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841.
by addicted 3y ago
Long haul trains in the U.S. are awful. If you’re riding it it’s for an experience. Not as a practical realistic alternative to traveling instead of flying. So yeah, people who believe train infrastructure should be high quality enough that
842.
by addicted 3y ago
Probably not because large majorities of Americans cannot grasp the concept of using bikes for anything other than recreation. Consider that the legislature pulled out a small ebike credit in a bill which provided a tax credit to buy an EV
843.
by addicted 3y ago
With all the doom and gloom SF news, much of which is also unwarranted, it’s reasonable to have some possibly unwarranted, non gloom and doom news as well.
844.
by addicted 3y ago
And pilot programs are to a great extent research. Let’s do this thing and see what happens in a small enough setting that we can intervene if something really goes off the rails and even if it does the impact is minimal.
845.
by addicted 3y ago
Good reason to screen out people with mental health and addiction issues, at least in a trial, and if it’s successful then when you do start incorporating people with those issues you can come up with a plan to address that as well.
846.
by addicted 3y ago
lol if you think Ballmer wouldn’t be eating up your data right now as well. Also, arguably, the biggest part of MS’s success under Nadella has been the massively improved dev experience, with the open sourcing of C#/.Net, Powershell, t
847.
by addicted 3y ago
Your claim makes no sense. Any move towards reducing carbon will require many 1% improvements. Personal aviation isn’t a problem because it’s the rich doing it, but because it’s extremely expensive, and in the vast majority of cases there i
848.
by addicted 3y ago
yarn 1 was meaningfully better than npm. And it was so much better that if they hadn’t pulled the python 3 but worse stunt I suspect a significant number of projects would have continued using yarn even after npm had caught up in terms of f
849.
by addicted 3y ago
npx has supported local packages for quite some time at this point.
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by addicted 3y ago
Also very important is that the vast majority of military aid to Ukraine involves decades old technology the U.S. would never use. If anything, some of these will end up saving the U.S. money because maintenance and eventual disposal would
851.
by addicted 3y ago
Inflation isn’t a secret hidden tax for any definition of tax outside of the general “it’s a burden of some sort” in which case time to fill forms, waiting at the bus stop for a bus to arrive, stuck in traffic, etc are all “secret hidden” t
852.
by addicted 3y ago
If everyone did what you did, Ostrava would become unaffordable. And that would happen much quicker than in Prague because the high quality of life and experiences in Prague means people are willing to sacrifice some things, often space, wh
853.
by addicted 3y ago
China’s borrowing from the future involves more than just debt. And also, the direction of the debt is not as clear as you would think. For 1, the Chinese have built up unsustainable infrastructure with very limited usage that needs to be m
854.
by addicted 3y ago
The only way to reduce the costs of Maglevs is to build a lot more Maglevs. However, it’s not necessary that there actually are significant economies of scale to be achieved with Maglev. But the bigger issue is that it’s not clear why anyon
855.
by addicted 3y ago
Except this trend has been the case even before the pandemic. As crime was dropping precipitously since the 2000s people continued insisting crime was increasing.
856.
by addicted 3y ago
Why are they coming to SF and not all going to LA then? Of course all the research (admittedly limited, but there is no research showing this “well known fact”) this well know fact is just false.
857.
by addicted 3y ago
Unfortunately your “truth” is almost certainly false. Actual research shows the majority of homelessness in CA is a result of unaffordable housing and there is no mass migration of homeless to CA (thst also doesn’t make sense…with not even
858.
by addicted 3y ago
One argument would be How can you NOT keep track of “keep track of your credit card(s), bank account(s), possibly your significant other's as well, subscriptions, fees, automated payments, cash in/out, taxes, varying income, inves
859.
by addicted 3y ago
I find this headline strange. It appears that there was a small group of people within the World Bank who were directly involved with this project who were collaborating with the drivers of the project to suppress a World Bank investigation
860.
by addicted 3y ago
Im pretty sure Siracusa’s review was not standard fare for Ars or really any publication whether formal or not. His reviews were an exception and the fact that they don’t host his reviews anymore doesn’t say anything about how Ars has chang
861.
by addicted 3y ago
Aside from the fact that the Laffer curve has never been proven accurate in the U.S. based on actual empirical data, it can be proven trivially false, because it implies the closer your tax rate gets to 0 the more tax receipts you will have
862.
by addicted 3y ago
Nice to see this so I can convince a fellow tech lead that the reason that we’re creating interfaces for every class has nothing to do with future extensibility and has everything to do with maintaining unit tests and that even official MS
863.
by addicted 3y ago
For the video verification you’d have to be careful, as a company, to separate the verifier from the interviewer. In many states trying to identify the location of an individual (where they live, etc) in an interview can be illegal.
864.
by addicted 3y ago
Companies would only do that if required by law because otherwise it’s a huge advantage for your competitor that’s not doing that. So yeah, if one thinks this is wrong, they need to take it up with their lawmakers. This is not something pri
865.
by addicted 3y ago
Weren’t they trying to get a cash infusion through an acquisition? Seems like they failed and ran out of money.
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by addicted 3y ago
That may be a possibility with regular mass layoffs, because it indicates a company in trouble. However, that’s probably not the case for companies that were laying off people earlier this year despite making record profits (I think most pe
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by addicted 3y ago
The US’s biggest problem right now appears to be an inability to build. The U.S. is the world’s biggest arms seller in terms of revenue and yet it seems it’s incapable of ramping up ammunition production to meet the needs of the Ukrainian m
868.
by addicted 3y ago
> But I agree the US is tearing itself apart in the two party war. It’s remarkable that people continue to frame the US’s problems in this way. There is only 1 party that has taken the U.S. to the brink every time the debt ceiling has be
869.
by addicted 3y ago
Translation: Your company does not have enough users for us to sue yet.
870.
by addicted 3y ago
There’s a lot of things we can complain about but the destruction of the blogosphere had a very specific individual cause. The death of Google Reader. Google Reader came onto the scene and essentially destroyed all incumbents. Even if you u

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