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by mrgordon 9y ago
Thats not what happened here. Current and former students are overwhelmingly united on the same side. The administration misused some voluntary response data as a pretext for shutting down a community that they didn't like. There are n
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Yeah lets move everyone to McCormick where all the suicides happen. Oh wait...
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by mrgordon 9y ago
You're comparing Gates with his poor quality virusware to RMS who has written incomparably important parts of the Unix operating system and made it free for all. Then you decide to act like RMS is the one that doesn't belong in th
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by mrgordon 9y ago
From your comment, you appear to have no personal experience with Senior House. Your comment thus comes across as incredibly misinformed and naive. Senior House was not a place where people pretend they are changing the world as the article
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Well I wouldn't personally say that California has invested too much into trains compared to a lot of the world like Malaysia, Japan, China, Thailand, the EU, etc. The Mission in San Francisco is a great example of a neighborhood with
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by mrgordon 9y ago
It wouldn't be my top choice for land to try to save due to it being on limestone as you mention. But regardless they are building more fancy housing as we speak, so it seems the least they could is plan a bit to mitigate the effects.
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Investment now saves money later in many cases. For example, climate change denying Florida will be halfway under water by the time the people give up on their state government and elect some people who will install pumps, barrier islands,
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Yeah (better) advertising for the community meetings could have gotten a larger group of people involved. I personally don't come across much info about meetings happening for this or other issues so this might be a problem worth tackl
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by mrgordon 9y ago
If your children are old enough to ride a bike but too young or too poor to have a car, then they can actually bike to school themselves which could make the commute nicer for everyone. They could bike alone, with friends, with a sibling, o
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by mrgordon 9y ago
One of the most ridiculous facts that gets overlooked in all this is that the bike share wanted to offer cheaper day passes to use the bikes. The bike rental shops pushed back and said it would harm their business so the bike share couldn&#
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Citibike, Ford, Barclays... most the major bike shares have corporate sponsors. They sponsor it because they get highly visible advertising and they collect mobility data about where people move between.
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Yea its probably mostly Calle 24 to be honest
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by mrgordon 9y ago
You might be right here that the stations could do a better job of explaining different options, but it seems like people will tell their friends about it and learn about it that way if its useful. To be honest though, almost every major ci
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Yeah its amazing the opponents can just lie and say it happened overnight. I knew where the stations were going for a LONG time and there were over 30 community meetings. Meanwhile the critics say they "will not negotiate" with th
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by mrgordon 9y ago
I think the "lack of community consult" is fictitious to be honest. It is easy to say someone should have reached out to the community more with no facts. https://missionlocal.org/2017/07/neighborhood-gro
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Without knowing what city you're talking about, it could be like SF where the poor neighborborhoods blocked bikes. Here they say the bikes are too expensive for poor people even though its $5/year if you qualify for discounted pub
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Nobody "rolled in overnight" The locations for these stations and the second wave of them that will be installed have been known for a long time and numerous community meetings were conducted. People are probably still just mad th
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Well you'd lose the bet. Ford had multiple community meetings near my house and faced strong opposition from the crazy Calle 24 people. The head of Calle 24 literally said they "would not negotiate" like Ford is some kind of
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by mrgordon 9y ago
My part of the Mission didn't get a bike station because of NIMBYs who complained it would gentrify the neighborhood and remove parking. In other words, they specifically blocked it from being an option for the poor people while the ri
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Many older people bike and the point of the bike lanes is to keep people out of traffic.
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Well they managed to block a bike share location near my house after crying about how it would gentrify the neighborhood and harm the businesses on 24th st. More important for them to have a parking spot for the Tesla out front I guess.
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by mrgordon 9y ago
Yep exactly. People fall for these benchmarks too easily (especially the ones released by 10gen themselves)
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Here is where I point out that MongoDB dominated write benchmarks when it first came out. And then everyone complained loudly that the benchmark was writing to PostgreSQL and flushing to disk while Mongo turned off safe writes so they'
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False although I grant some will.
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Exactly.
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Yeah totally agree. And Apple Maps was more noticeably flawed than Bing or another search competitor would be. Maps would send you to the wrong addresses over and over (especially internationally) while supposedly users may actually prefer
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I don't think most users would switch. Don't forget how many users Internet Explorer has since it comes preinstalled. And that's after a monopoly suit to make it easier to choose a competitor. Most people are not techies and
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Yeah Roland is the man!
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I've used the service a thousand times without this issue and I just cancel the ride (without a fee) if its taking too long. No reason to blame the platform for one driver especially given that you'll use Uber instead who probably
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Well Uber has been raising more money at higher valuations as a premier unicorn but now they're headed to down round central and the pressure will be on to make money sooner rather than later. Especially with the revelation that the se

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