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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure. I'm not trying to say people can't be assholes or aren't being assholes. If the area is walking only with no place to park anything, then that should be enforced. But excusing car drivers just because everything has ben
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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, but to the OP's point, isn't that because the US has subsidized car parking to an insane level? Most parts of the country have literal legal minimum amounts of parking spots for cars you have to have to be able to run a busi
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by noirbot 3y ago
Also, pretty sure the overlap of "would ever want to use Whatsapp" and "cares about iMessage at all" is zero. Either you have Apple Status Symbol people, or you have "Meta can die in a fire entirely" or "i
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by noirbot 3y ago
I haven't had any real issues with Mazda over the years? I got it installed by them on a 10 year old car a few years ago and had no issues that weren't "the entire system wouldn't turn on" issues with a flaky batter
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by noirbot 3y ago
I mean, isn't this just trading one bad monopoly for another? It's weird to me that everyone's like "oh, the backwards US where they gave in to the Apple monopoly. We enlightened rest of the world use Facebook's Wha
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'll continue to restate the thing that made me immediately quit Signal forever - I made an account, and 10 minutes later, it had alerted someone I hadn't talked to in years that I had an account, simply because they had my phone
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, and like anyone who found out that someone taped the key to their door to their door, they changed the locks, and now everyone's mad at them.
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by noirbot 3y ago
Are you trying to ignore the state of what's going on? Beeper's business model was as interoperable with Apple as my neighbors cracking my wifi password to use for their household. The interoperability wasn't intended. Forcin
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, it feels like you move into that smaller studio zone. Paradox, Firaxis, even something like Supergiant. Places that have ups and downs, but generally make a specific sort of thing, get paid for it, and move on to the next thing.
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, no shit. That's not the question I was asking. You can choose to be an annoying literalist, or you can be informative, or you can be quiet. You've chosen the least socially reasonable of them.
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by noirbot 3y ago
That was mostly what I had in mind. There's plenty of diseases where you're cured in the sense that your body can passively take care of it from here, but there's a chance it flares up again. I was unclear if most cancers wer
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by noirbot 3y ago
Earnest curiosity - when someone is cured of cancer, and it comes back, is that different from me being cured of the flu and then catching the flu again later? Obviously it's different sorts of malady, but is it that the same cancer co
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by noirbot 3y ago
I don't know we can say it doesn't normally do this. What if more normal replies are just verbatim bits of training data, or multiple bits put together, but they're not specific or long enough that anyone's noticing? The
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm not getting "fooled" by anything. I've spent most of my life in various parts of the Eastern US. The problem, to a big degree is that the parts of the US with the density for rail are both already big freight areas w
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by noirbot 3y ago
Sure, but the size scales out. Texas isn't an island either.
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by noirbot 3y ago
My understanding is that the freight trains now are really long, and there's few places to pull off the tracks for such long trains, so the timetables are really tight for when trains can pass each other. This goes to what I was talkin
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by noirbot 3y ago
It's arguably the problem with any attempt at high speed rail in the US. Or even low-speed passenger rail. There's so much freight moving on the rails that there's just not much slack in the system for things not running on
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by noirbot 3y ago
Oh sure, but the "haha the US isn't even a third world country with its train system" people already are ignoring scale/density when they're laughing at the US rail systems. I'm past even bothering dealing with
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by noirbot 3y ago
That would be a curious comparison point. I feel like every discussion of rail in the US always turns into pointing and laughing at how bad the US is at rail because it's viewed through a passenger lens, completely ignoring how much ra
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by noirbot 3y ago
You would think that, but having just went through trying to implement Terraform Cloud at work, its tools for doing anything that approaches behemoth deployment are abysmal. Permissions management is a nightmare and any sort of orchestratio
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by noirbot 3y ago
I don't own or plan to own a Tesla, but the devotion shouldn't be surprising when they seem to have put the most effort and thought into making an EV that's actually functional. They definitely have issues, but most of their
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by noirbot 3y ago
What do you think Facebook Groups are if not a poorly age-verified way to talk to strangers on the internet?
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by noirbot 3y ago
This really summed up my feelings about it. Were there creeps and people trying to get up to illegal stuff on the site? Absolutely. I ran into plenty over the years, but two hits of ESC later and I was on to someone else. It some ways, it w
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by noirbot 3y ago
Many of them do around me. Does that matter to the point I was making? I'm not claiming there's literally no rules or laws around public spaces that have to be abided by.
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'll be right back - I need to tell my local pub and parks authority that they didn't think through the basic consequences of their actions when they made a place people could meet random strangers. I'm sure they just haven&#
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by noirbot 3y ago
What is the "best possible attempt"? There's was a checkbox added (possibly after this suit was filed) that was a "I'm over 18 and understand I'm meeting random people". That's something every teen al
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by noirbot 3y ago
My guess for the college admission situation is at least partially because, until recently, a lot of public and private colleges essentially refused to recognize homeschooling as a way to get an education, so your chance of getting admitted
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by noirbot 3y ago
But how much of that is because boarding is a complete mess, and the last thing you want is to get to the back of the plane where your seat is and that's all full already because for some reason all the people with status are also in t
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by noirbot 3y ago
I don't know the history exactly, but my assumption is that trying to bootstrap an industry-wide union from nothing is exceedingly difficult, while making one at a single company is much more viable. Presumably the idea would be to mer
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by noirbot 3y ago
But that assumes that we've always lived in a "Truth" society where Truth was discoverable for a majority of content, and I'm not sure that was ever the case for more than like... 10% of the global population for more th

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