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Those empty walls surrounding you are filled with endless possibilities, and a few additions can really make your house feel like a home. No, we don't mean hanging up a torn beer box or a basic movie poster. Your dorm days are over and the time has come to put your money towards actual art.
You don't need to be an interior designer or a millionaire to create a Pinterest-worthy living space, though. Just follow your instincts and choose art prints that speak to you. You'd be surprised how much they help bring your home to life.
Here are 13 prints by artists with distinctive voices, all at affordable prices. Read more...
TL;DR: As of Feb. 25th, you can get help building your dream website with a lifetime subscription to Weblium Website Builder Pro for $49.99, a 74% savings.
There's nothing more aggravating than a website that's not responsive for mobile. You just need to look up one quick thing, track a shipment, or read an article, and the site is either too confusing, too disorganized, or too defective to live up to the task. It's a major bummer – especially in 2020 when over half of our time spent online is on our phones.
The remedy? Create a site using a website builder like Weblium, which automatically ensures your site will look and work great on any type of device. Read more...
Your Samsung smartphone might offer plenty of great features and abilities, but the headphones you've received bundled with it aren't that great. Instead, it's a better idea to upgrade them and buy separate earphones or headphones that offer a far superior listening experience. Before you do so, it's worth having a think about how you intend on using your headphones.
Are you planning on commuting with them regularly? Do you travel frequently? Do you love using Samsung's S-Voice assistant? It's important to have a comfortable pair that work for you. Read on to find out more about what to look for with headphones for your Samsung smartphone. Read more...
Looking at Ultimate Ears' wireless speaker lineup, it was inevitable. First there was the Boom, then the Megaboom, followed by the Blast and Megablast (perhaps not exactly in that order, but you get the picture).
So now, the company took this idea a few notches further with its latest portable, wireless speaker: the Hyperboom.
The Hyperboom, dubbed as the brand's "loudest and bassiest speaker yet," is truly massive; I don't have exact size specifications yet, but it's probably a fair amount bigger than your head.
Of course, due to its size, the Hyperboom is more of a party speaker than a home speaker. But big size has advantages, including 24 hours of battery life (the battery can also be used to charge your phone), and a sound that's three times louder an has "six times the bass" (whatever that means) of UE's Megaboom 3. Read more...
Beards. Many of you will want one, but not all of you can have one.
Follicularly-blessed friends are lucky — the presence of a good beard has the potential to add an air of brooding mystery to your aesthetic, making you all the more interesting compared to the others. So go ahead, grow one! Just do it right.
Yes, there is a correct way to grow a beard. It goes beyond just neglecting to shave — sure, that's an option, but just you wait until that awkward phase of hair growth kicks in and you're all scraggly and stuff. Then you'll get it.
If you're wondering to yourself what the correct method of embarking on your beard growth journey is, we're here to answer that question for you. Frankly, it's pretty simple — you just have to keep up with some relatively light maintenance while your follicles flourish, like trimming, exfoliating, cleansing, conditioning, and just a few other steps. Read more...
If you're planning any sort of travel, you're going to want to take your new beard products along for the ride and Herschel's travel bag is a convenient way to do just that.
Monday's episode of the Tonight Show saw K-pop group BTS join Jimmy Fallon for a round of Subway Olympics, playing several games that probably won't appear in the real Olympics any time soon. These included Protect the Duck, in which players attempted to knock a rubber duck off each other's hand, and Dance Your Shades and Gloves Off, which was exactly what it sounds like.
It was predictably chaotic, with J-Hope accidentally slapping Jin in the face at one point, but it wouldn't be BTS playing games without some silly antics. There was even a bit of cheeky cheating, with Jimin sneakily sticking Post-Its on Jungkook well after time was up. Read more...
Imagine being powerful enough to take over one of the busiest train stations in America, putting on a performance in a landmark that sees 750,000 passengers a day.
Well, K-pop titans BTS stopped Grand Central Station in its tracks, with a performance in the Manhattan icon's main hall. The biggest boyband in the world right now, BTS threw down a performance to remember, 'On' from their latest album Map of the Soul: 7, released on Friday.
It's all part of Jimmy Fallon's Subway Special of The Tonight Show, which saw the seven lads touring New York's landmarks. It's a big week for BTS doing the late night show rounds, with their run on James Corden's Carpool Karaoke dropping on Tuesday. Read more...
The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon solved a long-running K-pop mystery on Monday, finally revealing the details of BTS' Black Bean Noodle Incident.
Answering questions Fallon gathered from fans, BTS finally revealed exactly what the mysterious noodle incident was. It seems that, during their training days, BTS' leader RM told the rest of the group he was going to the restroom. However, he actually went to eat black bean noodles alone while everyone else waited for him. "I had a stomach ache!" RM laughed. Read more...
Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucus over the weekend, securing his place as the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. However, while these results clearly indicate most of the population is behind Bernie, some more centrist Democrats in the media were apparently hoping he wouldn't do so well.
"Pundits across cable news have been freaking out about Bernie's rise," said Late Night host Seth Meyers during Monday's episode. After Bernie's win in New Hampshire, "the story wasn't that he was winning, but that if you use pundit math, he was actually losing."
In this case, "pundit math" referred to the tendency of cable news shows to declare that, if you add together several other candidates' results, Sanders is actually losing. Which, by the way, is not how voting works at all. If two people want to eat at Burger King, two prefer KFC, and three want In-N-Out, that doesn't mean In-N-Out has lost. Read more...
Dating when you're 40 or older can be intimidating — unlike when you're in your 20s or 30s, you can't assume everyone your age is single and looking. If you've found yourself "on the market" again, it's important to remember that half of U.S. marriages do end in divorce, so the dating pool isn't as small as you might think.
Meeting people organically out in public still happens, but sometimes it's easier and less intimidating to meet people where they are. It's a comfort in knowing that the people you find on dating apps are single (hopefully) and looking for a romantic relationship, so at least you're both on the same page. Read more...
Amazon will no longer allow third-party merchants to advertise products claiming to treat or cure the coronavirus, CNBC reports.
Misinformation continues to spread on social media, and it appears the same has occurred on one of the world's most popular e-commerce platforms. The listings target fearful consumers through deceptive language. Sellers describe their cleansers, surgical face masks, and sprays as capable of "killing" the coronavirus and, in some listings, they go as far as name-dropping well-respected agencies such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. Read more...
former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg participates in a health equity discussion in Greenville, South Carolina, on February 27, 2020. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
More data is still trickling in, but the early numbers show the two struggling to pick up support.
Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar’s campaigns have had a problem since the start. And early South Carolina exit polls confirm it: Black voters don’t back them.
According to a survey from the Washington Post, Buttigieg and Klobuchar picked up little support from black voters in the state, who make up 60 percent of the South Carolina Democratic electorate.
The exit polls, which of course are not necessarily reflective of the entirety of the final results still trickling in, show former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Buttigieg with 3 percent support among black voters and 17 percent among white voters, and Sen. Klobuchar with 1 percent support among black voters and 6 percent support among white voters. Warren, too, had a marked contrast in backing: 5 percent of black voters favored her, compared to 12 percent of white voters who did.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar campaigns in Richmond, Virginia, on February 29, 2020.
Their respective lack of support mean that all three are trailing Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders significantly in the state, coming in a likely distant fourth place finish at best.
South Carolina is the first big test of the amount of backing candidates can rally from black voters — and it suggests that former Vice President Joe Biden still has strong support from this key Democratic constituency. It also indicated that multiple candidates continue to struggle to connect with black voters, who make up 20 percent of the Democrats’ electorate across the country and are among the party’s most loyal voters.
Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Warren have all dealt, in part, with familiarity issues, which has led them to lag Sanders and Biden among black voters. But Buttigieg and Klobuchar, too, have gotten significant questions about their records on race.
These numbers indicate that all three still need to build support among black voters — and fast — if they want to establish a broad-based coalition for the nomination, and perform better in a series of diverse states, moving forward.
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The question is whether that win came just in time for Biden’s hopes on Super Tuesday, which is just three days away — or whether it came too late.
The former vice president had led national polls of the Democratic contest throughout 2019 and into January 2020. But after Biden’s poor showings in Iowa (fourth place) and New Hampshire (fifth place), he saw that lead vanish.
Several problems arose for Biden. Most notably, Sen. Bernie Sanders surged to first in national polls after essentially tying for first in Iowa and winning outright victories in New Hampshire and Nevada. But nearly as threateningly, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg surged into third, apparently cutting into Biden’s support, since more voters were beginning to doubt whether Biden could win. And the field barely winnowed, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and billionaire activist Tom Steyer all staying in.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters cheer during a rally in Columbia, South Carolina, on February 28, 2020.
Those first three states had a paltry number of delegates at stake. But Super Tuesday and its 1,344 delegates — one-third of the total — were right around the corner, on March 3, about to be allotted just as Biden had seriously weakened nationally. Biden’s decline and the crowded field posed the risk that Sanders could jump out to a near-insurmountable delegate lead.
Biden’s South Carolina win could be just what he needs to regain at least some of his lost ground so he can perform well on Super Tuesday. Theoretically, this victory will earn him lots of positive horse-race focused media coverage, establish him as the clear remaining alternative to Sanders, and loom large with Super Tuesday late deciders. (Nearly half of the delegates at stake in that day’s contests are from Southern states.)
Or it could not.
Biden’s Super Tuesday problems
There are a few complications for Biden’s hopes of a speedy comeback.
First is early voting. Millions of Super Tuesday voters in states like California, Texas, and North Carolina cast their ballots before South Carolina did. So a large share of the vote on Super Tuesday is already locked in and obviously can’t be influenced by Biden’s Palmetto State win.
Team Biden’s hope is that voters who were on the fence and open to supporting the former vice president were more likely to wait to cast their ballots, rather than voting early for, say, Mike Bloomberg. But it’s possible that whatever momentum Biden gains from South Carolina could be blunted somewhat by early voting.
Second is the news cycle. Biden surely wants his win to become the major story dominating airtime and headlines over the next three days. But the coronavirus outbreak has been the biggest national story in recent days. President Donald Trump also tends to generate a fair amount of news — take his speech at an annual conservative conference Saturday, just as one example. Biden’s big win might break through to enough voters that haven’t been paying attention (or who have been seeing tons of Bloomberg ads), but it’s not a sure thing.
Finally, Biden’s campaign is cash-strapped and has barely been able to fund ads beyond South Carolina. From a financial perspective, it would have been better for Biden to have his big comeback victory earlier, so more money would pour into his coffers that he could spend on Super Tuesday. Team Biden’s likely hope is that the positive national news coverage he’ll get from his win will end up being more valuable than their own ads would have been. But it’s not exactly an ideal situation for him.
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Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?
3 by alhirzel | 0 comments on Hacker News. Successful companies institutionalize the knowledge of their employees; this leads to better continuity and faster on-boarding. Things like huge monorepos of useful code, internal tools, process manuals, etc. are example products of this. Young companies tend to depend on the dedication and talent of key individuals, and in maturation, must somehow make the jump to institutionalized knowledge (so that "if someone got hit by a bus" things are ok). What are some successful methods you have used or seen used to accomplish this transition? What are problems you faced (skeptics, opponents, etc.)? I am involved with an organization that is slowly growing, is about to lose key personnel, and is looking to prepare.
Joe Biden campaigns in Georgetown, South Carolina on February 26, 2020. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
How are Bernie’s elite Democrat opponents this incompetent?
Democrats opposed to Bernie Sanders want you to know they’re scared.
The New York Times’ Lisa Lerer and Reid Epstein reported last Thursday that 84 of the 93 Democratic superdelegates they spoke with opposed giving the party’s nomination to Sanders if he wins a plurality, but not majority, of delegates in the primaries. “How you can spend four or five months hoping you don’t have to put a bumper sticker from that guy on your car,” former Sen. Chris Dodd told the paper. Anti-Bernie columnists like my colleague Jonathan Chait are expressing enthusiasm for a move by party elites to block Bernie. Exactly zero “frontline” Democratic members of the US House — those the party has designated as most vulnerable and in need of support in November — have endorsed Sanders with many endorsing moderates.
But here’s the thing: The worriers aren’t taking the one step that would most plausibly imperil Sanders’ nomination — encourage voters to back Joe Biden.
Back in the year 2000, incumbent President Bill Clinton and other party heavyweights intervened heavily to push Al Gore’s candidacy and block Bill Bradley. But today the highest-profile Democrats – Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi – are staying out of the race.
This is not how a party apparatus that is serious about blocking Sanders’ nomination would operate. Sanders’s greatest asset at the moment is the highly fragmented field. Elizabeth Warren’s continued presence might siphon off some left-leaning votes from him, but given how poor her performance has been to date, it can’t be that many. By contrast, Sanders currently has a huge lead in a wide field but ranked choice polls show him only very narrowly ahead of Biden in the context of a two-person race. Raising concerns about Sanders is very unlikely to change the fundamental dynamics, but narrowing the field to two candidates really could.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns in Richmond, Virginia on February 27, 2020.
To some extent, this probably reflects a genuine lack of anti-Sanders panic in some elite circles. Barack Obama’s former aides, in venues like Pod Save America, have been fairly sanguine about a Sanders nomination.
But the other possibility is that the dozens of superdelegates telling the New York Times they’re panicking are not just lying and genuinely do want to stop Bernie. In that case, what’s occurring is a basic coordination problem, where party elites with considerable power to affect the eventual outcome are just failing to communicate with each other effectively and so are too feckless to stop the outcome they dread.
A failure to coordinate
I’m not particularly afraid of a Sanders nomination myself. On the issues I care most about I think the candidates are all roughly interchangeable in terms of what they and Congress can accomplish together. But if I were one of these panicking Democratic elites, I would stop whining to media outlets and start actually coordinating to choose a single Stop Bernie candidate and push the others out of the race. And the natural Stop Bernie candidate is Joe Biden.
Biden’s abysmal performance in Iowa and New Hampshire served to disguise the strength he still has in South Carolina, where he won so big that the race was called the minute the polls closed, and in many Super Tuesday states. He’s second in national polling to Sanders (though Bloomberg’s nipping at his heels) and lacks many of Bloomberg’s deepest weaknesses. While they share ugly histories on criminal and racial justice issues, and are both arguably too old for the position, Biden is a lifelong Democrat with a deep connection to the popular Obama administration, whereas Bloomberg rounded up protesters at the 2004 Republican convention and described his own 2012 endorsement of Obama as “back-handed.”
Perhaps most importantly for a “Stop Bernie” candidate, one-on-one polling suggests that Biden actually stands a chance of stopping Bernie, while Bloomberg doesn’t. YouGov found after the New Hampshire primary that Sanders would clobber Bloomberg, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar in one-on-one races, by 15, 17, and 21 points, respectively. By contrast, Biden is only 4 points behind Sanders in a one-on-one matchup. Only Warren does better against Sanders, and the Democratic elites who are trying to coordinate a centrist nomination fear her just as much as Sanders.
If “frontline” leaders and party elites really want to stop Sanders, their next steps are obvious. The Clintons, Pelosi, and Schumer, and all the Bloomberg-backers among the frontline House Democrats, should formally endorse Joe Biden as the best hope for defeating Sanders. They should hit the campaign trail and hold rallies convincing rank-and-file Democrats that the Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bloomberg campaigns aren’t viable options, and Biden is the only moderate capable of holding up against Sanders. They should have done this weeks ago, if their intention was really to stop Bernie, but at the very least they should do so before post-Super Tuesday high-delegate races in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania.
And if party leaders don’t want to do this, that should tell you something about how serious they are about defeating Sanders.
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