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by throwaway76543 8y ago
The article you linked shows that more people moved to the upper bracket than the lower (5% vs 4%). In relative terms the earnings growth was even more dramatic -- the upper class grew 27% larger whereas the lower class only grew by 14%. Th
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
There are existing prototypes of laser systems for killing fast moving insects such as mosquitos. Imagine a device on a fence pole covering the surrounding acre. There are plenty of slow moving pests, weeds and the like as well.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Scooters don't have pedals.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
If your opinion isn't informed by data then what value could it possibly have?
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Sure thing! /sbin/init is pid=1, the single process that the kernel starts when a system boots. It typically runs a command to kick off bringing up userland to the correct runlevel, maybe something like "/etc/rc.d&#
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Where are you getting 50kph from? Nowhere did I suggest that was a safe speed for daily riding. We've been talking about 35kph, or 20 miles an hour, which is a perfectly reasonable speed for a bicycle. You're unlikely to be seriou
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
That appears to be a ride where they've deliberately set a slower pace for a ride based around socializing. 12-13 mph is about right if you're going to be leisurely carrying on conversations with fellow riders. Any faster and wind
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
I teach unix internals to engineers as part of my job and I've found most engineers aren't intimately familiar with the distinction between the RC system and the init system at all. I agree there isn't widespread understandin
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
I spoke of the ground being a stationary object (the most common one anyone will encounter, as I put it). I did in fact fall onto the ground. Crashing into stationary objects is indeed a much greater danger than a fellow cyclist riding with
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Yes, without question. Systemd provides me absolutely no benefit when running a server and adds considerable complexity and fragility in a critical component. A traditional SysV init is just fine. Want orchestrated service invocation on sta
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
I think you might be confused. We are talking about the danger involved with two bikes going the same direction with a 10kph speed differential (25kph / 35kph). When crashes like this happen, people fall off their bikes. I mentioned th
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
We're talking about two vehicles colliding with each other. The mass of the vehicle is absolutely relevant. Crashing a bike at 30mph/50kph is not as dangerous as you suggest, you can find plenty of higher speed bike crashes on you
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Are you thinking only of riding on roads? I often ride on paved bike trails. They're usually maybe two meters wide with mixed pedestrian and bike traffic. Even in a bike lane you're still passing stationary objects. You asked &quo
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
No they don't. The Oxford Cycling Club claims an average of 17mph -19mph or 27-30kph: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/club/profile/7892/oxford-c... "The average speed can vary according to weather
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
25kph is a meandering speed for an adult on a road bike. 30kph is quite common and 35kph isn't unusual. I regularly ride paved commuter trails with bikes doing all of those speeds and it really isn't a problem. The idea that a 10k
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
No, the data is not up for sale. As the article you linked clearly states the data is anonymized and cannot be tied to individuals. It's simply not a thing. It would violate PCI-DSS.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean with the first bullet point. All banks which do payment processing do lending. It's inherent in the nature of the service, that's what the above article is about.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Using credit cards at thrift stores cannot affect your credit score. That article is poorly written and is discussing impact to credit issued by the credit card issuer. It may impact models run by the bank which issues your credit card but
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Yes, with a per capita expenditure of $700 it's safe to say they aren't covering any serious illness. "Our costs are low because we have a healthy lifestyle" -- more like the costs are low because no one has any serious
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
I'm looking for more than a strap and a seat. I'd like the entire interior space to be repurposed to absorb impact energy.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Honestly what I'd like is a safety oriented cabin designed to minimize whiplash. Restrain my head and neck, surround my body with impact absorbing material and put a screen in front of my face and a keyboard within reach of my hands an
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Would you care to elaborate? I'm finding your opinion rather odd myself. The vast majority of people never freeze their credit and never have to expend any energy on the issue of credit security at all. Most people have their credit ru
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
On the contrary, credit card theft is one of the most common forms of identity theft. As I said above, it is far, far less time and expense to follow up to actual fraud with a police report than it is to freeze-unfreeze your credit every ti
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
As I said above "No one is talking about totally ignoring fraud and allowing a default judgement to occur" You are discussing something entirely different, unrelated to the point I made above.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
The vast majority of people will spend less time as this is a rare occurrence. Freezing a credit report is not going to prevent someone from getting ahold of your information. It will prevent someone who already has your information from
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
On the contrary, it works even better if you regularly use your credit report because you don't have to deal with the absolute pain in the ass of freezing and unfreezing it constantly. Time is money and that's a guaranteed loss of
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Just file disputes, it'll get removed. Disputes are free and with a police report in hand they will go through. I'm suggesting you should not pay upfront to help curate this data, to pay to micromanage access to a credit report to
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
You could just do nothing. That's what I'm doing. I care very little if someone defrauds some bank using my identity to open credit cards. I won't be paying for it. It's the bank's problem, not mine. I'm under
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
It's not reliable enough now, sure. Similarly, my 6 year old is also not reliable enough to pilot a car. Both will change as they mature.
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by throwaway76543 8y ago
Self driving cars also have prior experiences and a sense of what other drivers are doing and why. That's sort of the point of machine learning. In fact, they will have a lot more prior experience than any human driver in the world.

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