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Comment · 4 years ago
New bus lanes on 85 were on the table as part of the Policy Advisory Board’s work. Haven’t been able to find any news on what’ll happen with those, unfortunately.
Comment · 5 years ago
This may be true in suburban USA, but at least in European cities, sidewalks are used by pedestrians. You have to be alert riding a bike, but it’s a far cry from attempting to weave through foot traffic. The narrower roads also allow for quicker traffic light cycles, which is nicer than waiting a few minutes to cross your average suburban US arterial.
Comment · 5 years ago
You’re right, I was thinking about a breach of privacy in general instead of actual legal consequences. (Though the possibility of governments backdooring Apple’s servers to access decrypted files stands, that shouldn’t make a difference with this iCloud-Photos-only spyware)
Comment · 5 years ago
It seems that Apple does not need to be a co-conspirator, and that it would be sufficient if someone added ‘malicious’ hashes to the NCMEC database.
Comment · 5 years ago
Vienna built a bunch of social housing under social-democratic rule to decrease rents, and unlike most other cities, they opened it to a relatively wide income bracket. The value added, if you want to call it that, is _less_ money is spent on rents in the city. Supposedly, a majority of units in Vienna still falls under social-housing restrictions, though I don't have the time to dig deeper now and so I can't tell you what proportion is directly owned by a public enterprise and what proportion is housing co-ops (a somewhat popular model in Europe).
Comment · 5 years ago
In Vienna, you could rent from a city-owned enterprise.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hate when people earn enough to live in the city they work in.
Comment · 7 years ago
Emails are optional on reddit.
Comment · 7 years ago
2): Haskell.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hm, stable file formats... LaTeX doesn’t seem to be going anywhere ;)
Comment · 7 years ago
Ikea's “Gerton” tabletop (90€ / $100. 155×75cm = 61×29.5”) is really, really nice — it uses ≈5cm-wide beech hardwood strips glued together and reinforced across the width with some metal . It works with Bekant legs (if you have a 10mm wood bit and some masking tape handy), which are also available as sit/stand legs (that's 430€ / $350, though. the non-adjustable ones are a lot cheaper.)
Comment · 7 years ago
There are large wildlife preservation efforts in the Bay Area marshlands (particularly near shoreline park) that would be destroyed.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yep, should work on those hundreds-of-miles-straight midwest roads ;)
Comment · 7 years ago
Onboard computers can have compasses and a pretty good idea of how fast they're going. You could just be monitoring for any weird jumps or incongruences (eg. there is a road here, but it's at a different angle than the GPS signal indicates, the path recently followed doesn't match up with the map based on current GPS reading, ...) assuming you have good enough accuracy and can track it over time.

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