fivethirty

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by fivethirty 11y ago
Thanks for writing this. I still rank getting getting buzzed by some dude jumping the Captain while climbing the last few pitches of the East Buttress as one of the more exciting things that's ever happened to me. Maybe it was you, pr
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by fivethirty 11y ago
An note about the cables, mostly because I've always found this to be a weird historical aside. The cables today were put up in 1919, but follow closely both the style and path of the first ascent of Half Dome, which took place in 1875
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by fivethirty 12y ago
If you don't mind, when did this happen? Almost the exact same thing happened to me around the beginning of this year.
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by fivethirty 13y ago
I won't call you over-cautious, but I submit that it's much much cheaper to travel around the world for an extended period of time that you might imagine depending on where you go (i.e. Thailand = cheap, Iceland = not cheap) and h
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by fivethirty 13y ago
As someone in their 20s who spends a lot of time climbing and wondering how that lifestyle is going to work out long term with programming, your story sounds pretty inspiring. Nothing terribly substantive, just wanted to say thanks!
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by fivethirty 13y ago
This brings back fond memories of thisisnotporn, which sadly seems to have vanished from the internet.
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by fivethirty 14y ago
I have found it quite possible to spend ~$20k annually living in San Francisco and (currently) Palo Alto. Of course, I don't own a car, don't have kids, and live with six housemates, but the lifestyle suits me just fine for now.
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by fivethirty 14y ago
Being legally allowed to weave between lanes doesn't seem right. Yeah, I'm not really sure why it's legal, but I've also never ridden a motorcycle. A quick glance at Wikipedia suggests that it's legal in most of Europe and Japan though,
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by fivethirty 14y ago
But if bicycles are treated like motor vehicles, why is it that you often find them creating a lane where there is none? You don't often see motorcycles riding alongside cars, in the same lane, grazing parked vehicles. I'm not 100% sure w
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by fivethirty 14y ago
The trade off being that it takes twice as long to get anywhere because you can't go very fast. At least that was my experience commuting on a bike in Japan.
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by fivethirty 14y ago
Except that, as is mentioned in the OP, in the US cyclists are legally allowed use most all roadways and are treated legally like an automobile in cases where a bike lane does not exist.
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by fivethirty 14y ago
Sorry, in retrospect that first comment came across as super condescending when I didn't mean it that way at all. How do mandatory pre-reqs fit into this? I agree with you here -- they suck and shouldn't exist. I had the luxury of attend
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by fivethirty 14y ago
At the risk of sounding trite, college is what you make of it. If all you care about is trading in your four years and n-thousand dollars for a marketable degree, then of course you aren't going to feel like you learned anything, but I argu