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811.
by kbenson 4y ago
It already does that on mobile. It allows marking edges as connecting or not, and locking tiles with a long press.
812.
by kbenson 4y ago
Given how some think the lessening of US Navy projection of power and securing shipping lanes around the world is what's leading to global instability, and global stability has been very good for US economics the last 50+ years, a case
813.
by kbenson 4y ago
> When you wake up, you'll feel more rested than if you woke up at the midway point in one of the cycles, even if it is longer. Do you mean at the end of a cycle and before another one starts, or halfway through a cycle? I'd h
814.
by kbenson 4y ago
If they pay the driver more than they charge the rider which they have specifically done at points in the past , then every ride costs them, even if their other overhead is zero. In the past they did this to achieve market dominance over t
815.
by kbenson 4y ago
You can't lower prices to below costs and make money. If they're not profitable now, to become profitable they need to either cut costs or raise prices. The only reason to have prices below costs is to gain market share so you ca
816.
by kbenson 4y ago
They didn't state the bloggers were making the calculations. The bloggers noted are pro Uber. If you're going to just dismiss someone's point through an appeal to sentiment, you might as well get it right. Or maybe getting w
817.
by kbenson 4y ago
For some items it outsources to (or recommends you check in addition to the items it lists) awesome-sysadmin[1], which also seems very cool. 1: https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
818.
by kbenson 4y ago
I understand and mostly agree, but as a solution to someone that stated "Go is Google. Enough said." they might not find it sufficient...
819.
by kbenson 4y ago
Ah, Oracle, the last bastion of restraint, good sense, and companionship with open source. /s
820.
by kbenson 4y ago
Would there be any concern that you are essentially advertising your location at all times to some third party corp? Or is that only a concern during certain times and you can just turn off the commercial system at that point?
821.
by kbenson 4y ago
> “It’s hard to enforce the rule of law” is not a good reason to abandon it entirely. I didn't? > We should be both practicing good data hygiene and using legal tools to combat those who abuse data privacy. That's what I sai
822.
by kbenson 4y ago
It's impossible to control information once been created. The longer it's existed and the more locations you can see it make that spread exponentially more likely. Wehether we make that spread of informationlegal or not does littl
823.
by kbenson 4y ago
There's really so much more to it. Secondary market brokers (scalpers) shift risk, smooth out demand, and when you catch the right event at the right time, often offer ticket for less than they were originally purchased for. This h
824.
by kbenson 4y ago
Also not a bad reason to wait. If it's not important enough for them to iterate on to make better/cheaper because it's still selling, it might be better to skip for most people. Thankfully, I've only heard good things ab
825.
by kbenson 4y ago
One of the major benefits of ephemeral tokens is that they become less attractive to put into the code, and more attractive to put in a config file/vault that's easier to update and keep secret. This in itself is useful because i
826.
by kbenson 4y ago
> By ensuring that the direction of the weaves are perpendicular to one another when doing a cloth layup, and using a sufficiently strong adhesive/sealant, these types of materials are incredibly strong. I wonder if they tested tha
827.
by kbenson 4y ago
For many superhero characters, a flawed ordinary person rising to the challenge is exactly their origin story. It's compelling, so of course it's used. Whether they pull it off convincingly or if it's just given lip service
828.
by kbenson 4y ago
Or, it's like they're incentizied to believe and promote what they're doing and new and different because it's a way to short circuit the current financial system and make money without having to have all the same connec
829.
by kbenson 4y ago
The cynic in me thinks this is what you get when you have a very weak correlation between price to outcome, but the perception is that you have a very high correlation between price and outcome. Boards think paying more gets them more, but
830.
by kbenson 4y ago
I don't think anyone will dispute that some options are not useful, but I don't accept that you, or anyone else, should be the arbiter of what is useful and decide that more options aren't, and therefore we should stop. For t
831.
by kbenson 4y ago
> This presumes that options are of equal value, or at the least that there are more than N actual viable solutions, where N is sufficient to ensure whatever sample size you’re using includes one of the viable ones. That that presumes
832.
by kbenson 4y ago
> Given a simple problem A, when adding more options, at some point, choosing among the options requires more effort than solving the simple problem Only if you require that every option must be assessed. You can always choose a random
833.
by kbenson 4y ago
> this publicity is poised to create yet another distraction and delay necessary actions. More knowledge and options are always better. It's up to the people we've chosen to lead us to actually choose an option and follow thro
834.
by kbenson 4y ago
Historically, I don't think you could call something that sits on top of Apache full stack if you didn't also control Apache, so maybe, depending on whether you're just dropping on some webhost? If you get to ignore threads&#
835.
by kbenson 4y ago
The context you're missing, which is being alluded to in many comments, is that when the highways were put in place and they chose to put them through cities instead of around them politicians and planners had to choose where they we
836.
by kbenson 4y ago
If nothing else, it's a way to lock down a large swath of the demographic you must appeal to, and lets you then pander to only those are are sensitive to an actual position, and not just being endorsed by a group (or even just professi
837.
by kbenson 4y ago
It's possible there are far more negative externalities than you're accounting for. What's 600% ROI if it turns out it contributed significantly to inequality, both for income and race? How negatively has that effected the
838.
by kbenson 4y ago
Unambiguous things can become ambiguous at later points. As soon as you add a second relation between the tables, what once was unambiguous now is, and because of something which may be entirely unrelated to the specifics of the original q
839.
by kbenson 4y ago
In other words, the same way we dealt with information before photographs and videos were invented. The answer to how to we deal with the fact that images and videos can't be trusted is to look at what we did before we relied on them.
840.
by kbenson 4y ago
I wonder how much of this is because of early adoption and then a laggy update cycle because of that. There's quite a few European countries that look much more modern than the U.S. in their roads and ports and buildings, and it'

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