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by baddox 7y ago
That doesn't seem too unreasonable. The car-summoning services like Uber and Lyft already offer discounts for opting into shared rides where other riders may join you.
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by baddox 7y ago
And bus routes always somehow manage to offer two simultaneous problems: the bus stops are too far from your location and destination, and the bus stops so frequently that it takes forever to get anywhere.
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by baddox 7y ago
You haven't actually proposed a solution though, because I have very little control over how much is invested in public transit, but I do have near total control over whether I take public transit.
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by baddox 7y ago
I don't quite understand your argument. Should I enjoy sitting near people having violent mental health crises because I might one day have a mental health crisis? It seems to me that the compassionate approach would be to support th
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by baddox 7y ago
That's because you want to ride on the popular bus routes, which isn't a coincidence. If lots of people wanted to ride on the empty bus routes, they wouldn't be empty—they'd be the overflowing ones!
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by baddox 7y ago
If you use iCloud backups then your iMessage key is stored unencrypted regardless of which country you're in. That's a main point of this article.
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by baddox 7y ago
Yes, same as everywhere else.
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by baddox 7y ago
My impression is that iMessage is indeed encrypted end-to-end in China, same as everywhere else.
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by baddox 7y ago
Technology can increase our lifespans and it can also reduce the risk of whatever we’re most worried about. People already use technology to drastically reduce the risk of activities that are desirable for various reasons. Obvious examples
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by baddox 7y ago
Given some description of the real world that defines how physical states progress through time (like, say, quantum mechanics), aren't we all sequences of such states?
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by baddox 7y ago
Sex work should not be criminalized and those workers should have protections too. Nothing’s wrong with these statements.
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by baddox 7y ago
It’s not clear how that would ever happen with last-mile delivery, unless we’re talking about something like drones or self-driving cars, and of course, those problems seem like they would be better solved by drone companies and self-drivin
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by baddox 7y ago
Does the strategy even go that far? I thought it was more like 1) VCs invest money in companies hoping that some of them grow very fast 2) some of them do grow fast, so more VCs invest more money 3) the really really big companies IPO and t
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by baddox 7y ago
Eisenhower’s speech was precisely about the fact that, in conflicts before World War 2, existing manufacturers would temporarily make weapons, but that World War 2 left us with a “permanents armaments industry of vast proportions.” Literall
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by baddox 7y ago
His speech was about the result of the Second World War: > Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now
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by baddox 7y ago
Sure they can. They can pay to offset the emissions.
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by baddox 7y ago
Then do you count emissions from Microsoft's suppliers? This announcement says they are considering emissions from their entire supply chain, so I can't imagine a reason why this wouldn't also apply to people they pay to work
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by baddox 7y ago
> Should I be satisfied if you're doing the right thing for the wrong reasons? I tend to think YES, assuming you're actually doing the right thing instead of just saying you're doing the right thing. For example, when
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by baddox 7y ago
>This is what leads to nightmarish Java type names ("AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean") that makes this language practically demand auto-complete. I suppose this is really just a matter of opinion, but it seems strange to argu
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by baddox 7y ago
There's nothing slippery about that, because Walmart is already commonly given as a textbook example of monopsony.
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by baddox 7y ago
But this doesn't seem at all relevant to market competition and antitrust laws. It's not much different than disagreements over which coffee shop your friends are going to meet at (maybe you're the only one that lives really
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by baddox 7y ago
> Verify uisng evidence. Esepcially when dealing with the claims of an industry of pathological liars. Verify what, exactly? Verify literally every claim someone else makes that Facebook denies? There's simply no smoking gun to indi
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by baddox 7y ago
I've never heard of Woodenville, but I'd be willing to bet that it's a popular place to go wine-tasting, and that would explain both your conversation and the email advertisement. The exact timing could of course be a coincid
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by baddox 7y ago
Even if "trust no one" is good advice, it's certainly not evidence that Facebook or Apple listen to audio from your phone and use that to target advertisements.
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by baddox 7y ago
> In other words, we tend to respect people who think like we do. Did you ever hear someone say, "I think Bob's a genius, and he thinks my views are all wrong"? That's something few people would ever say. No, we tend
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by baddox 7y ago
I haven't played with Elm, but my experience with ReasonML matches yours. I made some small but non-trivial side projects to learn ReasonML and TypeScript, and not only is ReasonML's type system vastly more satisfying, I actually
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by baddox 7y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the effect of culture, I would just tend to assume that something about Japan has caused its culture, rather than culture itself being a primary cause of attitudes towards lost property. In other words, I wou
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by baddox 7y ago
I also agree that it's clearly possible to misattribute an environmental concern to climate change, but at the same time, it's probably reasonable to seriously investigate climate change as a cause in any significant environmental
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by baddox 7y ago
> You could say the same thing about geocentrism, germs [1], fat vs sugars, etc. - which all turned out to be false, given time and scrutiny. Those things were not proven false by simply exposing the supposed political influence in the p
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by baddox 7y ago
The median home value in Riverside is $400,000. The US median home value is $250,000.

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