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by volkl48 9y ago
The main AIM client was notorious for this itself (at least in the 2000s when I used it), ads, growing installation size, bloat "features", etc. It's what pushed a lot of users to use alternate clients or stick with old versi
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by volkl48 9y ago
"Local, blue collar workers" are generally completely uninformed outside of their little bubbles, much more so than the "expat bubble" you speak of. They have a job and are making a reasonable salary? Things are great. T
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by volkl48 9y ago
I recall when taking the SAT in ~2009, that you were asked to copy a paragraph (honesty statement) in cursive. That took most people 20 minutes because no one could remember cursive. I recall giving up and writing print with little attachin
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by volkl48 9y ago
Those are also prices for a new aircraft, used go lower.
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by volkl48 9y ago
It is worth keeping in mind that SV's focus is only one area of employment for programmers. The major Northeast hubs have tons of programmers. The difference is that a lot of them work for the financial industry, government contractors
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by volkl48 9y ago
It is worth considering that the use-case of Backblaze is different from the average end-user. No power on/off cycles, no physical impacts to worry about (even most desktops occasionally get bumped into), but non-stop operation and pre
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by volkl48 9y ago
Not to mention that not everywhere comes back (in said lifetime at least). The same gamble that paid off in NYC or Boston likely didn't in Baltimore, Detroit, STL, etc. Playing the long game has given you zero or near zero returns for
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by volkl48 9y ago
Until white people are comfortable living in a 80% minority neighborhood, self-segregation is potentially inevitable regardless of all other factors. Play with the little simulation at the bottom here: http://nifty.stanford.edu&#
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by volkl48 9y ago
As someone who lives in New Jersey in an area that often doesn't have sidewalks (Watchung Mountains) at all, you've reminded me of a related issue, which is that adding sidewalks can be exorbitantly expensive and impractical. Most
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by volkl48 9y ago
Lighting up large sections of highway causes massive light pollution (which not only is ugly, but is detrimental to nature) along with high energy consumption and maintenance costs for not all that much in safety benefit. I'm generally
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by volkl48 9y ago
Most sidewalks in Boston are normal concrete, not brick. I've only seen the brick in some of the historic sections.
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by volkl48 9y ago
There's not a whole lot of reason to limit the content allowed. Most internet sites run into conflicts with content because they're trying to make a profit through ad revenue. Mainstream advertisers don't want their ad next t
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by volkl48 9y ago
It'll be a 30-50 year process. I don't even think that's a question. Look at the phase-out of leaded gasoline, it wasn't fully banned from sale for on-road vehicles in the US until 1996. The phase-out began in 1976. And
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by volkl48 9y ago
All the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic airports are busy and have non-ideal airport layouts. That said, Philly is still moving forward with their expansion/improvement plan and fundamentally is one of the few major airports in the region
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by volkl48 9y ago
Venmo isn't any more instant. If you want to actually have money back in your bank account rather than a balance in Venmo, it takes 2-3 business days.
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by volkl48 9y ago
Calling it an "accident" is doublespeak so you can wave your hands and go "I had an accident, oops, it couldn't be helped." Making it seem like it was just your fate that day. Which if it was at-fault, it certainly
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by volkl48 9y ago
That's only if you intend to sell it for more than scrap value some day. Any car I buy is getting sold to the junkyard for $500 in 10+ years and 200k+ mi. How steeply it's paper value declines between now and then doesn't mat
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by volkl48 9y ago
NYT has a split stock structure. Carlos Slim's stake affords him basically zero sway in NYT's affairs. Even owning ALL of the public stock still wouldn't accomplish that. The founding family has a majority (70%) control of th
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by volkl48 9y ago
By no means would I call T-Mobile's rural coverage great, but how recent is the phone you're using with them? Specifically, does it have Band 12 support? If not, you're missing out on most of their coverage improvements.
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by volkl48 9y ago
That's not how modern trains generally work although it's possible that's how India's trains still work. Usually there's a HEP (head-end power) generator on the locomotive and the rest of the coaches are just plugge
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by volkl48 9y ago
That's failing to understand what Amtrak is, what it does, or why it exists. There are effectively 3 types of services Amtrak runs. 1. Long distance trains. These are the 1-2x a day or less cross-country runs, the legacy of pre-1971 hi