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by Swizec 3y ago
> Thiel and Will Hunting have said it better: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.” I used to think this is true. Moving to SFBA has disabused me of any notion that e
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by Swizec 3y ago
We already have laws that make it so the driver is liable for infractions, crashes, etc. Even if you own the car, but someone else drives, driver gets the ticket. If this weren’t the case, rent-a-car agencies wouldn’t exist. The same rule
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by Swizec 3y ago
I'm half a block from an elementary school so how bad can it be? My nearest intersection literally has those crosswalk guards you see in the movies every morning. They always say hi when I run past them.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Speaking as someone who has lived in the downtown area of a dense US city for the past 8 years, US crime stats and perception are weird. Yes I live in a neighborhood with high crime stats. Even relatively high violent crime stats. But it fe
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by Swizec 3y ago
There’s a lot of sportspeople who aren’t athletes. I average close to 20 hours of sportsing per week, but I am no athlete. An athlete is someone who competes for realzies, maybe even money.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Why do you have to laboriously teach babies [basic survival things] Because we are born prematurely. Our brain wouldn’t fit through the birth canal if we were born later with more basic skills baked in. So instead we finish a big part
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by Swizec 3y ago
One side fights to survive, the other to make a few billionaires a little richer. Their motivations are not the same.
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Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)(washingtonpost.com)
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by Swizec 3y ago
> why exactly would I want to visit Europe? That’s okay, we don’t want you. I lived the first 28 years of my life in the downtown historic area of an increasingly touristy European capital and American tourists were always the worst :) T
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by Swizec 3y ago
I’ve had extraordinary luck with broken French in France. If you start in French and do your best, a lot of people suddenly speak fluent English. Especially in metro areas. But the experience does not compare to traveling with my partner wh
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by Swizec 3y ago
> I increasingly think we need personal criminal liability for everyone in the management chain before this will end. I work in healthtech and it is fascinating how seriously everyone takes HIPAA because it includes provisions for pers
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by Swizec 3y ago
> There are no "Software Quality Assurance" academic degrees, there's barely any research into testing methodologies, There's a lot of this actually. Entire communities of people working on software quality assurance.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> If Dropbox sends all data of all users to third parties without telling anyone before the fact, that's another thing If they've ever signed a BAA (business associate agreement) with any enterprise customers using Dropbox for
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Fed flags end of rate hikes(reuters.com)
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Tacit knowledge, often called “tribal knowledge” in tech, is prevalent in this industry. Tacit knowledge is not the same as tribal knowledge. Tribal knowledge is undocumented stuff. Tacit knowledge is about things that cannot be learne
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Unemployment rate is very low in the US Caveat: unemployment statistics don't count people who aren't seeking work. Which chronically homeless and/or drug addicted people usually do not. > The unemployment rate measur
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by Swizec 3y ago
I mean something is better than nothing? Climate change is one of those things where asking for perfection is the perfect way to ensure nothing happens. This is a common lobbying tactic aimed at preventing change. If that’s not your intenti
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by Swizec 3y ago
Yes this is weird and also may be exactly what we need to do. Here’s a few politicians from various countries explaining, basically, ”Look we need to develop. If you need us not to cut down the jungle, you should pay. The economic activity
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by Swizec 3y ago
Huh you’re right. Maybe I was remembering border to border air distance. Was looking this up a few years ago when friends were asking how far Ukraine was from my family. Here’s a more fun context instead: after college I went on a roadtrip
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by Swizec 3y ago
> This only confirms that the fragmentation of the region is driven more from the creation of 'national myths' than on genetic differences Always has been. You think there was such a thing as “French” a thousand years ago? Are
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by Swizec 3y ago
My favorite funfact from high school history class in Slovenia is that the reason we have such good records of how Slavs migrated into the area is that we can track when churches stopped sending regular reports back to Rome. Slavs come into
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by Swizec 3y ago
Been using iA Writer for 10+ years. It's made me a better writer. The way it started highlighting cliches and fluffy turns of phrase a few years ago has been chef's kiss. I wish it supported .adoc because sometimes markdown just i
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by Swizec 3y ago
From the 2nd paragraph at top: > ANG: I think it’s more complicated in this country. Corruption in China is still of an illegal form. But corruption in this country has become so legalized and institutionalized, it’s hard to say that it’
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by Swizec 3y ago
> This is where the US Federal Gov should step in. But the pols are too busy counting donations (bribes) from these companies. Freakonomics once asked a corruption researcher who is more corrupt, China or America? She said: Well in Ameri
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Farmers are the epitome of the upper to upper-middle class This must be why in the 1950’s large swathes of Europe saw so many farmers fleeing their land to go live in the city and take up those new fangled factory jobs. Same for Britai
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by Swizec 3y ago
> we all can’t pump a huge amount of future CO2 out of the ground for almost nothing and sell it for a lot But a lot of countries have done this while also not achieving the outcomes Norway has achieved. Lots of rich oil countries out
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by Swizec 3y ago
Every abstraction is a tool that we build for ourselves. If you’re not building those, wtf are you even doing? Please assume the lowest possible bar for “abstraction” in my argument. A function that calls 2 other functions is an abstraction
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by Swizec 3y ago
> an electric honda fit IoniQ 5 comes close. It's the first EV that made me go "omg I want that!". One of these days I'll take one for a test drive. Looks so cool, isn't super huge even though it's still big
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by Swizec 3y ago
The problem happens when you're approaching an intersection together with a car coming from your right (or left if left-hand drive). When your speeds match up just right, you are practically invisible because you sit in the blind spot
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by Swizec 3y ago
Making it "worse" is the point. The practice is known as traffic calming road design – https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-... For example: Many rural towns put a giant unnecessary cor

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