Tactician_mark

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by Tactician_mark 1y ago
Reminds me of the Stop Killing Games movement. If you give people an end date, they can plan around it.
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by Tactician_mark 1y ago
But rich cities can also have great public transit. New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore... in fact rich cities with transit as awful as the Bay Area seem to be the exception, not the rule
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by Tactician_mark 2y ago
You could get together in a big group and all say the same things in unison. Maybe even hold some signs saying those things
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by Tactician_mark 2y ago
Your argument about increasing demand for services isn't convincing. Since there are more people in the area, should supply be higher as well, balancing prices? It seems more likely that costs are higher in cities because there are val
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by Tactician_mark 2y ago
Those footnote toggles that transition to margin notes on bigger screens are absolutely amazing! Definitely going to try stealing that, thank you :)
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Here's an infographic from Sustainable Prosperity: https://i.imgur.com/2rgkaOZ.jpeg That's just one area in Halifax, but the idea is that higher population densities require less infrastructure per person. Less ro
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
I was going to mention WebRTC! It seems designed for video calling, but there are lots of cool use cases - I recently ran across https://github.com/dmotz/trystero , a dead simple WebRTC library for peer-to-peer multipl
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
I'm sure you're right about the declining quality of Camembert, but I can't help but be reminded of this comic: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/craproot
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
This discussion is about public EV charging. If you live somewhere rural or suburban and can afford a car, you can probably afford a garage for it. The push for public EV charging is in more urban places, where public transit would be a bet
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
The question here is how many people don't have a garage but still want a car. The rural and suburban folks are out - plenty of room for garages and charging. So any discussion of public charging infrastructure is focused on places whe
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
How does input work on iPhone? Keyboard overlay?
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Do you live in an apartment complex? What's the home parking situation like?
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Agreed. I'd add that it feels there's less of an establishment to rail against than in the Bush days. I'd bet there was a drop in numbers in 2009, when Obama started.
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
I didn't know Apple TV wasn't device exclusive until this comment
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Tastes change. This isn't some engineering or logistics constraint; if plastic phones have a real advantage, adoption is simply a matter of marketing.
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Sure, it's a sign that we don't "understand this stuff properly", but you can say the same about human brains. Is it a red flag that we use language to communicate with each other instead of manipulating nerve impulses d
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Online job platforms like Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc. have changed things significantly. If you can apply in one click, or just a simple form, it's trivial to send out 50 applications a day. Those easy-apply jobs will of course ge
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
It's a Blu-ray mystery to me.
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
I'm really confused about this. It's the slimmest possible veneer, collapsing upon a cursory browse of the commit history. Why put in the time to update at all?
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
> And usually having competitors is something that validates your market. Don't users validate your market? ChatGPT has plenty of users, so I would think competitors only hurt their value.
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
> If people didn't need cars, they wouldn't buy them. This is a chicken-and-egg problem. US cities have spent billions on highways and parking and rewrote ordinances to require low density, car-dependent development. You could
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
From the article: > "If Huawei is constructing facilities under names of other companies, as the Semiconductor Industry Association alleges, then it may be able to circumvent US government restrictions to indirectly purchase America
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Decoupling? You want to eliminate trade between the world's two biggest economies? This feels like economic policy from the 18th century. The decline of mercantilism and expansion of free trade ushered in modern global prosperity. Tari
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
I'm not an expert, but isn't the housing crisis global? From London to Mumbai, Barcelona to Shanghai, Amsterdam to Boston, the world's cities are becoming unaffordable. For the most part you can search "<city name>
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Depends on the viewing platform, but HN usernames are usually small font and low contrast compared to comment text. I think most are unlikely to notice who said what.
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
np- is acknowledging a difference between their job and the jobs of others. I think it's important to acknowledge those differences, especially since those other metaphorical crabs aren't getting out of the pot any time soon. For
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Agreed. And when even the moderately wealthy took public transit, they could apply political pressure to make it better. As riders get poorer on average, service gets worse.
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
There's a great Veritasium video about this. The idea is that if there are far more applicants than positions, then even if luck plays a small role - say, 5% of the outcome - successful applicants are overwhelmingly likely to be extrem
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
Absolutely agree. For most people, their entire OS is just now just a bootloader for their web browser. More and more I feel like downloading any program at all is treated like a "power user" task
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by Tactician_mark 3y ago
The difference between standard and OLED wasn't enough for me to upgrade. In general, I think console revisions are better as a first purchase than as an upgrade - the nicer screen or bigger battery helps sell people on the slower proc

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