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Comment · 3 years ago
What a weird thing to say. This is about the Kentucky Derby, the mint julep is synonymous with the derby. And while that is possibly how they’re done in New Orleans, it’s absolutely not how it is done in Louisville.
Comment · 3 years ago
Going back through Discrete would probably be a good idea as well.
Comment · 3 years ago
You're just "trivializing an incredibly complex moral conundrum" -- by stating someone is "co-opting someone's pain for your own political or ethical brownie points" for having an opposing view point on " an incredibly complex moral conundrum."

Given the rest of what you have written in this thread, your idea of justice comes off as being based in a punitive approach, and it shouldn't be surprising not everyone agrees with that.

Comment · 3 years ago
Is this Three Blue One Brown?
Comment · 3 years ago
One, the lack of support for HKT isn’t great. There are some work arounds, but they aren’t particularly safe and end up being pretty cumbersome to implement.

Another big one is while the language supports lambdas and closures, it’s highly recommended to not perform any currying.

Comment · 3 years ago
The lack of HKT is the only disappointing thing about the lang for me.

There are some ways to get around it, by simulation and using ‘as’ but it isn’t particularly safe.

Comment · 3 years ago
I write a lot of Rust these days and unfortunately really great FP stuff is pretty damn cumbersome to write.
Comment · 4 years ago
It indeed does
Comment · 4 years ago
Not too sure how pushing scooters out of the way to remove barriers for people who cannot go around them is "antisocial." Especially when those people are neighbors and are in need.

The companies and their users -- the companies don't have structures to prevent their users from leaving their property in right of way, their users leave the companies' property in the spaces preventing those in need of using the space -- are the ones partaking in antisocial behavior.

Comment · 4 years ago
> the battle here is not to fight over who has the right to be on the 10% of the street we call the sidewalk

I'm not asking for 10% of the sidewalk for myself -- that's ~4.8 inches, which is much less of the space needed for a stroller, a person with a cane, or someone in a wheelchair.

I don't see any lobbying, let alone any actions from these companies that ensure that the quality of the lives of the people I mentioned isn't negatively impacted. What I do see is rent seeking and extraction of public value for there own profits.

Lobbying is great, but they aren't doing anything currently to actually curb their users from partaking in reducing the use of public space for those that can't simply 'walk around it and pray their lobbying works one day.'

Comment · 4 years ago
This grind my gears so fucking much! You are running your business not only on property that isn't yours, but the public's -- AND it's an inconvenience to every person who walks by in a busy neighborhood, some that absolutely need the sidewalk.
Comment · 4 years ago
To be honest -- when I see this, I also go out of my way to say something. I don't have a hate for scooters, I just get really annoyed by the lack of perspective people have for their neighbors.

With that said, I rarely have to say something about this to the people in my neighborhood, because while they may be blocking the sidewalk to do whatever they may be doing, they are incredibly aware and say something as you're walking by:

"sorry about my car"

"sorry about my trailer"

And I know that if someone was/is in need they'd go out of their way to help you out.

My complaint wasn't about my neighbors -- it's a pretty tight knit community. It was about everyone who comes in for some event/holiday who doesn't give a shit about those of us who live here. I'm personally not inconvenienced by the scooters, I just care about my neighbors that are.

Comment · 4 years ago
> Why don’t you take 2 minutes and push them to the side of the sidewalk if you care so much about ADA access? You can fix the problem you are encountering, and the people you want to protect CANT. You are choosing to make the problem worse for them? Why?

Uh... I said out of the way. I push them onto the easement required by the city which is grass from the curb to the sidewalk.

There is no way that this is in any way "worse." Especially due to the fact that they are usually in the way via being not parallel.

Comment · 4 years ago
Absolutely hate these scooters from an ADA prospective.

My neighborhood is a mostly quiet one near the center of a large city, where there are a lot of mothers who push their kids in strollers, older folks with canes, and some people even in wheelchairs.

On the weekends -- sometimes the weekdays as well depending on the time of the year -- the city gets flooded with both tourists, and suburbanites who want to go to all the 'trendy' spots often opting to use these scooters.

More often than not they park them right in the middle of the sidewalk. The side walk that the strollers, canes and wheelchairs use on a daily basis. Usually when I see this, I just knock the things over and push them out of the way.

Comment · 4 years ago
Isn't this what a homotopy category is for though?

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