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I don't think so. But urban planning covers a lot more than design and development and transportation. There's lots of history that inevitably includes exclusionary housing and redlining (e.g., historical systemic racism) and crime, as well as immigration, policing, job accessibility, and more. He's had a few posts that touch upon some of these. In sum, I think he's intellectually lazy.

I'm glad you found that interesting, whoever you are. KingMob is right, though: I have college degrees in those subjects, and I work in urban planning. However, that doesn't make my post an appeal to authority. He discusses topics that have been very thoroughly studied over the course of decades, and he seems unfamiliar with these studies. He seems to go for a "it's just basic logic, right?" approach in many of his posts. It's not very effective writing - but perhaps it is if you have no background in these subjects?

Anyway, all I was saying is that reading his posts as a somewhat informed reader leaves me with the impression that he doesn't have a deep understanding of these topics. I studied (25 years ago) many topics that he likes to tell us his thoughts about, such as systemic racism, consumer behavior, nationalism, how to read bar charts, etc. It would be pretty easy for many people to tear open his posts, but he doesn't enable comments.

Regarding statistics, he wrote about a crime by ethnic background chart, and didn't seem to understand the concept of n.

Though they have solved the "how do we - and not the 5,000 other AI companies - stay on the front page of the news everyday" problem.

> much less clear

I have a background in sociology and urban planning. It's very clear that DHH is not an expert on politics. His blog posts demonstrate a very elementary understanding of the topics he covers. He doesn't even understand statistics.

Exact same situation for us.

Google just seems to fly through and fill out a bunch of forms (we had to include a condition where if the google tester credentials logs in, we switch the app to the staging API). And then it's live within the hour.

We have about a 16 year old app, and our Google Play app review consistently takes between 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Apple consistently takes about 36 hours for us.

The "benefiting all humanity" charters were immediately demonstrated to be a ruse. The business model is to hook users into endlessly chatting with your new friend, thus increasing their sales. Yeah, it was surprising and disappointing.

I'm referring to a modal overlaying the post. It says "see this post in the app". Not a login prompt, as I previously reported (but who cares, modal is modal).

I was definitely clicking the correct x. And I resolved it by refreshing the page and trying again.

I received an Amber Alert a few days ago, which linked to a Twitter post containing the details, and the "x" in the "plz login" modal that blocked the entire screen was non-functional. I just sat there pounding on the x, and then a little hand gif popped up and pointed at the login button.

Thanks. This seems really neat so far.

I think the Story Ideas section is a nice touch. I was looking at my writing files and realized that I have a whole lot that are simply ideas or a couple paragraphs, and I wanted to collect and easily browse them. I think the Story Ideas section will be good for that.

I misread the title at first and thought it was the little people that had been identified.

Most every road death is the outcome of a poor decision made by a human. It's too much responsibility for many people, given the propensity to make choices that increase the chance of death and serious injury to others.

Every car safety post on HN has "guy who thinks 12k deaths is maybe not too bad." Thanks, guy! You really put things in perspective there.

Etsy seems to operate in the same way as google. I had a DMCA against a listing of mine that should have been protected as parody. Etsy immediately complied with the takedown, and then I emailed the complainant and they agreed it was a mistake from their system/consultant. But they never took the next step of contacting Etsy to say they were wrong. So I could never restore the listing.

> - Clicking an iPhone notification opens the app, but never brings me to the actual email

I've been using fastmail on iOS for years and have never experienced this issue. Clicking from a notification opens up the email. Maybe there's a setting you can adjust?

The argument is that the sweet deal we're getting now, which involves Anthropic practically giving away a product while they lose lots of money, might not be sustainable for them.

> deny the fact that it's useful tech

Is this denial in the room with us now?

Now we’re talking. So much misinformation in this thread. There’s a reason that the saying, “if you want to kill someone, do it with a car” exists. Fortunately, it seems like judges are finally starting to wake up to the idea that it’s unreasonable for drivers to claim ignorance about the increased risks (and thus intent) of making poor/illegal decisions when being the wheel.

Replying to myself. I just read the article. The gray/blue/green H2 fuel costs in the article do not reflect current U.S. fuel costs.

Gray is $8-10 for liquid delivery. This equates to a little over $1 per mile, which - compared to a CNG bus - is double the operating cost (and about 4x more than a battery electric bus per mile... just for fuel/electricity). And yeah, as I mentioned previously, capital costs will be like 1.3x of battery electric.

That said, there are lots of novel ideas out there for creating H2 fuel! Forest waste (with supposedly all carbon captured), methane pyrolysis (with carbon bricks as an output). The promises never end.

Read their comment and yours? What great advice. I would suggest you do the same, but I think you'll continue to misread it.

> No one is going to pay you to take your waste away and dispose of it. You would have to pay them.

> lol, paying someone to "take your waste away and dispose of it" has been a stable of the "recycle" industry in western countries for 3 decades now.

They are saying that paying to dispose of the clothes/waste is how it's done. And then... you said the same thing. Perhaps you're assuming they're just taking a guess, rather than coming at it with understanding that this is how it has been done for a while.

Yeah. Vehicle costs are pretty much the same (for battery electric and fuel cell electric buses, at least) and are about 2-3x more than ICE. On-site hydrogen infra for fueling/storage is substantially more than charging equipment. H2 fuel is currently $10-20 per kg (the higher end accounts for vapor losses), which is, again, much greater than either diesel or electricity.

You appear to be agreeing with the person you’re replying to.

This is my experience, too. Heroku didn’t stay competitive price-wise with alternatives. And scaling even slightly from the basic dynos quadrupled (or whatever) the price.

Feature and experience-wise, we were always really happy with heroku.

I don’t know if this fits with the “salesforce purchased and let stagnate” narrative that nearly everyone here is pushing.

It doesn’t need to be said.

I had a city college teacher who knew I liked sci-fi, so she printed me out the short story Equinoctial. Great little story, and from there I devoured everything by him.

The relatively recent Irontown Blues reminded me how great the Eight Worlds is, and how entertaining he is.

I think the counterargument is that a while ago ads became super annoying. They move, they grow in size, they feature nsfw things, they have weird js that annoys you when you try to leave. Perhaps some of this has toned down in recent years, but the damage is done. The ads are not good actors. It’s not as black and white as subverting or not subverting the will of the site owner.

Sure, but the article is about a bot that expressly identifies itself in the user agent and its user agent name contains a sentence suggesting you block its ip if you don’t like it. Since it uses at least 74 ips, blocking its user agent seems like a fine idea.

This one was funny because I checked a day’s log and it was using at least 15 different IPs. Much easier to just ban or rate limit “Thinkbot”