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by bedobi 3y ago
do you also think the state should criminalize religion? given the ubiquitous problems caused by religion in the public sphere, the domestic lives of countless millions families etc etc?
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by bedobi 3y ago
It’s funny because you’re actually arguing against yourself. Those of us who want to reduce car dependency think exactly that: the use of cars, trucks and roads should be reserved for the less able, the elderly, delivery and emergency vehic
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by bedobi 3y ago
Well, in this case, everyone else is wrong. The environment and society cannot bear the level of automobile dependency North America has. If we want to leave a livable planet and society for the future, it has to end. But you’re right, we c
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by bedobi 3y ago
That’s not what we’re saying though, all we’re saying is let’s get serious about alternatives to driving, the rest will follow. And yeah the die hards who will never give up their car, fine, but they better be prepared to pay the price for
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by bedobi 3y ago
in places where people don't need to buy neither a $15 or $60k private automobile, they don't buy any of them, they just ride the train or a bike like normal people do visit tokyo, paris or any other transit oriented city and see
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by bedobi 3y ago
literally every human being on the planet both need and love their planet, including the air they breathe and the oceans they fish in and which regulate the climate maybe that's more important
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by bedobi 3y ago
> car hostile environment wow, talk about orwellian language conditioning. other people take issue with me making needless trips in urban spaces with my multiton, polluting, dangerous, microplastics emitting private automobile... poor me
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by bedobi 3y ago
yeah wow when the only option people have for getting around is to drive, most people will not want to give up their car our argument isn't that everyone should just stop driving, leaving everything else as is. that would, as you point
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by bedobi 3y ago
> only in imaginary la-la land sorry but this is laughable, you don't need to imagine lala-land or some alternate reality, large parts of the world do not have anywhere near the car dependency that north america does and they'r
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by bedobi 3y ago
Because Google Cloud don't care about their customers and have zero support. Srsly educate yourself on the horror stories about businesses built on Google Cloud having their account catastrophically, irrevocably deleted with zero expla
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by bedobi 3y ago
Typical hackernews to have threads full of well meaning but ultimately misguided people saying ah we have some technological solution for this. The solution to this problem and every other problem caused by driving is not driving . Perio
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by bedobi 3y ago
Firefox Focus, which is adblocked out of the box, and also enables ad blocking in Safari (don't ask me how but it works)
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by bedobi 3y ago
that's indeed super interesting. for me it's purely the safety and convenience of everything just working i'm after, not fashion... if anything i still feel kinda cringe walking around with an iphone lol because i've alw
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I'm a diehard Google Pixel Android user and I just switched to iPhone 15
5 points by bedobi 3y ago|8 comments
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by bedobi 3y ago
Yup, nothing there indicates anything other than US location and region
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Ask HN: Anyone from Meta?
5 points by bedobi 3y ago|3 comments
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by bedobi 3y ago
My name is Fred. Oddly, despite being a not uncommon name in the English speaking world, English speakers never get it. They hear and call me Brett, Brad, Frank, Greg... anything but Fred. And it's not because I have a strong uncommon
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by bedobi 3y ago
Japan and Australia have vastly better healthcare (esp the public healthcare), safety, political stability, housing markets and climate. Australia also has better purchasing power, Japan about the same as Sweden. (=poor) Both fare worse in
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Sweden is the No 1 country for affordability, safety and overall quality of life(cnbc.com)
4 points by bedobi 3y ago|4 comments
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by bedobi 3y ago
As someone who grew up in Sweden, allow me to push back pretty hard on some of this :) "the cost of living in Sweden is, on average, 20.9% lower than in the United States, while renting is 57.5% lower" Maybe in USD terms, but with
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by bedobi 3y ago
same, Kotlin doesn't compile if you try to deference null pointers
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by bedobi 3y ago
Every single person who's arguing against Kotlin in this thread is resorting to the argument that it's the latest fad of the day. It's not.
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by bedobi 3y ago
Hard agree on the maturity, it's clear this person has literally just decided that Kotlin is immature despite it flying in the face of all facts
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by bedobi 3y ago
> it is not features what defines relevance for modern applications what? zero-effort null safety out of the box alone is immeasurably valuable > leaving new stuff to pet projects at home... risks associated with less mature platform
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by bedobi 3y ago
> Which modern tools do you have in mind here? We're talking about Kotlin here (there are many contexts where neither Kotlin nor Java is the correct tool, but for pretty much any use case where Java is an option, Kotlin is going to
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by bedobi 3y ago
> To build a good product you don’t need a kid with Hollywood star complex Agree 100%. > for whom the choice of programming language or tools matters that much Programming languages do matter. Serious, mature professionals critically
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by bedobi 3y ago
Me too! But you're building a strawman. Kotlin isn't a JS fad. It's been around for many years, is the default language for Android platform and the de facto standard IDE for Java, backed and used by Google, JetBrains and man
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by bedobi 3y ago
> Also the null thing hasn’t been an issue for over 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a Java codebase that doesn't experience NPEs in prod, and that includes modern greenfield ones that make use of all the tools to co
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by bedobi 3y ago
C# def brought a lot to the table vs Java but I feel like it has also kind of stagnated and not realized the potential of F#. Scala likewise is very powerful but def overly complicated and difficult. Kotlin + Arrow hits the sweet spot, at l
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by bedobi 3y ago
I'm sure you have done great work in Java, as have many of us, and for many of those years, Java really was the best tool for many jobs. But that was then, now is now. I'm not saying Java doesn't work, even for greenfield pro

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