent on elevated tracks above street level.

That said, a ring around the city would be great. The hub and spoke layout dramatically limits Chicagoans ability to get around.

[1] https://www.transitchicago.com/facts/

Same here! But that hit its EOL a little while ago...

Fastmail's calendar works for me; offers parity on most features I'm looking for.

Voice was a mainstay for me for a long time. The closest replacement I could find was a service called OpenPhone[1]. It's designed as a VoIP service for small business teams, but I'm finding it works great as a solo voice/text option. I was able to port the Voice number over.

[1] https://www.openphone.com/

Putting this into my daily rotation, this is great!

I just wish I could buy and download copies of audiobooks, that's still how I listen. It's a trope on here to talk about walled gardens, but I was surprised by how difficult it's been to find audiobooks outside of Audible.

You rock!

I love this! Definitely going on my morning puzzle rotation. Is there a way to copy the score to the clipboard directly without using a social service? Would love to text this to friends.

Totally, but it depends on the story you're trying to tell. I'm still early in my career and my resume is broken up to provide a summary of key parts of my work/ career to date, the most relevant/recent experience first, then highlight skills, education, and finally a brief list of other positions I've held. I've definitely dropped jobs from that last section, so it's not a full dump. I'm listing these because that additional experience is relevant and both substantiates the summary/ skills section, and shows experience where I lack formal education.

In interviews, I've had people read that far down and it's worked, they got exactly what I wanted them to out of it. In other interviews, it's clear that they didn't care, but the resume still got me in the door. They still got the most important parts up top.

And of course, it depends on who you're interviewing with and what you're applying for. The rules aren't so hard and fast, esp. when you're sending over digital copies.

I hope you haven't been one of my interviewers! :D

I sincerely never thought I'd see Fisher on HN. His work is fantastic, tying together politics, pop culture, and philosophy into a cogent reading of our times. I would recommend reading Capitalist Realism over Ghosts of My Life if you're looking to get a sense of his ideas, or, at least I found the latter to be a harder read to get into. Both are good.

Younger folks have more and more trouble imagining a better world. It's crippling.

For those who might be interested in exploring dumb/ feature phones, there are a few out there that offer some kind of Signal/ Whatsapp compatibility. I just made the move. There's a site, Dumbphone Finder [1], that has a number of modern dumbphones organized into categories with different levels of functionality, expense etc. Overall I've been very happy with the move and I haven't lost much in my life. I can do almost everything on the computer and whatever does require a mobile device I run on an emulator. For music, I've moved everything over to an MP3 player [2] that's fairly decent, definitely not iPod quality, but it's not too cheaply made. I threw a 256GB SD card in there and moved almost all my music over. It's way nicer to go for a walk with some music knowing your phone isn't going to start buzzing (or feeling like you have to check because it isn't buzzing!). This is the best system for me.

[1] https://dumbphones.pory.app/ [2] https://www.surfans.net/products/irulu-f20-hifi-mp3-player-l...

He talks about the 1930s a lot (the picture on the cover is actually from a Hooverville)! He starts off earlier, definitely worth digging into. Even as things have changed, he focuses a lot on the policy and development patterns that have either perpetuated or created the conditions of modern homelessness as well as the impact that has on actual economic development in the area.

He's also got some great talks on YT that get into the content of the book a little: https://youtu.be/qwvhxfNDpSQ

If you like/ are interested in this, I highly recommend looking at Dan Kerr's Derelict Paradise[1]. While it's centered in on Cleveland, Ohio, the book describes a history that applies to many American cities from the early industrial period to the present. He reports on how homelessness came to be-- it didn't always exist in major cities at the scale it does now, but housing law coupled with developers and other private interests have transformed cities in the name of development in baffling ways.

I'm tempted to give examples from the book, but he says it better. Definitely worth the read.

[1] https://www.umasspress.com/9781558498495/derelict-paradise/

I started drinking coffee about 14 years ago. It was a great help at the time-- it helped me focus, wake up, and move. The routine in the morning was the perfect way to start my day. I also over relied on caffeine to get me going. I started drinking so much that my stomach would hurt and, after a while, it felt like caffeine was putting me on edge all the time. It stopped being able to help me cope with the stress or enable me to do better work.

I quit 6 months ago or so. I tried switching to teas, to supplements, none of it really helped. I moved over to drinking coffee replacements like chicory and dandelion blends because I miss having that taste in the mornings. They really, at best, taste like the cheapest instant coffee you could get, but it's a nice routine to put something in its place.

I'm calmer without it, I feel like I can sleep better, and I feel like I'm better at managing stress without it. But, that's really specific to me, I know some incredible developers who drink plenty of caffeine. It's definitely not a deciding factor and it's not something that I think speaks to anyone's character in any particular way.

It’s fine if it’s tinder, but what are you gonna do when the same will happen with your bank application...

It's happened with people's banks (or "banks"). Earlier this year the fintech middleman Chime began closing accounts without notice or giving customers whose accounts they closed access to their funds.[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-chime-banking-ap...

I found The Economics Anti-Textbook [1] to be a good primer that explains a lot of the foundations you might pick up in an introductory course, but also includes healthy perspective into the field beyond what you might get out of a 101.

[1] https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-economics-anti-textbo...

Stop being a drone.

Set yourself free, and cast off the 24/7 toxic work culture of SV that's keen on producing useless shit for problems no one has.

IDK man, I like being able to eat. But on a more serious note, that's a much bigger political economic issue than it is an individual one. If we want to change it, we have to act corporately.

I also take issue with the idea that meaningful work makes it impossible to burn out for long. I have been completely bulldozed by meaningful work that both killed my love and investment in what I was doing and left me exhausted and barely sustaining. It took ages to recover. If anything, meaningful work is that much more likely to lead to burnout because of your personal investment in it. In my experience, when you care about what you do you tend to give yourself over to it. For example, 24/7 toxic work culture is pretty much the standard in non-profits because you're there for "the mission".

Rather than attacking the business, the ACLU should address the structural issues that prevent people from participating in the mainstream economy.

But, that's exactly what they're doing here. Businesses are an institutionalized, structural component of society and, believe it or not, cash purchases are still part of the mainstream economy.

I know you mean that the ACLU should be focused on making plastic accessible to those who don't have access yet, but I think it's worth acknowledging that the issues with going full plastic might be significantly more difficult to tackle than simply preserving the existing payments system. If we're addressing the systemic inequity behind access to banked payments we're going to have to solve issues pertaining to financial stability, proof of identity and reform an incredibly large, complex bureaucracy which has been designed to exclude the people who don't have access. While you're busy addressing the broader systemic inequity of our finance system, the people who you're trying to help are still going to be facing exclusion by businesses who have gone cashless.

If we accept the premise that a cashless society is a desirable end goal and the very true fact that it isn't the fault of vendors that people have been systemically excluded from newer payments systems, we should also acknowledge there isn't an easy way to fix that. Until that's fixed, it will be up to these businesses to choose whether or not they're going to act in a way that excludes customers with cash.

Steve Klabnik writes about this prolifically:

The culture war at the heart of open source: https://words.steveklabnik.com/the-culture-war-at-the-heart-...

What comes after “open source”: https://words.steveklabnik.com/what-comes-after-open-source

There are just different use cases for plaintext and HTML email. I can't implement plaintext only email in some environments because it just won't work with who I'm communicating with.