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by babesh 5y ago
Yeah. I kind of alluded to that in another part of the comment tree. In fact, I have bought food from the McDonalds in the main Copenhagen train station.
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by babesh 5y ago
Nope. The cheapest restaurants will still exist but they will charge $10-15 or more. The exceptions will be hot dog stands and McDonalds, with the McDonalds sporting a long line. Regular people will be forced to cook most days of the week.
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Yup. Like Denmark. Bay Area prices for not Bay Area compensation. The restaurant experience will move up the economic ladder so that it will be mostly for the rich.
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What the article is saying is that there are group benefits to working together and that they speculate that the traders in America did better than the traders in Europe because they worked together. Most comments I read on Hacker News that
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We already talk to gorillas via sign language.
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I think there is a disentangling of the two sides: media, states, companies, people, etc... It appears to be fractal. States are turning left and right. Cities going left and right. Suburbs going left and right. Media going left and right.
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Patreon should host videos instead of letting YouTube do it for them. I have 4 Patreon subscriptions and would happily pay for more. I am not willing to pay for a YouTube subscription when they ban content whenever it is politically conveni
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I probably wasn’t clear enough. I think there has been an increase in property crime in the suburbs but their violent crime rate doesn’t seem to have increased as much as it has in the cities. Violent crime has increased in the cities based
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by babesh 5y ago
Yes. The economic downturn definitely was another major cause. There was increased crime even in the suburbs. However, that crime was mostly car break-ins, catalytic converter thefts, garage break-ins, package thefts. Violent crime doesn’t
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I was born and raised in SF as well. SF is beginning to look and feel like late 80’s/early 90’s SF. Increase in hate crimes against Asians. Car break-ins. Burglaries. Fewer people on the streets. I think part of what is happening is th
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Generally, it is the upper middle class that travel to different countries to go hiking. The lower class aren’t traveling to Japan to hike Mt Fuji. Also, hiking Mt. Fuji requires some care. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news&#x2F
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It reads exactly like a paid article. The higher end rags are more subtle than this nowadays. They inject the narrative in passing, offhand, as if it was a given. Like a pill shoved in the middle of a treat. This marks CNET as a low end rag
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1. Two people with knives tried to mug my father. Chinatown. 2. Two people tried to mug me. Nob Hill. 3. Car was broken into. Model airplane was taken. Just off Van Ness. 4. Mother had her purse slashed. Chinatown. 5. Brother in law had his
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The Iliad and the Odyssey were originally oral works in a prehistoric (pre-writing) culture. Transmission of culture was done orally and visually just as they are today. Culture wasn't just technology. It was also origin stories of the
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The EU imposes a 10% tariff on imported cars. That makes EU built EVs more competitive within the EU. Tesla is building that Berlin factory to decrease shipping costs and time and also to not have to pay the tariff. Perhaps more interesting
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I think what is happening is that people in general, not only software engineers, are getting paid much more and sometimes less because of increasing impact due to tech/globalization scaling and winner takes all network effects. Look a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Size_and_scope_... The US government was hacking Google by tapping cables between its data centers with direct access to Google accounts. The US government was paying tech c
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Awesome story of ingenuity.
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Remember that optical illusion that was either a woman’s neck or a swan? I think it’s the same thing here. The flow of traffic recast our perception of the sequence of cones as blocking the right lane instead of blocking the left lane or bo
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The first cone was placed a few feet to the right of the lane divider. That and that the next cone was on the divider indicated that the right lane was closed. I wonder if the traffic on the left lane somehow shifted the code/network i
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by babesh 5y ago
I think SwiftUI is just as much about platform lock-in by bundling Mac, AppleTV, iPad, and iPhone together as an app fortress. Furthermore it enforces more standard UI/UX which commoditizes apps. Stepping back, I think we are just seei
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by babesh 5y ago
There are some long term trends that should work in React Native’s favor. The pace of mobile changes is slowing and will probably slow further. This is the usual case of an initial innovation transitioning to incremental improvements. This
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Just one data point. The astronauts on the ISS spend 2 hours a day exercising. That apparently works in that once they get back on Earth after 6 months, they don’t have issues with weakened musculature. ISS is a microgravity environment.
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Surveillance is a form of power. Power does not give up power. Law is enforced via power. When it meets a greater power then the law is contravened. Look at the US and how it broke international law to force a plane down that it thought had
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The question is whether one feels that this work wallows in feelings.
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The feelings are yours. The work is designed to invoke feelings. The abstraction of the feelings are in the analysis of the work rather than in the reading. I suppose some people combine the two as they read. I suppose some will put themse
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I like some forms of abstract art. I just don’t particularly like this form. Also, your opinion that the author is relatable is subjective. It is relatable and enjoyable to you just as it is not relatable nor enjoyable to me. To me, this au
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I think it is for people who love their feelings and fall into them. I also have a lot of trouble relating. I couldn’t stand reading more than 2 paragraphs.
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They used the same version of software.
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Oops. You are right.

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