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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...people all very unsure of their driving skills..." People will still be wildly overconfident of their driving abilities.
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by avn2109 10y ago
If by "flying car" Larry really means "Toyota Camry that can fly with middle class people inside" then that's obviously preposterous to anyone with the slightest shred of general aviation experience. If he means &qu
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by avn2109 10y ago
Can experts weigh in on the utility of this thing? To my ignorant eyes it looks excessively complicated. To save you a search it's here: https://www.themooltipass.com/
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by avn2109 10y ago
The Democrats (of whom I am one since birth) are using "The Reds did it!" as a tried and true excuse to explain the utter failure of their muddled, ineffective ideology on the national stage. It's face saving through and thro
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by avn2109 10y ago
True. But the absence of sophistication constitutes evidence neither in favor nor against the "State Actor" hypothesis.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "An adversary may show you what “sophistication” means after advancing from their beachhead." Sure, that's obviously true in general, but given the current absence of evidence of "sophistication," there is
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by avn2109 10y ago
Paging 2nd Avenue between 30th and 59th. It's an absolute bike deathtrap, so the 1st Avenue protected lane should clearly be bidirectional.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Yeah but you paid the money, reliability, and weight penalties for a touchscreen for no reason.
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by avn2109 10y ago
His point is that fundamental physics and information theory limit how good a wireless link can be. So wired links will always perform better and therefore high-end audio engineering will run cables forever.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Gristedes is awful and I shop there all the time. They survive by maximizing the quantity (proximity * selection). Though they cost the same as the bodega, they have more stuff and are just as close (right across the street from my apt). T
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by avn2109 10y ago
Imagine how many intelligence agencies have penetrated this and how amazed they must be at their good fortune.
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Because it's not legal in all the states between NY and CO. Crossing state lines opens them up to trouble with the Feds.
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by avn2109 10y ago
It won't be legal in all the states between NY and wherever you grow it. And transporting it across state lines opens you up to interdiction/legal trouble from the Feds. That's why they have to grow it near the consumers.
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...No need to retool for the 2017 Lettuce." These indoor farm outfits have nothing to do with lettuce. There's a reason they're building them in/around NYC, aka in the densest concentration of pot smokers
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...horror stories of abusive alimony decrees..." [0] is IMHO a fairly evenhanded (and comprehensive) treatment of divorce outcomes by state, partially written by an MIT CompSci professor. It was an eye opener, and I woul
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "This forces people to get credit cards." That's the point. They designed the system of incentives and constraints to make you their customer.
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This is pretty much what I have in mind. Awesome :)
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Yup but they're bloated.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Similarly, we could just leave the current system alone except for one change: Pass laws requiring various media-flavored organizations to give equal airtime to every candidate. "Dear ESPN: If you want to operate in America, you must g
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by avn2109 10y ago
I keep waiting for someone to write a program that consumes as input Markdown text and emits as output a pure HTML/CSS site literally like this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ except with the text from the Markd
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by avn2109 10y ago
NYC subway turnstiles are my go-to example of bad audio UX because they make the same noise after a successful swipe as after a failure!!
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by avn2109 10y ago
Fair point re: connection to the actual economy. But remember - the point of advertising is mostly not to increase sales overall, it's to steal sales from your competition in a zero sum game.
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by avn2109 10y ago
In NYC, "unprotected bike lane" === "no bike lane at all" in 95% of all cases and 100% of dangerous cases.
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by avn2109 10y ago
Yup definitely a bad idea. But a less bad idea than getting murdered by a cabbie on 2nd avenue while riding with traffic in the nonexistent bike lane.
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by avn2109 10y ago
It's a deathtrap. The trick is to go over to 1st Avenue and ride south (against traffic) in its protected bike lane.
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90 volts above earth ground? Or relative to something else?
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by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...government initiatives to increase the supply of housing..." The government zones the way it does today on purpose, to create a built environment and social structure that insures you have to work all the time to affo
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by avn2109 10y ago
Given TFA's date, it was probably written about Bush the younger.
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The point is to incentivize the populace to take on stable obligations, the proverbial two kids and a mortgage. A stable, indebted population is a governable and docile population. Somewhere there's a great quote about how "any ma
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A stalemate is when the belligerents have fought to a draw. A ceasefire is when they could fight more but choose not to.

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