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> BTW how many people use a bike is a useless metric, how far they travel and for how much time is more important.

As a Dutch person: what you're forgetting is that often the entire design of a city accommodates using bikes. Meaning: everything you might need is close by.

Further, the more people use a bike, the more people are aware of people on a bike. The same people who use a car also use a bike (at least in Netherlands and Denmark).

For Rome, the city is designed in a weird way. Cycling there is awful. Further, the traffic lights are utterly terrible. You're waiting way too long (though this is the case in pretty much most countries in the world).

When infrastructure is designed in The Netherlands the impact is assessed on public transports, roads, cycling infrastructure, etc. That determines where office space is put, etc.

Now for Netherlands there's millions using public transportation, also e.g. using a train. The bike storage areas around the big train stations are massive.

Notice how I mentioned that Dutch people are using bikes, cars, public transport? There's not 1 solution or something that's bad/good as you make it out to be.
I'm not a New Yorker, but I am interested in learning more about the history of proportional voting there. This FairVote page answered some of my questions, but I have more:
https://www.fairvote.org/a_brief_history_of_proportional_rep...

Was PR only used at city council level?
Was the only PR system used STV, or were others also tried?
Were other forms of ranked choice voting used?

You mentioned Mayor LaGuardia. What system was he elected under as mayor? I found this 1941 mayoral election results page, which mysteriously mentions "Fusion Votes":
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=79425
1. SNAP is a fairly liquid stock so even shorting a lot won’t move the market very much.

2. It is the day of earnings and typically there is more volume than usual that day, especially in the last hour.

3. Lots of people make (and lose) money the day of earnings. Are you going to arrest everyone who made the right large bet on a stock before earnings? If so that prison is going to very full
Not below sea level but close to it and mostly flat: Kuala Lumpur, Dhaka, New Delhi, Kyoto, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Mumbai, Lagos

together they represent almost a billion people and the world's biggest cities. Should we ignore them because they're not snowy North American/European cities?
What do I have in common with a Super-Intelligent AI?
I'm self deprecating.
I'm not too familiar with the App Store, but a big issue with all of these stores is that they have limited screen estate for promoting apps from their catalog. So you get a ridiculously tiny subset of apps that is featured on the storefront itself and thus gets the attention and sales.

If you have a product for sale through such a store front, the best way is to not play the game of getting to the front pages or at least to not rely on it. Instead, you get attempts to drive sales through product web pages that link to the stores.
And a new source to improve browser fingerprinting.
I've commended to a response below with the business model, but yeah I've just started trialling a freemium model yesterday so need to update the rest of the site with clearer pricing plans etc.

Until yesterday there was no freemium access, it was just paid up-front to access all the content. $39 per quarter or $99 per year.

Your use case is kinda where the idea came from, most product people do something similar. The hard part is adding enough relevant content on Page Flows for enough people!
Is there a way to globally disable middle mouse paste on X11? I don't really use it anywhere, and when i do, it's mostly by accident
In Netherlands a bike is a means of getting somewhere. If the argument is "getting exercise", the usage would be pretty much nothing.
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Database fileds, too.
> Autonomous buses should be within reach this decade.

Or we could just deploy more buses, more bicycle lanes and reduce car reliance right now?

"A gadgetbahn is a speculative transportation concept that proposes to solve planning and financial issues via some sort of magical techno-fix, likely some technology that doesn’t even exist yet.

Classic examples of gadgetbahns are: monorails, “personal rapid transit”, maglevs, or the newest addition to the family, the “hyperloop”." [1]

[1]: http://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/gadgetbahn/
My two cents:

- Privacy-focuses/Decentralized social networks

- E-Sports

- Food & Leisure

- Travel

- Climate-friendly services
Firefox does not support web Bluetooth
Everything you fear about the rise of fascist China was far worse under the USSR in the latter 20th Century, and in fact far worse in China during that time too.

I’m not intending to downplay the impact on minorities within China, or their growing global influence. It’s just that what China is doing is fundamentally the same category of human and national behavior we have seen for 100 years. Relatively speaking, it is less destructive than what came before. We must address it but the tools to do so are available and obvious.

It pales before the threat of climate change because that is a new category of threat to global society.

Why? Because water, food, and real property are fundamental to the health and economies of all nations, and climate change will create massive unfunded changes to those. It’s one thing to have an aggressive nation on the world stage a la China. It’s quite another if hundreds of millions of people need to migrate and have no money to do so. The latter is well within the realm of possibility given what we know about climate change.
That depends entirely on the bike lanes.
In the Netherlands you don't see any bicycles on the road when there is a nice, wide bike lane present instead.

In Germany you see them quite often because the bike lanes there are often too narrow and their surface is in bad shape.
Germany has a fraction of our population. In 1950 the U.S. had 150 million people. Today it has 320 million. The interstates were largely built outside of urban cores but sprawl often took them over. Most European cities were built before the car. Their grid and design is totally different than U.S. cities.

Autonomous buses are an ambitious but realistic solution to people's transportation needs based on the reality of American real estate, roads, and commuter needs.

You won't get there with bikes in the U.S.
Bonjoro is great for reducing churn. https://www.bonjoro.com

Check out how Matt Ragland from ConvertKit uses it here: https://www.bonjoro.com/uses

Disclaimer: I'm the CTO
And when there's a lot of snow, a bicycle is "wrong gear".

(N.b. I ride in the snow for hundreds of kilometers every winter. I know you can take a fatbike to powder snow but that's just too strenuous for most people.)
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> Note that wearing a hi-viz vest can actually make you more accident prone. There's been various studies that a helmet or a hi-viz vest means other cars will pass you closer than before.

Even worse, when I used to ride a motorcycle I got complaints and agression when wearing a hi-viz vest. Either people though I was a traffic controller and sometimes approach me more aggresively (aggression toward police/traffic controllers is getting more common these days in the Netherlands), or they where angry and comment that I should not pose as a traffic controller. Because if every motorcyclist whore a hi-viz vest, how can the distinct them from traffic controllers?
This is huge imo. It is exactly a web interface that can use bluetooth. One of the major problems with the BLE protocol is that there is really no standard client for a user to interact with devices. To access on the computer you'd need to download a program, on mobile you would need an app... just to have a meaningful user interface to a BLE device.

Its like if you needed to download a new web browser for every website you visit, absolutely ridiculous.
> But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there

That sounds less like avoiding and more like not using. I think this is natural. When the App Store first came out, apple planted the idea in our head that we needed new ways to use our machines. But unless you are a new user, it’s likely you’ve hit an equilibrium where you know how you want to use the device.
We're obviously talking past each other.

What I'm saying is that for a hosting architecture to make it difficult to predict the cost of any code change is a downside compared to an architecture that makes such predictions easy and intuitive.

Of course you will try to mitigate any downsides and learn what you can from any mistakes. But unpredictability makes learning far more difficult than it should, which inevitably means a waste of development resources.
You assume that the user has root access on the remote server, which is not true in many environments (esp. corporate jumpservers).
The Flying V would be unlike any other passenger airliner, even in 2040
The apps there can't be vetted by others who want to (like they can for apt etc.). The incentives are totally different: Apple Store is commercial, and Apple takes 30%, hence the part about taking your choices away.
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I recently sunsetted it (as in - no longer accepting payments for it), but over 7 years I was running AppCodes.com.

It’s a tool for app store seo, would be the first one on the market of it’s kind, if I launched it just 2 weeks earlier :,)

Upon launch I announced it on hacker news, and wrote to the TC journalist that covered my competition. Got to front pages on both sites, and it was rather smooth sailing after that - I appeared on a few app store conferences and podcasts, did a bit of marketing, and all in all earned around $250k over the span of the few years (which is a very decent salary in Poland).

Finance-wise, it was an extremely important thing in my life, since it was my first own project that allowed me to earn a decent living, after over 10 years of trying various things. Got me from “omg I can’t afford rent” to “omg, I can stop worrying about money for a while”.

I also made a few important decisions over it’s lifespan:

- not taking vc-funding, and keeping it a one-person operation. the downside was that I had much fewer resources, the upside was that I didn’t need to build a unicorn, and could focus on a small niche (indie app developers)

- no free version, with good tutorials, good demo, and a good refund policy instead. twofold rationale: it takes some time to understand the tool, and I doubt free users would be so willing to take that time; getting free->paid funnel right can be challenging, and pushes the site into serving bigger clients really, not indie devs

- decided to not go for corporate clients, as those require sales teams and much more support. perhaps I lost a few clients (a few significant publicly traded companies used it for at least a while) and a lot of money, but this was more in line with my personality

- decided to move on to other things, again - more in line with my personality, where I like exploring new subjects, and don’t like staying in one place for too long :)

- decided to not sell it - I prefer the site to stay as it is, than to earn a few bucks by passing all customer data to someone else, who would most likely scrap the site altogether and forward the domain to them

- keep user privacy as the core principle - there’s a ton of cool stuff that could be built based on the data within that site, but it’s against the principles

All in all, it was an amazing ride, that really got me off the ground as an antrepereneur, and I really hope provided a lot of value to the few thousands of paid users that passed through it over the years

(written on mobile, sorry for formatting)
Mate - I'm happy for what I have got: friends, family, I'm not homeless, a career, health,.. The things that really matter more than raw £ signs. I don't feel the need to compare myself to anyone at the top of my company - why do you feel the need to?
Again, this is why we should build bike lanes, not give up and drive.
> 1) a 5K 27" screen means I can have 3 or sometimes even 4 columns of code on screen in my Emacs at the same time, and there is no way to get 5K with a PC

I assume that you are using the native 5k resolution instead of the default 1440p resolution?

In any case, yes, it is sad that there are still no commodity 5K monitors yet, I want integer scaling for 1440p.
Two thumbs up. FBN has been doing remarkable progress and have taken innovative approaches to farming and Ag. They really do help farmers. I wish them the very best and hope they go from strength to strength. I really do appreciate what they do.
Great. How can I reach you? Once my question list is done I can send it to you.
look even at the examples: you get endianness and protocol parsing/composition, coupled with "string" based enumerations + promises - no special error handling, etc. It feels such a mess to program with.
I'd argue that bugfixes belong to feature updates hand in hand, and should be accounted for in the pricing
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> As a walker I hate walking in Belgium or Berlin, where you have to share the sidewalks with bikes that usually go high speed

> Bikes should share roads with cars, they have wheels, they are not pedestrian friends.

Biking is its own thing. You have walking speed, cycling speed, moped speed (or quick electric bikes), car speed. There are different speeds between them. They should NOT share the same space!

Further, the bike lane should NOT be some crappy paint on the pedestrian path. It should be an obvious difference to any other form of transport.

Having bikes which go 10-15 km/h share the same infrastructure as 45-55km/h just makes the accidents and the severity of the accidents go up like crazy.
Nothing should support web bluetooth.
> To access on the computer you'd need to download a program, on mobile you would need an app

You say it like it's a bad thing.

>Its like if you needed to download a new web browser for every website you visit, absolutely ridiculous.

I really do hope websites do not try and enumerate Bluetooth on their right own. I know I'd never enable access to Bluetooth to a browser.
Honestly, that's impressively high. Imagine how much worse it'd be if everyone spent their days walking around in the sun. There'd be more than enough skin cancer to offset the lost road deaths.
As a software developer, it strikes me as odd that this is something that doesn't somehow happen naturally.

Where I work, a huge portion of employees eats out instead of bringing their own lunch, so around 12:00 we form into groups and go eat together. Due to various constraints a lot of the time these groups happen to be the size of 2.

I love it because it's an opportunity to get to know your co-workers on a more personal level.
> What happens when it rains / snows ?

Then you ride with appropriate clothing, as usual.

Yes, that means that if one insists on "business" attire, one has to change on arrival - which I do.
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Bonjoro is such an awesome idea! I was aware of it, but never thought to actually try it out myself. I'll look into it!
No iOS support?
Dead on arrival.
> Clinton locked out nearly all of the viable opponents by using institutional control, the only one left was one sufficiently outside the Democratic party so she had a strong institutional advantage. No voting system could have fixed that.

Uh, yeah, simply not having voting superdelegates in the nominating contest (a reform to the candidate-selection voting system Democrats made in response to 2016) would have likely fixed (or at least mitigated) that, since the nominating contest was close even with the early superdelegate commitments and the effect that had on the perception of inevitability.

A general election direct (no electoral college) voting system like Bucklin or IRV, modified some that the same ballots, skipping votes for the winner, were tallied again by the same method to select the vice president, encouraging a party to bring it's two independently strongest candidates into the general election (and increasing the space for other parties or independent candidates) would absolutely both discourage that and limit the effect it would have on constraining viable general election choices.

(The same system internally to the party for choosing the Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees also would fix it.)
Most cities are deploying buses. However, there are big problems with buses. The hours are variable. If you're lucky enough to live in an urban core (which most Americans don't), you can find reliable transportation via bus. If you find yourself in the suburbs like most people, bus routes are spotty and there's limited to no post peak hour support.

Labor is one of the most significant costs of running a bus. We've got semi-autonomous cars on the road today. This isn't some far off tech. This is imminent. And it would be theoretically easier for a bus to run a predictable route autonomously than what they're doing with Teslas and Waymos already.
Windows would become a very serious contender to MacOS if it becomes "unixy" like it.
We need to build bike lanes as their own adjacent network of lanes on our streets, with stop light integration within the city- meaning separation of cyclist and motorist, but adjacent -and bike lanes that run parallel to but removed from major thoroughfares.

Aka the copenhagen model.

Nobody is gonna ride a bike if it’s unsafe or difficult or if the bike paths are disconnected.

So yes, we should be dreaming beyond bike lanes, because we ought to be building proper ones right now!
I wonder how much of this was just somebody fat-fingering a "Publish Now" button instead of a "Save Draft for the scheduled publish later" button. (And then getting fired over it.)

I'm reminded of the hawaii nuclear alert ui, and I know I've built my fair share of not-great-to-use quickly-coded admin UIs over the years.
What were they?
The article makes a strong case. And no, it isn't "wrong as it is". This whole VPN business sounds like a big scam everyone keeps promoting to everyone.
In your thought experiment, the entire country is extreme one way or another. If this country used the Borda method, it seems like a moderate would win every time, despite the fact that there are no moderates in the entire country. Under IRV, the country would probably regularly rotate between extremes, which seems to correspond more closely to the actual makeup of the electorate. If a country is mostly moderate, it should have a moderate government. If a country is polarized, both sides should be represented in government.

This is especially pronounced if we suppose that the "moderate" party isn't just the middle of two extremes, but actually has some distinctive characteristics of its own. For instance, imagine that there's a liberal party, a conservative party, and a single-issue party that advocates for the interests of farmers. Supposing a split like you proposed, with the farmer party as the "moderate centrists" it seems like the government would perpetually dedicate most of its money and energy towards agriculture, even though no voters particularly cared about that issue.

It really seems like your preference for Borda is based on your own preference for moderate politics, not on any desire to faithfully represent the electorate.
Why middle mouse paste doesn't work on Windows? Why it's disabled by default??

Why the middle mouse scrolls in Firefox instead of pasting?

It's a major inconvenience which makes the default system unusable for me.
I once made a mistake on my bike, I didn't watch properly and overlooked a car. Fortunately the car watched out and stopped.

What's entirely strange is to blame one person and blame all the fault on the other. Accidents happen. What's great is to find ways to minimize them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
Many genetic mutations for new born could be predicted even before conceiving and plausible remedial measures could be taken during early development of the fetus.
I can totally see where your comment is coming from. That speech was carefully and deliberately written and targeted and pandering to its audience, the meritocratic elite. Each sentence phrased /just so/, like the historical reference compressed into an adjective because /this/ audience is expected to know and unpack the context in real time ("Stakahnovite hours", how pithy, how self-congratulatory, and yet at the same time it is clearly intended to convey negativity by association with communism).

I can't agree that it was just a self congratulatory speech. You have to speak to your audience. Some degree of pandering is expected and necessary. And, the final message was still very clear: here are the problems, you folks are supposed to be the best and the brightest, work towards finding the solution.

Whatever else, you have to admit that's one damn well written speech.
> I surely won't recommend Nvidia for anything Linux these days

Probably not an option for serious compute work that relies on CUDA.

EDIT: Compute, not computer.
The only thing you can say about the correlation in Geocarb II (my graph) and Geocarb III (your graph) is that 500 million years ago CO2 was 6000ppm and temperature 25ºC. Today CO2 is 410ppm, and temp 16ºC. That's it. So you could say there's a long term trend. But both graphs show wildly diverging lines between those points, in fact it was only during a few percent of the total time that the temperature rose when CO2 levels rose. This does not look like CO2 is mainly controlling the climate at all. So there is my problem.

There are more problems, like the multiple periods of warming and cooling in the last 1000 years, that were just as bad or worse as what we're in now, but without human CO2. Like the fact that in the past CO2 followed temperature instead of preceding it (and the Milankovitch 'explanation' is not convincing at all), and like the fact that in recent years records are being shattered for cold weather all over the globe. And the media doesn't report about that.

This thing about the climate is that everybody tells me to educate myself, and when I did, it only raised more questions.
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And this is why a Linux setup isn't 'objectively better'. As almost everything else, it depends on your priorities.
Install -> happy -> slows down -> random crashes -> slows down more -> reinstall -> repeat

One thing I think happens is Registry gets abused by apps and such over the years.
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> Containers are not a magic shield that protects you from all attacks.

Nor are manual reviews by Apple staff...
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I can't get wait until we get past this point in society where a phone number = a person. WhatsApp, LINE, most banks, now Discord. Most of them don't work with virtual numbers like Skype or Google Voice either.
I had to download it manually last May because the package was not available in the standard way (Beta closed? Can't remember).

But it works well on my Tab 5e. I used it a few times to work on the move. No need for an external monitor with a tablet. I guess I won't upgrade it to androidA 10 for as long as I can.
It's a shame he hasn't updated the financials since 2017 tho. I always liked reading up on it.
Of course Apple has a partial window update API which is the primary drawing mechanism. flushBuffer maps to OpenGL, and Windows has its own version of this too (Wingdi::SwapBuffers).

I agree that browsers using OpenGL is...a design you could reach when measuring for graphics throughput at the expense of all else.
~ means "approximately".
that's how you know its legit.