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by obstinate 9y ago
There's obviously a balance to be struck. But motorists kill a lot of people, make a lot of noise and pollution, and use a lot of infrastructure that city-dwellers must pay to maintain. So I think it is not out of bounds to consider re
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by obstinate 9y ago
True, true. I live in Chelsea. I'm not surprised that people in outer Brooklyn drive in that area. I'm wondering why people drive in lower Manhattan.
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by obstinate 9y ago
I think the whole idea is to add cost to bringing a car downtown, so fewer people will do it. The proposition is that the harm this does to suburbanites will be offset by making the city more livable for it's residents, and maybe by
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by obstinate 9y ago
I would be interested in seeing some empirical numbers on this. I live in NYC and have driven a Zipcar here a handful of times for errands. The experience is . . . not great. This has made me wonder: who are these people in cars? And parked
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by obstinate 9y ago
My immediate thought was whether someone might be able to induce the behavior. That combined with self-dealing (owning both the buying and selling accounts) could extract significant profits from an exchange that is willing to make its cust
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by obstinate 9y ago
If there were a job like, "Professional apology writer," you would be great at it. On the other hand, I doubt you would work for anyone who needed such services, and good on you for that.
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by obstinate 9y ago
I'm sorry that I was overly accusatory of you directly. I tend to have a belief that what people spend their words on in a comment thread is an indicator for how much they fractionally care about a particular thing. I recognize that th
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by obstinate 9y ago
This is a great idea. I wish there were such a device for Bluetooth! I have earbuds that seal quite well and, at least on my Android device, there's a volume setting around 20% that's slightly too loud, and one around 10% that&#x2
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by obstinate 9y ago
I have read in some places that everyone hears that "eeee" to some degree or another. I distinctly remember being able to perceive that sound even when I was a child, and I have read anecdotal reports from many others. (I did some
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by obstinate 9y ago
At a minimum, recuse oneself from any decisions or oversight over the decisions related to a particular deal. But actually just don't, as ceejayoz has said.
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by obstinate 9y ago
I find it deeply disturbing that you're more concerned about how male VCs can get their rocks off than the actual harassment that occurred here.
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by obstinate 9y ago
I don't necessarily mind acknowledging the apology. What I do mind is what I see as a lot of people going out of their way to give him props for apologizing, and relatively few people actually talking about how heinous his behavior is.
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by obstinate 9y ago
Par for the course when it comes to women's issues on this site. Sad but true. There are a lot of men on here, and it's hard to see things that don't affect you directly.
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by obstinate 9y ago
It would be more impressive to not harass women founders. This apology moves him above harassers who don't apologize, but still miles below non-harassers. Beware of giving someone too much credit for doing something very harmful, then
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by obstinate 9y ago
Quality is objective? I don't think so, not unless you mean something different by "quality" than most people.
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by obstinate 9y ago
It's not so much how close the stuff is together as what is being burned to power it, how much of that stuff is being burned, and how close that is happening to where people live. Rural areas with coal plants nearby are going to perfor
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by obstinate 9y ago
It would have to be a very close friend indeed for me to offer to do a bunch of free labor (in the form of teaching) in addition to giving money, and I'd have to be satisfied that the circumstances were not reasonably within the person
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by obstinate 9y ago
I work on a team with another remote team, and I assure you this is not always the case.
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by obstinate 9y ago
Yes, although I tend to use SSHFS and a local editor. Even a cellular quality connection is not required. It works fine from an airplane.
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by obstinate 9y ago
Probably more dependent on one's immediate manager and/or chain than on company wide policy. Personally, I would not want to report to someone who spends the majority of time remote. But maybe this person is a really great boss.
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by obstinate 9y ago
https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo
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by obstinate 9y ago
On the one hand, I viscerally agree with you because I have some distaste for some aspects of philosophy. On the other hand, we have terms of art in CS that seem equally obscure to outsiders. Have you ever looked at the complexity theory wi
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by obstinate 9y ago
It is more inclusive to use to "people" or some other gender neutral term.
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by obstinate 9y ago
It was actually published in this journal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Envir... . The journal charges a fee to have one's paper processed. I'm not sure if that is typical in open acc
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by obstinate 9y ago
Would make an interesting premise for an environmentalist terrorism novel.
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by obstinate 9y ago
That is no doubt true, although hardly relevant when one particular side is called out by various signals in the linked blog post, one of which I have already explained. If he were talking about conservative trolls, this would be a very dif
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by obstinate 9y ago
The "trolls" Fry is talking about here are progressives. At least, that is the signal I'm getting from the following: "It doesn’t matter whether they think they’re defending women, men, transgender people, Muslims, human
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by obstinate 9y ago
One can be a quite talented writer and still have regressive views. These two properties are orthogonal. Not saying Fry is regressive -- I honestly don't know his views -- just saying that the "rules of discourse" are not abo
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by obstinate 9y ago
It's fascinating that, in your analogy, folks sharing progressive views on Twitter are the Nazis, considering that literal white supremacists tend to favor the other side.
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by obstinate 9y ago
There are several types of things like patch karma, but they are known under different names. I have heard words like "literal dollars" or "actual power within large, wealthy organizations" used to describe these concept

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