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by mike_d 3y ago
Thank you this is a great example of my point. Induced demand, despite having no hard evidence to support it, feels like it should be the answer. We could talk all day about the concept of going out and seeing for yourself in a large field
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by mike_d 3y ago
> I'll note that all your "poor" examples own a car. This is actually a key point many city dwelling anti-car advocates completely miss. The poor do depend heavily on cars because they are pushed to the outskirts where the
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by mike_d 3y ago
> The benefit comes when prices reach the level where traffic flows at full speed. How then does your gardener get his truck to your house? Your DoorDash driver? The elderly woman on a fixed income who needs to get to her doctors appoint
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by mike_d 3y ago
Induced demand has been thoroughly debunked [1]. If you build a 20 lane no-stops highway from Fresno to Reno, you might see some use shift from other routes, but it does not spur a horde of people to buy cars so they can drive the route. It
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by mike_d 3y ago
The Bay Area does this with carpool lanes. The electronic billboard says $12 and you see a nonstop stream of Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, etc. and tech company busses. All it does is force the poor to sit in traffic while some lanes are reserved f
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by mike_d 3y ago
Taxi medallions were introduced to enforce a monopoly for the wealthy taxi company owners. Take Las Vegas as a prime example, you can't get a medallion unless you are part of a taxi company. Of course you can't start a taxi compan
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by mike_d 3y ago
This already exists in the form of a gas tax and road use taxes (registration). NIMBYs get in the way of building the lanes that already have demand and funding. Extending it further really just ends up as a restriction on the movements of
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by mike_d 3y ago
Google's plan is to break every type of client fingerprinting and then funnel everyone into using their browser attestation. iOS isn't any better and already sends a unique "Private Access Token" with requests to Cloudfl
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by mike_d 3y ago
Access was an app you had installed on your workstation but never opened because in the backend every late 90s early 2000s desktop app was using it as its data backend. Between Excel (with no functional API to use for storage) and a "r
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by mike_d 3y ago
> When new tasks came in, I started defaulting to C# for that reason. I don't think anyone actually prefers VB syntax. C# has a pretty robust community around it now. Which was your experience because you knew C. VB appealed to peop
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by mike_d 3y ago
Trump makes the same claims every time he is caught doing something. Implying there is some sort of kangaroo court cabal out to get you is a deflection tactic that you seem to have fallen for. If the American system is so corrupt that we ig
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by mike_d 3y ago
> what he gave to the journalists. We now know Glenn Greenwald was likely a Russian asset at the time he was given access to the Snowden files. For a member of the intelligence community, he sure did a piss poor job of vetting who he cho
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by mike_d 3y ago
Absolutely. When you make the choice to become a whistleblower, you are making the decision that the information you have is more important than your personal freedoms. Any major US news publication or the EFF would have put their legal tea
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by mike_d 3y ago
> The fact that the government pursued Snowden They had to. He broke the law. He would have had the chance to go to trial and defend himself and seek whistleblower protection status. Given the politically charged nature and public opinio
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by mike_d 3y ago
Heh. I'd actually be super curious how much of a base linux system is still "actively maintained" by that metric. I gave up tilting at windmills trying to get the default whois clients in any of the major distros updated afte
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by mike_d 3y ago
Semantics I guess. By your logic the Dodge Viper never existed because it was discontinued. ISC was heavily invested in BIND 10, to the point I even got a sticker. That combined with a 1.x release are what make a software project production
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by mike_d 3y ago
Eh, no? BIND 10 was under active development for years before ISC ran out of money. The continued work on BIND 9 is only happening thanks to numerous sponsors and large organizations with maintenance contracts. You can download BIND 10 rele
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by mike_d 3y ago
A universe where you are not standing on the shoulders of giants. For a little context the deep note was released the same year as TCP/IP and the Commodore 64. Source code was mostly shared by printing it in magazines (multi-page print
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by mike_d 3y ago
Attic/crawl space. If you don't have access to either there is a drill bit on a 40-80 inch flexible shaft. You cut a hole in the wall for the box you'll mount the ethernet in and then use it as access to drill up/down&#x
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by mike_d 3y ago
The base supports JPARC which is the primary cold weather training area for the entire DoD. They also house a massive refueling operation since tons of military APAC to CONUS flights pass right by Alaska.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Small reactors won't be economical if they take that many people to run. The military has demonstrated you can easily maintain and operate them with a handful of 18 to 22 year olds.
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by mike_d 3y ago
ME countries have relatively lax business laws if you pay the right people and financial/business records are hard to get ahold of as an international investigator. After US sanctions hit Russia, many of the companies magically were he
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by mike_d 3y ago
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210213-will-money-la... https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/new-u-s-anti-money-l... https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29&#
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by mike_d 3y ago
> NFTs were specifically designed No, NFTs were to capitalize on the new tax reporting and valuation requirements for physical art that closed the money laundering loophole.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Technicalities don't matter, explicitly calling it out creates a false connection in readers brains. Like how some snake oil treatments say "FDA cleared" because they know consumers don't know what it means.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> We definitely are not trying to pass as a medical service. > HSA/FSA-eligible. Try harder?
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Threads like this are peak HN - people who "know better" how the world should work Peak self own. I literally asked an architect before posting. > there was absolutely no architect or engineer stamp on them. Did you review
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by mike_d 3y ago
> The biggest builders here will be in multiple subdivisions at once, with varying topography You are ignoring the tens of thousands of hours pre-built builders put into streamlining designs that can be put on almost any plot of land. T
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by mike_d 3y ago
Sounds like a good time to buy silver and palladium.
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Well there is no reason you shouldn't be able to. Think about how large purchases were made before banking networks existed. My friend worked for an insurance company that would regularly receive double digit thousands cash payments on

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