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>"My point is clear if just consider a little of how snow tires work: The main point is the big bumps in the tread. These big bumps permit spinning drive wheels to dig down in the snow to find some traction, maybe the hard surface below. "

That's not how snow tires work. Not at all. Independent of the design. And no, they don't 'stop' the way you describe either.
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I'm a mod of a small subreddit and during the last 3 months around 10-15% of our visitors used the redesign, 20% browse on mobile, 30% use an App, and the rest use the old design. Engagement is highest in the Apps.
Devil's advocate: Have you been to Amsterdam? They have dedicated bike lanes and parking garages for bikes near the train stations.

Of course, I would say that this is an excellent use of public space as opposed to infrastructure dedicated to cars.
You can with a local dev certificate. But you can’t distribute it to others, unless they have one themselves we.
I just realised that this is especially interesting, given that they're one of the most steady-growing major sites, at least if this reddit post is anything to go by [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/87q8pn/the...
There won't be many pristine woods left if everybody lives like you though.
Sure there are always going to be people like us who want an 'archaic' life style which require an archaic mode of transportation, but the world shouldn't be optimizing for these people, and I see nothing wrong with making these people pay extra for the externalizes their lifestyles impose.
Well yeah, but then you tell your devices that you're UTC-4, and when it receives the NTP update, it just automatically subtracts 4 hours.

Or, like in the case of most phones, GPS-enabled devices know what time zone you're currently in, and then automatically adjust accordingly.
Everything electronic is subject to manipulation. But paper ballots can be stuffed, too, it's just possibly harder. But the Franken "election" in MN should be a case study in how fraud is done all over. It's kind of poetic justice that Franken got taken down and don't think for a second it's because of some stupid photo that was taken of him pretending to grab some woman's tits. What he really did is way, way worse than that. Think about it.

Personally, I don't have a party loyalty and I don't much care what team wins or loses because our system is so trashy anyways, but as someone interested in ethics, I would like to see the issue of election integrity take A LOT more seriously and then maybe, maybe, we start getting out of the swamp of fraud. Part of me thinks election fraud is just as American as apple pie. It's how it's done. It's like cheating in NASCAR--all part of the game.
Population: 82.5k - obviously cars have no business driving through such a place.

I spend a good chunk of the year in Bologna, Italy. The city centre there is a roughly ~4km^2 Zona Traffico Limitato - an area in which only certain vehicles are allowed during certain hours. Pretty much every city in Italy has such a zone and 4km^2 to me seems to be the ideal size for it.

That being said I know a few people who live in the centre and judging by their experiences, I wouldn't want to move there. It's so densely packed that noise bounces off the walls effectively amplifying itself. Also there are no residential waste bins so if you miss trash day during the summer your organic waste turns into an unholy bag of stink.

Walkable cities are a nice concept, but one has to watch out for one perverse incentive that is created along the way: pack everything as densely as possible.
Kids walking to school in the dark is normal in Sweden, especially in the northern parts, so as a Swede I am not sure what the big deal is. Just make sure they get plenty of breaks during the school day when the sun is up.
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This doesn't remove the problem, only shift it to different place.

From the local perspective: "I always eat breakfast at 8am!" - two people can communicate when they eat (or do whatever). When you move to different country instead of sticking to your routine (minus jet-lag) you have to adjust your brain to completely different hours.

Benefits of using UTC internationally would only be good for companies and people that do a lot of international meetings so using UTC would make their life easier (instead of wrapping their heads around multiple timezones)
> The code below that paragraph actually does check on every access, though.

I could be wrong, but I think a sufficiently clever JS engine (like v8) would remove that check at runtime, by realizing that half of the ternary operator is dead code. (If it's hot code and it gets optimized, anyway).
Autovivifying variables is wildly out there. I feel your pain!

Autovivifying properties of a dictionary could certaintly lead to some bugs, but as presented here, checking for existence won’t invoke autovivification.
The problem isn't the wording, it's the hare-brained idea that public and private shouldn't mix and cooperate. Flip the statement, make it about education - "How can it be that private benefit – the education – is financed by the public money?" - to clearly see the implications.

We finance the baseline of education/transportation infrastructure from public funds because we believe that improves productivity, and performance of civic duties in a democracy across the board. Purely privately owned education/transportation is politically contentious for various reasons, right? Enclosure of the commons, economic inequality, limited avenues for upward mobility and all that, right?

Lastly, a pedestrian on city-founded sidewalks is "a private citizen occupying public space" just as well. There's no moral qualitative difference between an individual pedestrian, an individual on a bicycle, an individual in a car [1], or a group of individuals in a tram or bus. We can argue about occupancy and all that, but that's just quantitative difference of maybe an order of magnitude at worst. The use of public space should should primarily support the main activities of the general public.

[1] pollution from ICEs aside, but we're on track to fix that permanently.
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>the rich tend to adopt or do what the rest cannot very early and a good many things do trickle down.

I imagine the poor would adopt things too if they had money.
Just because two people are, say physicists or atheists or believers in liberal democracy, doesn't mean they agree about everything (or even much at all).

The past few years make me think that without sufficient common ground, rational debate is impossible:

•Alice: "Rosemary's Baby is the best film ever."
•Bob: "Devil woman! Satan is speaking through you. But you can't fool me!"

•Alice: "My father just died. Everyone, give your dad a hug. You'll miss him when he's gone."
•Bob: "Cry me a river, loser! Cow farts. Cow farts. Hitler was right!"

•Alice: "I didn't vote for Trump, but I am glad he's talking to North Korea"
•Bob: "Of course you are, Russian bot! I hope your handler is happy"

•Alice: "I used to be a cop, and this video is way over the line."
•Bob: "Antifa scum! How much does Soros pay you to write this BLM propaganda?"

•Alice: "Just a reminder that you can get a free vaccination today, if you live in Charleston."
•Bob: "Great, free autism everybody! Bet you'll trot out your MSM 'facts' now. Science is the new religion."

The web is so full it's bursting with "debates" like these. They are not worth having. They do not change anyone's mind. They cause people to dig in. They just further divide society.
If there's ice on the road people in Norway just switch to studded tires.
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Now is harder to distinguish between legit business websites and scams. The best alternative is to just use an iOS app as Apple does the verification(i.e. what EV provided). EV was far from perfect, they were expensive and hard to get but I think it should be replaced by something better not just removed.
I personally never heard/seen of any phishing website using EV certificates.
The problem is that no consumer will buy internet advertised as conditionally rate limited.ISPs have no reason s to stop what works.
Yes, it isn't particularly hard to figure out why they are throttling. Video services especially will take up all the bandwidth when they can and then annoy people when it inevitably gets downgraded again. For most people "speed" is "does my video load" and "does this file complete fast", not "4k everywhere". This should be fairly obvious for anyone who have even shared a connection with a couple of people. And unfortunately the Internet is lacking in support of adaptive anything.
Ah, the mythical “sufficiently smart compiler” :-)
Roads, parking and other infrastructure that de facto subsidize and encourage private car usage but which often are considered "free".

Taxes on fuel raise £50Bn/year for the exchequer, which is double the amount spent by the government on all transportation of all kinds. No one considers it to be “free”, and in fact drivers subsidise everything else.
What about teaching?
Interesting - actually saying yes to a transplant is a big step many people cant say yes the first time I could not for example.

I did pass on one kidney where the donor might have been hiv+ - the surgeons second line was don't worry they have really good drugs for HIV now. I still had ok kidney function so thought it was best to let some one else in worse health have the kidney.
Actually biking in snow is fine too as long as there isn’t too much of it. The real problems are around the melting point when everything melts a little bit during the day and three freezes over the night and thus you have to bike on ice. This can be fixed by studded tires but most don’t bother. Main issue for me for biking in the winter is the cold. Not really a problem anymore as I moved to Helsinki where it rarely is cold enough to be a problem.
Apple are also well in the business for stupid patents, so they know better than to question it.
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The purpose of an EV cert was to provide the user with trust that the company running the site is a legitimate business. That is different from the purpose of TLS in general, which is simply to secure traffic over the wire. That's why they are different products.

The use case for EV is hard, and CAs did not always deliver on the goal. But instead of working on that hard problem of trust on first visit, most security professionals have decided to ignore that problem and pretend that all certs have ever needed to do is secure the wire. Of course EV certs look silly under that line of thinking, but that doesn't mean it's right or complete.

The industry has basically given up on the idea that there is some way to establish trust on first visit. Which is nuts, because we take it for granted in real life that we can just walk into a brick and mortar store and conduct business without getting mugged.
It hasn't happened because most in the US don't need or even want to live in pedestrian focused cities.

Americans tend to live in detached single family homes.

Americans tend to want space between themselves and their neighbors.

Americans do not see their cars as liabilities.

Most people don't live in SF/NYC and/or don't read StrongTowns

Replacing American suburbia would cost $100 Trillion dollars. More suburbia is being created every day, far outpacing investment in "New Urbanism".

In America, when your city/suburb becomes blighted, you can move.
I don't believe in federated solutions, but I'm also not sure if and when our end-user devices are ready for p2p.
For real! Amazon even sued Barnes and Nobles for having an Express Lane button. Here is more info on this ridiculousness:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
> black ice ... snow

The ultimate irony of the point attempted to be made is that people don't drive when ice or snow cover on the road (or suck at it, take undue risks, fail to, and ram into curbs/cars/people).
Nah, just read the article:

“There’s no evidence that any of these policies are only happening during network overload,” said Choffnes. “They’re throttling video traffic even when the network doesn’t need to. It happens 24/7, and in every region where we have tests.”

That's not QoS, that's greed.
Err why is "delivering organs " good for a doctors career - and most organ donors (90% in the UK) are dead
It's my way of saying we were really mad! Mad enough to come to blows which nearly happened at our meetings or to sabotage the whole mining operation. Have a look at this story[1] about a community in diamond rich land in South Africa who are still bitterly divided to this day.

[1]https://mg.co.za/article/2014-01-30-bitter-fight-for-diamond...
I thing "banning" cars in a Town/City work well for smaller cities, through you still might want to have some time frame in which e.g. trucks can bring new goods to super markets, fire fighter etc.

For larger cities I think it would still be possible to have many "no-car" isles, paired with good public
transportation available for anyone at "any" place (which can be done today by e.g. using this small and _slow_ self-driving mini buses to connect the home/side streets with the underground trains, regular trains and potentially normal sized buses,
you just need to deploy enough of them with a good
rout planing algorithm and a smartphone app, through it might be slightly expensive).
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> This may be shocking to people with an American upbringing, but cars (especially privately owned ones) just do not make sense going forward.

It's not limited to the US. Even in Europe (at least in France where I live), we have a lot of protests whenever there are measures against cars. A few days ago, there was a no-car day in Paris, you could see people on social medias extremely angry.
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Good example. This has concerned people throughout the ages. And if you reject Heaven and reincarnation, it may be the only path to eternal "life".
What about people who live inside city limits but work elsewhere? For example, I currently reside in Washington, DC but work about 30 min away. There is no public transportation to my work. At night, I park in a garage but there are others who park on the street and commute out of the city every morning.
Well, I do as well, but my mother definitely wouldn't and I wouldn't even let her. It's very dangerous even in a car.
It's also possible to design cities for both people and cars. The trick is to separate them.

For example a shopping street where no cars are allowed could have parking lots at the back of the shops. So trucks can supply the shops and customers can pickup large goods with their car.

Another method is what we call in Dutch a ​'Cauliflower-neighbourhood'. The closer a road comes to the place were people live, the smaller they become. And speed limits will go down as well. The limits most of the time go from 50km/h to 30km/h to 15 or even 5km/h.
I didn't go to Apple, I took it to a local place and was quoted over $200. Having an electronics background, I have attempted to fix iPhones a couple of times in the past. It never works out--the screens and digitizers you buy are crap, the connectors in the phones are so tiny that they break exceedingly easily, and the whole experience is just bullshit. Honestly, I fix my own cars, I should be able to attach a screen to a phone or tablet, but Apple went out of their way to make it hard. Those connectors could be a little bit bigger, they just chose not to make them that way!

So thanks for the downvotes all you geniuses, but not everyone lives in San Francisco, NYC or wherever there are street corner repair shops!

You know the other simple device that has been engineered to be un-repairable? Headphones. The barrel connectors on my kids' headphones break and every time I try to repair them it turns into this nightmare of trying to solder tiny wires where the ground is wrapped around them--they did this on purpose to thwart repair so that you keep buying new headphones.
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Having lived both in France and a solar hour to the east of it (but still in CET), I find that France is exactly where it should be and most of CET is off by an hour or more. Moving the EU to permanent DST will fix some of this for me.
> It's not like people never leave their houses

Arguably many people seem to consider their car as a self-propelled living room, fully equipped with sofa and entertainment system.
I think the performant rudeness is part his way of keeping the herd in line. A big display once in a while can take less energy and be more effective than continual small corrections. Consider the actions of the lead bull in a herd of elk. Consider that Linux has been developed by a group of men using male ways of interaction, which have remained unchanged since Homer.

Think back to the arguments between Torvalds and Tannenbaum. Linus earned his place through a combination of technical prowess and forceful personality.

Consider that Linus can now afford to transition to the role of the wise elder. That role traditionally adopts a more considered and politic view when resolving conflict.
Should I apply to YC with this idea?
Smile to boost your mood.
Open the webapp and start smiling, it will keep track of your smiling time so that you can review it later by day, week, etc.

You would also be able to see the amount of time people have spent smiling worldwide. You can invite your friends to smile as well and, maybe, get to know how many times and for how long they have smiled thanks to you.

In [this article](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762283/) they talk about Laughter prescription, which is basically suggesting patients to smile to allegedly, aleviate symptoms, improve mood, and, enhance health.

> Findings range from suggesting that, in addition to a stress-relief effect, laughter can bring about feelings of being uplifted or fulfilled to showing that the act of laughter can lead to immediate increases in heart rate, respiratory rate, respiratory depth, and oxygen consumption. These increases are then followed by a period of muscle relaxation, with a corresponding decrease in heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure.

What do you think? Should I build a prototype based on this idea?
A redesign of a system you use regularly and have some sort of personal attachment to is like someone sneaking into your house at night and rearranging the furniture.

I work for a major UK community site and we get a furious backlash against even the slightest of changes. And sometimes against things that users think have changed but actually haven't.

(Very) generally we as humans hate having to think. Figuring out a change to something we use regularly means all our automatic shortcuts no longer work and we have to start paying attention.

It's like how annoying it is when they keep moving stuff round in the supermarket but *100 worse.
You're really fixated on this village thing.

Drop into street view in the city centre and have a look around. It's not a village.
Theory: There are arrival/departure time screens everywhere and those have the current time on them?
Hi!

I'm living in one of the closes villages around Pontevedra, I'm heabilly use the city, and I'm doing some remote job for an SF startup.

If you have questions, I'm happy to help and provide feedback.
> Around here (this site I mean), the majority opinion doesn't find any problem at all with sleet and snow and cycling.

I know. I expected to get this kind of responses. It shows how little empathy this site has for other (older, overworked, with 3 kids, pregnant, ...) people that are just a little different than they are.
> I want to finish this comment with a call to engage in democracy. Make your opinion heard, loudly, go to the voting polls, participate in your local council, actually engage in politics

in the Bay Area, they tend to vote for more and better roads (but tend not to get them)
Yes, it's their responsibility. And that's why they put a media region lock sticker on the box of the DVD. (And usually it's also printed on the labeled side of the disk.)

Legally, Marks & Spencer must put this restriction into their contract with the customer. And of course these are sometimes implied contracts. Very much based on jurisdiction, case law, etc.
worthy of respect.

I did not speak of "respect" or "merit", I was discussing "influence". They are distinct concepts. What is gained by conflating them?
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Agreed, in my experience this is the real difference between mediocre/OK/excellent programmers; the ability to choose the "right" level of encapsulation and abstraction at design time. It's definitely not always correlated with experience, although finding someone relatively junior on the good+ side of the scale is a real find because as you said the school of hard knocks tends to be the best teacher in this realm. IMHO Most anyone can learn to program at a reasonable level, but not everyone can do design well; see bootcamp graduates(and also "ten years of the same 1year of experience)…
I have been to Amsterdam, yes. :) That's why I asked for /massive/, i.e. a scale that's comparable to the space dedicated to cars.
Which competency in calculus do you find hard to maintain, exactly? My job does require math, but only occasionally calculus (and even then we don't integrate anything by hand, there's Wolfram Alpha for this stuff).

If you can't remember the core intuitions about calculus (what does integrating a function mean, how to use the derivative or gradient to find local minima or maxima, which functions are continuous, which of those are derivable everywhere) then if you're like me and most people I know, you need to spend more time applying calculus.

You can read stuff in fields that benefit from application of calculus to get a better feel for it (geometry if you're doing anything with curves or curved surfaces; computational geometry is also quite fun, also in most engineering fields there is some calculus to model the application of the forces, if you like building things learning to simulate real-world structures and systems can be super motivating). Build a (very small) neural network without a framework, that'll make you work at grasping the concepts of measuring small variations in the output of a function in a way that is very goal-directed.

(I used your example of calculus because I think you're talking about being an adult with a day job who can't find a use for high school math. If you did math in university and are worried about losing your skill at writing proofs, you should find a job writing proofs. There is about zero overlap between proof writing and a developer career, and proof writing is tedious and difficult to gain the focus to do on the side.)
I walk to the grocery store most days. It seems to kill several birds with one stone:

- unwind after work

- get exercise

- get outside

- time to think

You would think it would be a lot more popular but it's not. It seems more like there must be something wrong with you if you walk on a daily basis lol. ... societal norms I guess.
Maybe you only don't feel rushed while walking because you only walk when you have time?
Everything is going mobile so you can't fault people for using a mobile app. FWIW I think there is some variety in reddit mobile apps.