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by gsch 9y ago
Given that it now takes an order of magnitude more time than it used to for newly added contacts to appear in my list of Signal contacts, I assume /something/ has changed with the way they exchange contact data.
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by gsch 9y ago
> “Society is more willing to accept wealthy people paying higher fares,” said Chris Knittel, a business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But if the repercussion of lower fares in lower-income places is longer wai
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by gsch 9y ago
This is really interesting! I can imagine it might feel quite different if, rather than having a persistent ability to ever retain short-term memories, you lost a small period every few months. The author's experience seems quite diffe
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by gsch 9y ago
On the other hand, I think there are really good reasons for co-living beyond saving a bit of money. There's a great community aspect to it as well. On the occasions where I've lived by myself, I've mostly ended up bored and
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by gsch 10y ago
> Reading about a patriarchy in the US makes me escpacially angry, because it belittles the suffering from women under actual patriarchies. Oppression isn't a contest. It takes different forms in different places, and all of them me
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by gsch 10y ago
I would absolutely start by running a threat modeling exercise, as that will help you focus on the important things and tune out unnecessary FUD (e.g. do you really need to PGP-encrypt everything and run TAILS if you're not being targe
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by gsch 10y ago
The registry existed under Obama, but it was created in 2002 after 9/11, partially suspended in 2011, and fully suspended last month [0], though it looks like it remains to be seen whether the suspension will be undone. [0] https:&#x2
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by gsch 10y ago
I travel DB long-distance twice weekly for commutes. The 116€ "standard fare" is actually the maximum fare. It only gets cheaper if you buy in advance, buy saver tickets, or get a BahnCard. I have a BahnCard 50 (50% discount on fl
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by gsch 10y ago
For anyone interested in Sebastião Salgado's work, I can highly recommend the documentary The Salt of the Earth [0] directed by Wim Wenders. He's done much amazing, gripping photography on ecological catastrophes and the people a
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by gsch 10y ago
Sure, but in the article (and your metaphor as I understand it), "heating" and "cooling" refer to the rate of change of the rate of change, i.e. whether the year-on-year increase in rental price is increasing or decreasi
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by gsch 10y ago
>Average rents, meanwhile, increased by 4.1% to $1,248 in the first quarter from a year earlier, compared with the 2015 first quarter’s 5% increase, according to Axiometrics Inc., an apartment research company. So rents increased 4.1% in