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by afuchs 8y ago
Road infrastructure in the US is primarily funded by general taxes (e.g. income and property taxes): https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Who%20Pays%20for...
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by afuchs 8y ago
Both Detroit and Buffalo both have large public research universities along with many smaller public and private institutions. Detroit has the University of Michigan with 44,700 students nearby (about the same distance as my unfortunately l
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by afuchs 8y ago
> Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toledo, and so on got absolutely destroyed after all the mills were shut down. The bar for reviving is incredibly low. Those that could leave, left. The very people that could quicken the recovery of the
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by afuchs 8y ago
I've tried fixing some obvious errors on OSM only to have my changes reverted. The project isn't exactly welcoming to new contributors.
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by afuchs 9y ago
Other countries require proof of parking for a car to be legally registered. No overnight parking space, no car.
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by afuchs 9y ago
> ... > The evil rich people figured out that if you start a gender and race war among the 99%, you can distract them from the fact that they're all being economically exploited and subjected to wage slavery. > ... Stated this
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by afuchs 9y ago
It is difficult to make a p2p app on a mobile device work even between devices on the same LAN . A simplified explanation: Mobile devices will often ignore almost all incoming network traffic to reduce battery usage. The only way to reliab
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by afuchs 9y ago
I've visited small towns. I disagree. Most businesses aren't immediately profitable when they start. On the topic of cash flow: Let's pretend that you build houses. You are paid by your customers only after you finish each ho
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by afuchs 9y ago
> [...] My point is that to execute randomly downloaded code is realistically impossible to secure, practically used to deliver malware and usually used against the interests of the user of the computer. [...] This argument has been reha
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by afuchs 9y ago
> The FTC certain covers situations where ISPs use anticompetitive practices against potential competitors. I thought the FTC tried to, but a SCOTUS ruling gave the sole responsibility for this to the FCC?
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by afuchs 9y ago
The Android app crashes frequently and freezes up even more often. Have you tried using the app for an extended period of time? Instead of fixing each individual problem, they appear to have declared bankruptcy and are throwing out their ol
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by afuchs 9y ago
If these 2 sites aren't following the carriers' policies, others aren't either. If these two sites exist, it doesn't look like the carriers are actively auditing for policy violations. If true, it appears that any applic
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by afuchs 9y ago
I think the logic was that the applications connect to the X display. The X display binds and listens on a port, and then accepts connections from the each applications.
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by afuchs 9y ago
Parking has an opportunity cost. Parking takes up space and costs money to build, which could have been used for something else. There is always a balance between having parking and having an abundance of bars, restaurants, offices, and liv
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by afuchs 9y ago
A Nazi sympathizer creating "degenerate art?" The world is full of contradictions.
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by afuchs 9y ago
There is a difference between rational discourse and outright harassment. For example, is the Anshe Chung penis swam incident [1] acceptable? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshe_Chung#Target_of_griefing
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by afuchs 9y ago
It is common for a typical western government to have domain specialists, working directly for them, to help write the contracts and requirements for their external contractors and vendors.
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by afuchs 9y ago
There are plenty of successful service oriented companies. For example, Uber and Lyft, both sell a service that requires a proportional amount of new contractors and employees, to scale. Another would be Palantir, which sells services based
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by afuchs 9y ago
Why hasn't another language, like Ada with similar goals to Rust, replaced C/C++?
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by afuchs 9y ago
This is called information asymmetry [1], in the general case when one party to a transaction knows more than the other participants. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
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by afuchs 9y ago
> I asked, as any sane person would, something along the lines of "why isn't everyone and his dog laying bricks?". And the reply was very intriguing. He said essentially that younger people these days (my age) don't w
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by afuchs 9y ago
The most recognizable companies on that list appear to be: GitLab: http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/gitlab Hyperloop Technologies: http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/hyperloop-technolog
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by afuchs 9y ago
How much more are you willing to pay, in time and money, for your convenience? (e.g. Waiting in traffic, Congestion pricing, and Elon Musk's Boring Company)
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by afuchs 9y ago
A self-driving car with 1-2 passengers takes up significantly more space than existing public transportation technologies, such as trains and buses. This isn't a problem outside of densely populated places. However, as the density of a
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by afuchs 9y ago
> Learning to code is not hard, finding a job is not hard. Most people would be able to do shitty javascript apps if they only put in the time. Stop posting this shit, please. I can make JavaScript apps, but can't find anyone who w
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by afuchs 9y ago
I thought DNS was connectionless? Don't all DNS clients have to bind to UDP port 53 to function correctly?
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by afuchs 9y ago
Your suggested setup would allow a worm to repeatedly reinfect everything. Some forms of malware, such as one used in an attack against Kaspersky Lab, have been designed to do so instead of persisting directly onto the targeted devices.
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by afuchs 9y ago
So, if it is still connected to the Internet and its vulnerabilities haven't been patched, how long will it take for the malware to reinfect it?
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by afuchs 9y ago
For me, the page redirects to a login form.
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by afuchs 9y ago
How is a distributed ledger different from the centralized ledgers that many US states use? Normally, to verify ownership, each transaction is reviewed to verify that they follow a direct chain back to the property's origin. Compare th

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