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by ipsento606 1y ago
> Even though most of us don't speed I'm curious where you live. In the major US city I live in, well above 50% of drivers are going above the speed limit at any particular moment on any particular highway.
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> Explain how the German autobahn has fewer collisions than US high ways with lower than 85th percentile speed limits if the lower speed limits are such an advantage. There is no reason in the world to assume that US drivers have the sam
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> This stack gives me full control: no subscriptions, no vendor lock-in, > and no risk of platforms disappearing or changing policies. I'm not trying to dunk on the author, but this sentiment encapsulates a tremendo
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by ipsento606 1y ago
It happens to me maybe once every 5-10 years, whereas I open and close various credit card accounts several times a year. So for me it would be far more irritating to have to add and remove cards from my phone's virtual wallet several
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by ipsento606 1y ago
I would have to use a credit card that earns slightly worse points for the rest of the trip?
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by ipsento606 1y ago
If I left a card at a restaurant, I would block that card and have the issuer send a new one to my home address. It would really not be a chore at all
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> Phones have displaced paper money and credit cards as the preferred way to pay for a bill at the end of a meal this is 100% unrelatable to me I have never once used my phone to pay in a sit-down restaurant. I have only seen someone els
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by ipsento606 1y ago
some are likely correct, however
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> For every 100 people who use the pull out method perfectly, 4 will get pregnant. Are those 4-in-100 distributed randomly? Did the pregnancies result despite 100% adherence to the method, or was there occasional failure to adhere? There
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> This is lazy and wasteful. Modern dishwashers are incredibly efficient. They consume insignificant amounts of power and water compared to heating or cooling your home, or taking an extra shower. Your opinions are your own, but I don&#x
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> If someone logs into their bank and notices that changing the account number in the URL lets them withdraw from other people’s accounts, no court is going to shrug it off and say that it’s the bank’s fault for not being more secure Whe
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> This kind of expenditure at any business or organization would be recognized as one of poor judgement The purpose of a business is to generate a return on investment. Are you suggesting that the purpose of a government is to generate a
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by ipsento606 1y ago
Georgists want building apartment buildings to be profitable based on the value of the building, not the land. The idea would be that holding land becomes less profitable, but buying land for development becomes cheaper.
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by ipsento606 2y ago
https://news.gallup.com/poll/647594/majority-credits-god-hum...
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by ipsento606 2y ago
I find it impossible to discuss bias without a shared understanding of what it actually means to be unbiased - or at least, a shared understanding of what the process of reaching an unbiased position looks like. 40% of Americans believe tha
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> How do restaurants work, then? Primarily because recipe creation is not one of the biggest cost centers for restaurants?
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> a single component outweighing an entire app feels fundamentally broken It just doesn't to me, understanding that in react-land, a single component and an entire app will have roughly equivalent size, if you're not pulling in
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by ipsento606 2y ago
The article also says > JPMorgan became interested partly because of the potential it saw in Frank’s supposedly huge list of satisfied clients. The bank believed those future college graduates could become lifelong bank customers Generat
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by ipsento606 2y ago
I don't understand how one could sell a company with millions of fake users and not expect the purchaser of that company to realize those users are fake? I understand how one could think you'd get away with it if one were lying to
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> now that's shown to not improve the living standards of the many Inflation-adjusted median real income is up 20% since 1990 in the US. Unemployment is lower. Life expectancy is higher. Air pollution is lower. Crime is lower. Gay m
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by ipsento606 2y ago
I find the way people talk about "homelabs" endlessly confusing. Is it "a playground for devops"? OK - that sounds about as appealing to me as a playground for washing the dishes, or a playground for changing the oil on
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by ipsento606 2y ago
I've been a professional engineer for over a decade, and in that time I've only had one position where I was expected to write any tests. All my other positions, we have no automated testing of any kind.
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by ipsento606 2y ago
land is in fixed supply, but the amount of land needed per housing unit can be reduced by easing regulatory limits on density
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by ipsento606 2y ago
Can you give any examples of "AI slop products"?
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by ipsento606 2y ago
Lots of comments here talking about how great S3 is. Anyone willing to give a cliff notes about what's good about it? I've been running various sites and apps for a decade, but have never touched S3 because the bandwidth costs are
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by ipsento606 2y ago
trying to refund a transaction that occurred 8 years ago is actually pretty onerous and time consuming
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> How's the free market working for you? There isn't a free market in housing in any large American city. They all have overly zealous zoning policies that restrict density, driving up prices.
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by ipsento606 2y ago
Barcelona has around half the population density of New York City "we've tried not building any housing, and we're all out of ideas"
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> The machine was jammed. It wasn’t a big deal. I shrugged and moved on to buy my groceries. I resonate with the sentiment, but this is very far from my experience selling cheap software products. I had multiple people reach out to me be
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by ipsento606 2y ago
For me, part of the tension stems from being unwilling to design a system crappy enough that I will actually stick to. To take a trivial example, say your problem is that you leave clothes all over your bedroom floor, so you decide to set u

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