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by afuchs 10mo ago
> ... It feels like there could be some societal benefit to similarly reducing the number of busses and just making them free. (Today most busses are only at 10-30% capacity). ... Public transit systems need to consider a lot of trade of
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Nest Learning Thermostat Gen 1 and 2 Fulu reverse engineering bounty(bounties.fulu.org)
1 points by afuchs 11mo ago|1 comments
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by afuchs 2y ago
> This is empty speculation. And it can be trivially refuted by noticing that vacancy rates are at record lows. His rants were prompted by his failed attempts to rent out specific vacant storefronts in NYC and that those exact storefront
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by afuchs 2y ago
Louis Rossmann has a video series of his rants about commercial real estate and the refusal of landlords to rent spaces to him which have been vacant for multiple years. One of his videos speculates that real estate is being used to store m
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by afuchs 2y ago
> ... GDPR is simply ignored by any bigger US company, it took 5 years for NOYB to facebook get fined which was less than 0.3% of their income, basically a small tax, not a huge fine. ... From my experience working at multiple companies,
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by afuchs 2y ago
> Long-lived rails apps are a nightmare to work with, in exactly the same manner as long-lived java, python or php apps Agreed that tech debt and bad architecture is everywhere. However, from my experience there is a difference in how mu
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by afuchs 2y ago
> Could you give some examples of what the use cases are where Rails makes it hard to stray from the beaten path? Rails is amazing for greenfield projects. It will automatically do things for you which will greatly reduce the amount of b
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by afuchs 3y ago
Information asymmetry exists in markets. Most people are not subject area experts in regards to infrequent purchases. From informal conversation it seems that a lot of consumers have experienced enshittification from brands and products tha
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by afuchs 3y ago
> They cancelled "All-American Muslim" because they couldn't get advertisers even though it was averaging 1 million viewers per show which would made it one of the most popular show on TLC. To add context, this was after a
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by afuchs 3y ago
There are a lot of cities in the Rust Belt and Midwest like I described, with the regional population around 1-2 million which are far away from being mega cities. In the few examples I've personally visited, the residential density in
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by afuchs 3y ago
In the context of the US, the vast majority of all infrastructure built or rebuilt over the past century was optimized for cars at the expense of everything else, including demolishing buildings which helped to create the demand for that in
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by afuchs 3y ago
With the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's what Strong Towns bases their advocacy around: https://www.strongtowns.org/ There's also a overview of their stuff from Not Just Bikes, but these videos are som
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by afuchs 3y ago
I can compare old houses at the edge of a city which cost four times as much to new builds at the far edges of that city's metro area which cost significantly less. The more expensive houses require significantly less infrastructure an
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by afuchs 3y ago
Yep, the new Reddit interface responds with the IP block message while old.reddit.com still works for me. This is both with and without a VPN. EDIT: It looks like it's back. I definitely want to read the postmortem for this.
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by afuchs 3y ago
An asset can be owned by multiple investors who have competing interests with some wanting to take a large amount of risk by allowing real estate to remain vacant if it can mean a larger reward later. Louis Rossmann has made numerous videos
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by afuchs 3y ago
Neither. Both cost significantly more to build and maintain than at-grade intersections. That's part of the reason more and more grade separated highways are being demolished and replaced with surface roads.
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by afuchs 3y ago
To contribute some rough anecdotal evidence, when I look out the window next to where I'm sitting this exact moment I see a mix of newer and older Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, and some older SUVs. Judging from the age of those cars,
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by afuchs 3y ago
That is my experience in the East coast US. Here, the suburbs are very spread out, with amenities 15-20 minutes away by car. There are older suburbs where that is not true, but that's more of an exception. Housing in those older suburb
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by afuchs 3y ago
What supports the argument that people overwhelmingly prefer using cars over other transportation methods? There was some study done in past decade that found that in the US only about 60% of 18 year olds had drivers licenses. Is that becau
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by afuchs 3y ago
That's a bit of a non sequitur. Roads and streets existed before cars. Even then, that ignores that the same location can be traveled to through different means. Goods can be delivered to a store by a van even if most customers arrive
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Senator Admits “Kids Online Safety Act” Will Target Trans Content Online(erininthemorning.com)
6 points by afuchs 3y ago|0 comments
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by afuchs 5y ago
> Owner-operators are actually not completely allowed in California. And trucks for the most part must be very new to comply with California emissions requirements. The "labor shortage" is in part aggravated by these regulation
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[Dbrand] "Darkplates are dead. Thanks, Sony"(old.reddit.com)
2 points by afuchs 5y ago|0 comments
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by afuchs 5y ago
For a rough anecdote, what I've heard consistent from my network is that the current job market is wildly different depending on experience level. From what I've heard and seen, anyone hiring a junior engineer is getting overwhelm
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by afuchs 5y ago
> ... > and all of this is before you get into the issues with the non trivial number of junk papers published in social science and psychology journals and the like that at best seem to say that even in cases of more difficult questi
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by afuchs 5y ago
There's a dead comment later in this thread which using directed abusive language towards another commenter while linking to a Louis Rossmann video. The video [1] was interesting, although the dead comment seemed to completely ignore t
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by afuchs 5y ago
> ... https://notthebee.com/article/nearly-1-million-more-brits-ad... This is very clearly a link to a satirical comedy site (in the same category as The Onion).
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by afuchs 5y ago
Most westerner's views of Saudi Arabia are very much influenced by actions the country's government has previously taken [1]. It isn't so much propaganda, as much as it is the government, lead by MSB, taking actions that grea
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by afuchs 5y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926054 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926071
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by afuchs 5y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926071 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925698

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