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stuckagain··on How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
That's very rare. American cities are built on "free market" principles as distorted by politics. They are not built for livability, beauty, or any other quantitative or qualitative measure.

I personally advocate for this type of development, but it's unlikely that I will ever see it built: http://carfree.com/topology.html

stuckagain··on How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
From or to where?
stuckagain··on How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
Indeed, one does not simply double the population without limiting the distance people can walk. It's a simple matter of geometry. The number of households in the USA has doubled in the last 40 years. The number of major roads has radically increased. Most (85%) live in urban areas so there is only somewhere to walk in the woods if you live on the edge of the sprawl.
stuckagain··on Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
I was hoping it was named after the prolific murderess of Millhaven, in honor of what animations do to your battery life.
stuckagain··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Financial calendars are not necessarily aligned with actual calendars.
stuckagain··on Read the Trump administration's draft of the executive order on cybersecurity
Government cloud customers already have various requirements and certifications. See DoD SRG and FedRAMP for examples of such certifications by the US government.
stuckagain··on Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the Center of the Tech World
If the evolution of soma interests you, check out the work of this photographer https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/janet-delaney-south-ma...
stuckagain··on Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting
In what way is Beijing a legitimate counterpoint to an American lurch toward despotism?
stuckagain··on Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change
For any kind of branchy pointer-chasing workload hyperthreading will easily double the throughput. These workloads spend all of their time waiting for load and recovering from mispredicted branches. Oracle is the poster child of this kind of workload.

For decades now we've had to suffer these weird internet arguments about whether hyperthreading is "real", as if there was a naturally-occuring correct number of frontends on a CPU. If someone wants to put more instruction decoders on their CPU there is no rational argument that is "wrong".

stuckagain··on How Mail.Ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 To 32 PB
Spam is very small. Totally eliminating spam will not meaningfully help your storage situation.
stuckagain··on Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out
Gee only one job opening at Google in Mountain View. That must be some serious competition.
stuckagain··on How to leak to the press
The main thing is to realize that a communication may have been crafted to identify its recipient, and to take precautions against that.
stuckagain··on How to leak to the press
Printing and scanning would defeat fingerprint in the form of invisible Unicode whitespace and combining characters.

Retyping everything would be good.

stuckagain··on How to leak to the press
Yes thanks. The point is those click-thru landing pages work by temporarily whitelisting your MAC, which means they have a list of MACs somewhere. The MAC information needed by ordinary networks is ephemeral.
stuckagain··on How to leak to the press
All of the ones with click thru terms of service are logging your MAC too.

My personal favorite open wifi service is the one on Amtrak, and you can buy a paper ticket with cash. Pretty anonymous.

stuckagain··on How to leak to the press
So much more to opsec than using tor. I hope leakers are either ready to be unmasked, or have countermeasures against things like document fingerprinting.
stuckagain··on Things Every Hacker Once Knew
Arduino got so popular because it does everything the Atmel STK does at a fraction of the price.
stuckagain··on ‘Where Does Cloud Storage Really Reside? And Is It Secure?’
I doubt this increase in the attack surface is meaningful. If someone gains control of my device they can in all likelihood initiate a transfer of my files from cloud storage. They can also gain control of the cloud service. But the probability of the latter is too small to consider. When A >> B, A+B =~ A
stuckagain··on Updates to our Google Voice apps
I think this is an Android problem and not specific to Fi. On Android when the phone rings every process on the device absolutely freaks out.

THE PHONE IS RINGING OMG OMG INTERPROCESS MESSAGE BUS TRAFFIC!!!!!!1111111ONE

The process that plays the sound that rings your phone is just another process fighting it out with all the other ones for CPU time. Sometimes it loses.

stuckagain··on ‘Where Does Cloud Storage Really Reside? And Is It Secure?’
You don't need to sync Drive to your own storage. I don't. Do Dropbox and Office require that?
stuckagain··on San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?
"The East Bay" is extremely large, so this question cannot be answered. I am raising children in north Oakland, near Berkeley. I think the combination of those two cities offers me what I want: enough interesting urban amenities, sufficient transit system, plenty of other kids for my kids to play with, and enough open space.

But as I said the east bay runs practically all the way to Tracy, so no one answer can suffice.

stuckagain··on New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables
It's because they're assholes.
stuckagain··on San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?
What do you do, just walk back and forth between Temescal and Uptown? If you look at the actual numbers, 21% of Oaklanders are children and 25% of households include a child.

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Oakland.htm

stuckagain··on San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?
The article tries to pin the phenomenon on high housing prices, Google, Twitter, etc but the numbers aren't really there. The big drop in the percent of families with children in SF happened between the 1970 and 1990 census. In 1970 24% of households had children, then 19% in 1980, 19% in 1990, and 19% and 16% in the subsequent decades. The share of children in the population had already fallen from 25% to 15% by 1990, and is down to 13% today.

All of that happened before software was even a thing in this region, when the major industries were defense and semiconductors. And it happened regardless of housing prices going up or down.

stuckagain··on NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction
That conclusion is not supported by the data in the report. A supportable conclusion based on this report would be that Tesla automation with auto-steer produces 40% fewer air bag deployments than Tesla automation without auto-steer.
stuckagain··on DeepTraffic is a gamified simulation of typical highway traffic
That's a simplistic application of lane discipline principle to a 7-lane road. I'm sure you aren't advocating for everyone to drive in the rightmost except when overtaking. The question then becomes one of acceptable gradient. How much faster do I need to go to warrant the use of the lane to my left? Is there a quantum?

In America the accepted answers are "none" and "no". Also a 7-lane road is a terrible idea.

stuckagain··on New York Times Study Calls for Rapid Change in Newsroom
To say you have no examples is to simply stick your fingers in your ears. Many spring to mind, including "no-go zones" in Europe controlled by muslims, and their recent reporting on the amount of food stamps believed lost to fraud. They had to retract both stories on air.

Fox News viewers are consistently the least-well-informed of Americans in surveys. It would be difficult to dismiss that fact as simple coincidence.

stuckagain··on In Colorado, self-harm is leading cause of death in new mothers
Yes but this says specifically suicides and unintended overdose.
stuckagain··on In Colorado, self-harm is leading cause of death in new mothers
3 out of every 5 of these deaths were caused by overdose. This seems to be conflating two very different phenomena.
stuckagain··on New York Times Study Calls for Rapid Change in Newsroom
What do you think that first "exposed" article concludes? I don't think there is any doubt as to the fact that Christopher Suprun was an electoral college elector from the state of Texas, and that he did not cast his vote for Trump.
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