Steltek

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by Steltek 5y ago
The utility of cars would plummet if they were not so subsidized by the government and society itself shrugs off externalities. People casually accept needless death from cars because it's seen as a fact of life. How do you talk about
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by Steltek 5y ago
The public needs to decide how to allocate public space: for roads, bus lanes, bike paths, or sidewalks. Even if everyone was magically given EVs tomorrow, cities would still be choked with traffic, fights for parking, and dead pedestrians
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by Steltek 5y ago
Nor does a vaccine passport? It only prevents you from lying about a major public health threat.
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by Steltek 5y ago
That's not a really fair suggestion :). Montreal's snow clearing operation is amazing for the Northeast.
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by Steltek 5y ago
Could you apply this same argument to taxes/SSNs, drivers licenses[+], and other existing centralized systems in the US? +: Let's be honest, driver's licenses are practically required and you attract extra scrutiny if you don
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by Steltek 5y ago
> retail executives, police officers and city officials have attributed the surge to Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot measure that reclassified nonviolent larceny as a misdemeanor Your sources don't even support your opinion/narra
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by Steltek 5y ago
LOL. "And how long have you been beating your wife?" babesh is adding facts, mixed with pure opinion, of his own choosing to also further a narrative. Is "Defund the police has caused skyrocketing property crime and violent c
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by Steltek 5y ago
Omitting and spinning facts indeed. You're simply pushing your own narrative here so aren't you making yourself part of the problem?
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by Steltek 5y ago
Fox News circa 2000's is the best example. A huge outlier for media bias at the time but Republicans tuned in because it reinforced and validated their beliefs.
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by Steltek 5y ago
Ah, sorry, not a native. I know it was rerouted slowly over time but I guess my mental map had the canal much farther to the south than it is (aka, eating ice cream on the tow path in Pittsford).
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by Steltek 5y ago
Like Google Maps clipping off minor towns as you zoom out, there's a level of detail filter being applied. Within my town, I'll give my neighborhood. Within my state, I'll give my town. Outside that, it'll be "Bost
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by Steltek 5y ago
In terms of Erie Canal, didn't Buffalo have a bigger slice of the pie? Rochester isn't even really on the canal. Buffalo still has enormous artifacts of the canal industry, like the grain silos.
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by Steltek 5y ago
There needs to be a name for comments that are so sociopathic and terrifying that I jump in my seat. HN seems to do this more than Reddit, which is also disturbing.
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Massachusetts' Constitution practically grants Harvard sovereign immunity. There were different purposes and circumstances 230 years ago however. https://malegislature.gov/laws/constitution#chapterVSectionI
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by Steltek 5y ago
Far from the norm but in Boston during the morning rush hour, I once had a driver pull over suddenly, exclaim "back in a minute folks!", and rush off the running bus into a restaurant. I think we all figured he had to hit the bath
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by Steltek 5y ago
Maybe a few other American destroyers had already collided with cargo ships earlier that year...
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by Steltek 5y ago
You don't need control of the app store to do that.
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by Steltek 5y ago
False. Monopolies and monopoly practices are legal. Anti-competitive practices, however, are not. Microsoft was not convicted of being a monopoly, it was convicted of leveraging its monopoly to stifle competition in another market. In the U
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by Steltek 5y ago
How many funerals did you go to in one month? Did you hesitate and worry about giving your own mother a hug afterwards? Are there newborn family members, that you've never even met, that are now walking and talking? If you think this y
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by Steltek 5y ago
Unless you're more of a city belter...
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by Steltek 5y ago
> the monolithic natural of Linux Kernel and its strict licensing terms made it hard to get code upstreamed > In 2018, we got the OS running natively on a Pixelbook. After that, the Fuchsia team stopped doing its work in the open and
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by Steltek 5y ago
Magit has a great mix of direct manipulation of git primitives and good visualization. I think I've learned how git works faster through Magit than I would have from using the CLI. It's really hit a sweet spot for me.
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by Steltek 5y ago
Likewise with VSCode, Edamagit is very close but isn't "muscle memory" close. I run into things that aren't quite the same as the original: choosing a remote on a new repository when pushing or selecting switches using t
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by Steltek 5y ago
Correct.
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by Steltek 5y ago
Except I get a new window when I click on the Explorer icon. So no, it's the opposite of Finder's fail-silent behavior.
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If you commute by bike, get them (or a bar-end mirror that sticks out)! They will save your hands in a crash! I have a bike mirror that's structurally like a bar-end. I got right hooked by a driver: he didn't look nor signal, just
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by Steltek 5y ago
GP's point is that things like favorable shortcuts are due to your personal background. For myself, I was forced on to Mac and the shortcuts are excruciatingly frustrating to use. It feels like I've forgotten how to use a computer
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by Steltek 5y ago
I'm sure it's a great truck but I'm not seeing any refinement for city driving. Not in my city anyway.
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by Steltek 5y ago
I haven't experienced the behavior described but reading it, I instantly hate it. It would differ from every other program I use. I'd counter with there should be two different paste actions in every program: plain and smart. I al
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by Steltek 5y ago
DRL uses a standardized quad provided by DRL to the pilots. You have custom controllers and goggles but the craft are all the same. This is my recollection from a video by Nurk (DRL racer) anyway. And why wouldn't it work? A lot of Cyc

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