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by ocb 10y ago
Not saying that won't happen eventually, but it seems a lot more likely to me that on-street public charging facilities will proliferate as EVs gain popularity.
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by ocb 10y ago
That's an enormous assertion that sounds very classist. Have anything to back it up?
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by ocb 10y ago
It has political connotations in those specific contexts (and "Murica" is ironic critique of those political connotations). Now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism You're essentially a
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by ocb 10y ago
You don't get it. Singular "America" in its common usage in English to refer to the US is absolutely not a politically loaded term, at least not in the sense that you are saying. Your assertion to the contrary because you wer
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by ocb 10y ago
None of that changes the fact that, in English, "America" typically denotes the US and not the Western Hemisphere as a whole. You're splitting hairs over people using a word differently in English than they do in Spanish.
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by ocb 10y ago
This has always been puzzling to me. Is it not just more-or-less a linguistic thing? In the Anglosphere, "America" refers to the US. Nothing about it is malicious or in contempt of Mexico or any other states in the Western Hemisph
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by ocb 10y ago
The point I was trying to make is that your belief that access to the mountains is actually the most important thing for lots of people (especially the software developer type) is absurd. If you're living in a city, your day-to-day lif
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by ocb 10y ago
Shh, west coast people have a higher quality of life than you! They can drive to better-than-average hikes on weekends! That's such a huge part of their identities that nowhere else could possibly be bearable!
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by ocb 10y ago
Ha. Stop telling yourself that and just enjoy your weather that's also as "west coast" as you can get :)
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by ocb 10y ago
So? That's just an appeal to (200 year old) authority.
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by ocb 10y ago
The comment you're replying to did say "classist" as well. I'm sure you're aware of the US's unequal spread of wealth among different racial groups in its population... You are not personally being called racis
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by ocb 10y ago
To be that nitpicky asshole, "pizza" as an example doesn't really do anything to argue your case because there's plenty of non-English-language brands that Americans typically pronounce with an English pronunciation (Vol
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by ocb 10y ago
Additionally, plenty of people already commute long distances in relative comfort without having to drive themselves--it still sucks.
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by ocb 10y ago
What exactly was dismissive and/or self-righteous about the comment? A question like "Why is hip-hop associated with black people, but not rock?" is 1) absurdly broad, and 2) beyond the obvious parts, so full of nuance that d
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by ocb 10y ago
Haha, the possibility of this occurred to me, interesting to have it confirmed. I guess I'm reflective of the hostile culture I was pointing out, lol
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by ocb 10y ago
I thought this was very well done and hilarious. However, I'm not sure how I feel about the particular emphasis on mocking people who lift and take protein supplements. It's definitely obnoxious when people define themselves by th
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by ocb 10y ago
I understand and agree with the egalitarian spirit of your post, but... 1) Housing in the vast majority of the US is inexpensive. Paying $3000 for a tiny room is something that pretty much only happens in SF proper and Manhattan. 2) Crime,
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by ocb 11y ago
Seems unlikely that anyone experienced/competent enough to do any technical heavy lifting would go for this anyways... There's quite a few internships out there that pay at a rate significantly higher than the median household inc
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by ocb 11y ago
That's very simplistic analysis. The impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers, even low-skilled ones, is definitely not a settled question [1]. [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/06/
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by ocb 11y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive if both are allowed. See Berlin.
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by ocb 11y ago
Minus automatically deleting apps to make space, iCloud on iPhones already does pretty much everything the article says they plan to do. I'm sure something similar exists for Android (I'm not knowledgable). Also, I enjoy the use o
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by ocb 11y ago
Love that they're Twins fans. What a funny coincidence.
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by ocb 11y ago
I'm impressed by your ability to formulate arguments using only rhetorical fallacies. Good day, sir :)
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by ocb 11y ago
I see now that you're trolling, but being in power does not necessarily imply mass surveillance capabilities ;)
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by ocb 11y ago
Because bank robberies are something that happens often enough and affects enough people that we should allow people in power (who are never, ever corrupt!) to have the capability to do something where the potential for abuse is incredibly
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by ocb 11y ago
Wow, that's a hassle. Okay, I guess snow is a valid excuse then, haha.
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by ocb 11y ago
I agree with you... However, where do you (or your parents, I guess) live where you have a 2-car garage but not enough space to park a car on the street in front of your house? (snow isn't a real excuse, plenty of people in snowy place
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by ocb 11y ago
Hmm. I guess my thought is that if it became well-known that using Whatsapp, iMessage, etc. to communicate about illegal activities frequently led to arrest, then knowledge of PGP and the like would spread because it's not too difficul
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by ocb 11y ago
Ban modular arithmetic! Down with modulus!
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by ocb 11y ago
GPGTools, for example ( https://gpgtools.org ) I suppose I omitted the step of copying and pasting your recipient's public key, but that's not especially conceptually difficult, either.

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