BytesAndGears

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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Slight tangent, but when I lived in a country in Europe, this was the way the law worked for car-cyclist collisions. 1. The car driver is assumed to be at fault. In absence of other evidence, the car driver is always 100% at fault for the a
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
I think you’re basically describing ground.news They advertise pretty heavily, and I’ma bit skeptical of their ability to make money. but it basically uses AI to summarize stories, and it groups stories from many media outlets, categorizes
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
I don’t think that’s the case at all - it’s a common concern in endurance sports, you really do have huge quantities of sugar.
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
I appreciate your ideas and do tend to lean libertarian myself overall, but let me offer another perspective as well. As someone who has lived in both places (European country with many social programs & the US in several states) — yes,
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Where I lived in Europe (as an American), jaywalking wasn’t illegal. They didn’t even really consider it weird. After all, you’re just walking . In fact, if you were in the street and a car hit you, the car driver had to prove that it was
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
> Market forces trump everything Unless a certain company interferes with market forces — aka the whole purpose of this lawsuit. If you need a place to live, what’re you going to do, be homeless? They have enough of the market in some ci
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
1. I see kids in public transit all the time, including kids around age 10 taking trams by themselves. It’s also common to see groups of kids out on bikes or in a park. It’s more independence, not less. 2. I’ve seen a full range of disabili
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
You could keep it flat up to a high threshold, like top ~5% of salary, then transition to marginal tax
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Not entirely sure, but I thought they were talking about the 4th amendment, which also is relevant. It prevents the government from spying on Americans without a warrant. The NSA works around it so openly by buying the spy data from third p
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
> Overall commercial filings registered 2,743 for the first half of 2024, representing a 27 percent increase from the commercial filing total of 2,154 for the first half of 2023 Does anyone know why Chapter 11 would increase so much more
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
No, but having a strong network of trains, trams, and buses makes it easy to get from one place to another regardless of where you’re going. You only get those crappy “the city has one train that runs once an hour” in some US cities It’s ho
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Or at least, the 51st percentile… But I think you’re spot-on. If someone owns the stock, usually it’s because they think the company is worth more in the future than it is currently. And you need to convince the majority of the shareholders
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Not entirely true, I was out hiking in the mountains of Colorado, and that was the best Milky Way view I’ve ever seen. It looked just like the crazy photos with millions of stars. Just laid on a rock staring at it for an hour
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Likely that most devs want to use Unix tools — terminal, etc.
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Well obviously roads have benefits. Nobody is saying to abolish roads. But the marginal benefits of more road density really fall off beyond the minimum of “having a road”. Compare two options within a city 1. Redesign a 2-lane (each dire
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
Why would they do that if their current system works?
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
I know it’s just more anecdata, but that just does not match my experience at all. I’ve known over a dozen people who have struggled with this over the years, become homeless, had drug overdoses, and several who’ve died. Every single one of
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
However, it still is hesitant to give me swear words. > What are the worst swear words in (language)? I asked ChatGPT-4 this question in the early days, and got a really interesting answer where I could learn about the culture of another
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
If I build a train, put it into service, and say to the passengers “this has 99.9% of the required parts from the design”, would you ride on that train? Would you consider that train 99.9% as good at being a train? Or is it all-or-nothing?
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
We did this at my work once, with Papa John's, and threw most of it away because it smelled absolutely sickening. We just chose to not eat... Pretty much any other pizza is better. We've done Domino's a few times and it'
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
No, I had to do this when I moved to Europe with my non-married fiancee. Some states can give you a statement saying "This person never has gotten married in our state ", but they cannot pull the records of every state. In fact,
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by BytesAndGears 2y ago
I’m more worried about the fact that it was allowed for so long. Sure, we’re doing the right thing by quitting PFAS and starting major cleanup efforts. But the system existed where people were incredibly negligent for years, knew they were
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
(For anyone who is reading this, I think the parent is referencing driving cars)
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
That’s how the popular grocery chains in the Netherlands all work. You just scan a few things, put it in your bag, and leave. I almost never interact with anyone. It uses your rewards card to determine your “risk”, I think. Just a theory. B
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
One time I wanted to learn about transmitter antenna design, just because I’m curious. ChatGPT 4 refused to give me basic information because you could use that to break some FCC regulations (I’m not even living in the US currently)
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Your use case doesn’t contradict the post that you replied to
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Except what is the benefit that it’s providing, that people asked to have solved? I feel like if you went up to someone and asked “how can we improve this social interaction?” Literally nobody would suggest strapping a screen to your face a
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Yeah, that’s a great way to put it. I have also had great experiences in a detached home (living with my wife’s family for a short while). They’re kind of out in the beyond-suburbs, but we were able to do lots of trail running and hiking ne
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
What a weird straw-man. I live in a 600sq ft 2-bedroom apartment with my wife, and we cook nearly every meal at home, we rarely go out to bars, or spend much money in the city. But we have 6-7 cute cafes within a 5 minute walk, so we stop i
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I think legally, because he didn’t take a bunch of money and promise the donors to make it open

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