The EU ban on single-use plastics is insane

This continually grinds my gears. We can’t have plastic straws, yet, serving my milkshake is served (with the fundamentally broken paper straw) in a clear plastic cup, which could easily have been a paper cup. I can’t have a thin (sub grams of material) plastic bag for my greasy takeout to protect my car seat, so I have to buy […]

Ask HN: Work Culture Canary?

On our fridge, 7 years ago, I put a poster: Anarchy soda! Fizzy drinks, for the people, by the people, take one, leave some. I didn’t set this up with any other intent that having some soda available to myself, but I’ve come to think of it as my canary.. The fridge pretty much never runs dry, to the astonishment […]