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by dublinben 3y ago
I can attest to my cheap old plug-in alarm clock keeping time better than my cheap Casio watch.
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by dublinben 3y ago
How can Apple products be status items when over 60% of smartphones in the US are iPhones? Is Coca-Cola a status item? Is it possible that they're just good products that deliver good value to the majority of people who buy them? Is a
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by dublinben 3y ago
Every residential street should be paved with bricks or other paving stones, instead of asphalt. It's safer, because people drive more slowly. The maintenance costs are also lower.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Gentrification and displacement are distinct concepts, even if they are usually conflated in colloquial usage. Obviously nobody wants to be forced out of 'their neighborhood' if rent is raised, but this isn't an inevitable co
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by dublinben 3y ago
Unlike an interrogation, the author could have stopped this ordeal at any time by turning off or simply not answering her phone.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Now imagine how someone less fortunate than yourself, who can’t drive because they’re too young, or too old, or too poor, or too disabled is supposed to survive in a society built around the assumption that everyone drives.
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by dublinben 3y ago
This isn’t actually true. Cars are expensive, so poor people usually rely more on public transit like busses, which get stuck in traffic behind cars. Driving more is positively correlated with higher income. Lower income people disproportio
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by dublinben 3y ago
> it's always just universally presumed that making a good quality, reliable, easy to service and maintain vehicle is a solved problem You’ve just described a bicycle.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Real criminals ride bicycles.
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by dublinben 3y ago
I've been listening to podcasts since the 2000s, and have never owned an iPod. I used one app or another to download them, and listened on various non-Apple portable music players.
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by dublinben 3y ago
Work. We stayed friends after moving on to other jobs, and eventually started dating several years later. Every successful relationship I've had started out as friends. Any relationship where we weren't friends first was less succ
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by dublinben 3y ago
Is this license information on your website somewhere? I'm not seeing it on any of the pages for your pictures.
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by dublinben 3y ago
The technology to massively reduce carbon dioxide emissions has existed for a long time. Coal power plants could have been replaced with natural gas much sooner. We could have actually spent the last 50 years building nuclear power plants i
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by dublinben 3y ago
The demographics don’t look good for the beef industry. https://www.wired.com/story/beef-consumption-boomers/
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by dublinben 3y ago
Offsetting income tax would be a massive handout to the rich, who have been and continue to be the greatest contributors to carbon emissions. Instead, it should be paired with a dividend which makes it revenue neutral for the median househo
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by dublinben 3y ago
I swear by the Seirus Masque for both skiing and cycling.[0] The neoprene fits tightly to your face, but lets your nose exhale freely, which minimizes glasses fogging. They’ve got a hundred variations now for different levels of comfort an
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by dublinben 3y ago
This is so normal for Americans that you'll see people in this thread vehemently defending this hellscape against any criticism, since they can't imagine an alternative. A resident of London who doesn't own a car is a prisone
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There's no such thing as a "cheap" car when you compare it to the cost of walking or cycling. You could buy a new pair of shoes and a bike every month for the cost of just insuring and fueling an average car. Car-centric desi
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by dublinben 3y ago
Car-centric design reduces freedom, because it requires an expensive car in order to go anywhere. Nothing says freedom like a $900/month car payment in order to get to work and buy groceries![0] Bulk stores like Costco are only necessa
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by dublinben 3y ago
This should have all that and more: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...
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Beyond that, it’s not even clear that it’s possible to make money doing this. The major players all lose money, and they have years of traction built up. This might be interesting from a technical perspective, but it’s unlikely that there’s
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by dublinben 3y ago
There's nothing inherently incompatible with living an a walkable community and participating in hobbies like woodworking. For example, after just a few minutes of searching, here's the first listing I found of a condo in a buildi
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Don’t knock insects until you’ve tried them.
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You're certainly setting a floor for your monthly housing costs, but there's all sorts of maintenance costs that crop up, unexpected repairs, and ever-increasing property taxes. I don't know any homeowners who would describe
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by dublinben 3y ago
Nobody should be driving in near-whiteout conditions, human or AI.
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You're not allowed to have the MD5 hashes these researchers used to find these images, so it's not possible to reproduce this result. These hash databases and APIs are tightly controlled, and only law enforcement, major tech compa
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by dublinben 3y ago
Access to PhotoDNA and other 'perceptual hashing' APIs is not open or freely granted. It's not unreasonable that a team compiling a database would be unable to perform this level of cleaning.
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The distinction is less clear these days. What is clear is that they're frequently limited partners pitching in millions for venture funds.
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Here's a short video on why "vacant homes" are not the solution to the housing crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZXdXxYBGU
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It’s really easy to hack a kobo to use it without registering: https://jacobalbano.com/2021/06/24/setting-up-a-kobo-without...

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