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by _jn 5y ago
New bus lanes on 85 were on the table as part of the Policy Advisory Board’s work. Haven’t been able to find any news on what’ll happen with those, unfortunately.
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by _jn 5y ago
This may be true in suburban USA, but at least in European cities, sidewalks are used by pedestrians. You have to be alert riding a bike, but it’s a far cry from attempting to weave through foot traffic. The narrower roads also allow for qu
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by _jn 5y ago
You’re right, I was thinking about a breach of privacy in general instead of actual legal consequences. (Though the possibility of governments backdooring Apple’s servers to access decrypted files stands, that shouldn’t make a difference wi
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by _jn 5y ago
It seems that Apple does not need to be a co-conspirator, and that it would be sufficient if someone added ‘malicious’ hashes to the NCMEC database.
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by _jn 5y ago
Vienna built a bunch of social housing under social-democratic rule to decrease rents, and unlike most other cities, they opened it to a relatively wide income bracket. The value added, if you want to call it that, is _less_ money is spent
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by _jn 5y ago
In Vienna, you could rent from a city-owned enterprise.
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by _jn 6y ago
Hate when people earn enough to live in the city they work in.
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by _jn 7y ago
Emails are optional on reddit.
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by _jn 7y ago
2): Haskell.
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by _jn 7y ago
Hm, stable file formats... LaTeX doesn’t seem to be going anywhere ;)
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by _jn 7y ago
Ikea's “Gerton” tabletop (90€ / $100. 155×75cm = 61×29.5”) is really, really nice — it uses ≈5cm-wide beech hardwood strips glued together and reinforced across the width with some metal . It works with Bekant legs (if you have a
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by _jn 7y ago
There are large wildlife preservation efforts in the Bay Area marshlands (particularly near shoreline park) that would be destroyed.
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by _jn 7y ago
Yep, should work on those hundreds-of-miles-straight midwest roads ;)
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by _jn 7y ago
Onboard computers can have compasses and a pretty good idea of how fast they're going. You could just be monitoring for any weird jumps or incongruences (eg. there is a road here, but it's at a different angle than the GPS signal
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by _jn 7y ago
No, it's just not on the first page. (Try the "More" link at the bottom of the page.)
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by _jn 7y ago
Sure, though it’s still a web technology taking over an otherwise unrelated space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by _jn 7y ago
Can't help being reminded of that talk by Gary Bernhardt: “The Birth & Death of JavaScript”[0] — exploring a hypothetical future where JS takes over everything without (most) anyone using it of their own volition. 0: https:/&
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by _jn 8y ago
emasculated → emaciated?
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by _jn 8y ago
Yes. I no longer had a need for it after leaving the private group I joined for.
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by _jn 8y ago
That can happen when the votes all occur in short succession.
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by _jn 8y ago
As a ballpark for expenses: I know people paying well under €300 per month for rent in smaller cities. €2/day lunch at university is possible (though not necessarily tasty).
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by _jn 8y ago
From outline: https://outline.com/RP7Kaw
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by _jn 8y ago
FYI, your use of JS's `Map` class is wrong: `(new Map())['entries']` isn't undefined. The `get(k)`/`set(k, v)` methods should be used in this case.
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by _jn 8y ago
I want to be cynical about this, but they're genuinely kind of cool. (Maybe not the log-in thing, OAuth is more than enough [0]) [0]: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by _jn 8y ago
I've got a gut feeling that judges will be pretty reasonable here, but I guess only time will tell.
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by _jn 8y ago
Yep!
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by _jn 8y ago
I’d be very interested in hearing the counterarguments to this comment instead of just seeing downvotes.
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by _jn 8y ago
IIRC, Las Vegas is also pretty high on that list, hence the data centers.
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by _jn 8y ago
note on [3]: This year’s first flea market was on March 10th, 2018 :)
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by _jn 8y ago
That's actually what I was looking for when I found this. Sadly, it doesn't look like there is (but contact me if you find one!)

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