kdmccormick

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by kdmccormick 1mo ago
lights are designed for cars, not traditional cyclists. it is literally more dangerous for me to wait at a red light surrounded by cars than it is for me to filter to the front of the red light and treat it like a stop sign, getting out ahe
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by kdmccormick 1mo ago
oh hey, it's the creator. great site, thank you!!
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Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions(loudbicycle.com)
70 points by kdmccormick 1mo ago|67 comments
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
I would say that a rule is "cheating" iff it is implied by another rule for any arbitrary N.
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
> I think the issue is 'could any other decision be made'. IMO, no. > In the computer analogy, if the 'run time' always arrives at the same answer, because that is the answer from the calculation. Then was there ev
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
This is two ways of saying the same thing. To use a computing metaphor, every animal has "buildtime" predispositions and "runtime" choice-making ability. That "runtime" decision making is based on exercising fr
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
It's very simple: Transit in many places is underfunded. Travel info screens cost money to install and maintain. Ads, on the other hand, make money.
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Bad comparison. I am not seeking rent on any of my stuff. Now, if I hoarded a bunch of stuff that other people needed and then charged them for access to it, that'd be rent seeking. > Sure, you can come up with some obscure examples
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
I agree with your parallel to rent seeking. Rent seeking is indeed both (a) arguably immoral and (b) seemingly inescapable in a society which respects property rights. The theory of Georgism [1] suggests a way that we could eliminate rent s
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Sure, they're worse than walking or biking, but compared to an electric car battery or an ICE car?
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
At least scooters did something useful for the environment.
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
> the answer is WAY TOO MUCH, meaning the "eco friendly walkable cities" are not eco friendly AT ALL and they are also unsustainable since they can't evolve without rebuild witch consume much more and demand much big effor
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
What? No. When you are 0, it is your first year. When you are 21, you have begun your 22nd year. In the US you are legal to drink in your 22nd year of life. You are correct that nobody says "22nd year" in this context, but nobody
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
But at the very least Henry George agrees with GP ;)
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Spam Phishing Buggy generated code Cheating in online courses ChatBots that try to do too much and do it worse than real human service reps, like that one that wrongly assured a customer that their airline ticket was refundable Deluge of lo
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
why?
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
That's all great in theory, but in practice, I see except clauses mostly used to handle particular exception classes that callees are known to throw.
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Unless you're using exclusively Java-style checked exceptions, then there literally (literally!) is huge difference. That is: def main(): try: my_a = a() except ExA, ExB: my_a = None
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Ha!
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Lol plain old VMs have been shipping your machine since well before Docker was around.
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
Except that those special cases often land on the same groups of people. Accented characters, multiple given names, multiple surnames... these are all common for people whose ancestry isn't the US or Western Europe. No driver's li
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by kdmccormick 2y ago
For open- or closed-source work? If I'm doing open source coding, whether professional or not, I'd always want that associated with my personal GH account.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
If it's bipolar, then it's bipolar plus a lack of regard for other human beings. Plenty of us are bipolar, do regrettable things when we're manic, and then own up to them and pay what's due when we're not manic.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I was thinking state-administered. Public school enrollment would just be the precondition to access the program. But sure, yeah, there'd be some admin time spent managing it. As with anything, there are plenty of reasons not to do it.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Cost would be negligible compared to a teacher's salary. (1 teacher / 20 students) * ($50k / teacher-yr) = $2500 per student per year to fund teacher salary. Compare that to $40/yr domain+hosting, which maybe 10% of stud
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Would be really cool if public schools provided a free domain and basic hosting for any interested middle/high school student.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Cable has always been ad-funded as far as I can tell. Big print newspapers were mostly independent and subscriber-funded, so they answered to their subs rather than advertisers. The Economist is still independent and subscriber-funded. But,
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yeah, I grew up in a town like that in CT. It's nice, for sure. I would call it semirural rather than suburban, though. The issue with lovely semirural living is that there literally isn't enough space on Earth for everyone to sus
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Sprawling suburbs are the opposite of nature. A single large park inside a dense city is far more nature-rich than acres upon acres of suburban lawns are.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Did you read? Article states that cut and cover is still much cheaper technically, but can end up being practically more expensive due to the political/legal ramifications of the surface disruption.

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