alphapapa

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by alphapapa 12y ago
"the term first appeared on Twitter on January 2, 2014 at 11:19pm EST" :/
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by alphapapa 12y ago
I try to sympathize with reasonable cyclists like you, but I can't help but think of it as swimming with sharks and complaining about it being dangerous. Humans aren't designed to live in the ocean. Roads (the ocean) are filled w
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by alphapapa 12y ago
The solution is simple: 1. License and insure all cyclists on public streets. Equal rights, equal responsibilities. 2. Require all cyclists to stop at all intersections, no matter what. Any cyclist who runs into a vehicle is at fault by
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Once a car has started the turning process, its driver is no longer looking for bicycles behind it, but is looking in its direction of travel, as it should be. It's too late for it to stop and allow a bicycle to go in front of it. Cyc
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by alphapapa 12y ago
How are drivers supposed to see bikers behind them when there's a lane of parked cars between them? This makes no sense. Bikers should act as if they're invisible and should come to a full stop at every intersection. Bikers on p
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Cars replaced horses and carriages, not bicycles. Look at old photos of cities: do you see streets crowded with bicycles or with buggies? Reality is that people need to transport things besides their own bodies, including other people. Re
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by alphapapa 12y ago
I can't help but think of how simple things like injuries and aging affect everyone and how driving practically solves these problems. You want to ride, go ahead. He wants to drive, that's fine. Neither one is more right or wrong
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by alphapapa 12y ago
You mean the car he can use to go to the store, to visit family, to go on vacation, to drive in bad weather? The car he pays property tax, fuel tax, insurance, license fees, registration fees, etc on? Yeah, all those unrealized externalit
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Answers like this are one of the problems inherent with this issue. One side bases its position on real problems. The other side responds with gross generalizations based on completely uninformed speculation. Then some politician tries to c
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Buildings don't move themselves.
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Everything he said is simple truth. Your comment is the equivalent of, "Lalala I can't hear you." You can do better than argument by assertion.
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by alphapapa 12y ago
No advertising "absolutely can be measured" because no one has access to time machines nor alternate universes to see what a consumer would have done without the advertising. This is a simple fact. Of course, when you can invent
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Can't pass up that chance to take a cheap shot at an entire continent of people! After all, everyone knows that people who live in North America are all fat, lazy, and too stupid to know it!
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by alphapapa 12y ago
From your own source: "Multilateration is a navigation technique based on the measurement of the difference in distance to two stations at known locations that broadcast signals at known times....Multilateration should not be confused
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Maybe he means that, when he wants to be told a story, he reads a book or watches a movie, and when he wants to play a game, he plays a game. I feel mostly this way myself: when I want to do something interactive, I want to do something in
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Dropbox has won? Won what? Was there an International File Sync and Sharing Software Competition? How is that relevant to the issue of giving a third-party access to ALL OF YOUR EMAIL for the sake of convenience? How does that justify do
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Ok, but what happens when they go bankrupt, or get bought out and have the rates doubled or service halved or otherwise ruined? What happens when they have downtime, and your customers complain, and you have to give them the excuse, "
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by alphapapa 12y ago
You're expecting people to take your word for it. Even if you're telling the truth, when your security is compromised, so are all your users' email, because you have full access to it. Bottom line: Yet another "web 2.x&q
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by alphapapa 12y ago
I'm not sure S3 is a good example, since it uses a public API that has multiple, open-source implementations on both client and server sides.
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by alphapapa 12y ago
The AMRAAM can be used at close range. This is necessary: what do you do after expending all your Sidewinders?
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by alphapapa 12y ago
An old, Russian, mobile, vacuum tube-using radar system guided an SA-3 as it shot down an F-117 over Serbia. What makes you think modern HF radars that use high-tech computers won't be able to do better?
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by alphapapa 12y ago
You have a point, but so does he. How many nonsensical comments have you seen online that are obviously the result of failing to proofread from start to finish after editing? You move a sentence from here to there, or rewrite or remove on
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by alphapapa 12y ago
I think that is one of the principles the United States was supposed to be based upon. However...
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Am I missing something, or is Filepicker solving an artificial problem, namely connecting proprietary services and apps which could instead use standards like HTTP URLs and filesystems? Some industries are built upon being middlemen, but i
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by alphapapa 12y ago
> In fact even under a heavy workstation load you'd have enough time to save up money working a minimum wage part-time job, order the SSD when it goes on sale, wait for it to arrive via ground shipping, forget that you need an exter
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by alphapapa 12y ago
Those numbers seem very strange to me. My main system is an oldish laptop running Linux, and its primary partition is a 200 GB ext4 one, which was originally created over 5 years ago. Its lifetime writes (tune2fs -l) shows 2.4 TB, which i