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by eldenbishop 7y ago
San Francisco already does this with cigarettes. An eighty five cent tax per pack is levied specifically for this purpose. So around 4.25 cents per cigarette. I don't see why this could not be applied to other problematic litter source
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I rode a skateboard every day for 8 years, from high school through college and thought helmets where stupid. I got a Boosted board last year and after one ride bought my first helmet. Would never use it without one now.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Your right. Electrics can do that kind of speed but I was on a kick scooter and probably in more of a 3-4 x range and probably averaged 9mph after lights, pedestrians and the like are taken into account.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
This exactly: bikes require planning and strategy and are not good for improvisational day-to-day things like you described. Bikes make walking easier but all other forms of travel like bus, train or taxi/uber/cars more difficult
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I rode a non-electric kick scooter (Xootr) for three years working in downtown SF. It is by far the best form of transitional transport there is and superior to bikes for 99% of actual real world travel. It was easily 4-5 times faster than
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I (lol)ed because "turbo" and "turbo-s" are a naming convention from their conventional cars that is fairly non-sensical on an electric car given that they don't have turbochargers. Eg. Macan < Macan S < Macan
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
From road and track: """At launch, Porsche will offer two versions of the Taycan—the Turbo and Turbo S. The Turbo will carry an MSRP of $153,510 at launch, while the Turbo S will cost $187,610. Both of those numbers are minus
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I've driven nothing but BMW for the last decade and several of my friends now drive Teslas. I can't think of a single aspect other than subjective preference for rear-wheel drive bias where the BMW is any better than the Tesla. An
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I lived in Noe Valley for 14 years in a rent controlled apartment that quadrupled in value during that time. I was eventually evicted with an owner move-in but during that period I saw all of the useful local businesses close and be replace
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Kind of funny this came up. I used fizz-buzz in all my interviews for about two years (at first as a joke). Not a single new CS grad ever solved it in about a dozen interviews. The best I got was pseudo code like "if (i divisible by 5)
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
You nailed the description. At my school they had one Apple ][ and this infuriating rule that only kids who had an Apple computer at home could use it. Us poor kids had to use TRS-80 model 3s. I carried an anti-Apple grudge for years and ye
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I agree. Nothing in a typical CS degree would help with this. Maybe if your Masters was specifically in this obscure part of the field. On the other hand, I used to work in the video game industry where degrees (used to be) relatively rare
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Kind of related: Their Land Cruiser is specifically designed for a 25 year service life and is thus very conservative, changing slowly if at.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Given there is an active Apache project called Phoenix ( https://phoenix.apache.org ) I think confusion here is warranted.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
During the 2017 Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa virtually all the stores in West Sonoma went cash only. I pulled out maybe 300 bucks when I drove up to check on my property and spent 3-4 days buying everything with cash. Came back to work with may
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
The difference is amazing. I have a 'newish' 2012 Yamaha and it doesn't even bother tell you what gear you are in. It's considered pointless information by many riders since they ALWAYS know. If you bemoan the direction
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
I read a study several years ago on a similar topic about attention and safety citing higher engagement/less distraction with manual transmissions. However, it also found that while manuals increased safety for younger drivers by forci
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
The Suunto 9 GPS watch claims up to 120 hours between charges depending on how you configure the GPS. It's mostly marketed to ultra-runners and hikers who need that kind of battery life.
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
Yeah, I went all-in on smart bulbs (Philips) and they are just impractical. I do however recommend dimmable dumb bulbs along with smart switches like Lutron. They are easy to install, "just-work" and give you 90% of what you need.
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
Not terribly interesting from an Apple perspective but I did find this illuminating. "But as enforcement loosened, notably under the Reagan administration, buybacks began to increase. Now, they are omnipresent. A Roosevelt Institute st
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
Thermostatic showers are starting to get more common. They have pressure and temp controls which automatically adjust the hot and cold water ratios to keep the temperature constant (even if someone turns on a sink or flushes a toilet).
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by eldenbishop 8y ago
I have worked at many companies ranging in size from small two person startups to massive megacorps (Hewlett Packard, Salesforce). One big difference I saw was that, in a small company, everyone succeeds or fails together. Everyone wins or
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by eldenbishop 9y ago
Good comments and I felt the same way. This stinks of CAP violations and bullshit. It may have a lot of value but the bullet points are eye rolling.
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by eldenbishop 10y ago
Storm is a low level system for managing (optionally) transactional multi-machine tasks. It makes no assumptions about what is being processed (ie. analytics, data transforms). The primitives you are talking about exist in the child project
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by eldenbishop 10y ago
Agreed, although I suppose LSD regulation could fit the proposed narative; "Weed" has been a political target for far longer than hippy culture. This quote is often attributed to Harry J. Anslinger, the head of the Bureau of Narco
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by eldenbishop 11y ago
Apple HomeKit works without cloud services. It is entirely local with your phone, mac, iPad etc directly interacting with the devices. I'm sure some of the individual devices from partners may leverage cloud services but I have yet to
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by eldenbishop 14y ago
>A lot of people seem to think that it is something inherently German that made the Holocaust so terrible I'll quote a drunk Austrian friend: "All Germans are Nazis. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say, if there must be Nazis, G
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by eldenbishop 14y ago
No kidding... my first sync basically made my PC useless for a good week. Over 1GB of memory and 100% processor usage for around 8 days to sync 35 GB of data.
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by eldenbishop 14y ago
Try 500$. BMW owner. This was my quote from the Dealer when I thought I lost my key.
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by eldenbishop 16y ago
Wow. I knew about the durability changes but I had no idea that sparse and covered indexes where coming. These three changes where the biggest drawbacks to mongo for me.

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