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by burlesona 2y ago
I think you’re over generalizing. I understand you’re speaking from your personal experience, and I believe that’s what you encountered, but still, n=1. There are, unfortunately, a huge range of people with widely varying beliefs who refer
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by burlesona 2y ago
I once heard a story of a family living abroad feeling quite bent about this extra taxation that they were paying no reason. But the story ends with the family being rescued by a USMC helicopter and airlifted to safety after a natural disas
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by burlesona 2y ago
The bathrooms are already mandated by the government, they just aren’t required to be free. But in the overhwhelming majority of cases they are free.
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by burlesona 2y ago
So the Author is based in Spain and writing about life in Spain. My experiences traveling in Europe have been that bathrooms are often hard to find there … but, as a tourist, I’ve definitely not seen enough of normal daily life to know. Mea
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by burlesona 2y ago
So at first I thought this was a joke. But… read to the end. It’s perhaps a strange art project, but it’s not a joke.
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by burlesona 2y ago
If we want to prevent surveillance capitalism we’re going to need to establish a constitutional right to privacy in the US (and the legal equivalent in other countries).
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by burlesona 2y ago
It’s probably worse than that. Since Covid had relatively low mortality after the first wave, and got so politicized, I think if there were another more dangerous pandemic a lot of people would simply not believe it until they experienced i
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by burlesona 3y ago
It’s surprising how rare houses with >= 4 bedrooms are too. They definitely exist and are more common in outer suburbs, but in most central city areas built up through the 80s houses are almost all 3 bedroom or smaller. There are a lot o
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by burlesona 3y ago
I’m not surprised at all. People think kids are way more expensive than they really are, and think that cars are much cheaper than they really are.
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by burlesona 3y ago
What this view is missing is how much of historical architecture was actually Craft. People didn’t go in a computer and design things to be built out of a bunch of commodity parts. Local humans knew how to make things by hand out of wood an
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by burlesona 3y ago
We spent 40 years believing that house prices were fine because the debt load didn't matter because interest rates would go down forever. Prices are based on the seller extracting the maximum ability to pay from the buyer, so payments
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by burlesona 3y ago
Lars, I was in studio with you at A&M. I’m devastated to hear this, and praying for you and your family.
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by burlesona 3y ago
This material looks very cool, it’s great that it’s free and I’m sure the quality coming from MIT is high. But having now completed both a degree in-person and a degree online… I have to question the value of online education if you’re ser
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by burlesona 3y ago
It’s a pop-up so I can’t link to it, but their bit about interior walls shows them as thinner.
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by burlesona 3y ago
Resting and vesting.
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by burlesona 3y ago
It sounds like a bad situation at Amazon, but if my company wanted to pay me indefinitely to do nothing, I have plenty of ideas for how I could use the time…
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by burlesona 3y ago
I would definitely make permalinks to each activity and make the “surprise me” button navigate so you can hit back. This is pretty neat! I think it’s actually nice that the list of activities is not enormously long, because at a certain poi
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by burlesona 3y ago
Very cool visualization! A meta comment here is that you look at the shapes of the zoning districts and they make no real sense, except that they were applied as the best fit to whatever happened to be on each lot at the time the codes was
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by burlesona 3y ago
Ruby is basically a less popular but more elegant Python. It’s a solid general purpose language, but especially good at shell scripting, data munging, etc. If you’re fluent in Node and Python it should be quite easy to learn. The downside i
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by burlesona 3y ago
From the article: “The new polymers we synthesized could help fight antibiotic resistance in the future by providing antibacterial molecules that operate through a mechanism against which bacteria do not seem to develop resistance.” The wor
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by burlesona 3y ago
I would love to see the metrics since the rebrand. It sure seems like the renaming itself was a fatal blow, since talking about Twitter is now awkward we’re less likely to talk about it. It’s hard to imagine he’d really light so much money
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App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum(daringfireball.net)
1 points by burlesona 3y ago|1 comments
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by burlesona 3y ago
This is a weird take when iMessage isn’t even popular outside the US, and Android has 70% global market share. The market is very competitive.
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by burlesona 3y ago
I dunno. From Austin but also lived in Houston. The weather sucks in both places from May-October. But in the cool half of the year, Houston is much more consistent with mild and sunny weather, while Austin gets gray a lot and has more cold
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by burlesona 3y ago
I mean, the whole deal in Austin was that it was super cheap, and for a super cheap town it was kinda interesting and had a funky vibe. Now it’s very expensive while still far behind other major cities in quality of life and cultural amenit
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by burlesona 3y ago
That’s a pretty great summary. Can you elaborate a bit on how this works with Kagi? Is it just a wrapper over gpt-4, do you feed it an article and ask for a summary, or does it summarize in the search results?
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by burlesona 3y ago
History with Apple is that it's a little bit the older hardware isn't quite powerful enough, and a little that Apple's bar is high. They might be able to make a version of this that was not quite as polished or not as good of
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Ask HN: How can I get Google Maps to stop routing people to the wrong address?
22 points by burlesona 3y ago|5 comments
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by burlesona 3y ago
Interestingly, a mile was originally the less surprising 5000 feet. But in the 1500s the English changed the mile to be 8 furlongs, as that made for much easier math around the agricultural measurements of the time. https://en.m.
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by burlesona 3y ago
It’s interesting to observe. Historically, churches were many, small, and deeply rooted in particular neighborhoods. The more traditional churches heavily emphasized service within the church itself and the surrounding neighborhood. Many ch

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