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by r_klancer 8y ago
Anecdata: I signed the contract yesterday for a small Somerville single-family, near the Cambridge line, for just over $700k. I'm expecting to put $200k+ into it. If a developer got their hands on it, they would expand the square foota
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by r_klancer 9y ago
My takeaway from the comments in this thread: self-driving Ubers don't drive defensively, almost surely can't "read" pedestrian behavior, and even with lidar may never have seen Elaine Herzberg. Oh, and they speed. This
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by r_klancer 9y ago
Other way around. Parked cars ("car culture" meaning the expectation that there should be free and easy street parking everywhere) take up space that could be otherwise used by contractor and delivery vehicles. No one is arguing a
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by r_klancer 9y ago
I am biased (I also work there) but the benefit of a Fitbit is the consistency of the focus on fitness and overall wellness. Over the long term the compounding positive effect can be a bigger deal in most people's lives than whatever e
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by r_klancer 9y ago
This is excellent. I've been meaning to do something similar for my five year old. As always the hard part is finding the time to get started. This will get us started. (It was easier back when building this stuff was my day job! -- h
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by r_klancer 11y ago
Hey John! I agree. My email address's been the same since 1996 thanks to pobox. I remember a pobox faq back then to the effect of "how do I know you'll still be around?" IIRC it asked, rhetorically, how do you know your
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by r_klancer 11y ago
> I wonder how much w̶o̶r̶s̶e̶ better it'll be when they don't have to worry about being hit There. Fixed it for you. (I commute by T and foot in Cambridge and Boston, by the way; and, yes, sounds flippant, but how awesome woul
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by r_klancer 11y ago
I'd say the opposite. The bag of chips display ad is annoying, ugly, and slows down whatever I'm trying to do on the web. The location breadcrumbs ... well, it's not that I really want those shared. But at least it happens en