dublinben

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by dublinben 7d ago
It’s okay to be anti-car. Even if you own a car and use it regularly. There’s more than enough reasons to be anti-car. Just pick your favorite.
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by dublinben 7d ago
You’re right, we should! We could even build these special purpose, heavy duty roads out of something stronger than asphalt, like metal. Then once we have these sturdy new metal roads for trucks, we can raise the weight limit to allow them
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by dublinben 9d ago
https://standardebooks.org/
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by dublinben 19d ago
Or as Apple once (in)famously asked, "what's a computer?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S5BLs51yDQ
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by dublinben 1mo ago
My Gmail account is old enough that I needed a beta invite from a cooler friend. As a cool kid myself, I registered a name full of punctuation. For decades Google has treated the punctuated and unpunctuated addresses as one and the same. Th
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by dublinben 2mo ago
How many drivers of $150k cars die after driving into floodwaters? It costs nothing to turn around and not drive through a flood. https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood-turn-around-dont-drown
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by dublinben 2mo ago
Public transit should be worth the (inexpensive) cost of a ticket. The money used to make fares free should instead be spent on improving the quality of service. Better service attracts more riders, bringing in more ticket revenue, enabling
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by dublinben 5mo ago
Behavior by cyclists certainly has a bias towards survivorship. Every other vehicle on the road represents a potentially lethal threat at any time. Inadequate dedicated infrastructure for cyclists leads to behavior like "Idaho stops&qu
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by dublinben 5mo ago
Roads that have existed for hundreds or thousands of years certainly weren't built for cars.
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by dublinben 5mo ago
Horse-drawn busses predate private automobiles by almost a hundred years.[0] The movement to pave roads was started by bicyclists decades before the rise of the automobile.[1] Cars usurped preexisting infrastructure and drove out other road
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by dublinben 5mo ago
Unfortunately it sounds like this program is designed to maximize revenue for the private vendor, not make roads safer by changing driver behavior. The county is also using this surface-level fix as an excuse to avoid more fundamental road
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by dublinben 10mo ago
Unfortunately the example included (geekatlas.com) appears to be long gone, so we're not able to enjoy this ourselves.
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by dublinben 10mo ago
The EU is still buying billions of dollars of fossil fuels and other resources from Russia.[0] [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes...
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by dublinben 10mo ago
Sony Pictures Core and Kaleidescape are as close as it gets, and both require expensive proprietary hardware.
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by dublinben 10mo ago
That’s corporate for “would you like to discuss this off the record away from public view?” Especially with a non-native English speaker who may be more comfortable expressing themselves in writing asynchronously.
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by dublinben 11mo ago
12 TB is easy. https://yourdatafitsinram.net/
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by dublinben 11mo ago
Some interesting history here: https://www.firerescue1.com/firefighting-history/articles/th...
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by dublinben 11mo ago
>Do people need training to use a calculator? Yes? Quite a bit of time was spent in math classes over the years learning to use calculators. Especially the more complicated functions of so-called graphing calculators. They're certai
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by dublinben 1y ago
Here's a non-Amazon metasearch site for independent book sellers. There's copies starting as low as $11. https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=Albion%27...
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by dublinben 1y ago
What do you think the market is for this kind of digital art? Do you see this style of work attracting an audience elsewhere? How much is it selling for? I'm far from an expert, but I do occasionally buy original artwork. The sheer mul
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by dublinben 1y ago
Unironically referencing a four year old "female delusion calculator" ( https://igotstandardsbro.com/ ) is also quite a choice. I've learned more about this individual from these two blog posts than I ever want
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by dublinben 1y ago
Louisiana has a long history of political corruption, and the petrochemical industry is a major part of their economy.
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by dublinben 1y ago
Vanguard and Blackrock are just asset managers. Public companies are owned by everyone with mutual funds, like pension funds and individual retirement accounts. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34N76K4
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by dublinben 1y ago
A podcast is just a distribution method. It means digital audio files delivered over the Internet using RSS feeds.
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by dublinben 1y ago
If everyone is hosting events, who will attend them?
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by dublinben 1y ago
Just to hazard a guess, you could start reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impac...
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by dublinben 1y ago
Coming from their manager, I suspect it could have also been meant as: "Radical transparency doesn't mean you get to say negative things."
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by dublinben 1y ago
Wireless carriers are a low-margin, increasingly commoditized business. Apple is only interested in expanding into high-margin businesses like services (iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV, etc.) where they can offer unique value (e.g. privacy) c
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by dublinben 1y ago
These minibusses or dollar vans don't have strong brands that you would recognize. They often operate in a legal grey area, so they're deliberately anonymous looking if you aren't in the know. https://en.wikipedia.
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by dublinben 1y ago
This can be seen as backlash politics, where deeply rooted racial divisions are used to convince large groups to vote against their own interests in order to withhold any benefit to lesser groups. Two excellent books that explore this issue

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