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by tomkarlo 13y ago
If she's going to write about a product, maybe she should actually use it, given that she actually has a pair. It's bad enough when journalists write about a product without having it. She has it, but she's not using it, and then she's writ
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Part of that freedom (a very important part, for immigrants) was freedom from oppressing poverty and a class system that kept you in poverty.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The American Dream is connected to our frontier culture, so it's a few hundred years old. I think even a century ago, places like Europe has prosperity but still very strong class systems (some might argue they still do.) The promise of Ame
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's a bit lower but it's not a huge change. The promise of the "American Dream" was fair opportunity for success, and social mobility through hard work -- on a meritocratic basis. Not fabulous wealth or anything like that... just fair pay
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The incidence of suicide (and related-party homicide) in households with guns is significantly higher. Unless we believe that there's a correlation between gun ownership and suicidal tendencies, the answer seems to be, mostly no. Having a h
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I specifically called it out as "white-collar" income, not overall median income. It's household income, not per capita. The median household income for SF is $73. I don't think it's out of bounds to assume that for a white collar worker (c
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
New York has this... I don't think it's atypical. Tracts are so small that it only takes a single development to raise or depress median income grossly. Take a look at the middle of Manhattan: there are tracts with $10K next to tracts with
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Obviously 2. Bitcoin is pretty useless if you don't have a dependable electrical grid or internet. I'd rather have $10,000 in USD, EUR or GLD than $1M in Bitcoin in a war zone where I had no other funds. Heck, I'd rather have gasoline or co
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
If we dropped you into the middle of Syria right now, would you rather have: 1. $10,000 in USD currency 2. $10,000 USD equiv in gold 3. $10,000 USD equiv in bitcoin I'm pretty sure the only practical answer is (1). That pretty much answers
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Don't let the guys from Boston troll you.
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In both NY and SF, if you keep going further out (beyond the base mass transit system) incomes start to rise again. There's basically the rich central city, the poorer surrounding "urban" neighborhoods, and then the rich suburbs. Chicago to
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That wikipedia page is a train wreck. It's pretty clear there's an edit war going on between two political factions that are uninterested in keeping things factual. Wikipedia is great but in some situations the quality of the content goes w
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
SF actually has a tiny homeless population compared to NY or LA, at least in number. But they're much more concentrated around the high-traffic Union Sq / Tenderloin area than most cities, and you also tend to cross paths with them more if
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
People have been complaining about tech workers in SF for at least 15 years now (since the first boom). It's a standard (if not especially factually supported) gripe at this point. It's possible that the proliferation of private busing has
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Isn't that what you'd expect? There's a factor of ten difference these days between the poverty line and a fairly typical white-collar income (call it $120K.) Is it really surprising, or telling, that at the tract-level you'd find a factor
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's probably because homeowners are (almost always) voters in a district, whereas potential home buyers probably aren't, and renters are somewhat less likely to be than homeowners. You'd expect policies designed to keep homeowners happy.
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The quote I posted explicitly points out that the speed limit is based on worst-case road conditions. Obviously a single-value speed limit can't be optimal in all conditions, for all drivers, in all vehicles. It has to be based on what's sa
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The solution isn't "lossy" enforcement, at least in the case of speed limits. It's to revise the speed limit to a higher, more realistic figure and then enforce that limit as rigorously as practical. This is what the UK and other countries
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Rent increases are terrible for renters (and I rent), but great for homeowners (in that they generally track rising real-estate values.) It's mostly just a matter of perspective. Nobody seems to complain that the housing market in SF is on
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
There's been a ton of new features on maps over the past few years, including indoor maps, indoor streetview, transit info and all kinds of new aerial views. I'm not sure what you'd want from them... after all, they are still a map servic
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
At least in my experience (in the US) the maps data on Google is much better for cycling routes, partially because users can go in and submit fixes, which I don't believe you can do for the Garmin data.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's because he's using search hits as a primary measure of how much services are being used, which (maybe) kind of works for consumer services but doesn't work at well at all for services used by developers (at the least, they should be
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Yes, because sending an email by accident is just like irradiating a cancer patient to death. Obviously, they've made it easy to send emails (pressing tab then enter) but that means that some folks send them by accident. But that's an accep
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The line between mobile and desktop is rapidly blurring into irrelevance at this point... I'd guess gmail is used from mobile more than desktop at this point, and "mobile" devices are starting to look more and more like "desktops" when it c
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Understood... but all your points are about the negatives of that, and none are about the positives. It's pretty easy to come up with a bunch of arbitrary gripes about any major UX change. But you haven't made any effort to contemplate why
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
You're assuming that most users want to edit the subject of ongoing threads (and thereby break the thread.) I have my doubts it even occurs to most them. So not having that option visible makes sense. I understand what you're saying about h
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's a pretty broad statement. It seems like what he's written is that it's gotten worse for someone with his use cases, which I'm not arguing (and I fall in that camp.) But we're also not representative of the average email user, which
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Well, my point was that the analogy shows the problem with the rest of the post - he's applying a faulty standard to judging if the changes are good ones or not. If it's just griping that he doesn't like the changes, fine, but if his point
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I highly recommend turning on the "Undo Send" extension in the Labs part of settings. It lets you choose to undo settings for ~5 seconds after you press send. It has saved my bacon countless times, not because I hit send accidentally, but b
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Yes, but Photoshop has a totally different target market from Gmail, which is why the article's comparison is nonsensical if not entirely wrong. Gmail is designed for everyone and has to support the full spectrum of users, in particular t

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