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by jjav 1y ago
It would be better if a tiny town was allowed to remain tiny. Not every place has to be forced to be the same.
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by jjav 1y ago
> Another way to look at it is that depending upon social media for anything beyond promotion leaves you at the whim of those companies. Another instance of that is when your account at these proprietary companies simply disappears for n
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by jjav 1y ago
> When social media emerged, I remember how excited I was how it could connect like-minded people around the world. I remember that feeling of being blown away at talking (typing) with people across the world without any limitations! But
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by jjav 1y ago
Absolutely. Discord is a scourge, a completely closed proprietary platform that is impossible to access via any standard compliant mechanism. Even for their website they demand a phone number just to read anything.
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by jjav 1y ago
> The people who want small, mid-sized towns are free to live literally anywhere they want outside major metro areas. There's 90+% of the state by land area left to them. Whether good or bad, it's important to realize this is n
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by jjav 1y ago
> Like every tech company, Apple has used proprietary technologies when necessary to deliver an experience that meets its (including its users') requirements. That's a very rosy, even naive, view of the relentless move to propr
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by jjav 1y ago
> The language itself is quite beautiful when used properly and with modern features. > It just really needs a makeover and better tools. I love java, wouldn't call it beautiful though. But I don't need a language to be beau
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by jjav 1y ago
> As far as I can see there are two possibilities here Most of it is (1), but even in the case of (2) the problem is that this is an outlaw organization which is not following any established law or process. Legally, deporting people who
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by jjav 1y ago
> if some city politicians can just vote for higher and higher taxes continuously The linked article ignores an important point that many LVT proponents tend to ignore. How, and who, sets the value of your land? Current property taxes, a
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by jjav 1y ago
> And yet >15% of cars on the road are not insured, and those with insurance are punished by this fact. Functionally, the state is in the best position to capture the necessary revenue to support these services. And that is exactly wh
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by jjav 1y ago
While I've followed F1 as a sport since the late 80s, in the last decade I've been more fascinated by the aspect of running these teams. What it must take to run an engineering orgzanization of many hundreds of people where every
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by jjav 1y ago
No, not in US domestic flights in the 80s or 90s. International was different since the airline had to check you had a passport (and visa if applicable) for the destination country.
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by jjav 1y ago
> You can't fly anonymously and, as far back as I can remember, never could. You're young then. Flying anonymously was the norm. You could go to any travel agency and buy tickets cash. They had a name on it but it didn't m
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by jjav 1y ago
> Meanwhile, in the real world: More than one thing can be true at the same time. Yes, vastly increasing the traffic that is encrypted is a great thing for many reasons. Simultaneously, it is also true that if a public CA-issued (as oppo
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by jjav 1y ago
> You want to take a device that is targeted for “everyone” and not just tech savvy people and provide no control or standard to what can be loaded on it? The very idea of it is horrifying to me. Were you horrified by the Apple ][?
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by jjav 1y ago
> This entire fight about Apple being required to allow third party "App Stores" -- how about simply the user can load whatever software they want to on the device which they are the owner of? The Atari 2600 was an immensely po
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by jjav 1y ago
Past owners are completely irrelevant, they have no claim or say in the property.
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> This hasn't been true in a lot of companies for like my entire career. You can move up as an ic. You can, but it's a dead end ultimately. I've been a distinguished engineer which is about as far as one can go (some compa
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by jjav 1y ago
> It always blows my mind when I see how many subscribers Netflix has. Not sure how they count, but for example I have a "free" netflix subscription through a tmobile phone plan. So it's easy to pump the numbers. I only wa
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by jjav 1y ago
> While tennis has become more accessible and lower cost over time, it has always been an expensive sport. How can tennis be an expensive sport? My kid just bought (a few months ago) a couple of used rackets for $5. Tennis balls can be h
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by jjav 1y ago
> Never seen a free tennis court in my life. I've seen plenty of paid ones though. My neighborhood (California) has free (city-maintained, open to all) tennis courts. Seems pretty common. Also basketball, soccer and bike trails and
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by jjav 1y ago
Very common, the fracion is 3/4, that's three fourths.
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by jjav 1y ago
Go is all right. But in a world where java exists, I still have not seen any reason to consider go.
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by jjav 1y ago
Sure, but this can be very simple. Allow HOAs, with a strictly specific purpose of budgeting for common area expenses. Whether it is for structure maintenance (in apartment buildings and townhouses with shared structural elements) or common
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by jjav 1y ago
> What property owners is my point? Many are long gone This statement makes no sense. The property owners are the ones who own the properties, today. It is very clear cut who they are, it's even public record.
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by jjav 1y ago
That is the best possible solution. That's how it works in my neighborhood and it is the best answer. This neighborhood has a few amenities like soccer fields, tennis courts, bike/walk trails and exercise stations. In the early da
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by jjav 1y ago
> Who carries a separate work cell phone? Anyone who cares about privacy and control of their personal life.
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by jjav 1y ago
Rules apply only if you're not rich enough to buy some special rules just for you. It's not how it was supposed to be.
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> Most of us don't have work phones, that's stuff from early 2000s at best. You absolutely want hard physical separation between personal devices and company-controlled business devices. That means two phones and never allow co
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> > Don’t ICE cars require a lot more maintenance per mile than EVs? > Yes, and this to me feels like one of the least understood things about EVs. Well my anecdote is different. We're on our third EV over 11 years, so have a

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