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An update on New York transit construction costs(pedestrianobservations.com)
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by truffdog 5y ago
> Why is it then that housing supply is a major issue in San Francisco, but not in these other cities that are growing so much faster? There's the actual rate of growth vs demand- and the demand for h I using in SF was quite high in
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by truffdog 5y ago
In this telling, there's also a huge increase in supply since then- 1980s biker meth was relatively artisinal, but the current situation involves large and professional factories in Mexico.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I mean, the Soviet Nomenklatura had a reputation for similar behavior. Pre-capitalist societies also had plenty of corruption, graft, corruption, and destructive avarice.
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by truffdog 5y ago
> may counter incentives towards digital monopolies. Doesn't the cost of compliance inherently favor larger companies with better lawyers and deep experience in passing audits?
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by truffdog 5y ago
Servo was built and run more as a useful browser technique sandbox than a future standalone product.
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by truffdog 5y ago
He might not be paying them below market- the way this often works is that the people you employ from the old country are cousins, neighbors of your parents, etc. Not people you would feel comfortable being awful to.
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by truffdog 5y ago
The very beginning of the labor movement was super violent- pitched battles to keep scabs from crossing picket lines. Organized crime came from the same neighborhoods and communities as striking union workers, so they helped provide muscle
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by truffdog 5y ago
This is California, they were probably undocumented, which will make people less mad at him.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I mean, people don't really buy not-domestic for the sake of it, they buy non-big-3 cars because the big 3 have a terrible reputation for quality control and reliability.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I managed to get a new phone with a headphone jack, but it's "wrong" somehow and the plugs just pop out.
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by truffdog 5y ago
It makes misinformation less legible to the press by splitting it up across silos.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I used to work for a Guardicore competitor, my recollection is that Guardicore didn't use iptables, and instead had a custom kernel module. Which is good in that you have more freedom to add features, and bad in that it's really e
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by truffdog 5y ago
As of this year, the FAA has finally approved lead free avgas: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gami-awarded-long-awaite...
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by truffdog 5y ago
There was a version of the Israeli data that used the wrong denominator to calculate vaccine efficacy against Delta, and made things appear much worse than they were. I am unsure if this is that though, I have sort of lost track.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Other people use the internet differently. As long as you know what the TikTok icon looks like, you're good for hours.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Chelsea Manning got her sentence commuted to 0, which is almost like a pardon.
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by truffdog 5y ago
If they didn't filter those words out, then presumably the headline would be about 'perpetuating' instead of about 'filtering'.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Sometimes it's worse than the office gossip- https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/02/tim-armstrong-blame...
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by truffdog 5y ago
The US murder rate isn't normally distributed. It's highly concentrated in a few hotspots, with most of the country living in areas with European murder rates. The news is national though, so you wind up in this weird situation wi
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by truffdog 5y ago
I'm pretty sympathetic. More transparency means that class based lobbying will be easier, so we should expect the more powerful classes, like the credentialists, to win out and get themselves higher pay.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I think the problem is they are really good for writing proxies like nginx, linkerd, haproxy, that everyone uses, so you have these really high profile, high performance siren songs. But they have a crucial design advantage- it is a tight l
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by truffdog 5y ago
It wasn't an exaggeration- https://blog.history.in.gov/flocks-that-darken-the-heavens-t... Pre-Columbian animal density in the Americas was insane, from cod in the east, to buffalo in the middle, to salmon and sardines
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by truffdog 5y ago
The Mormons run a tight ship
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by truffdog 5y ago
I remember having a ton of sympathy for CoreOS, Docker really was hard to integrate with as someone doing sysadmin automation stuff. Docker went to war with the standard Linux init system and the kernel developers who maintained cgroups, th
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by truffdog 5y ago
It always sucked, it just used to be harder for people to coordinate and communicate around the suck. The anti-Iraq war blogosphere is a real touchstone for me on the start of that process.
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by truffdog 5y ago
It's especially great for laptops, dockerd can be a little expensive power wise.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Yeah- https://wonky.computer/post/podman-notes/
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by truffdog 5y ago
Hyperkit is docker for mac's backend though, so... whatever bugs that upset people are probably still present.
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by truffdog 5y ago
This reminds me of the genius of AWS. The engineering team can just buy whatever they want, no questions asked.

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