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by kindatrue 4y ago
I remember hearing about Woodstock 99 in the news during that time. That there were "problems". That documentary was pretty shocking. I hadn't realized it was that bad / chaotic.
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by kindatrue 4y ago
One of the authors tweeted this: "The rest of the world has accepted the endemic nature of Covid and moved on, but the U.S. is an int'l outlier, still pushing mass testing & chasing down every case." [0] I'm not sure
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by kindatrue 4y ago
It's like car crashes and mass shootings. Both are preventable. But we just choose to ignore them because doing something about it would be too hard and not fun.
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by kindatrue 5y ago
"washed" Have you seen people in the real world?
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by kindatrue 5y ago
Once you fall into Prison Conditions Twitters, it's pretty eye opening. Like the guy who was boiled to death with hot water for funsies: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-wont-charge-priso... Or where rat
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by kindatrue 5y ago
>for what gain Those clicks!
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by kindatrue 5y ago
Electricity too. That PRC nuclear plant that was in the news? Helps power HK.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
>Construction in Berkeley is still extremely difficult True for most of the Bay Area
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by kindatrue 6y ago
In California property taxes are 1.x rate, and the assessed price is based essentially on when your ancestors bought it, with a 2% increase. Which leads to comedy like this: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/12
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by kindatrue 6y ago
>video games were just getting started It's also worth noting that the nature of video games have changed. Back then you'd pay $ for a cartridge and CD and that was it. There was little in the way of analytics. Now it's al
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by kindatrue 6y ago
https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1265719788875272192 Palo Alto. Someone pays $1081 per year living adjacent to someone who pays $24K per year.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Here's a link to the map https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/ This tweet highlights some of the insaneness: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1265719788875272192 Someone pay
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by kindatrue 6y ago
+1000 It's one thing to have a touch screen to control your phone - where your attention is the phone. It's another to have a touch screen to control the accessories of your car - where your attention is driving.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
There's also what's known as the "geometry" problem - 1 self driving car takes up as much space as 1 human driven car. Part of the problem is the general incompetency and mismanagement of US public transit construction -
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by kindatrue 6y ago
AT&T/Cingular was in a very weak position at the time, and really needed a win -- Steve Jobs exploited/leveraged the situation.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Contracts never stopped Steve Jobs from doing what he thought was right for his customers.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Steve Jobs was rolling in his grave
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Studies have shown that people spend less money when prices are higher/all inclusive. Check out the story of Stubhub and their attempt to be all inclusive. (tldr: people stopped buying tickets until they unbundled the mandatory fees) W
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by kindatrue 6y ago
>from start to destination without help You might want to narrow this down by location. Take a 10 mile trip in Menlo Park (which they once called "urban" in a video) is different than a 10 mile trip in Manhattan... in February
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by kindatrue 6y ago
This seems disastrous for homeowners and landlords hoping to recreate this Silicon Valley success flywheel https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1129046954409902081
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by kindatrue 6y ago
<goes to buy Googly Eye Glasses to wear on the back of my head to avoid mountain lions>
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Fascinating stuff! https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/credit-cards/15-h...
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Tidbit from the article: He founded PrankDial.com and it's a $10M business. I'd never heard of it. Wow... $10M run rate for a website that sends prank calls to others? Like "Chinese Apology" "Indian Tech Support&quo
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Ah, the era of NINJA loans. My haircut guy went from renting to "owning" 2 homes. Those were amazing times.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Something I noticed recently (prepandemic of course) after living in Silicon Valley for 20 years: the amount of plastic surgery that you see around town in Palo Alto has really gone off the charts. Both men and women. So much botox. So much
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by kindatrue 6y ago
"The shield is also 50 lbs, so it’s not exactly easy to transport through a crowd." That's putting it mildly.
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by kindatrue 6y ago
The video that says "See the Dyson car on the road" is so strangely fake. So you're driving down 6th ave away from the Madison Square Garden sign promoting the Knicks? There's not going to be a double yellow line because
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by kindatrue 6y ago
And then sometimes they forget that you're there "Daniel Chong Drank Urine To Survive 5 Days In Holding Cell Without Food, Water" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daniel-chong-dea-urine-cell-5...
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by kindatrue 6y ago
Fun Fact: A court determined it was legal for the NYPD to discriminate against hiring police officers that had IQs too high. https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
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by kindatrue 6y ago
They also depend on citizens not having the financial or time resources to sue.

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