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by amyjess 8y ago
Mostly because that land is so inhospitable that nobody wants it.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Would you, personally, pay an additional $400,000 to put that parking underground? Do you think you could convince every single person in that housing complex to do that? I highly doubt it. If that apartment complex was condos, eg, it&
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by amyjess 8y ago
You don't see it from street level, though. It's just ugly from an aerial view. At street level, all you see is the outside of the building, which looks like a regular building, and you have a few tunnels here and there that lead
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by amyjess 8y ago
Underground isn't feasible in Texas. Our soil is all clay here, and it's ridiculously expensive to dig through. The only buildings I've seen here with basements are giant skyscrapers in Downtown Dallas and a handful of buildi
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by amyjess 8y ago
Serverless means "I don't have to maintain or even know anything about a server", not "there is no server".
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by amyjess 8y ago
It started when the Dallas City Council passed a law allowing dockless bikeshare, and suddenly about six Chinese companies all dumped hundreds—if not thousands—of bikes each in Dallas. The biggest problem is that bikes were strewn everywher
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by amyjess 8y ago
> a useful last-mile role in public transit is one that's beneficial for society and civic infrastructure You could also call it "a last-mile role in public transit that's completely inaccessible to the disabled". Hel
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by amyjess 8y ago
If the flood of bikeshare companies in Dallas are any indication, it's "with". The Dallas City Council passed a law allowing dockless bikeshare, and suddenly about six Chinese companies all dumped hundreds—if not thousands—of
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by amyjess 8y ago
I find this interesting, because in Dallas the scooters have proven much less problematic than the bikes. The bikes could best be described as "a throbbing mass of externalities", but the scooters have largely avoided these proble
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by amyjess 8y ago
Take a close look at the controllers. The similarities are eerie.
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by amyjess 8y ago
They're not banning "right wing thinkers". They're banning people who are violating Twitter's longstanding policy forbidding hate speech on account of "race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gend
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by amyjess 8y ago
-p is also very commonly "password". It may take an argument, or it may cause the program to interactively prompt you for a password when you run it. Similarly, -k is often "key". -a could also be "ask"; Gentoo
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by amyjess 8y ago
Even in the Win95 era, I remember having to boot into DOS to run some games ( Redneck Rampage comes to mind).
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by amyjess 8y ago
Isn't this a violation of FTC rules?
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by amyjess 8y ago
Honestly, the only thing the use of FUD like this headline has done is to continue to put me off of the FOSS community. Back in the '90s, it used to be big companies like MS that used FUD against FOSS. Now the FOSS community uses FUD a
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by amyjess 8y ago
> tabbed browsing And popup blocking. I remember how much of the Internet was utterly infested with popups in the early-to-mid-00s. Firefox was the only way to not get inundated, unless you were a really hardcore geek and ran a proxy
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by amyjess 8y ago
Isn't that what the registry was supposed to be before it turned into a monster? Personally, though, I've always preferred Firefox's (and old Opera's) about:config instead. It's far more flexible than Chrome's
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by amyjess 8y ago
I would be OK with regulations requiring them to call it "adaptive cruise control with lane assist" and forbidding automakers from coming up with their own names for it.
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by amyjess 8y ago
> It was 100% NeXT with the classic Mac OS gui chrome bitmaps. A vertiginous uncanny valley. From Nathan Lineback's screenshot gallery: http://toastytech.com/guis/rhap.html http://toastytech.com&#x2F
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by amyjess 8y ago
If you're interested, my census tool includes median income and housing price data from the ACS: http://zaidan-x.org:8192/ Caveats: I'm still using an older dataset (the 2011-2015 one, IIRC), but I'm hoping I
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by amyjess 8y ago
Ooh... this seems nice. I'll have to update my census tool with this at some point... I think I'm still using the 2011-2015 dataset.
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by amyjess 8y ago
This. If Fi integration with Hangouts goes away without a replacement, I'm cancelling my Fi service and switching to Pinger Textfree Web for text messaging.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Hasn't WINE already reimplemented those APIs? I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to kitbash this release with WINE and get it working on Linux.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Prices also spike like crazy if you have a non-traditional cup size. I'm a 44C. Most stores don't carry that. On extremely rare occasion, if I check every single bra that's at my local Walmart, I might find one , and that&
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by amyjess 8y ago
> mostly because we don't see similar things pushed on overweight men ('manboobs') Because moobs are just balls of fat. Actual breasts contain glandular tissue which moves differently and has more heft. While men with ordi
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by amyjess 8y ago
When I'm at home, I have to hold my boobs when I walk up or down my stairs or the jiggling will hurt a lot. I'm not going outside without a bra. And I do like being constricted. Wearing a well-fitting bra feels like being hugged
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by amyjess 8y ago
Because there's no option to give someone 0 stars. It's 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. I don't use Uber much; I'm mostly a Lyft person, so I'm not 100% sure how Uber does things, but here's how Lyft does it: if you open the
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by amyjess 8y ago
Also, if you browse /r/Lyft, you'll see multiple cases of drivers bragging about how they like to 3-star or sometimes even 1-star any rider with disabilities because they don't like having to provide accommodations as re
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by amyjess 8y ago
It's zero in the number of significant figures used by the test equipment.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Um... Honda is the poster child for "virtually torqueless but screams at high RPMs". Performance Hondas are great cars, sure, but not for low-end torque.

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