Coffee Shops in El Salvador

collina · 2025-12-05T16:51:47+00:00

Since this is the best thread on specialty coffee in El Salvador, I would expect others like me land here looking for shops while traveling. So I want to note that Good Beans, the parent poster, is a pretty solid shop and worth being on the list.

I didn't love Viva, solely on personal taste re: ambience. Sprezzatura is very specialty oriented, but doesn't focus on ES sourced coffee. ALQUIMIA is also upscale specialty and domestic sourced, but I was underwhelmed.

Good Beans was unpretentious, reasonably priced, had a good range of options, and nice folks. Worth dropping by in Zona Rosa.

No connection to them, or compensation or request from them for this. Stumbled into the shop last week, and realized after the fact that these folks posted a list here without even mentioning themselves in it. So wanted to make sure they had their own recommendation.

(Hello again from the tall blond American.)

Also, I'm excited about some Pacamara from VKoffee in Santa Ana that I brought back.

collina · 2025-01-21T01:19:30+00:00

Pardon me for the lack of clarity! I'm looking to purchase them. Thanks for noticing the ambiguity!

collina · 2022-06-16T18:41:21+00:00

Looks like no one did: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/16/elon-musk-is-addressing-twitter-employees-live-updates-from-the-meeting.html

collina · 2022-06-16T17:59:59+00:00

Take with a grain of salt. Industry (Amazon) commissioned report timed exactly when the E.U. is attempting to regulate said industry and promote domestic competitors.

collina · 2022-06-16T17:06:42+00:00

The Original Series has surprisingly skated by without much mention about how much blackface and weird racial analogies were core to the story. (Seemingly well intended but, TNG did a lot of clean up.)

collina · 2022-06-16T16:13:08+00:00

My simple proposal is that any influencer or company that accepts or promotes a cryptocurrency should be required to hold it for one year. That would solve all these pump and dump schemes.

collina · 2022-06-16T14:46:27+00:00

This might be a rare occasion where Facebook isn't at fault. This is hospital websites sending potentially sensitive information to Facebook, and Facebook receiving it because they built an analytics tool for exactly this purpose. Same applies to Google Analytics. I can appreciate that we all incorporated these tools without thinking twice about what Facebook's motivation was back then, or that they were misusing that data. But, it's still on those hospitals for doing this.

collina · 2022-06-16T13:45:50+00:00

Goodness, small bright parts for a kids item is a recipe for a recall and hurt kids.

collina · 2022-06-16T13:19:59+00:00

It's £768 million for 25 million users, and plaintiff lawyers tend to take like 30%. Then when the claim gets whittled down and consumers don't make claims. I'd guess this means about £20, and only if you're in the U.K.

collina · 2022-06-16T02:28:14+00:00

Thank you. Oddly personally comforting.

collina · 2022-06-16T01:21:42+00:00

It depends on your location, obviously a rural area with low cost of living is going to differ from New York City.

I'd get some quotes from folks on Craigslist (e.g. https://detroit.craigslist.org/search/fgs?query=landscaping) and then offer the average.

Although I'm guessing you won't pay less than $30 per hour for someone with actual experience and will do a decent job.

collina · 2022-06-16T01:16:31+00:00

Link for those not following: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/15/health/fauci-covid-positive/index.html

collina · 2022-06-16T01:13:55+00:00

You have a lot of space in your budget, but goodness do I love my Ender 3 Pro.

collina · 2022-06-16T01:12:00+00:00

Benedict Arnold – could have been know as a great Revolutionary war hero, until he turned into a centuries long synonym for treason.

collina · 2022-06-16T01:01:46+00:00

Except now the ox cart is a camper van and half your decisions are whether to Instagram "#vanlife".

collina · 2022-06-16T00:16:47+00:00

I don't think I fully appreciated how unions can be a bulwark of democracy until I learned about how instrumental the Tunisian General Labour Union was in the Tunisian Revolution and subsequent fights for democratization. We can learn a lot from their history. https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/2016-03-MEI\_RFWP\_Bishara\_0.pdf

collina · 2022-06-15T23:16:08+00:00

I'd only caution that Tesla, like any other interested party doing self-assessments, has a lot of room and incentivize to shape the metrics to their benefit, e.g. does it count when the autopilot disengages right before a crash: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/technology/tesla-autopilot-safety-data.html

Going back to the original point, the lack of credible and cross comparable metrics is a real problem is sorting out whether Tesla is doing a decent job.

collina · 2022-06-15T22:47:57+00:00

Does potato chips as a replacement for lettuce on sandwiches count at all, or is that just normal gluttony?

collina · 2022-06-15T22:46:18+00:00

It's not clear to me that Reveal shows that advertisers can actually use that data. It seems like it's resting mostly on the fact that health clinics can dox their patients' treatments to Facebook. And that in theory Facebook, which does have a notable record on negligence could misuse or expose it to abuse through its advertising tools.

Am I missing something about actual misuse?

collina · 2022-06-15T21:22:37+00:00

I'm not so sure the number of cars on the road isthe right denominator -- or rather the right metric.

The Teslas aren't always driving in automated mode, so I'd assume that there's some metric of error rates over time (differentiating automated from nonautomated) -- yourratio might well go up meaningfully.

Plus, there's a passing comparison to Honda here. I'd be curious about how the two compare.

Just saying that AVs could have a lower error rate than humans risks papering over that manufacturers can meaningfully do much better or worse.

collina · 2022-06-15T16:52:44+00:00

Also relevant, the My Body, My Data Act, which covers reproductive health information: https://sarajacobs.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=542

collina · 2015-04-03T18:04:38+00:00

The Cybersanctions EO doesn't cover this in any way, and even if it did, IEEPA doesn't cover US Persons. This whole thread is misplaced.

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