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by apparent 8mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but it seems kind of weird to say you earned $8,200 in "profit" when there was no salary. Profit is typically the excess a business earns above its costs. For a solo founder, it can be a little tricky beca
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by apparent 8mo ago
Yeah totally works like that, until you get cut off 10 seconds later by another car. If this doesn't happen to you, then you're probably driving like I do, and not leaving 3 seconds of follow distance like they teach in driver&#x2
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by apparent 8mo ago
My decades-long impeccable driving record tends to indicate otherwise. I just don't drive as if I lived in the fantasy land where leaving a long follow distance means I have a lot of room in front of me. It doesn't. It means I get
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by apparent 8mo ago
Obviously it is safer to have longer follow distances, all things equal. But you don't accomplish that if you leave a long follow distance that is cut off a few seconds later by another car trying to get ahead. You end up with a consta
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'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility(npr.org)
4 points by apparent 8mo ago|0 comments
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by apparent 8mo ago
It is more dangerous to be slow and have people constantly merging in front of you, rather than be slightly faster and not have all the merging. Accidents happen when vehicles are going different speeds, all things equal.
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by apparent 8mo ago
And that would be totally unfair if the law was kept secret, and then sprung on unsuspecting property owners. But we all know that's not the case. Prospective purchasers are well aware of zoning laws. Same reason you can't build a
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by apparent 8mo ago
Totally. People will just cut you off repeatedly, which puts you (and the cars behind you) in a less-safe situation than if you followed more closely.
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by apparent 8mo ago
"state violence", what an awesome way to hyperbolize! I'll have to remember this next time there's a law I don't like.
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by apparent 8mo ago
If you're talking about CA's state laws, you're right that they supersede local laws. You'll notice that I used the word "should" in my comment, indicating a normative view. I think CA's state legislators
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by apparent 8mo ago
Could make sense to file provisional patents, just to be able to say you have them. Expect no one will actually look at them. And remember that if you don't file a follow up within a certain time, they die.
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by apparent 8mo ago
GP refers to a "neighbor wanting to build...multifamily housing on their lot". That's referring to the land owner as a neighbor, which I would not do in the case of an LLC. I would refer to the tenants as neighbors, as you sa
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by apparent 8mo ago
Raise your eyebrows all you like! Just don't tell me (a visible minority, as you so eloquently put it) to consult a visible minority. The notion that a word is poisonous because it is used by people who use it in a different way is sil
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by apparent 8mo ago
I don't have a problem with little corner stores, though I don't think they would be very sustainable in most suburban areas. I just drive for 5-10 mins to a grocery store and get pretty much everything I need there. The bigger is
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by apparent 8mo ago
I agree that "problematic" is vague. But you have to be a bit dense to not understand what people mean when they say they want to preserve the character of a neighborhood. That means they generally liked it the way it was when the
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by apparent 8mo ago
> Your complaint about apartments can just be straightforward, you can say that you are concerned with the possible nuisances that can come with dense housing, and you don't trust the current enforcement or rules to allow you to enj
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by apparent 8mo ago
> I could just as easily argue that the "character" of a neighborhood is derived from the affordability and diverse socio-economic backgrounds of residents. Therefore densification, infill, reducing parking for transit lanes an
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by apparent 8mo ago
> 'character' arguments being window dressing for that. You think people don't care about what their neighborhood is like? Given the extraordinarily high costs of moving (thousands in moving costs, tens/hundreds of th
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by apparent 8mo ago
This is an excellent example of reductio ad absurdum. Well done!
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by apparent 8mo ago
When someone buys land, they should be allowed to do whatever they want to do to it, subject to the zoning laws that were in effect at the time of purchase, or passed by a majority of voters in that area after purchase.
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by apparent 8mo ago
Sure, we do let people do that. The thing that's objectionable is when a suburban neighborhood is rezoned by people who live hundreds of miles away, and developers get the green light to build towers there. Why do people who don't
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by apparent 8mo ago
Not sure why people think that no one thinks they're a NIMBY. I am. I bought a house in a neighborhood with a particular character and if it turns into a bunch of urban high-rises, I won't like that. I would make money, since more
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Is AI the Next Climate Change?(wsj.com)
7 points by apparent 9mo ago|8 comments
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by apparent 9mo ago
That would be some aggressive rounding.
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by apparent 9mo ago
There are trillionaires?
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by apparent 9mo ago
Probably because I've seen so many people complaining about the issues with so many of the common apps. I don't want to pay a subscription for SR, and I don't really understand what the useful features are that I'd be mi
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by apparent 9mo ago
Spaced repetition seems like an ideal candidate for vibecoding. Sure, it gets complicated if you want all sorts of multimedia support, but for a lot of people, that's not necessary. How hard is it to build something like this, especial
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by apparent 9mo ago
I found this to be incredibly helpful for blister prevention. Only downside is your laces have to be pretty long since this takes up a couple more inches on each side.
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by apparent 9mo ago
Sure, people have died from it. But the people who die from it are the people who consume it, not third parties.
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by apparent 9mo ago
Yep, you could point out that the purpose of the alarm is to notify you to close your windows, not to annoy the smoker.

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