ocschwar

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by ocschwar 10y ago
A web site whose influence is over a much smaller portion of the public.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The Internet was going to be an instrument for elevating discourse. Twitter turned it into the opposite with the 140 character limitation.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> From 2013 to 2015 San Francisco experienced a 2% increase in the total number of homeless, while the nation as a whole saw a 5.2% decrease. Greyhound. No, really. San Francisco's homeless problem is the nation's problem.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I live in one of those streetcar suburbs. It WOULD be great for kids, even though my house is a short walk from those oh-so-scary high rises, because that also makes it a short walk from a lot of things a kid wants to walk to. The one catch
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Three story condo? In a remote area? With surface parking? I'll pass, thank you. Three story condo closer into town? With no parking? Sure! I'll give up my car even. If, that is, you can get permission to build such a thing somewh
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Visit strongtowns.org and citylab.com among other sites.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The main obstacle to building upwards in American cities is the illegality of it. It's zoned, and coded and regulated to death, and can only be done in a small portion of the land around. Suburban sprawl, meanwhile, remains actively su
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by ocschwar 10y ago
A lot of the bloat in the 4 year colleges comes specifically from administrative bloat on the dorms and student-life side. Not so much the luxury dorms, though they are a problem, but the sheer number of deans and vice deans getting hired.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"Am I the only one who hates the notion of being forced to pay for other people's bad financial decisions?" Bad financial decisions that they made at age 18 with heavy pressure from everyone around them? I got bigger fish to
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Github is a lot easier to migrate out of, come that day.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The really nice thing about hydro is that it's nimble enough to make up for the intermittent nature of wind and solar. Costa Rica's hydro capacity is enough to enable a huge expansion of solar and wind not only in-house but in the
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Wyoming's one example: https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2016/wyomings-ag-gag-law-d...
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> Should someone be allowed to sneak into a company's building, or pretend to be an honest employee, just to investigate potential wrongdoing? That's the government's job, not private activists'. So Upton Sinclair was
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by ocschwar 10y ago
>Should someone be allowed to sneak into a company's building, or pretend to be an honest employee, just to investigate potential wrongdoing? That's the government's job, not private activists'. It was legal for the e
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Bear in mind that in the US, our lovely republican party literally made it illegal to research where the superbugs are being bred. In the US, the problem is mostly pig and cattle feedlots that rely on antibiotics to keep the animals from be
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"Cool, and what's your proposal for an alternative energy source to power modern civilisation?" We have several alternatives. The only problem they have is that most of them are difficult to store in a self-contained moving v
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by ocschwar 10y ago
My feeling is that one should use Python or Go to prototype a program, and then move to Rust to make it systems-ready.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
That would be my thought too, but at this point Rust covers compile time checks against a larger class of errors, and is gentler about doing it.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Once you've made the decision to leave C for a systems programming project, why would one not just go over to Rust?
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Given that GE is its own VC for the context, they really don't need to be in NYC. More importantly, industrial Internet of Shit developers, smart grid companies, and related activities are going on at the Seaport District, right where
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The alternative is trade agreements with a far weakened ISDS mechanism
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by ocschwar 10y ago
This: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Mystic_G... This is the Mystic Generating Station in Everett, MA. It is inside Boston Harbor, and receives liquified natural gas to generate ele
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by ocschwar 10y ago
American cities have much higher towers, but then they waste the space around those towers on car parking. Paris does it better.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
You can expect measures like this to intensify around Europe, thanks to the software engineers at WV and Audi. If cities can't trust carmakers to be honest about the emissions their products make, then they're going to work harder
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by ocschwar 10y ago
30 miles of cable gives your customers proof the speed bump will not go away with a software change.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Not quite. There's still the matter of the Callendar effect: CO2 increases. -> World warms a litte. -> Baseline level of water vapor in the atmosphere increases. -> water warms a little more. -> Baseline level of water leve
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Where I live, the biggest source of blight is elderly residents who are getting too old and frail to properly maintain their yards. There's no HOA, so the only thing you can do about it is help them. There's no option for bossing
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Warren Buffet drives a plain sedan to work in Omaha. Steve Jobs never swanked up his house either. Bill Gates's mansion was built primarily to try to showcase Microsoft development efforts (don't laugh! okay, laugh).
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by ocschwar 10y ago
In an inner ring burb, or a New England town, you don't have to enroll the kid in anything to avoid obesity. Mine has to climb down and back up an 80 foot hill any time she wants to go to the library or ice cream shop.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> I'm reminded that in a lot of places outside of the US, flaunting your wealth is considered a big faux pas. Here in Yankee-land, it is also frowned upon.

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