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by dbt00 5y ago
The real problem in SF is that it is just a fairly small city, so a lot of the big city things you'd expect from NYC/LA/Chicago just aren't there.
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by dbt00 5y ago
The market is not "ride hailing apps", it is personal transportation. Depending on where you live, the competition is trains, busses, biking, walking, company shuttles, or even moving closer to where you want to be. If the cost of
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by dbt00 5y ago
They were in Manhattan. They weren't in SF, and they certainly weren't in, say, Urbana, IL.
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by dbt00 5y ago
Let me flip this around. Non-governmental subsidized transportation infrastructure is and always has been a race to the bottom. Taxis are mostly only profitable with extremely low overhead and only servicing high traffic areas like Manhatta
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by dbt00 5y ago
Go's interfaces are a great example.
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by dbt00 5y ago
Twice as many events and medals for competitors, assuming you don't buy into the idea that men have their own competitions so they don't have to lose to women (see also: ski jumping).
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by dbt00 5y ago
"Being vaccinated isn't a perfect defense, but it reduces the risk to you of getting the disease, it drastically reduces the risk to you of dying from the disease or suffering long term life altering consequences from it, and it l
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by dbt00 5y ago
Visual Basic was incredibly successful. From VB3 adding database support until VB6-ish started integrating with .NET, 10s of millions of developers built applications that you've just never heard of. What killed RAD tools was the web,
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by dbt00 5y ago
I'm 45 and not completely unfamiliar with the problem.
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by dbt00 5y ago
The people aren't being cast aside, but their skills aren't as valuable as they were 10 or 20 years ago. That's true for many people as economies change. I hope people who make a living drilling for oil also see less demand f
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by dbt00 5y ago
No, the popular real estate scam of the 1920s was selling "oceanfront" property in florida that was really just swampland. The origin story for Florida Man is that Florida's sunshine laws make police records public by default
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by dbt00 5y ago
Yes it is illegal to test people's drugs to make sure they've not been substituted or adulterated.
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by dbt00 5y ago
Yeah, when you realize it allowed multiple selections, only 13% saying I'm ok with current UI benefits seems low.
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by dbt00 5y ago
My kids are 20 and 16 and I got 2 weeks of parental leave. I'm happy to see it's getting better.
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by dbt00 5y ago
Black page. Multiple javascript errors in console. Open in a different browser, and more than half the page is covered in flashy junk. Good story though.
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by dbt00 5y ago
I mean, this already happened. Ted Danson was semi-cancelled in the early 90s for wearing blackface to a Friar's Club roast of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg. Blackface being problematic isn't something we just figured out in
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by dbt00 5y ago
makes sense, this is a huge area for fraud.
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by dbt00 5y ago
> > Patent trolls are Americans that are destroying American manufacturing and small business > Why should the identity of their victims matter? Also, are they? Because this is a fairly American problem with the American patent sys
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by dbt00 5y ago
I think it's incorrect to assume that your preferred working pattern (remote) is universally good for other people, even setting aside the legitimate concerns about interruptions, daily standups (something plenty of remote teams do), o
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by dbt00 5y ago
> This is definitely not the worst as I know one of the leading options marketmaker has been using a giant shit mountain of MS Access/Excel VBA code to run their system since the 90s. Only one? :)
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by dbt00 5y ago
I think this is true for important but dangerous things, but I think it's vacuous and false for dangerous and unimportant things.
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by dbt00 5y ago
The problem isn't what school the parents pick, it's that the voucher schools cherry pick high scoring kids to hold up stats and aren't accountable to the state for the education the state is paying for.
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by dbt00 5y ago
One team I worked on put a profanity filter in the source code checkin filter so that we could put curse words in whatever code we were writing and make sure it didn't get merged until that code was refactored.
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by dbt00 5y ago
Javy is not the best player in baseball, but he is by far the greatest agent of chaos and the most fun to watch. He's been perfecting the head first swim slide, where he goes around the base leading with his left (inside) hand, then pu
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by dbt00 5y ago
Not if the games become boring strikeout fests.
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by dbt00 5y ago
I'd hit up Jason Scott, textfiles.com or twitter.com/textfiles.
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by dbt00 5y ago
Eh, Steve Jobs still gets shit around here for the way he treated his first daughter (and rightfully so).
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by dbt00 5y ago
The people who did the work on finding and implementing this speedup talk about it here. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PythonNoSemanticInter... They then proposed it for upstreaming here: https:/&#x
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by dbt00 5y ago
Eh if you've been following him for long enough you've seen him get onto kicks and off again. He did a vegan month for a while, but that's gone. Once upon a time he was convinced that using baking soda (something you'll
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by dbt00 5y ago
It's a side effect of an acquisition, the original ownership has changed hands.

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