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by brewdad 3y ago
Yeah public transit isn’t great for large groups. Fortunately, 90% of all trips that transit could replace are single occupancy vehicles. There’s no reason that bus has to take 3x as long as driving. Reducing the number of stops to a strate
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by brewdad 3y ago
If we wait for the Boomers to die off to start making change, things might gain traction by the time GenZ runs things. We really have to start now because the gears of change grind slowly and reluctantly.
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by brewdad 3y ago
EV “engines” don’t. Way to miss the point.
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by brewdad 3y ago
I’ve been looking at places for retirement where I can live car-free or at least very car-lite. There are very few places in the US where this will be possible in my lifetime. Absolutely, let’s more towards an EV future because that’s the b
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by brewdad 3y ago
Which is why I use Opus128 on my iPhone, where storage is a limited, fixed commodity and my listening environment is rarely optimized. Everywhere else is FLAC or mp3-256. My ears aren’t golden enough anymore to justify 320 bit mp3.
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by brewdad 3y ago
On $10 cheap buds? Yes. On $100 middling buds? Very, very few people will notice a difference.
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by brewdad 3y ago
For Covid, yes. If we look at the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst affected populations were those young adults with strong immune systems. They basically went into overdrive and the bodies attempts to fight the infection caused irreparable dam
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by brewdad 3y ago
Outside the Acela corridor is there a passenger train that achieves that in the US? Maybe the new Brightline. I've ridden the Amtrak Cascades quite a bit between Portland and Seattle. It's a scheduled 3.5 hour ride that usually ta
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by brewdad 3y ago
The last couple of hotels I stayed in had free "basic" wifi for guests. Elite status could get higher speeds for free or anyone else could pay something like $10/day/device to get higher speeds. I just switched to my cel
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by brewdad 3y ago
And yet you had no qualms about making that completely discretionary purchase. You’re doing fine.
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by brewdad 3y ago
If you read the letter of many employment agreements, they try to claim anything you create while under their employ is theirs. Do they want your love letters? Not unless you become famous and they think they can make a book out of them. Do
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by brewdad 3y ago
And yet so many of us turn to social media to avoid feeling isolated. Urban, suburban, and rural life all have their pros and cons. Having lived in all three at various points in my life, I'm uncertain which lifestyle to choose as I be
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by brewdad 3y ago
If meeting up with a friend every few weeks instead of nightly means you no longer want anything to do with that person, I doubt the friendship was that strong to begin with. Also, there's a difference between having a friend turn down
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by brewdad 3y ago
My mother was a T1 diabetic back in the days where insulin injections were basically a best guess based on what you had eaten and planned to eat. It was always fun as a child not knowing whether my little screw-ups would bring an exasperate
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by brewdad 3y ago
Grandma isn't replacing her phone battery anytime soon. It wasn't that long ago, replacing a phone battery was as easy as replacing the batteries in my tv remote. Even grandma could do that.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Not true in my experience. If I search for a topic rather than an app name, Apple gives me relevant results all the way down and generally of decent quality. Google starts showing me fake flashlight apps by the fifth result or so.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Honestly, I'd be happy with only security patches. The lack of them after 12-18 months (I don't buy my phones on release day, usually about 6 months after) is what drove me away from Android. I'm on year 3 with my iPhone and
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by brewdad 3y ago
It's nice to have a set of earbuds I don't have to worry about having charged. That said, since I changed over to a device without a headphone jack, it's never been a problem after maybe a month of adjustment. It's reall
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by brewdad 3y ago
My Nexus 7 had the same issue. It's a shame really because for the first 18 months I owned it I loved it. In it's prime, I think it's still my all-time favorite device. Once it slowed to the point of being unusable, I gave it
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by brewdad 3y ago
In my area of the US, we have zoning laws more favorable than most. Even so, you can't build anything but SFH on my street. You can subdivide your acre lot and build 10 homes where there used to be one, and some people have done this.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man but you'd have to raise my property taxes (already above the national median) by 3-4x before I'd even consider renting out our empty bedroom to a stranger. For starters, there's no legal o
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by brewdad 3y ago
How? You need to either build a LOT more parking or you need to make it possible to live without a car. There are only a handful (with leftover fingers) of US cities where going car-free is reasonable.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Lot set backs are frequently a part of the fire codes. They help prevent a fire in one building taking out the entire block. Parking minimums are a chicken and egg problem. My suburb has started allowing new apartments to build about half
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by brewdad 3y ago
I keep flac on my Plex server. I rip mp3s at 192 for the car and opus at 128 for my phone. Different levels of quality/storage space for my three main listening environments.
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by brewdad 3y ago
That's no different than how any piece of infrastructure is paid for. No one is paying cash to repave the roads either. Airports are so expensive they would be impossible without financing.
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by brewdad 3y ago
Whether you have 100 chickens or 100 million, if they cost you $6 and you sell them for $5, that's below cost. Also, it isn't limited amount of time. This has been Costco's MO for decades.
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by brewdad 3y ago
I've had to use urgent care a half dozen times over the past 20 years. In all but one case, they sent me to the ER because they didn't want to be responsible for my care outcomes. None of them were really "emergencies".
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by brewdad 3y ago
It's sort of a straw that breaks the camel's back situation in most cases I would wager. It's less that medical debt caused bankruptcy than it, added on top of housing debt and car loans and credit cards and student loans etc
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by brewdad 3y ago
You just have to spend $35 at a time to get free delivery. Not having Prime anymore means I have lot fewer $5 bits of Chinese junk lying around my house.
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by brewdad 3y ago
I do the bank import once a week. I set aside an hour on my calendar to update all of my spending accounts. It usually takes more like 15-20 minutes unless I find something unexpected. For longer term accounts like my 401k, IRAs, and broker

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