I'd be interested to see how someone would fare by chewing on some synsepalum dulcificum aka miracle fruit [1] followed by a Ghost pepper. In theory, it should be able to block out most of the TRPV1 heat receptors as well. If only I did my thesis on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum

You should submit that concept to some of the more daring Youtube channels, such as "Good Mythical Morning"... they might actually try it.

Well, I have some old miracle fruit tablets and various spicy sauces I can try if you want... Probably not Ghost pepper, though.

I for one, would be interested in the results of that!

Alright, I tried it for you guys:

I ate one miracle berry tablet (I think the recommended dose is half a tablet, but screw it). The tablets were pretty old, so after consuming it I tested with yoghurt to see if the results held up. Indeed, the yoghurt tasted like cream and was not sour at all, so the tablet was good.

Afterwards, I tasted Sriracha sauce, Tapatio and Valentina Extra Hot. All sauces retained their usual taste, except there was no burning sensation in the tongue and mouth at all. However, the sauces retained their burning sensation in the throat, completely intact, as far as I can tell.

I'm afraid that I didn't have a control spoonful of sauce before the tablet, because I didn't think of it, but I can have some once the tablet wears out. I seem to recall, though, that a spoonful of Sriracha does normally burn my tongue.

Thank you so much!! Interesting results and basically what I expected. I'll try the same except with a habanero, wonder how far it goes.

I'm sure one of the sauces I tried has habaneros in it (probably the Tapatio, possibly the Valentina). I think the effect should generalize well.

Now that's interesting! Thanks for taking the bullet for us, and thanks for sharing.

No problem! True to my word, I had another spoonful of Sriracha (much to my girlfriend's chagrinned cries of "You're going to smell like garlic again!"), and it did, indeed, burn the tongue.

Love the layout and design. Not sure if I missed this but is there a way to specify all of California in the search function instead of just individual cities? I think that would be useful for some people.

Thanks for the kind words! It's actually fairly easy for us to specify all of California (it was actually part of our alpha release years ago), but we were never quite happy with how the UX of it would work -- how do we break out state vs city, or both combined?

We do want to make this happen though, and it shouldn't be too bad, but we need to figure out a good way to show it to the user. Stay tuned!

A proud member of that demographic.

That makes sense considering the nature of QA testing and data entry. For other roles, the outlook seems bleak. Entry-level jobs are a crucial first step on the path to a professional career and most companies are cutting those jobs out in the efforts of staying "lean". Quite a problem.

I'm very interested to see how Google will defend themselves in this suit and what numbers they'll show to prove otherwise.

If you can continue growth and profitability without taking outside investors, great for you and I recommend it. The reality is, a lot of times founders are faced with the problem of funding/paying bills and are left with no other option than to take VC money. If you go down that route, just make sure that everyone on-board has the interests of your users in mind.

An incredible pioneer that will be greatly missed.

This is great, I'm sure Watsi would love it.

Timeline views grew slower than users, suggesting people aren't using Twitter as much. Hate to say Twitter may be the next myspace.

Thank you! Very interesting read.