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I used to live in DC, and discovered a great diner in Grasonville called Holly's. I love my fried chicken and to this day, my favorite was from Holly's. Sadly, it closed a few years back. Fond memories of not only great fried chicken, but finished with some of the best milkshakes going around...
I don't know about WhatsApp, FB has been running ads on Insta for awhile now. How else are they going to monetize it?
Oh man, thanks for this! Just listened to the whole album. I love this 'genre'.
I accidentally found YouTube Music yatch rock playlists and have discovered so many artists, new and old. Like Abandoned Luncheonette by Hall & Oates and anything by Poolside. And so many more...
They're all pretty loosely connected in this genre, it's all easy listening I guess.
Could you share why you refuse to move to Shopify?
I've been subscribed to Google Play Music for years now, mainly because I'm still on the intro $8.99/month rate. Finding new music on Play is pretty difficult, occasionally, some of the playlists do surface artists I've never heard of before.
So been resorting to a few different ways to find new music.
When I use to live in Boston, I would check the gig calendars of the places I loved going to. They tended to be smaller venues where more unknown artists played. I remember once seeing Imagine Dragons as a support at the Brighton Music Hall. Boston is full of wonderful small gig venues.
Now, when I visit different cities and places, I'll follow the venues on FB so I can easily see the gig calendars. I pretty much use FB as a bookmarker for venues and bands now.
Also, I recommend a cool site called Indishuffle, it's curated by a bunch of humans around the world (I believe).
I like the original premise of AirBnB, where homeowners could rent out a spare bed or their home when they were on vacation. But seems like these days, those homeowners are either all gone, or are being hugely outnumbered by scammers or AirBnB businesses. We (a group of 5 friends) just finished a trip in Vietnam and we used AirBnB3 times. And all 3 times, the listings were not exactly truthful. The worst was a listing in Hanoi that claimed to be able to fit 12 adults. When we arrived, we could only identify 4 queen beds (2 of which were jammed together in 1 room). The other 2 listings we used were in the same complex in Saigon. We booked the listings based on our criteria of having a single home with at least 5 bedrooms. Both listings turned out to be 2 separate apartments. Both are in a complex claimed to be among the first in Saigon to disallow AirBnB. Both times, we had to pretend to the receptionists that we were long term renters. We wanted AirBnB so that we could chill together in a common space. These experiences make use want to book hotels next time...
Really, how about just signing up to the NBA League Pass? Sure it's expensive, but it doesn't need cable installation, just watch it from basically any internet accessible device.
I've had various iPhones and Androids over the years, most recently iPhone 6s+, 7+ and XR. I just yesterday bought a Oneplus 6T and am very happy with it. I've had the Xr for a few months now and it's been my least favorite iPhone. For me, it's a little heavy compared to even the older pluses. And the display isn't all that much chop for a premium phone. I'm glad it's a work phone, because I don't think I would ever have forked out over $1200 AUD for it. As much as I appreciate the privacy angle of the Apple ecosystem, it turns out that I've really missed just being able to install what I want on my phone. It's been liberating being able to customize what I want to not what Apple allows you to. Also, with Oneplus phones, you really do get 'flagship' quality phones without having to fork out the money.
Not sure where you're from, but in the US, a fast food meal is far cheaper than buying produce from grocery stores. That is if you can find a nearby grocery store to begin with:
Although I did have one of these in the early 2000s:
These scooters and scooter companies seem pretty divisive, especially on HN. I understand they're operating in grey areas, I guess kinda like Uber before them, but they are causing (I think) positive disruption.
I personally love these scooters. I'm living in Australia now where we don't have them. But last month I took a 3 week road trip from LAX to DC and back so I could hit cities I hadn't been to before. And in many of these cities, I used a Bird to get around. These scooters opened up so much more of these cities for me than I could have seen if I just walked every where.
I think they provide real value to a city, for tourists to get around, and for citizens for the last mile and to complement other forms of transport. We just need for these scooter companies to be less like Uber and actually work with the cities to come up with reasonable regulations (in particular insisting on all riders wearing helmets)
Look, I think the grass is always greener on the other side. Whether you think you can ignore Trump or not, the fact is immigration into the US is hard. It was hard before and it's probably harder now given the current administration's views on migrants.
I moved to the US back in the 2000's and it took me years, I finally was lucky enough to find a contact at a university to sponsor a H1B. That now seems virtually impossible to get unless you work for one of those giant Indian IT companies.
Also, you might be increasingly frustrated with the state of the EU, but it ain't all roses in the US. I for one, value highly the social safety nets other countries provide. Without being incendiary, things like getting healthcare in the US isn't so straightforward.
We get that the US is still streaks ahead when it comes to innovation and capitalism. But there's so many other considerations important to gauging one's quality of life.
In the end, is living in the EU really a hot mess? What about a different part of the EU?
Those buildings are so cool! Sad that there isn't any will to preserve them. And those pictures are awesome too, I'm going to be wasting a lot of time now Googling Best and SITE buildings now...
I love reading stories like this as commercial flying has always intrigued me. Geez, has it come a long way! Still remember a flight I had from Europe to Australia when it was such a novelty to smash alcohol cause it was so readily available and then going to the back of the plane to smoke!
It's funny, in a way, this is what we all wanted. We eventually started to reject cable TV and cut cords in droves because we decided we didn't want to pay for unwanted bundled content.
This shouldn't be surprising since we all know that Disney will be bringing out their own streaming service in 2019...
Every morning, I meditate for 20 mins. Then for Mon-Wed-Fri, I run to the gym (about 2kms) and back for a 30 minute workout. For Tues-Thurs, I run 4kms.
On at least one weekend day, I get up early and hit the skatepark for a skate before all the kids and better skaters get there.
On the 3 weekdays I work in an office, I bike in (5kms)...
The one thing I've come to rely on, aside from the physical benefits is that all the early mornings give me a running start to tackle the day ahead, whether it's work or the kids routine...
This is actually the same in Australia, especially in Melbourne and Sydney where home prices have risen crazily over the past 10 or so years. We call it the bank of mum and dad:
https://www.domain.com.au/money-markets/majority-of-firsthom...
Love that this got onto the front page of HN! I started skating in the late 80s, when we had the Bones Brigade and guys like Natas Kaupas showing what you could do it the streets. Then I lost interest and didn't pick up a board again. Until about 3 months ago when I decided to buy another setup and try again. I live in bayside Melbourne and we have this awesome skate park in St Kilda where it's good for beginners. I've been going 3 times a week...
I've been pretty consumed by skate nostalgia and can't get enough of stuff like this!
Sometimes I feel that recycling for most of us is just another coping mechanism. It's a way to explain away the amount that we consume. We throw our recycling into the designated bins blindly without being critical about where it's going. Just recently, here in Australia, some of us, including me, learned that much of our recycling is simply being sold and shipped to China and other countries:
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2018/china-recycling/stor...
What we really need to do is stop and think about the consequence and byproduct of our consumption. We can start with packaging, especially single use packaging. It's difficult to go the supermarket and buy produce that doesn't come pre-wrapped. Not to mention the issue of our online shopping purchases coming in multiple packages.
Although, there does appear to be change coming. Just recently, our biggest supermarkets just announced that they will cease providing single use plastic bags:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/woolworths-plastic-bag-ban-start...
I recently started skateboarding again after many years. I've been going to the local skatepark at least twice a week at a time when most people don't go (early mornings). There, I've met a bunch of other dads reconnecting with skating (and probably their youth).
Before, I used to live in DC and was obsessed with golf. I'd go down to a nearby public golf course at first light. Often I'd join a foursome of total strangers, I've met all sorts, lawyers, a local news presenter and even someone relatively high up at NASA.
I realized that the theme for me was to simply pursue what you love, commit some time to it. This leads naturally to meeting people with a common interest.
Thanks for sharing this! Can't wait to show my son who has just recently taken to memorizing the periodic table and has found joy in learning about different molecules and compounds!
HN, Reddit, The Guardian, SI, Longreads.
Although would love to find a better source for sports. SI keep screwing with their website and has a lot of opinion noise...
It's funny, I used to use MySpace to bookmark bands I liked or may like. Now I use FB for the mainly same thing, as well as keeping up on other interests like skating and surfing. Oh, how cyclical the world is...
Fast fashion is when clothing companies quickly latch on to fashion trends and then manufacture quickly and often really cheaply clothing. H&M are famous for this, they are often out with the latest trends, selling super cheap and usually not of great quiality. And thus essentially making clothing disposable.
Look, I don't know your whole situation, so I don't want to be judgemental. But the thing that really stands out for me is that I think you're being overly optimistic about the number of productive hours you'll actually have per day for all of this.
I'd be so worried about being burnt out from juggling not only the kids' daily lives, but their schooling and then on top of that your job. Where are you going to find time for looking after yourself? Exercising, down-time for both your physical, mental and emotional health.
All I can think of this is the image of that dude holding the whole world on his shoulder...
I don't have any real suggestions as far as maximizing your income earning potential. Maybe pick up project based work or clients?
I'm not a single dad, but I have 2 young kids and a wife that travels a great deal for work. And when she's away, I get a much greater perspective on what an amazing job single parents do. I find myself sometimes burnt out juggling that many things on my own. And also catch myself cutting corners to make things work.
I really wish you and your fam the best of luck.
I thought this article was just some highbrow whining.
I'm personally rooting for Netflix. I'm really enjoying the content. I thought Bright was a pretty entertaining throw-away action flick. And I love Stranger Things as well as Ozarks. Hell, I even watched the first ep of Queer Eye the other night... I love being able to watch at my convenience, and not be bombarded with ads. I also love that they're not subjected to the same restrictions as the big US networks in terms of their content, just like HBO isn't.
I'm excited that they're investing so much in their content pipeline.
Not sure what exactly on the back-end you're after. But why not use the free tier on Google Cloud, AWS or Azure? I've been using GCP for a few months for free (you get $300 credit when you first sign up):
https://cloud.google.com/free/
That way, you can just build or use whatever back-end services you need.
Yes, a friend who has taken courses on meditation and put me on to this short book:
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Meditation-Pathway-Personal-Free...
I wake early to meditate for 20 minutes before I do anything else. The book describes the technique where you concentrate on a mantra, in this case 'I AM'. If your mind start on thoughts, you gently come back to the mantra but never fighting the thoughts.
The book is pretty short and is a good read for someone taking up meditation (I've never done it before and I found it to be a good primer).
Together with this meditation in the morning, I exercise immediately after. Been doing it for a few months now and I have found that my days get off to a really positive start. I have more energy and less likely to be easily agitated.
A couple of years ago, I took my family on a road trip starting from Phoenix and ended up in SF. We drove north from Phoenix and hit a few of the amazing parks including Yellowstone and then west to Portland and then south to SF. And public radio was part of the fun for us. Aside from our beloved NPR, I loved how the only stations we could get gave us an insight on who probably lived in the areas we were driving through. I never really liked country music, but on that trip, I grew to actually appreciate it. Not to mention the number of new songs and artists we were able to discover. Some of those songs we now associate with the various places along the way.