I've noticed this about BBQ at Bay Area places--liquid smoke and a broiler. I suspect doing it right requires a degree of patience and sustained labor (meat must be tended all day long) that I've only seen at $50+ per head places in cities, and few people are willing to pay that for BBQ. Also IIRC wood fires are harder to permit.
You know, I have been really tempted to go over there (us), and start a business doing that - with a mandatory 3 day previous r eservation system. (Also I'd get to travel around and try all those amazing smoking houses in the us!)
My father and my brother are in accountancy. Obviously I haven't talked to every accountant on Earth, but if that's your standard nobody can ever think about anything.
i'll go out on a limb and agree with you. it's not "obvious" that obesity is linked to cancer unless you view the world through hindsight-glasses. skinny athletic people get cancer too.
it wasn't even "obvious" for most of the 20th century cigarettes gave you cancer. people have short memories.
a contemporary example: is it "obvious" right now that sugar gives you cancer? because to a lot of people it is blindingly, astoundingly obvious, and to some that sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense.
i don't understand this aversion to doing "obvious" science -- we have to do science to make things obvious, not the other way around.
nearly everything people find 'wrong' with modern cars is done for passenger and pedestrian safety.
even the phone integration and annoyingly bad electronic gadgets and infotainment software are designed to get you to put down your phone when driving, or be more aware of your surroundings.
remember, the alternative is nearly everyone staring at their phones while driving, and the obvious fallout from that (people still do it, of course, hence the physical safety features).
this is the reality that car designers must deal with and a point that is totally lost on the majority of people who complain about 'new cars'. if they could sell you a 1200 pound tin can death-trap with insufficient power and torque, they would, and we'd buy it, because it gets 120mpg and costs $5000.
for you to say something like "bumpers aren't a safety issue" pretty much discredits you immediately, but i'll answer anyway, for posterity.
"actual bumpers" are quite likely the single most extensively regulated pedestrian- and collision-related safety part. there's extensive legislation about their design and characteristics.
car companies exist to make money, yes, but they operate within a global framework of strict regulation.
Feel free to look for an actual regulation that prevents ridged bumpers with shock absorbers. You will not find it and in fact many vehicles are sold that can have a 5MPH collision without significant harm.
The reasons for this is people can walk into solid objects at 5MPH without significant harm.
The OEMs make you sit deep in every car because that's how you get a 5-star rating. Then a bunch of people back over pedestrians and kids because in the real world more people will be put in a situation like that than will be in a high speed side impact.
> bad habits picked up during residency and ER/on-call work die hard.
I initially found it surprising how many residency program directors tell interviewees that their programs don't allow illicit drug use. But yeah, extreme stress can lead to some bad habits, and it's apparently common enough to feel the need to remind candidates.
When I arrived at Oxford University, the first thing they told us at the international student orientation session was "don't try to bribe the police officers".
Things like this don't have to be very common to be worth pointing out.
Were there many folks from developing countries in the orientation? In my orientation (at an American university), there was a huge emphasis on "you might be used to plagiarism back home, but please take it seriously".
Some students from developing countries, yes. And I'm sure that admonition was largely aimed at them. IIRC most of the room looked European.
you might be used to plagiarism back home, but please take it seriously
Yeah, this is a problem my university runs into too -- international students are around 20% of the undergraduate population but consistently around 50% of the cases of academic dishonesty. :-(
that's because everywhere else people will just break them open during an emergency. which i think is probably the more reasonable thing to do for everywhere else.
came here looking for a story like this. i had a 2-digit id that i coincidentally sold for exactly $150 on ebay also. college beer money. don't regret it at all.
cmdrtaco announced his site on irc and i happened to see it in the first few days.
I remember /. before user reg even existed. There was some buildup to it finally being released, I recall. I signed on within an hour of it going live and though it was all pointless. Guess that's why I wound up with a 4-digit uid instead of a 2-digit one :)
I had (and I guess still have) user id #10, which for a few years conveyed a minor amount of Internet cred. I should have sold out in 2005 and retired to a country with an extremely low cost of living.
well why not extend the analogy further? it's worth noting that in this arrangement, the natural is order is the parent eventually dies after a long and possibly painful period of decline, while the child rapidly develops into an adult within 18 years, with the expectation of outperforming the parent by the time it reaches middle-age (35 or so). at which point the cycle repeats and continues.
this is HN, you have to think through your snark or it will snark you back.
and of course, just like real money, it's in the interests of those holding large amounts of it "go along to get along". the big banks know that, that's how they operate. this announcements almost seems like a dog whistle to those new elites and extant elites who may want to diversify their holdings.
so if this comes to pass, it effectively captures the interests of the now-wealthy first-adopters, who are presumably the most ardent proponents of the societal 'benefits' as well.
and then, we are back to square one, with a monied super-class effectively imposing the will of the bankers on the general populace through the very act of holding and controlling the wealth (which is ultimately owned by the state).
this will make a killing even in the US, anywhere but the south. people just can't seem to do this very well anywhere else, for whatever reason.