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by osdiab 8y ago
Agreed, I've seen Scuttlebutt around but I can't help but feel that it will ever be mass market with that name.
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by osdiab 8y ago
Agreed, I've seen Scuttlebutt around but I can't help but feel that it will ever be mass market with that name.
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by osdiab 8y ago
Really? I was using Mobike as a foreigner in China for a while and I don't recall them asking for a 身份证 or anything (did they ask for my passport number? I don't think they did), plus they have a pretty well-translated app and alr
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by osdiab 8y ago
As well as having proper roads to bike them on, most of America has pretty lame bike infrastructure generally. Separately, your 22-year-old probably steel-frame bike is probably built a lot better than the average cheap aluminum ones these
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by osdiab 8y ago
They'd probably have to do quite a bit of manual labor on the things without significant cooperation from the bikesharing companies, given that all of them are equipped with locks attached to the frames that can only be unlocked with t
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by osdiab 8y ago
That's not true, there were tons of Mobike and Ofo bikes there, both of which are very well funded and active corporations at the moment. There are some minor incorrect statements—Didi isn't just a bike-sharing company, but they&#
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by osdiab 8y ago
I loved riding these bikes in China when I lived there because they were so convenient and you could find a free one pretty much anywhere. I hope the concept spreads, but with a reputation like this, convincing cities to allow for it will b
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by osdiab 9y ago
Yeah, I was definitely thinking that Japanese counting is way more complex than Chinese counting.
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by osdiab 9y ago
For me the most important are split layout and portability. The cups and thumb layouts are just icing on the cake, tenting on a flat layout would be sufficient too. Iris and dactyl look like the sort of things I’m thinking, though I’d proba
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by osdiab 9y ago
My dream keyboard would be a Kinesis advantage with some significant modifications to make it good for taking it on the go, since I travel a bunch and work from public places. In order of importance: 1. more compact. No extra surface, inste
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by osdiab 9y ago
I lived in China for 4 months and it was the greatest. No matter where I was in the country I had access to bikes. I was able to get cheaper housing away from bustling transit stations but within 5 minutes of biking, and just bike to the st
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by osdiab 9y ago
Quickly changing though. Shanghai intends to add on another 7 or 8 lines in the next 7 years for instance, with the intention of having everywhere in the inner rings within half a kilometer of a station. Change is the constant there. And at
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by osdiab 9y ago
China's system has one major leg up over Japan's, which is that it's still pretty cost effective and has become faster and potentially more thorough in the years to come (China is a much bigger country, so building out a thor
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by osdiab 9y ago
Nice :) I hope mapped conditional types becomes a thing not too long from now, been waiting for a while :) https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/12424#issueco...
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by osdiab 9y ago
Yeah, I’m not saying it’s an excuse, nor that it’s moral, just that it’s understandable and that there is a value in trying to understand.
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by osdiab 9y ago
I’m not saying it’s moral. Obviously I would prefer my government to not do this sort of thing. But I am saying that the motivations are understandable with historical context and that the legitimacy of a government’s decisions go deeper th
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by osdiab 9y ago
For the ends justify the means part, each time China went through a major revolutionary attempt in the last 150 years or so it led to incredible amounts of human suffering (on the orders of millions to tens of millions of deaths each time)
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by osdiab 9y ago
Unjust or immoral actions can ultimately have on balance positive ends. What you decide to do is a matter of your philosophy, but in most significant cases none of your choices are completely moral.
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by osdiab 9y ago
Clearly it wasn’t a moral or just choice, but when China has seen rebellions that lead to the deaths of tens of millions of people in the last century, you can at least see why the incumbent government may have had pause.
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by osdiab 9y ago
They did have many governments and coups in the last 150 years, and they didn’t lead to incrementally better situations, but instead turmoil and foreign exploitation. I’m not Chinese and I can’t speak for their decisions, but it sounds like
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by osdiab 9y ago
I’m not Chinese, but I did live there for a bit. If you haven’t already I suggest you take the time to get acquainted with Chinese culture, modern history, and modern Chinese lifestyle. In recent times there have been significant human trag
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by osdiab 9y ago
There are papers that demonstrate the discriminatory effects of voter ID laws on minority turnout [1], and these sorts of interview videos are easy to produce in a way that selectively validates the statement you want to convey. I don'
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by osdiab 9y ago
Unfortunately, the young people who are subject to the rental market are also very politically inactive when it comes to local politics. Berkeley residents - how about next time you protest, focus not only on national politics but also on y
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by osdiab 9y ago
My dogma around this sort of pattern is similar, except that I don't just use one global error catching statement. Basically, every module or function or whatever has a client. Sometimes those clients are other parts of your own system
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by osdiab 9y ago
It's less of an edge case than you may think, given solo ridership numbers here in the USA. 75% commute alone. https://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/2014/acs-32.pdf
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by osdiab 9y ago
The max throughout is the number that we should care about - they provide fewer cars per minute not because they're physically incapable of doing it, just because there isn't demand. And it would be the same in a car-centric situa
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by osdiab 9y ago
Exactly, thanks for clarifying :)
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by osdiab 9y ago
It's too bad Caltrain electrification is getting screwed over... But it's even worse that BART was blocked from just going down the peninsula, to the point that we literally went the other way around the bay to get it down to San
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by osdiab 9y ago
The amount of people that can fit in 1 car is roughly maxes out at 4-7 people, depending on the car. There needs to be enough spacing between each car so that in the case of a failure, cars have space to brake to a stop without catapulting
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by osdiab 9y ago
I personally find trains to be dramatically more comfortable than cars. Feel free to disagree, but a) not having to pay attention, b) not facing any congestion, c) not dealing with the motion sickness and dizziness that comes with doing any

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