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by g_sch 7y ago
My first reaction: this feels like it's adding a lot of noise and clutter to the interface, but also a lot of powerful collaboration tools. Personally, I've been using Dropbox to sync files between my devices, so this redesign is
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by g_sch 7y ago
Yeah, Hamburg's system impressed me the most of all the places I've been, even though the quality of the bikes is not great. I went to CycleHack (bike-themed hackathon) and DB gave us a bunch of StadtRad data to play around with.
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by g_sch 7y ago
I think bikeshare programs have been very successful in cities where they are monopolies and partially run by cities. My experiences with bikeshares in NYC, London, Hamburg, Berlin, and DC have all been great. The places where they have bec
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by g_sch 7y ago
Reminds me also of this exchange the maintainer of thttpd had with a repo guy: http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
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by g_sch 7y ago
> In 2018: "The top 1 percent paid a greater share of the federal tax revenue (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent)." Put another way - your local school would be in trouble if all you had were famil
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by g_sch 7y ago
I think the author is a bit too narrow in their definition of "political clout". They seem to define it as the ability to personally influence federal policy. However, as a class, people with $4M in wealth or more have an immense
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by g_sch 7y ago
I was pretty interested in why someone would create such a rich and detailed resource without any clear monetary incentive (yes, capitalism makes me cynical), so I checked out the "Grog Story" section, and wow, I highly recommend
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by g_sch 7y ago
In Spain, there are multiple things GP could be referring to. Many people in Catalonia consider themselves to not be part of Spain. This could also apply to País Vasco, a.k.a. Basque Country.
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by g_sch 7y ago
I don't think it's the case that your country code can be reliably inferred from your IP. When I lived in Europe, I had a German phone number but was frequently living/working in other countries.
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by g_sch 7y ago
It's true that the M14 is special right now because it's currently serving riders of the L train, but the proposal to eliminate stops is part of the citywide Bus Action Plan that is being rolled out progressively by borough. State
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by g_sch 7y ago
In NYC, it depends heavily on the bus line. Some stop nearly every block (which can be as little as every 100m) whereas some have more widely-spaced stops. The buses here are notorious for running very slowly (and thus behind schedule), and
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by g_sch 7y ago
While this has some helpful pointers, I found it amusing that some points were relatively little work, while others contain enough to keep you busy for weeks - for example, comparing output redirection to network management.
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by g_sch 7y ago
A few people used to live in the Amtrak tunnels on the Hudson River side of Manhattan. There was a documentary made about them [0]. They were evicted, and the tunnels fenced off, in the late 1990s. I would be quite surprised if anyone was l
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by g_sch 7y ago
IIRC, if you are offered immunity you are no longer protected by the right against self-incrimination. So sidestepping questions in this way - when you could plausibly know the answer - carries some legal risks. There is also a long history
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by g_sch 8y ago
I think this has far more to do with the fact that poverty, especially in the US, means frequently going into debt or bankruptcy even just to survive. If you're working for minimum wage, your landlord raises your rent, and you get an u
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by g_sch 8y ago
> However, many poorer folks need to learn self-control and the power of saving. Counterpoint: the many ways that our economic system can wipe out whatever savings you might have (medical costs, unemployment, legal costs that fall heavie
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by g_sch 8y ago
New York City recently launched a health insurance program that seeks to cover everyone in the city and offers low-cost options. It's not, however, a single-payer program. [0] New York State does not have any statewide health insurance
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by g_sch 8y ago
Reading Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell changed my views of human nature and expanded my imagination on how societies can be organized. The book is a series of histories of disaster events, natural and human-made. It shows ho
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by g_sch 8y ago
I mean, maybe, but GP also said they filled out a survey with their diagnosis information, so it's certainly plausible that the company added that information to their profile immediately.
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by g_sch 8y ago
Some other commenters have pointed out that The Hill selectively quoted Ocasio-Cortez in the tweet mentioned in the article, but I want to engage the selective quote ("Economic system that allows billionaires is 'immoral'&quo
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by g_sch 8y ago
> But if you are successful enough to afford such a service that means that you are a well developed and successful personality that basically dones't have time to treat every woman like a magical princess. I wouldn't be so con
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by g_sch 8y ago
Full text for those on the other side of the paywall: https://outline.com/xFCCx9
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Amazon’s Move to Long Island City Sparks Condo Frenzy(wsj.com)
2 points by g_sch 8y ago|1 comments
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by g_sch 8y ago
I think we agree, and I've edited my comment to clarify. My usual reaction when people refuse to use pronouns such as "they" is that they (hah) don't want to acknowledge gender identities outside of the male/female
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by g_sch 8y ago
I know this has been litigated into the ground by now, but I'm just struck by the pettiness in GNU continuing to insist that: > There are various ways to express gender neutrality in third-person singular pronouns in English; you do
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by g_sch 8y ago
"All technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first." - Eleanor Saitta
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by g_sch 8y ago
Some version of this post seems to circulate every few months or so. This one is more direct in its accusations of Moxie acting in bad faith. I think this is disingenuous. Moxie has been very clear[0] about the tradeoffs that Signal has mad
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by g_sch 8y ago
Given the title, I guess this is the article they're referencing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/tesla-cut...
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by g_sch 9y ago
I think you may have transposed some digits. According to Wikipedia [0], the NYC Subway has 472 stations. Or 424, depending on how you count. > The official count of stations is 472; however, this tabulation classifies some transfer stat
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by g_sch 9y ago
I saw a very interesting talk last year from someone who, as part of a company's security team, had set up a system that continually attacked the hashes of every employee's Active Directory passwords. If one was cracked, the emplo

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