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by asoneth 5y ago
First, even if you lose the house you can recoup some of its value through flood insurance. Since 1968 in the US you can get flood insurance via the National Flood Insurance Program in many at-risk areas. Given that the program has operated
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by asoneth 5y ago
I don't mind subscriptions as they're more valuable to the organizations I support than a similar dollar-value of one-time-gifts. Though I do get why people in precarious positions (e.g. low paid workers, founders, or many people
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by asoneth 5y ago
Gaining miles slowly is excellent advice, probably the most important advice for new runners. It's a mistake I certainly made more than once both barefoot and not, though thankfully it never resulted in anything as severe as shin splin
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by asoneth 5y ago
Tossing in a second datapoint in favor of adding some barefoot running to one's training plan. I started running with classmates without learning proper form and had joint pain in knees and hips within the first 5 km. It never felt goo
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by asoneth 5y ago
I don't recall very many people defending Mozilla on the Mr Robot or the Booking.com missteps. Even current and ex-Mozillans lambasted them for those. I recall a few people defending the sponsored titles (or half-hearted defenses about
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by asoneth 5y ago
It seems like a lot of people would have liked to see Mozilla double-down on Firefox to the exclusion of all else. Personally I would have leaned towards the opposite approach to meet their stated mission of ensuring an open internet. Histo
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by asoneth 5y ago
From the article: "The issue, of course, still lies in the money. Many of these smaller corners of the internet can't afford to pay writers, like a larger magazine with institutional funding can. And writers have to eat and pay bi
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by asoneth 5y ago
Perhaps you are right. I can think of a couple additional considerations: First, it's worth acknowledging that some amount of desirable content already exists without advertising. My partner and I pay a subscription to three streaming
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree with you that most internet content and mobile apps could not exist without advertising because they would not be profitable. But similar to D&D alignments, whether something is profitable is completely orthogonal to whether it
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by asoneth 5y ago
My partner and I were in a similar situation several years ago. Escaped from NYC and moved to the greater Boston area. We initially looked at places like Arlington, Waltham, Lexington, Watertown, Newton, and Somerville. I agree that walk sc
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by asoneth 5y ago
> remove the difficulty level settings Removing explicit difficulty settings doesn't mean everyone gets the same experience. A well-designed game tailors the difficulty to the skill of the player either by providing progressively ha
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree that it's easier to have more hidden options in software than in hardware, though my recollection from my IT days was that the "Advanced" section in the settings panel seems to attract the kind of people who have no b
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by asoneth 5y ago
At least when I was studying (and later teaching) human-computer interaction years ago it was a bit more complex than this post makes it out to be. A setting might have been added because the creator legitimately couldn't make up their
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by asoneth 5y ago
I like your metaphor. A desk chair with no ability to customize is too constrained. One with dozens of dials and knobs is far too fiddly, at least for me. There is a happy medium with just the right amount of configuration for most people.
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by asoneth 5y ago
It is theoretically possible, sure. I'm trying to imagine a nontrivial number of people who currently own a private vehicle selling that vehicle to rely on prebooking both of their daily commuting trips with a flexibly-priced mode of t
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by asoneth 5y ago
> I think this is something people who have never lived in such cities inherently don't understand. I agree public transit is a solution, but I think the issue is with supply rather than demand. The fact that the market value of la
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by asoneth 5y ago
I do not see how that solves the general problem. Either there are as many cars available for prebooking as their are rush-hour commuters who want them or we have to ration the supply using shortages and/or surge pricing. In the former
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by asoneth 5y ago
I hope you are right but I am skeptical that the reduction in the number of cars will offset the increase in miles driven over the next couple decades where it matters most. Shared-use vehicles exist (the taxis you mention, as well as car s
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by asoneth 5y ago
> why don’t cyclists ride in the middle of the street and/or slow down a bit That is a reasonable question. If you truly want to know why cyclists generally don't ride slowly in the middle of the street you could always try doi
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by asoneth 5y ago
My mistake, I will correct. (Though I am curious where you are that has a 28mph ebike limit but that uses kph measurements.)
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by asoneth 5y ago
<strike>It is misleading to refer to anything going 45mph as a "bicycle" even with quotes. It's an unlicensed motorcycle. E-bikes top out at 28mph or less in most US states. In many other countries the limit is ~15mph.
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by asoneth 5y ago
> Ask a car to respect a very slow limit in a school zone? No problem. For fear of tickets most every car will slow down. That does not match my experience. Drivers in my area go 5, 10, and even 15mph over the legal limit with seemingly
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by asoneth 5y ago
Anecdotally I know several people who retired in the last couple of years. One who had been working past their planned retirement date but had been coasting on inertia and a few who moved their timeline up to retire a little early. (Though
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by asoneth 5y ago
I recall seeing a full-sized mockup of the James Webb at the South by Southwest about ten years ago. It was accompanied by a small traveling exhibit about the mission and some folks from a NASA (or Northrup?) education team to answer questi
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by asoneth 5y ago
I cannot speak to R, but the Emacs learning curve is the primary reason org-mode is not more popular. There may be a break-even point past which learning Emacs is a net benefit, but few people have the time, skill, and inclination to reach
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by asoneth 5y ago
This reinforces the original point, which was that Dropbox's constraints (only syncing one folder) are limiting to some while decreasing the probability of others getting themselves into problematic states.
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by asoneth 5y ago
> Notice that this is true of anything that relieves the highway congestion in any way whatsoever. Is that true if we charge an appropriate price for road use? Isn't that what we do to manage availability of every other scarce resou
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by asoneth 5y ago
> but the people who already live in the suburbs still get a 30 minute commute instead of a 60 minute commute because of the wider road That is true for several years after the highway widening. Which is good for politicians who operate
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by asoneth 5y ago
Besides NYC that's been my experience as well -- US cities are designed for driving as the primary transportation method. Even mass transit in the US is often pitched as something to make life easier for drivers by lowering traffic. Lo
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by asoneth 5y ago
Just to be clear, the "induced demand" that concerns me is not the latent demand of a few deferred trips being taken in the days/weeks/months/year after the road is widened, it's the long-term generated demand

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