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by d1zzy 8y ago
YMMV but the reason I bike to work (and have been biking to work for the past 7 years) is because I enjoy the experience of going as hard as I can, heart pumping, asphalt rolling fast under my wheel while taking turns fast, feeling wind in
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I agree, it feels like it's written by someone that has very little experience (professionally and in life in general). One thing experience gives you is perspective. And I actually like living and working in the SF Bay Area.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
We may never know but I would say that most people were surprised that Trump won not because his policies are conservative but because he is a very crappy person and makes statements that no political leader should ever make in the 21st cen
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I agree, I can't stand SF weather but love South Bay weather. Every time I have to do the drive to SF for some concert I whine about it :)
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by d1zzy 8y ago
> Being unable to disable AGPS is not the same as "iOS spies even more". True but I'd like to point out that different standards are being applied here when talking about Android's lack of privacy vs iPhone's pri
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Oh wow, so if you just log in into a Google Account it automatically activates Google Sync without any prompts and starts uploading browser history data and other no-Google properties related browser data? That's pretty nasty. I can un
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Because of Prop 13 tax increase year to year is limited to inflation or 2% increase (whichever is lower). So yes, you start with ~1% of the house value but with 7% average increase in property value and limited to 2% increase in tax value y
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I agree with those points and I'd like to add that both approaches (US and EU) have their drawbacks (and advantages). In limiting businesses more in the EU I found out that it generally means less competition and fewer companies (per c
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by d1zzy 8y ago
XZ1 Compact is different from XZ1. Make sure you are checking out the right phone specs.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Yes, having kids is (currently) still the main way to propagate our species. It may not be so in the future and/or when lifespans increase many times it may make more sense to make much fewer kids. Even today, with a global fertility r
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Note that 2018 Volkswagen cars come with 6 years / 72k miles warranty... something to consider if you're unsure if you should get a new one now or later (as I doubt they'll keep this high warranty term for long, it was introd
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Heh I just bought a new car in the US and it's a manual (and it's not even a sports car). Why? Because I don't care as much about adaptive cruise control (I bike to work so the car is mostly for long drives) and it was $1200
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by d1zzy 8y ago
But it makes sense if you think about it: it's a highly risky, not very rewarding experience to bike to work in the US so only the people really into it/passionate about it do it. I would expect a large overlap between people pass
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Yes, you can isolate hyperthread siblings to the same VM but you also need to ensure no host code (userspace or kernel) runs on that core, or the untrusted guest may be able to read values stored in L1 by that code. This is harder to do and
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Because instead of having 2 players that ask for 30% cut, having 6 that do the same is going to make Netflix any happier. There's no reason to think other similar platforms wouldn't charge the same. Look at GOG vs Steam, both char
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Speaking about "unintended consequences", I would like to see a study if there's any correlation between heavy tipping culture and service quality. So far in my travels the US has been the place where waiters are the "ni
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I have Earthquake insurance from the CEA and it was surprisingly cheap, but of course, one thing is for the insurance to cover your home repairs and quite another to actually be able to do them because if/when the next big one hits, if
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by d1zzy 8y ago
> Given that society created the environment for these tech companies (and their employees) to acquire their skills and thrive, does not society have some moral/ethical lien on how those skills are applied? Which society does have t
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I know of an immigrant couple that although they were green card holders and have been living in the US for about 10 years, they decided to pack up and leave to Europe (to another foreign country, not to their native country) and one of the
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by d1zzy 8y ago
It really depends what the absolute value of the remaining 50% is. If it's <=$2k/month then yeah, that's pretty bad. If it's $5k/month then you can still live a very nice life and afford many things, in the Bay A
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by d1zzy 8y ago
You can always use Chromium (premade build or make your own build), get the benefits of Chrome's security without the potential tracking. Also, AFAIK Chrome doesn't send anything to Google if you disable corresponding options, I t
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Aren't local tech companies offices paying taxes that should take care of that? Unless you mean that tech companies should build private roads and infrastructure which sounds very bad... The way you get money from private parties and u
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I find it strange to live in a time when tech people trust MS more than Google, it could be because we think differently about the importance of information tracking, and this is coming from someone that for the past 15 years has used only
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Not really sure I understand what the point is here... Disclosure of personal information to third-parties under NDAs and that type of contract is normal business practice, banks and health providers do it all the time (with much more sensi
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Not just Youtube but this is all very applicable to Twitch livestreamers too. I noticed it on myself, it's a strange thing. I started doing amateur game streams on Twitch (nothing serious, got a few regular viewers) but even tho I try
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Easy to say. I want to see how many of the drivers stating such things would still do a full stop at an empty intersection after having biked through it hundreds of times before and it's just one of the many such stops they have on the
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I think a lot of the reason why I (can't speak for others) went from a super strict traffic law observer to "slow and roll through stop signs if nobody is there" on a bike isn't just the momentum conservation, which I ag
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Even if the money comes from somewhere, if a large percentage of the population suddenly has more money to spend then inflation happens. I've seen this happen every time the government of a certain Eastern European country decided to r
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Just because we don't take the side of what the tech companies tell us (which obviously will try to portray it negatively, it's in their interest to do so) doesn't mean that we think GDPR or similar laws are perfect either. I
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Like I said, I like choices. I never said that those are the _only_ 2 choices, but they are 2 choices. And one of them was easily available and made it possible to use those services wherever I was, no matter how much money I had or how old

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