mikysco

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by mikysco 1y ago
Based on the video, it looks like Vimeo's co-founder lives in the Mission district of SF. In my experience living hear for nearly a decade, the traffic norms around here are terrifying. I lived in the area years ago and the number of t
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by mikysco 2y ago
Oregon is 60% the size of California by land area but only 10% of the population. Roads like 101 & 880 can't be worked on during the day because of massive congestion issues. But drive up & down 101 after 9 or 10pm (even on wee
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by mikysco 2y ago
Novo's rise is due to the proliferation of its new blockbuster weight-loss drug, semaglutide (aka Ozempic)
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by mikysco 3y ago
Loved reading this. Here's an archived version that still has the photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20140713012712/https://gizmodo.c...
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by mikysco 3y ago
Sam Altman led invests in a nuclear fusion company, Helion. Guessing the potential conflict of interest is why the 2nd article drew vote controversy. https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/announcing-500-million...
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by mikysco 3y ago
https://kapeli.com/dash Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander. Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase
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by mikysco 3y ago
Why the downvotes? This is observably true “for most people”
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by mikysco 3y ago
I grew up in "safe suburbs" and moved here 5 years ago. Saw a lot of sad changes with COVID... but in terms of safety, I'm 100% with you. On rare occasion, I'll cross a street if an individual is behaving particularly we
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by mikysco 3y ago
Somewhat related but for years I've been surprised by how irrelevant the items Amazon recommends on my homepage. They have decades of my personal shopping data along with credit card, demographic, media interests, and lots more. The ir
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by mikysco 4y ago
Not necessarily.. but they have been known to fight against (ridicule) certain forms of stupidity in the past. Which I feel many here would agree Stanford's policy is a form of.
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by mikysco 4y ago
To be fair, the Presidio is the foggiest/most humid part of SF. Any part of the city & broader Bay Area directly touching coast line attracts dramatically more moisture than anywhere even a few hundred meters inland. Even in the Ma
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by mikysco 4y ago
Very well said. I had a similar takeaway, captured by this quote which is representative of many flavors of the sameness described in the article "The imagined color of life under communism, gray has revealed itself to be the actual hu
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by mikysco 4y ago
Website wouldn't load for me... cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2rSRyD...
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by mikysco 4y ago
It's difficult to defend Apple in this scenario but Apple's relationship with China is just like every other company's (western or otherwise) - at the end of the day, China holds all the cards. If you don't bow to their
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by mikysco 4y ago
The obvious explanation for other country's vaccine recommendations is based in data. COVID kills the elderly (75+) who are more likely to be battling multiple negative health conditions beyond COVID. https://covid.cdc.gov&#
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by mikysco 4y ago
Always worth pointing out COVID (very) disproportionately kills the elderly (75+) https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti... These stats don't indicate whether other confounding factors led to
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by mikysco 4y ago
You're correct, of course, but the public good from improving the safety/cleanliness of shared infrastructure like transit has a much higher ROI than your "average" public space. Both have societal good but improving tra
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by mikysco 4y ago
I feel like SF residents' aversion to new transit projects is unfortunate but totally reasonable... walk anywhere in SF near a BART (subway) stop and you face open drug use, trash, and other problems nobody wants in the neighborhood th
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by mikysco 4y ago
The standard charging cable Apple has supplied with new iPhones for years now has been USB-C to Lightning.
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by mikysco 4y ago
I highly doubt we'll see any updated mask guidance in the USA until November 2022, after the US midterm elections. The vast majority of people seem content with the policy of "if you want to wear a mask to protect yourself, wear o
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by mikysco 4y ago
The article strangely seems like it's framing the entire industry/profession of loss prevention in a negative light. Hopefully everyone realizes the more retail theft a store experiences, the higher prices become for those of us w
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by mikysco 4y ago
Ah good catch! Yeah the hyperlink color was the same as text for me, too
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by mikysco 4y ago
"With this in mind, a few months ago, our company, AE assembled a subscription video platform for health and fitness" Did I miss something or does the blog not link to the new platform?
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by mikysco 5y ago
This trend exists because children are being tested for COVID after being admitted to the hospital for entirely unrelated issues (broken bones, etc). They're in the hospital _with_ COVID, not in the hospital _because_ of COVID.
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Randomized state funded pre-K correlated to lower achievement scores(doi.apa.org)
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by mikysco 5y ago
I think it’s reasonable to say “nobody” follows all the rules of the rules of the road. The ones you deem important enough to rigorously follow come down to local social dynamics/norms more than written law. I’m from Colorado and drive
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by mikysco 5y ago
As a traditional cyclist, 4 9s isn’t close to reliable enough to trust. You need a lot of equipment faith when bombing down a mountain road at 30+ mph. Mechanical & hydro brakes tend to fail gracefully… mechanical wires will usually bre
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by mikysco 5y ago
I think the logic is government dollars competing with private dollars, especially during a supply shock, will send prices up
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by mikysco 5y ago
you should really round 69.69 buttloads up to 69.7
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by mikysco 5y ago
Presumably relative to countries that don’t share these same 2-staircase fire regulations

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