greggyb

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by greggyb 1y ago
Bike lane congestion is wholly unlike car congestion. It happens, and for busy routes, you do need affordances in the bike lanes and infrastructure. That said, I've never missed a light cycle while bicycling, even in rush hour in major
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by greggyb 1y ago
...continued... > * You are much safer being in a car when hit by another car than when not being in a car. This is something a lot of bike commute advocates sweep under the rug. They talk about how biking is overall safe, but then you a
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by greggyb 1y ago
> * Some people have mobility issues and can't bike or walk but can drive. A simple bullet, but with many nuances buried. There is no single answer. Below are several observations. No one of these is intended to be an answer. But t
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by greggyb 2y ago
Why is this flagged? First of all, it's about an entrepreneur traveling to the US for a startup, which is directly relevant to a significant proportion of YCombinator founders themselves. Beyond its direct relevance to the core foundin
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by greggyb 2y ago
Does this have an apparent impact on your recommendations?
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by greggyb 2y ago
A question for the author or anyone else who has experience in similar solutions. Is there any good solution for discovering new content? Much of the time, I want to stick to my subscriptions, but I do enjoy content surfaced by the algorith
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by greggyb 2y ago
We're well into subjective areas. For me, while I find the 1% of purposefully obnoxious engines to be annoying, the thing that grates on my nerves is anything more constant. So for me , road noise dominates in what gets under my skin,
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by greggyb 2y ago
Past ~20mph-30mph, tire noise matches engine noise. In the US, at least, this means that the vast majority of streets will not see much benefit from EV transition, at least with regard to road noise. The quality of the noise will change, bu
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by greggyb 2y ago
Headcount is effectively cut if the rate of hiring is smaller than the growth of the country, which it is.
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by greggyb 2y ago
Hiring so many new people is a false assumption. US Federal employment numbers have grown at incredibly low rates relative to US economic growth or federal spending. ~1% federal workforce growth since 2000: https://www.pewresearc
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by greggyb 2y ago
Because your representatives don't actually know what is important to their constituents without hearing about it. The news says what is happening, not what you, in your district and state, care about.
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by greggyb 2y ago
Managed servers: https://www.hetzner.com/managed-server/ There are also others, but Hetzner is under discussion here.
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by greggyb 2y ago
Collections of essays or poems are considered copyrightable. This seems analogous enough to me.
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by greggyb 2y ago
Repealing Chevron deference implies that everything which used to be left to regulatory agencies must now be passed via legislation or litigated in court. Which of those sounds like faster change?
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by greggyb 2y ago
- OLAP: read-mostly, table-scan heavy, many queries run ad-hoc by users - OLTP: write-mostly, index-seek heavy, ~all queries pre-defined up front
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by greggyb 2y ago
It really doesn't traditional accounting is built around the use of an immutable ledger. Historical errors are fixed with correction entries. There is also a multidimensional conception of time to support this. We capture both the date
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by greggyb 2y ago
I subscribe. It does work. Did you read the linked post of hers? Perhaps your client is throttled or blocked.
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by greggyb 2y ago
Why do you say that?
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by greggyb 2y ago
I have 4 Microsoft accounts I use regularly for work. I also do some consulting and often end up with credentials provisioned at a client (don't get me started on this). It is so convenient to have container tabs. All my extensions are
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by greggyb 2y ago
That is weaker than NFS. They do not, by default, respond to foreign equivalents of subpoenas: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse#foreign
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by greggyb 2y ago
I can guarantee that even top of the line noise cancelling headphones do not obscure a conversation happening next to me. The only way to drown out enough noise is to raise the volume to an uncomfortable-to-me level. If you are lucky enough
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by greggyb 2y ago
They could trivially allow the network to be used for anything, but also have a rule about behavior in the cabin to not disturb any other passengers. They’d be imposing restrictions only on physical actions you take during the term of the
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by greggyb 2y ago
Unhelpful for this situation, but NearlyFreeSpeech.Net is a pretty great host and their general policy is to tell people to pound sand for any requests. Specifically in the face of a subpoena from a US court, they are bound by law to comply
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by greggyb 2y ago
The US Constitution doesn’t really apply to foreign nationals in their native country.
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by greggyb 2y ago
My point was just that there’s a lot going on there, and value for those who want more than an RDBMS. I have no disagreement that the RDBMS on its own is not worth paying for for most, and especially not for any techish organizations. I’d a
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by greggyb 2y ago
When you say "economic perspective" I believe you mean a financial or poorly monetary one. Any econ course would teach you that economics is really based around preference and opportunity cost, which is inclusive of the non-moneta
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by greggyb 2y ago
> You're not entirely wrong. There is a cost to duplicating effort. What is the cost of not being independent? Your country's sovereignty and maybe your life. Let us take care of ourselves as best we can and import only a small
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by greggyb 2y ago
Totally understood and not under debate. I could have been more clear. "3N" is blatant infringement, or at least would be understood as such in the US. China simply doesn't enforce trademark infringement in the same way. I am
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by greggyb 2y ago
It is true. Why do you believe the US does not export much? The US is the number two overall exporter, number two exporter of merchandise, and number one exporter of services. What do you believe US exports should be? Overall exports: ht
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by greggyb 2y ago
Reduce your pasta water. You can even save it like stock. Adding some is also a savior when reheating sauces that break easily.

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