phoobahr

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by phoobahr 6y ago
Do you feel the same way regarding the World Trade Center discussion from today? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24502706
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by phoobahr 6y ago
Of course he would close borders - he thinks trade wars are easy to win and it’s an easy sell to his racist base. Of course he’d sign The stimulus bill - it made looting the country even easier. Of course he’d have a task force - he’d liqui
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by phoobahr 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21033371
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by phoobahr 7y ago
The US is the only country we share a land border with and at the very least at this time of year 35million people will starve without trains and trucks over the border. So, yeah, the first logisitical barrier I can think of inside of 30 se
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by phoobahr 7y ago
That strap time parsing doesn't fail under python 2.7.17 or 3.8.1
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by phoobahr 7y ago
SF needs to build diagonal crossing bridges (or tunnels). The traffic jams come from all the vehicles i pedestrian spaces. Fixed that for you.
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by phoobahr 7y ago
It's a broken social contract; more akin to re-zoning that apartment out of existence after you lived there for 20 years. And for a profit motive, targeting the segment of the neighbourhood least able to complain, defend themselves or
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by phoobahr 7y ago
I live in vim, write mostly python, and don't need function keys. An iPad gives me a range of vim ports, shells, python environment and one really good gift client. Also the Smart Keyboard is simply the best shape for typing on a seat-
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by phoobahr 7y ago
bandwidth != latency
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by phoobahr 7y ago
Delivery truck volume scales with demand and has pretty upfront costs. Buss volume scales with funding and political will with upfront costs and delayed realized benefits. Generally supply is outstripped by demand. Personal conveyance volum
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by phoobahr 7y ago
That doesn’t work for the visually impaired, for those with epilepsy, for the extremely short of stature, for persons without hands, for those who are aged or living with progressive impairments who shouldn’t drive but for whom a $10k-$50k
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by phoobahr 7y ago
Triple the price of gasoline, rigorously enforce traffic law, eliminate all free parking. In short stop subsidizing the actual fiscal and opportunity costs for driving personal vehicles and mass transit starts looking pretty good.
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by phoobahr 7y ago
In those cases, marketing needs to actually add value to a product, not just inform people of the intrinsic value of a product In this specific case, and others like it where a truly common good is priced into a truly niche market, the ma
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by phoobahr 7y ago
Rate of growth is a garbage indicator for anyone who isn't VC funded. Particularily if you're a (still predominantly) hardware outfit with Thea history of designing, producing, shipping and selling some of the most profitable mass
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by phoobahr 7y ago
Great - I await your patches.
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by phoobahr 7y ago
And here I am a Canadian and my client base is Canadian. While not a problem just yet it is likely that PIPEDA/PHIPA would make it complicated to serve data from outside the country. I am not a lawyer but the advice I have been given i
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by phoobahr 7y ago
I'm Canadian and I've lived in South America and South East Asia. I've travelled elsewhere rather extensively. In my experience, no need to point out that it's not universal, the US is the only place that worships the pr
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by phoobahr 7y ago
Which is why, to first approximation, anyone outside of the US views your mainstream progressive as hard right and your right-of-center as fascist.
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by phoobahr 8y ago
that's the joke.
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by phoobahr 8y ago
He loves to "talk corporate" and his corporation seems to be on the wrong side of everything. So, yeah, there's that.
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by phoobahr 8y ago
If I had to guess it's probably not the $5/month as much as that it's an incremental offsite backup service designed and marketed for ease of use and high availability... not an Amazon Glacier competitor. If you didn't p
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by phoobahr 8y ago
I live in Canada, a cold part even. I live in a city, it's still cold. I haven't bought anything from Canada Goose but have spent similar money on layered clothing for similar (or better) performance. Why? Because I don't dri
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by phoobahr 8y ago
That’s the thing though - you can be restricted by the constraints due a common carrier or you can take your lumps when you offer a haven for speech that, while free, does not come at zero cost.
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by phoobahr 8y ago
How is this the right thing? Or the wrong thing for that matter? There are no utilities, common carriers not governmental agencies in play. This is an entirely contractual matter amongst civil parties. Everyone here is free to say what the
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by phoobahr 9y ago
So.... Companies used to using information-hiding to manipulate negotiations with employees find that Thierry culture and skill sets aren't well adapted to maintaining the 'house advantage' in a free and open market place for
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by phoobahr 9y ago
Differentiation. I don’t like the touch bar but I like that they tried. Now please take it a little further and clean up the line-up. I want all the weird future bits to go in a ‘modern’ ultra portable. Take the 12” macbook and put an A11 o
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by phoobahr 14y ago
sooo... Counter(re.findall(r"[^a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z]+)[^a-zA-Z]",requests.get(" http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-releas... ).content.lower())) I see one occurrence of 'shit'. I'm not sure how I feel about your pansy ass semi
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by phoobahr 14y ago
My girlfriend broke both her wrists a few years ago. Now they both give her troble and one thumb has nerve damage. She has travelled the world with her 1st gen ipad and never really thought about replacing it... But I bet she will now insid
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by phoobahr 14y ago
so far as I can tell Americans are only entitled to Free Outrage and only then if it doesn't interfere with someone's profit motive or business model.
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by phoobahr 14y ago
this. the only way this makes any sense to me at all is if apple decided to sell a sorts of ePad and sell to institutions only.

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