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by cowmoo728 5y ago
All the Germans I've met like to complain about the quality of Deutsche Bahn. But it is important to keep in mind that from the perspective of an American, Deutsche Bahn is a miracle.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
From many people's viewpoints, it is not very well thought out to subsidize the use of 3-ton single occupancy vehicles that require massive amounts of energy to manufacture and massive amounts of energy to move. At the very least there
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Single occupancy vehicles take away my choice to bike safely in downtown Manhattan because most of the available space is dedicated to oversized cars.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Most people don't read the label on medicines that they take. Take two extra strength acetaminophen tablets, combination liquid cold medicine, some of the sleep aids with diphenhydramine + acetaminophen, a glass of wine, repeat for 3 d
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
And that the NYPD in particular is the worst. I had the misfortune of living near a NYPD station in Manhattan for a few years. Illegal parking everywhere and there were a few red lights that they would run all the time in their police and p
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
The solution to bad governance is better governance, not utopianism. Problems like this are the entire reason that democratic countries have elections and peaceful transfers of power. Does it always work? No. But looking for a technical sol
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
In ChromeOS we have slow devices and had a slow test network in the office but they're test machines, not a primary development laptop. Most of us develop on pixelbook or mbp sshed to a beefy desktop or cloud vm. Testing on slow device
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
It is very tricky. There is a lot of coded language around childhood neighborhood, school, profession of the parents, diet, and other things that westerners are not aware of. It often requires local knowledge. When two Indian people in the
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
I did have a confirmation email that listed the price and the car, the person behind the counter and the manager said they couldn't honor that deal because the car didn't exist and I had paid the rate for a lower tier of car. If I
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
I had a situation where I found a fantastic deal on the company's own site for a Volvo XC-90, which I booked. When I got to the location they told me they have never had or seen any Volvo model. They offered me a Cadillac XT4, a wors
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Why is crime going up pretty uniformly across the US, even in places where police budgets and enforcement have increased?
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/organized-crime-rings-are-... https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/organized-crime-rings-are-dr... https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
I think there's a simpler explanation. The theft crowd and the "defund the police" crowd have semi-independently come to the conclusion that policing and legal systems are not very good at stopping or preventing most crime.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
I heard from someone at <big media company> that they couldn't switch to their fallback region because they couldn't update DNS on Route53. All the console commands and web interface were failing.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
There are milder / alternate forms of CF that are often diagnosed late in life. They're often mild enough that a doctor will immediately rule out CF. Example case studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Shot in the dark and I'm not a doctor but you could look into getting a genetic test for atypical cystic fibrosis. It's increasingly diagnosed into adulthood and recurrent pneumonia is one of the clues.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
My impression of the facebook interview experience was that it is specifically selecting people that were calm under pressure and well rehearsed. They are testing for people that put in the effort to crank out a bunch of algorithms practice
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
The other thing I hate is the flood of reposts and blogspam around any announcement. Company 1 will give an interview to outlet A. Blogspam outlets B,C,D,E.... will publish "articles" that don't even link to the original but
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
8km is bad if the rider has to wait at a lot of stoplights or cross a lot of roads. But if there's a good cycle path, 8km is a comfortable and easy cruise. Even easier on an e-bike. I did a 9km commute down the west side bike path of M
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Take a look at the #fmty (fly me to you) hashtag on twitter someday. Twitter has become an open market for adult services.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
There are some really funny ones. https://i.imgur.com/K7GdKKY.png https://i.redd.it/tucvzslvh3151.png ^ the grass one is because lawns became a popular fashion statement in the 17th century, but still. htt
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
So Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, VW, Mercedes, GM, BMW, Ford, and Exxon combined. That seems like a lot of "looking forward" to me.
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
I'm interested in why these people were doing this. Were they hoping to get non-tech-savvy people that were searching for computer help? I guess that's a good audience of unwitting users to attempt to hack, but was the goal to get
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Have you gone on darknet sites? They have moderation too, or else they get filled with CP and terrorist propaganda just like every other service. I guess that's "fine" if you're anonymous and don't think the FBI wil
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Empty storefronts were a huge issue in prime manhattan shopping areas since I moved there in 2015. At least in Manhattan it's not due to covid. There may have been a brief spike in vacancies in mid 2020 but the vacancy rate in 2019 was
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
I like the feel of polyester shirts better in hot weather. But I don't buy polyester or polyester blends anymore because they stink after just an hour or two of sweating in the sun. Merino doesn't have the same "cooling"
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https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/777098293/2-former-twitter-em...
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It's why I switched everything to a combination of [boring established brokerage] and a credit union that's been around for almost 100 years. Their apps are mediocre and some of the more complicated account changes require a mix o
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
Tomatoes are particularly egregious. There are still tomatoes that taste good, but you won't find them in most grocery stores. Scientists are working on some genetic engineering to make a tomato that's mechanically strong enough t
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It's a rule of thumb that roughly 10% of the NYPD receive 99% of the complaints and claims of excessive force. 90% of the NYPD is fine. The issue is that there is no meaningful oversight mechanism to correct the 9% that behave inapprop

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