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by yowzadave 4y ago
New York City might well be the safest city in the country: https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1520134999164395521 Obviously there's much that could be done to make the city safer, and it does seem there w
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by yowzadave 4y ago
Exactly--many of these are hostile sentiments; it would be a mistake to assume that re-wording them will lead to a better outcome, as most people will (correctly) perceive the hostile intent in spite of the re-wording. A more useful list wo
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Abolish States(theap.substack.com)
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by yowzadave 5y ago
I used to work as an architect, and these are the most common pens people used for sketching on trace paper. Nice and cheap, I love that they sell them by the box.
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by yowzadave 5y ago
> It's simply a fact that people become incredibly irrational when it comes to compensation, and the minute you lay it out in the open, you open up a huge surface area for conflict. Finland makes every tax-paying citizen’s salary pu
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by yowzadave 5y ago
In NYC, most hospitals have a special elevator that, on the Sabbath, continually stops on every floor. This is to help orthodox Jews comply with their commitment to not turning electric devices on or off--they just board the elevator at the
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by yowzadave 5y ago
As I understand it, this allows you to screencast from an Apple device via airplay to an rPi. Is anyone aware of a project that allows you to do the reverse? That is, to airplay from an rPi to some compatible device (like a HomePod)?
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by yowzadave 5y ago
“Aesthetic” is widely used in the US as well. When I (a US person) see “esthetic” used in this way, it looks like a mistake to me—I associate that spelling with the cosmetics/beauty industry (i.e., "estheticians").
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by yowzadave 5y ago
But presumably some number of uploaders never bother to go through the dispute process--in which case this could indeed be a viable business model for a troll?
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by yowzadave 5y ago
I’m always shocked at how non-relevant the ads I see are. How many Ph.D’s at Google have dedicated their careers to targeting me more correctly, and yet: constant ads for stretchy water-wicking pants (I don’t go camping), solid brass pencil
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by yowzadave 6y ago
Autodesk does an equally poor job maintaining their Architecture and Engineering softwares, despite them being a larger market. GP’s comments about the state of Maya hold true for AutoCAD and Revit as well.
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by yowzadave 6y ago
This reminds me of the "generative design" trend in architecture, which has been attempted numerous times with typically underwhelming results. See here for an interesting essay (with nice illustrations) arguing that it's a d
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by yowzadave 6y ago
Or are students, or are children, or are taking care of the elderly/disabled/children/etc.
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by yowzadave 6y ago
It's important to remember that the unemployed are just one small part of all non-workers that social-welfare programs are intended to assist. In addition to the unemployed, you have children, the elderly, the disabled, students, and u
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by yowzadave 6y ago
One aspect of the article's chatty style that I liked was that it gave a glimpse into how "reporting" sausage gets made: calling experts up on the phone to try to get them to tell you a story, filing information requests, loo
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by yowzadave 6y ago
Exactly—this is the same reason cops have discretion over who they fine for traffic violations vs. who they let off with a warning: so that the "right" people don't end up having to pay fines.
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by yowzadave 7y ago
I’d love it if we could just have more gradual transitions throughout the year—maybe clocks could shift every day so that sunrise was always at 6 am. We woke up this morning and didn’t even realize we’d left DST until we saw an old oven clo
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by yowzadave 8y ago
> It would actually likely increase the number of guns in criminal hands. This seems like a fairly wild speculation. To pick just one possible counter argument: are you suggesting that criminals, if they could choose, would prefer to rob
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by yowzadave 8y ago
Two thoughts: 1. It's likely that IVF will soon allow people to screen for conditions like Huntington's prior to implantation. 2. Your suggestion makes it sound like a life lived with Huntington's isn't worth living. If