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by ruddct 5y ago
I visited Tipasa on a trip to northern Algeria a few years back. It, and so many of the ruins across the country, are pretty incredible, Pompeii-level sites that are mostly sitting there empty. There’s very little tourism in Algeria, though
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by ruddct 5y ago
To give just a few examples of the legal side of this: Here in NY, killing someone with a vehicle is a misdemeanor (unless you're drunk/high). People avoid this charge by claiming a medical incident while driving, and are often ab
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by ruddct 5y ago
The thing that's confusing to me about the Miami-tech-hub story is the lack of universities. Good universities + big companies + lots of money floating around, that's the holy trinity of tech/startup hubs, no? Miami has maybe
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by ruddct 5y ago
> But being opposed to it generally, in a city no less, is a bit ridiculous Here in NYC we call these folks 'Manhattanites against the Manhattanization of Manhattan'. Shockingly, quite a few of them exist.
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What’s the Point of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery?(vice.com)
2 points by ruddct 5y ago|0 comments
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by ruddct 5y ago
The 50s-60s were a boom time compared to the following decades, but were nothing compared to the preceding decades. NYC's biggest building boom was the ~1900s-1930s, after which things fell off considerably. https://www.rent
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by ruddct 5y ago
Would love to hear how a catalog riddled with counterfeits, fake reviews and listing-hijacking is a Customer Obsession. Not trolling, Ex-Amazon so I'm curious how current Amazonians rationalize these things.
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by ruddct 5y ago
For those surprised by this (as I was when I first heard about it), this is talking about Section 179, which allows someone to fully deduct the purchase price of heavyweight vehicles (e.g. a Ford F-150) if it’s used for business. These vehi
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by ruddct 5y ago
Another good one, on the fruit/veg supply side of things: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-fruits-and-veggies-are-so-c...
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The United States needs to learn how to learn(pedestrianobservations.com)
143 points by ruddct 5y ago|124 comments
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by ruddct 6y ago
Looks like these are talking about hood standards on three-box vehicles/sedans, which don't apply to trucks or SUVs[0] (most of the American market, these days). [0] https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-20-419.pdf
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by ruddct 6y ago
Poke around at what American auto manufacturers are selling these days, it's almost entirely high-grill trucks and SUVs, we don't sell much in the way of cars (and even then, they're mostly of the bigger/sportier variety
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So You Want to Do an Infrastructure Package [pdf](niskanencenter.org)
140 points by ruddct 6y ago|173 comments
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by ruddct 6y ago
Oddly, a version of this is also happening in my wife’s world, but with music composers instead of authors. The scheme is a little less sophisticated, but the themes are the same. The phisher knows the parties involved and their relationshi
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Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phishing scam(nytimes.com)
147 points by ruddct 6y ago|94 comments
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by ruddct 6y ago
> About 3.57 million people left New York City this year between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7, according to Unacast, which analyzed anonymized cell phone location data. Some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes moved into the city durin
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by ruddct 6y ago
Can't help but think of this article[0], which summarizes the food delivery market pretty nicely. "You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. It's used to subsidiz
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by ruddct 6y ago
Lots of good data (and a map!) on this subject can be found at https://transitcosts.com , much of it compiled by https://twitter.com/alon_levy Also, here in NYC, it isn't just tunneling that's expensive
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by ruddct 6y ago
Is he wrong, though? The US, Chinese and Indian models have a fairly strong vision for their internet ecosystems. What's Europe's, and who benefits? From the outside, the EU's big swings (GDPR, Cookie Law, Article 13, etc) lo
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by ruddct 6y ago
Wait until you hear about Elijiah McClain, who was tackled then choked/injected with ketamine until he went into cardiac arrest and was eventually pronounced brain-dead. He had 911 called on him for walking while 'looking sketchy&
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by ruddct 6y ago
Re: protests, NYC has had large, extremely dense protests for weeks now. Mask compliance is near 100% at them, and testing is easy, ubiquitous and free. We have not seen a spike in cases.
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by ruddct 6y ago
NYC is quite car-centric by international standards. Compare to London (or Paris, or lots of other places), which in response to COVID has: * Used congestion pricing as a tool to reduce pollution/returning traffic/mode-shift to ca
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by ruddct 6y ago
Compare to NYC, which has no cohesive plan for people movement without public transit. It’s going to be a challenge to come out of this crisis in car-centric American cities. Even a small mode-shift to private cars in somewhere like NYC wil
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by ruddct 6y ago
Sounds like a great time to shore up state budgets by raising the gas tax.
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by ruddct 7y ago
Correct, and yep would highly recommend going. Tough to imagine it causing an issue getting into the US, as the trip originates/terminates in China and doesn't get you a passport stamp. (Disclaimer: US immigration politics are cra
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by ruddct 7y ago
I went when Americans were still allowed to go, with Koryo Tours, who I'd recommend strongly. As the only way to get in is with a tour agency, it's actually a very easy trip to arrange. All you have to do is get to Beijing, the ag
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by ruddct 7y ago
Hah, fun! Visited this a few years back. It's in great condition, particularly memorable things were the bullet holes (all highlighted in red paint) and the intro video[0], which is worth watching if only to experience the extremely di
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by ruddct 7y ago
I was in the Kindle org when it was blowing up at Amazon. Started when there were a few dozen people in Seattle working on it, ended when there were a few thousand. They're right that it could've been more. Back in the early days,
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by ruddct 8y ago
Currency is my favorite theory from this (and would explain the extreme secrecy). Take a look inside your wallet, it's probably a little glittery. (Related: For those who enjoyed the photos in this article, make sure to follow the phot
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The Amazon Warehouse Comes to SoHo(nytimes.com)
2 points by ruddct 8y ago|0 comments

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