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by yason 10y ago
The fact that we can't physically nor practically build ourselves out of congestion (and that demand is always induced to become the higher the more roadspace we build) doesn't change the fact that it's exactly the rush hour
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by yason 10y ago
Also roads are built for the peak consumption. Outside the peak, there's generally excess capacity quietly eating away space from pedestrians and human beings.
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by yason 10y ago
You get best friends for free when you're a kid and they last till about midway through your life. After about 35 you must actively work for the friendships you desire and when enough time has passed, you might have a few best friends
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by yason 10y ago
The primary reason why human trafficking is often tied to prostitution is that human trafficking must happen underground. In contrast, in countries which have legal bordellos the employment, management, taxation, and state governance of pro
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by yason 10y ago
Walking is not often from-A-to-B traffic. Walking is part of human behaviour, a way to immerse and express with regard to themselves and their surroundings. Similarly to how humans pause to think while they're speaking―or writing, as I
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by yason 10y ago
To me it sounds weird that something like the right to sue would not be a fundamental right similar to free speech but something you can legally give up. It's even worse when combined with shrink-wrap agreements such as terms of use wh
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by yason 10y ago
C and Python. Lots of bash scripting. Spare time projects still tend to favour lispy languages. I use Clojure, Chicken Scheme, and others. I'd love to use Hy but having tried it a few times seriously, it's not mature enough yet.
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by yason 10y ago
I sometimes wonder if why it is generally held that marketing sucks and advertisements are evil because they're so random, badly targeted and thus crappy. I basically wouldn't mind seeing advertisements if they were relevant and
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by yason 10y ago
I have my office windows all blacked out with blinds and a heavy curtain. Natural light makes it difficult to look at the screen. I will enjoy my natural light when I don't need to use my brain for coding and work. The best environment
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by yason 10y ago
Looks nice but isn't the point of markdown pretty much that you can still do your typing in clear, explicit plaintext and then merely generate properly formatted html/pdf/whatnot from it, effectively avoiding any wysiwyg edit
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by yason 10y ago
I have a about $90k~ worth of available credit to me on my CC's alone. How many cards do you have? I understand it's mostly theoretical but I'm wondering why would anyone want to use their high-interest credit card to borro
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by yason 10y ago
Cities have developed in a complex and often fascinating manner, but along the way, we have portions of these systems that are more complex than any single person can understand. Just like life itself.
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I have seen other people's trails on rental cars and I've always wondered why would they connect their phones to basically what is an unknown system, exposed to just about anyone. Maybe I'm just weird. Never had any reason to
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by yason 10y ago
But mrits was talking about heroin dealers . I think the war on drugs is fundamentally flawed, and I don't think drug users should be convicted or sent to prison but I do think that dealing illegal drugs should definitely count or
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by yason 10y ago
Ants do explore. If one finds more food somewhere that is outside or closer to outside, the rest will follow. It's not technically impossible for ants to climb up the ventilation pipe either, but I don't know if their instincts w
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by yason 10y ago
Just wondering. Why can't they climb back up through the pipe? I've seen ants walking in the ceiling. And if there's a passageway to the outside (a researcher squeezed in) wouldn't the ant eventually find the way out?
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by yason 10y ago
In Finland, some stores might stash eggs in refridgerated sections but overwhelmingly they're kept in room temperature. Salmonella is virtually non-existent in Finland. Eggs can generally be consumed even raw. That is because of a spec
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by yason 10y ago
Why is Honeycomb useless? You might have specific usage patterns where shows but I would say that there's anything wrong with Honeycomb but, rather, that the major problem is that the hardware itself doesn't really stretch enough
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by yason 10y ago
Estimating software schedules is easy. Just gauge a ballpark figure of what it might take if everything went nice and smooth, you had no distractions nor surprises, and then multiply by pi.
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by yason 10y ago
Ideally, those should be in balance if the track are truly parallel. Thus, if 1% of engineers are in the highest, distinguished level then 1% of managers should be in the highest managerial level. If those 500 VPs amount to 10% of all manag
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by yason 10y ago
You're absolutely right but unfortunately that's only one side of the equation. We do need practical measures as well while waiting to reach that very stage where that hate has dissipated and cultures and religions have made peace
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by yason 10y ago
I have a WRT54G that I bought in 2004 or 2005. I haven't even replaced its firmware because it does what I need, and it still just works and always has. No lagging, no crashes, nothing but straight uptime year after year. I do wonder i
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by yason 10y ago
No longer is it enough to spend the weekend running errands, doing what we normally do, and knowing that my daughter Sophie will find a way to play, whether juggling the grapes in the grocery store cart or throwing rocks into the water at
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by yason 10y ago
The mobile Facebook website worked fine with messages. You could see whether there were new messages and you could read them and reply to them. You could even chat a bit albeit not as conveniently as on a laptop or a messaging app such as H
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by yason 10y ago
You can just switch over to the desktop version of Facebook and the messaging will work as on a desktop browser. You can also use messenger.com by requesting the desktop version. It sucks but not as much as the intrusive messenger. The tren
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In my opinion, in the 80-90's, neural networks and machine learning used to be 10% a solid concept in terms of academic research and 90% hype. Now neural networks and machine learning are 10% a solid concept in terms of being a practic
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by yason 10y ago
The final points at the end of the article are gold. They match my own experiences exactly.
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Homelessness isn't necessarily about not having homes, it's about being unable to hold on to one. There obviously are homeless people who have a work and their lives mostly in order but who just can't literally afford to rent
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by yason 10y ago
I spotted the same comment and chuckled. Programming is never boring because it is inherently tied to the challenge itself: programming occurs at the very bleeding edge of new research and new challenges because. Everything that has alrea
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by yason 10y ago
He read, and studied, many text books that described and illustrated the average, flaccid penis in order to mentally handle this job without emotional damage. What sort of emotional damage did he think would result from being a medical sc

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