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by jbob2000 8y ago
The privilege is around ability, not cost. No less than half of my coworkers are constantly complaining about how broken their bodies are, you expect these people to just hop on a bike and go?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
"This thing has incredible utility and practicality, therefore I use it for most transportation because it allows for flexible planning - a necessity in an ever-changing world" As opposed to a bike: "This thing has a very con
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I've fired guns too, it's a nice adrenalin rush and I felt very powerful. Uncomfortably powerful . It's ok if you like these feelings, but your comments seem like thin justifications. You can get these feelings without rampa
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Absolutely nothing, which is why these companies are a flash in the pan. You can sign a contract with them, but it means nothing if someone on the other side of the country is violating it and you have no idea. Also, this is a petty cash bu
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Nope, but those people can be driven by someone else. How the hell do I drive my mother to the hospital on my bike?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This will be controversial, but my vote is for Uber. I am constantly surprised at all the nifty features they have tucked away that reveal themselves exactly when you need them. I'm often using it while I'm busy doing something el
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> I'm genuinely curious: do you wear glasses? How do you keep them from getting fogged up/iced over when riding in the winter? Don't waste your time. Pro-cyclists are the most biased and privileged people I've ever me
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by jbob2000 8y ago
There are sooo many things that you need to do to make cycling in winter possible; snow must be cleared, you need special tires, you need extra warm weather gear, you need to wait for the blizzard to end, etc. etc. Or I could just get in my
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I don't live in the US so those aren't really concerns for me. My quiet suburb has been able to keep the roads and pipes maintained while also keep property tax low. I think it's actually easier (read: cheaper) to maintain in
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by jbob2000 8y ago
There's this weird thing that happens in northern climates where all the bikers and scooter riders magically disappear sometime around October and don't reappear until sometime in April. I can't figure out why this happens, w
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I can't afford a condo in the big cities, I'm not sure how riding a bike will change that? In fact it will probably make it worse as people move to the cities to ride their bikes, which will make real estate there even more expens
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by jbob2000 8y ago
What kind of side projects do you do? The microphones on smartphones really suck, you can’t capture anything unless you’re in a fairly quiet room or speaking to it up close. The lense just isn’t large enough to capture enough detail. Record
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Since it's the FBI, then it's probably a domestic threat. Given the huge show of force, my guess is armed extremists threatening to take it over? This is pure speculation, but I think this QAnon/whitehouse leaker stuff is dri
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by jbob2000 8y ago
My conspiracy theory: Criminals have laundered all the money they needed to last christmas when the boom happened. Jobs done, time to go home. They bought a bunch of bitcoins from clueless techies using dirty money, the blogsphere amplified
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Oh I have a good story about that! Healthcare software is rife with these sorts of things. We had a potential client come in saying they had the toughest requirements; terabytes of data would be collected, we'll need PhD data scientist
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Yes, all of the R&D money is about to move to Canada.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Boom - It'll fly you from Tokyo to San Francisco in less than six hours. Yes, but that's one of the only routes it will fly. With the Concorde, we discovered that flying supersonic jets around population centers is a big deal
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Your comparison only works because we now know that the Nazis committed horrific deeds. We didn't know about the holocaust until the early 1940s. Until then, they were just another government to do business with.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers". That's such a farce, you clearly just have a hate-on for facebook. The article is about 12 facebook groups. Twelve! Wow.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
For animal trading, if you ban them off facebook, they go elsewhere and then you need to hunt them down again. Better to leave them up, figure out who they are, get as close as you can to the top, then arrest everyone in one big operation.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy. Wrong, that is a loss of 10% market share. In other markets, a drop like that would put you out of business. Va
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Steam controller/Steam Link > Huge flop Totally agree! I bought a steam controller and it gathers dust. They didn't pair the release of the controller with a killer game, there's nothing pushing me to use this over my
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> A used car has no value when the engine blows up the next day. Sure it does, you can sell it for scrap or repair/replace the engine. > A university degree has questionable utility when you spend $30,000 a year to make $30,000 a
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by jbob2000 8y ago
You can do stuff with a university degree, people recognize it. And you can do stuff with a car and money from a home finance. These might have predatory aspects to how you acquire them, but they aren't scams and nobody is being swin
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I would be hesitant to take this as a manifesto of how to run a company. Valve was great 10 years ago, but they are now facing competition from GoG, Discord, independent distribution, bigger gaming companies, mobile gaming, etc. > How do
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by jbob2000 8y ago
You didn't read far enough: > "subdomain.www.domain.com" displays as "subdomain.domain.com". This is very deceiving. This change gives phishers a huge opportunity.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Sure, they silo’d it to protect national interests. Which in a way, protects Facebook interests because countries would ban them if they didn’t take action on this. If you want to take on that complexity, go for it. Facebook was never tryin
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The problem is that if you wanted to gather all the publicly available info on businesses, you had to write a very complex piece of software to do it (screen scrapers + web crawling). But Facebook wrapped that all up into a tidy APi. You ca
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It's not airlines that want to do this, it's the customers who want to fly around the world for as cheap as possible. Nobody values the time they spend travelling, they just want it to be as quick and cheap as possible. It'd
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Janitorial company keeps 20% of staff full time with parental leave benefits, 80% are temporary contractors that don't qualify for parental leave. At least that's how companies in Canada get around the requirement.

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