Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897460

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* Then take some cheap but kind of profitable behavior in that industry (take local delivery over phone, send your lowest paid kitchen staffer to run it)

* Then layer on some of the most expensive labor on the planet (devs, PMs, tech company workers) to build a replacement for that behavior

* Then treat your lowest paid workers poorly, attracting regulatory scrutiny

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

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If you aren't near any skiing, I'd seek out sports medicine/physical therapy folks who work with your local concussion-heavy athletes. Mountain bikers, cyclists, maybe football/rugby, etc.

After months of mostly-useless conversations with doctors, neurologists, etc, we visited a sports medicine specialist who worked with snowboarders, skiers, etc, people who get concussions frequently.

The way the specialist described common concussion symptoms was really interesting: Effectively, your brain finds balance by using a combination of sight, touch (feet), and your inner ear. A concussion can impact the inner ear part of that equation, so your brain is overly reliant on sight and touch to compensate. This can cause all kinds of common concussion symptoms: Dizziness, sensitivity to screen time, etc.

Anyways, after giving us the rundown my partner was prompted to do a few simple exercises to test concussion symptoms. One of them was to stand on one leg and track a moving pen with her eyes. She'd done OK on some of the previous exercises but this one took her out, she lasted maybe 5 seconds and was completely exhausted and dizzy for the rest of the day because of it.

We ended up with a physical-therapy-like balance exercise plan that she stuck to regularly for a few months, and it ended up getting her to complete recovery.

> He told me to go to the FTC home page and look up the main phone number. “Now hang up the phone, and I will call you from that number right now.” I did as he said. The FTC number flashed on my screen, and I picked up. “How do I know you’re not just spoofing this?” I asked.

> “It’s a government number,” he said, almost indignant. “It cannot be spoofed.”

Completely insane that we continue to allow caller ID and number spoofing, it's so effective for these fraud scenarios.

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Not exactly doable for the ‘everything store’.

The article’s comparison to gambling, and now outright use of gambling game mechanics by fast fashion co’s, is the most troubling part of the industry. It relies on getting people addicted to consumption, on ‘whale’ customers who buy constantly, on a lifestyle of single-use, disposable clothing (with massive negative externalities). Society, unfortunately, pays the cost.

At first there's a bit of an uncanny valley effect, particularly when driving around a city. Eventually that settles down, and the reduction in low-level visual stimulus is really appreciated. Coming back home, you might see the insane levels of visual pollution we deal with in a new light.

Not qualified to comment on the broader economic ramifications of this, but as a normal person navigating the world, it's pretty great!

At least if you manage to snag a .com/.net/etc, you'll have low yearly renewal fees.

* As the numbers here show, the high end of Manhattan rentals is very, very high. ~10%[0] of listed rentals at the moment are >$10k/mo. >$100k rentals are not unheard of. Looks like the highest market rental right now is asking $175k/mo.

* ~50%[1] of Manhattan's rental stock is rent stabilized, meaning the rent adjustment rates are set by the city. These units rent for considerably less than market-rate rentals.

* For a variety of reasons, rent-stabilized units often stay in the informal housing market (i.e. not on real estate listing services), which AFAIK these reports do not measure.

* There are a variety of cultural factors here that are a bit unusual for the US, including:

- It's fairly normal here for people with 'good' jobs to have roommates into their 30s+

- The informal housing market here is massive (e.g. I've lived here for 10+ years and have very few friends who've ended up in market-rate rentals)

- Manhattan builds very little new housing (e.g. zero units approved last month)

- It's Manhattan, so there's a LOT of money floating around here.

So yes, Manhattan is getting more expensive, but these market-rate rental reports are not the entire story.

[0] From Streeteasy, a local real estate listing service

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/services/rent-...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKL7XEnxr4

Some particularly memorable examples include a 75 story residential tower with absolutely record-breaking trash piles, and a ~25 story residential tower with a trash collection point on the onramp to the Williamsburg bridge. Garbage trucks have to stop in the road to collect trash, manually, bag-by-bag, at every stop.

This is the policy for trash in NYC, and rats will remain a problem as long as it stays that way.

[0] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-co...