bedobi

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by bedobi 2y ago
It's true all of Europe doesn't look like that, but the difference is real and shouldn't be underestimated. Even in most European single family home suburbs, you can usually walk, bike or transit to nearby schools, supermarke
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by bedobi 2y ago
I started the thread, I am and grew up in euro, have lived in Japan and North America a well. It's not a fantasy, it's lived experience and hard data.
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by bedobi 2y ago
> electric scooters this is bullshit, cars kill and injure orders of magnitude more people in Europe than scooters do. That's not to say there's 0 issues with scooters, because there are, but focus should remain on cars, not sc
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by bedobi 2y ago
Roads, cars and trucks bring a lot of value for the disabled, deliveries and emergency vehicles who really need them. What like 90% of vehicles and trips do not fit in any of those categories, and so bring zero of the value but all the harm
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by bedobi 2y ago
true! but we regulate people's desires in a million ways, so there's no reason why we can't regulate this too. I don't care if half of Americans want a monster truck any more than they want to fly attack helicopters and
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by bedobi 2y ago
Having lived in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, Australia seems to me by far the worst drivers. Incredibly aggressive, insane speeding and road rage, everywhere, all the time. And it’s not just tolerated, it’s completely normal a
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by bedobi 2y ago
Simplest thing to do would be to just tax weight (at time of purchase and yearly) and require commercial license (only obtainable with demonstrable justification like running a business that requires hauling loads every day)
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by bedobi 2y ago
what kills and harms the most kids, criminals or cars? where do you think kids are safest, in public where people look out for them or by themselves in a deserted area?
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by bedobi 2y ago
100% agree, and instead of showing any signs of stopping, the size increase is accelerating . Yesterday we used to joke about the trucks of today. Tomorrow, they will be twice as big.
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by bedobi 2y ago
Right, no teenagers or adults die by cars, for they have developed mentally enough for cars not to be a threat to them …Except the 40 000 who do die by car, every single year, in the US alone. Countless more injured and permanently disabled
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by bedobi 2y ago
guess what kills the most children, criminals or cars?
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by bedobi 2y ago
The design of the physical environment is in no small part responsible for this. Don't believe me go to Europe and Japan where kids are still allowed to walk and bike to school, to friends places and just in general play and exist outs
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by bedobi 2y ago
are you seriously implying that immigration is responsible for a sudden reduction in public trust? american immigration has been a thing for 300 years
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by bedobi 2y ago
What an uncharitable thing to say
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by bedobi 2y ago
I'm sure the author would have more details on the ambiguity. Are the walkers marching soldiers? Is the rider a courier who changes to fresh horses at waystations? It's not clear :)
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by bedobi 2y ago
Here’s my monad tutorial for programmers A monad is anything you can flatmap with The monad of list is you flatmap a list on a list and instead of getting a list of lists, as you would if you just mapped, you get a single flattened list Tha
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by bedobi 2y ago
Thank you for correcting with facts what is sadly but predictably the highest voted comment. It's infuriating that so many people (men and women alike) in our industry will do absolutely everything to shut down hard conversations about
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by bedobi 2y ago
Oh, case closed then! There is in fact no discrimination against women at Okta or in the industry or even society at large. No need to even investigate to see if there’s any merit to the accusation, we can dismiss it out of hand.
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by bedobi 2y ago
...the Republic will Be reorganized... into the FIRST GALACTIC EMPIRE for a safe... and secure... society applause
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by bedobi 2y ago
> There’s a reason why fair and respectable people in power are called out as a rarity 100%, you simply won't be allowed or enabled to join those ranks unless you give up a lot of qualities that aren't welcome there
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by bedobi 2y ago
I agree with you but Expedia was the best game in town where I was at the time, and while the company left a lot to be desired, my individual team was the best I've ever worked with. But yeah in a perfect world toxic leadership and com
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by bedobi 2y ago
I don't think it's conscious or deliberate, these people are literally just completely oblivious to their own privilege even the few who do reach that level from more humble beginnings seem to quickly forget what it was like down
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by bedobi 2y ago
ex Expedia employee here I remember the long period of no CEO after the previous one went to Uber and Barry Diller, I think he was chairman of the board, was kinda at the helm eventually there was an all hands where it was announced Peter K
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by bedobi 2y ago
reminds me of this essay, a favorite of mine > ...there’s a deeper reason... so many people don’t have hobbies: We’re afraid of being bad at them. If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block; you’re training for
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by bedobi 2y ago
it's an intellectually lazy, blinkered thing to say the empire had incorporated new peoples for hundreds of years, through both violent conquest and people migrating in = immigration is the only reason there was an empire in the first
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by bedobi 2y ago
Western Romans, esp the elite, had already spoken Greek for hundreds of years at that point, and huge parts of the population of the west spoke Gaulish, Germanic, Celtic etc etc languages for hundreds of years too. So that's kind of a
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by bedobi 2y ago
it's kinda tiring when people assert that yxz ended the roman empire allow me to be the akshully guy and point out, for one, it didn't, the eastern half of the SAME roman empire was still kicking around long after the western half
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by bedobi 2y ago
can be but that wasn't what i was experiencing
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by bedobi 2y ago
apparently lots of folks who do this still have problems that a lot of software that promises to do this actually only does it for ipv4, so ipv6 traffic still exposes them, lol
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by bedobi 2y ago
apparently lots of folks use Raspberry Pi's for this, which has added benefit of PiHole filtering out of ads etc no personal experience but sounds nifty, maybe there are other options too

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