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by akgerber 4y ago
One popular bike touring writer is a big fan of belt drives: https://www.cyclingabout.com/belt-drive-best-bicycle-drivetr... I started a long tour across Europe with my bike set up tubeless and gave up about halfway through
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by akgerber 4y ago
Likely a regular meeting in a cafe or library at which people practice their Spanish.
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by akgerber 4y ago
Probably gonna be true for drone-forklift operators too before long.
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by akgerber 4y ago
Reminds me of the documentary Weiner, which was supposed to be a comeback film about Anthony Weiner's run for NYC mayor but instead became an intimate portrait of a man's life (as well as that of his unfortunate wife) utterly coll
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by akgerber 4y ago
Nowadays one can also work remotely for an SF/Seattle firm and live in Appleton & buy a very nice house & talk about Bucks games at the bar rather than website capitalism.
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by akgerber 4y ago
Rent in a city like Appleton, WI (a random small Midwestern industrial city) averages $659 for a 1br: https://appleton.craigslist.org/search/apa?min_price=&max_pr... Sharing a 2br is even cheaper. And this is only
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by akgerber 4y ago
These descriptions remind me of Pittsburgh back before the Clean Air Act in the US— one apparently had to pack a second white shirt with them to work as the first was soiled with smoke by the end of the day. Buildings were and are still sta
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by akgerber 4y ago
When a turning vehicle is attempting to turn across any lane (including a bicycle lane), it must yield to the vehicle traveling straight in that lane, whether or not it is a bicycle (and whether or not that bicycle is classified as a '
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by akgerber 4y ago
The difference is that right-of-way laws for pedestrians and cyclists are actually enforced in Germany. The laws are generally similar elsewhere in the world, but as they are unenforced the larger, heavier vehicle de facto has right-of-way
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by akgerber 4y ago
Helmets are designed to protect riders from bike crashes, not from cars. Dutch commuter bikes are slow and upright, and many have a low top tube and are thus very easy to hop off of— a 9-12 mph bike crash is not unlike slipping while joggin
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by akgerber 4y ago
The tiles on the left map from 2012 load extremely slowly, presumably due to traffic.
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by akgerber 4y ago
Etsy, via sharding & a custom ORM — the 'Flickr architecture'. In 2021: "We saw 1.8M queries per second on our massively sharded MySQL databases." https://twitter.com/codeascraft/status/1466
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by akgerber 4y ago
A Dutch-style bike is perfect for Dutch-style commuting: riding maybe three miles max to the shops or public transit on a high-quality network of bike infrastructure where you won't be bullied by drivers for riding at 8-12mph. Atrociou
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by akgerber 4y ago
Modern trolleybuses with in-motion charging, like Dayton's latest models, will still have substantial batteries for off-wire operation.
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by akgerber 4y ago
US streetcar lines were in the 'transit death spiral' in no small part because they were largely built before cars were common, and became dramatically slower once car traffic started obstructing their right-of-way, which they wer
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by akgerber 4y ago
My recollection of prior research is that you do not need contracts beforehand — you need to demonstrate that your business is a going concern after a year to renew your visa.
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by akgerber 4y ago
We've banned car traffic at certain times and places in New York, mostly since the pandemic, and it's remarkable how much quieter those streets became.
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by akgerber 4y ago
If you are not aware of the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty, note that it makes it pretty straightforward for an American to get a visa in the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT
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by akgerber 5y ago
Where bike infrastructure is lacking, it is easier to integrate with urban car traffic on an ebike because you can travel at closer to urban car speeds and start/stop more quickly. Car-oriented areas are also designed with less respect
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by akgerber 5y ago
Renter's/homeowner's insurance covers one's property at home or away from it. One can get a rider for particularly valuable property. "Velosurance" is also an option for many with expensive cargo ebikes. Ebikes
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by akgerber 5y ago
I took a 60 mile bike ride yesterday in perfect weather, much of it on a beautiful forest road, and afterwards I was exhausted and it took a huge amount of effort even just to feed myself, and it was totally impossible to summon any motivat
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by akgerber 5y ago
I had a similar experience in a problem in which I was requested to extract the digits of an integer before performing some other task. I proposed doing this by converting it to a string and extracting the digits from the string, and that w
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by akgerber 6y ago
This is supposedly a 'new capital' but it's really more of a new district on the current fringes of Cairo connected by rail service that will likely take less than an hour— more to the nature of Shibuya/Shinjuku (which o
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by akgerber 6y ago
Living in NYC after Hurricane Sandy, I spent a lot of time biking past mile+ gas lines. Gas stations ran out for a significant period of time and National Guard fuel trucks were eventually deployed, but didn't have enough for all comer
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by akgerber 6y ago
You can buy a Kandi in the US today, often for under $10,000 after subsidies. https://www.kandiamerica.com/ It does have a backup camera, as basic camera modules and screens are essentially free now. If you're in an ur
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by akgerber 6y ago
My parents ran their 2004 Prius until last year and it had zero mechanical problems— it was just old, and the parts that were failing and uneconomical to fix were related to interior trim degradation.
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by akgerber 6y ago
I was worried when ING Direct was bought by Capital One, but they never introduced any bullshit fees and seriously improved the app and website. So I've remained happy with them.
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by akgerber 6y ago
It will be interesting whether any of the electrical components (battery/charger/controller especially) will be able to be adaptable from budget-priced used EVs to power a kit like this. Plenty of people still want a unique vehicl
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by akgerber 6y ago
There will likely still be significant military & other 'off-grid' demand for liquid fuels into the indefinite future.
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by akgerber 6y ago
Many urban people are also perfectly well-served by the occasional rental/carshare.

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