What type of fan is best for this? Box fans or the round powerful ones?

If you're interested in optimizing, the Dohm classic "sound machine" isn't very expensive (maybe 2x what a decent fan costs), is portable/packable, has tunable sound, but is fundamentally just a fan that doesn't move air around your room.

It's different for different people. The air purifier method suggested works for me, but any fan is better than no fan.

You can buy an air purifier, like IKEA FÖRNUFTIG.

Air purifier white noise is the best. I don't know what it is about it.

It's cause the noise is filtered

Agreed (provided it is a sufficiently large air purifier like Austin Air's Healthmate).

Startup founders and employees are you really paying insane bills to AWS? How? We are really paying peanuts compared to other expenses.

In a lot of cases it's because they don't know how to build using cloud services effectively so they just spin up a lot of VMs because that's the only tool they know how to use. Running VMs 24/7 is just about the most expensive thing you can do in the "cloud". But doing anything else is "too complicated".

Probably depends on what your business is and the LTV of your customers

May be but not sure. How many Figma type startups out there paying $500k a day? As opposed to just traditional SaaS/OpenAi wrapper. I just don’t see it.

Correct it is advised by DD but eventually done by the merchant.

And they basically have no choice but to increase the price. Their margins are already razor thin.

Of course they do not. I still can’t believe that so called marketing that DD and Uber does commands a 30% rev share.

Most of that money goes towards the driver, last I checked in on unit economics. It costs quite a bit of money to pay a person to go to the restaurant, wait around, and then bring it to you — far more than the "delivery fee" that you see and that customers would pay.

Customers are cheap and they're (partly) to blame. My theory is that Amazon conditioned people to view delivery as a free commodity and pizza places who had delivery baked into their model cemented it.

So if Doordash listed a delivery fee that covered their true cost of delivery, customers would balk. So they instead have to find creative ways to get enough. Maybe it's changed and Doordash cracked the secret, but when I'd looked into it years ago these companies barely got by — many of them actually losing money.

With pizza delivery you typically (should) tip the driver $5+ ($10+ for larger orders) so idk if that really tracks specifically, but I do largely agree that part of is people being cheap for one reason or another.

I know people who drove for DD and they roughly earn minimum wage ~$15/hr. You can easily deliver 2 orders in an hour. So I don't really buy that either.

I’m not sure I’m understanding your comment exactly so if this response is off let me know: I’m talking about traditional calling pizza in, not app delivery. At least when I was growing up that’s what we typically tipped.

More like 25%+.

Burrito pipes are also an ongoing area of research led by many VC backed startups.

If only France and Mexico shared a border, Paris could have converted their pneumatic mail delivery system to burrito delivery system. That would have been good alternate reality

Have you considered running for mayor of Paris?

Let us commence the campaign now

How does existence of life outside Earth (or lack of it) change importance of our life in the grand scheme of things?

It's important because we seem to be the only (visible) thing that can scheme.

I'm not so sure. I've watched my cat sit there and scheme. Sure, it may be not much further than "what's this thing do if I bat it with my paw?" or "what's that taste like?" or "can I train my hooman to refill the food dish if I incessantly whine and be as annoying as possible?", but they are definitely thinking about it. Then again, I've watched my cat stare off into space as if he's pondering the mysteries of the universe, but he's probably just trying to figure out the best route he could take to get that squirrel if he could just get outside.

You need a sun room.

I agree. I like my sun room to be upstairs of the smoking lounge, but next to the library.

That's no longer "basic low tech from centuries ago" any more. Centuries ago there wasn't transparent glass, only colored glass (think stained glass in an old church).

Can you name a few of those countries?

not GP but... thailand, ireland and the netherlands come to mind.

Economic development matters. We can't say Thailand is better than the US in every way that matters when it's a much poorer country than the US.

Of course, maybe Thailand is better than the US in some or even a lot of the ways that matter, but not all of them.

GDP per capita (PPP):

Thailand: 26323, USA: 89105

GDP per capita (nominal):

Thailand: 7767, USA: 89105

Human Development Index:

Thailand: 0.798, USA: 0.938

Being a rich American with a top US salary and living in Thailand mitigates many of the downsides seen by poor Thai.

When those thugs show up at your door with all of the weapons drawn and at the ready, what do you think you and your little hand gun or even riffle are going to do? Wound the first person at the door before you get lit up? To what purpose?