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Re:It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own
on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:45PM (#43616286)
Based on the video, it looks like Vimeo's co-founder lives in the Mission district of SF. In my experience living hear for nearly a decade, the traffic norms around here are terrifying. I lived in the area years ago and the number of times cars would blow through stop signs in broad daylight around pedestrians stunned me.
I'd love to see more flow-control measures like speedbumps, etc. Walking around the area should be enjoyable - lots of trees & shops. The potential for erratic drivers causes me to avoid the place.
Other parts of the city are much safer (at least outside the main high-speed corridors). The Mission is full of stop signs and what you'd expect to be slow-speed traffic - reality is far different.
Re:How good are American roads?
on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @12:34PM (#42196290)
Oregon is 60% the size of California by land area but only 10% of the population.
Roads like 101 & 880 can't be worked on during the day because of massive congestion issues. But drive up & down 101 after 9 or 10pm (even on weekends), and you'll see crews hard at work. Hats off to those crews working the night shift.
Re:Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens
on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:20PM (#40850215)
Novo's rise is due to the proliferation of its new blockbuster weight-loss drug, semaglutide (aka Ozempic)
Re:Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make
on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:40PM (#39564329)
Loved reading this.
Here's an archived version that still has the photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20140713012712/https://gizmodo.c...
Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time
on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:36PM (#39232390)
Sam Altman led invests in a nuclear fusion company, Helion. Guessing the potential conflict of interest is why the 2nd article drew vote controversy.
https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/announcing-500-million...
Re:Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing
on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:30PM (#37330002)
https://kapeli.com/dash
Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander.
Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc
";url" expands into "whatever string you configure"
Re:256TB SSD from Samsung
on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:12PM (#37094100)
Why the downvotes? This is observably true “for most people”
Re:Arrest made in Bob Lee case. Alleged killer also worked in tech
on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:43PM (#35558253)
I grew up in "safe suburbs" and moved here 5 years ago. Saw a lot of sad changes with COVID... but in terms of safety, I'm 100% with you. On rare occasion, I'll cross a street if an individual is behaving particularly weirdly but I've never witnessed/experienced a "random act of violence". Broadly speaking, SF is safe from violent crime unless you're looking for trouble.
I'm sure parents with young children or elderly have a different experience but that's not different for any other larger US city.
With this said, the topic of the city turning a blind eye to property crime and "extreme", visible destitution is a whole different story.
Re:Walmart’s redesigned website looks better than Amazon
on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:08AM (#35440888)
Somewhat related but for years I've been surprised by how irrelevant the items Amazon recommends on my homepage. They have decades of my personal shopping data along with credit card, demographic, media interests, and lots more.
The irrelevant suggestions + cluttered homepage UI makes Amazon only useful when shopping for something specific.
Re:Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free S...
on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:49PM (#34920129)
Not necessarily.. but they have been known to fight against (ridicule) certain forms of stupidity in the past. Which I feel many here would agree Stanford's policy is a form of.
Re:340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state
on Sunday December 25, 2022 @04:49AM (#34125750)
To be fair, the Presidio is the foggiest/most humid part of SF. Any part of the city & broader Bay Area directly touching coast line attracts dramatically more moisture than anywhere even a few hundred meters inland. Even in the Marina district half a mile away mold isn’t an issue afaik
Re:The mid in fake midcentury modern
on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:55PM (#33897645)
Very well said. I had a similar takeaway, captured by this quote which is representative of many flavors of the sameness described in the article
"The imagined color of life under communism, gray has revealed itself to be the actual hue of globalized capital. “The distinct national colors of the imperialist map of the world have merged and blended in the imperial global rainbow,” wrote Hardt and Negri. What color does a blended rainbow produce? Greige, evidently."
Re:Big Telecoms’ Proposal to Force Websites to Pay Them Puts the Inter...
on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:56PM (#33782239)
Website wouldn't load for me... cached version:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2rSRyD...
Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:02PM (#33778760)
It's difficult to defend Apple in this scenario but Apple's relationship with China is just like every other company's (western or otherwise) - at the end of the day, China holds all the cards. If you don't bow to their authoritarian edict, you are kicked out of the country.
The energy and anger should (as per usual) be directed at China and the Chinese communist party to a much greater degree than Apple.
I'm assuming, of course, that Apple was forced to make this update. Hard for me to believe they proactively made this freedom-violating, protest-suppressing change.
Re:Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term...
on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:07PM (#33600192)
The obvious explanation for other country's vaccine recommendations is based in data. COVID kills the elderly (75+) who are more likely to be battling multiple negative health conditions beyond COVID.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti...
Re:Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term...
on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:05PM (#33600159)
Always worth pointing out COVID (very) disproportionately kills the elderly (75+)
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti...
These stats don't indicate whether other confounding factors led to an individual's death.
Re:Why Are U.S. Transit Projects So Costly? This Group Is on the Case
on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:33PM (#33567151)
You're correct, of course, but the public good from improving the safety/cleanliness of shared infrastructure like transit has a much higher ROI than your "average" public space. Both have societal good but improving transit stops (especially rail) deserves higher priority than your average sidewalk
Re:Why Are U.S. Transit Projects So Costly? This Group Is on the Case
on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:00PM (#33566759)
I feel like SF residents' aversion to new transit projects is unfortunate but totally reasonable... walk anywhere in SF near a BART (subway) stop and you face open drug use, trash, and other problems nobody wants in the neighborhood they call home. It's not like these are intractable problems - other major cities manage to keep their subway stops and surrounding areas clean & pleasant to use.
The case against BART expansion is made by the experience & externalities of existing BART.
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:41AM (#33081985)
The standard charging cable Apple has supplied with new iPhones for years now has been USB-C to Lightning.
Re:
on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:31PM (#31990380)
I highly doubt we'll see any updated mask guidance in the USA until November 2022, after the US midterm elections. The vast majority of people seem content with the policy of "if you want to wear a mask to protect yourself, wear one".
Re:A subreddit dedicated to busting shoplifters
on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:56PM (#31841058)
The article strangely seems like it's framing the entire industry/profession of loss prevention in a negative light. Hopefully everyone realizes the more retail theft a store experiences, the higher prices become for those of us who pay... and the more likely a store is to shut down if theft becomes too prevalent.
I'm not here defending a subreddit I've never visited but in general, those in the loss prevention industry don't have the time or context to evaluate if a given shoplifter is or isn't deserving of intervention based on the shoplifter's circumstances. Loss prevention is there to prevent loss - not make moral judgements.
Re:Victims of Vimeo
on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:42PM (#30759444)
Ah good catch! Yeah the hyperlink color was the same as text for me, too
Re:Victims of Vimeo
on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:06PM (#30759043)
"With this in mind, a few months ago, our company, AE assembled a subscription video platform for health and fitness"
Did I miss something or does the blog not link to the new platform?
Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:00PM (#30201881)
This trend exists because children are being tested for COVID after being admitted to the hospital for entirely unrelated issues (broken bones, etc). They're in the hospital _with_ COVID, not in the hospital _because_ of COVID.
Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:43PM (#30167128)
I think it’s reasonable to say “nobody” follows all the rules of the rules of the road. The ones you deem important enough to rigorously follow come down to local social dynamics/norms more than written law.
I’m from Colorado and drivers there are much tamer than the Bay Area - and rightly so! Traffic conditions in SF/peninsula (where I live now) are way more hectic & dense than Colorado. It’s almost weird to expect uniformity across all regions
Re:The Future of E-Bikes
on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:55PM (#30049137)
As a traditional cyclist, 4 9s isn’t close to reliable enough to trust. You need a lot of equipment faith when bombing down a mountain road at 30+ mph.
Mechanical & hydro brakes tend to fail gracefully… mechanical wires will usually break a couple threads at a time (you feel this when pulling the lever), allowing riders to come to a stop well before total failure (severed cable). Similarly, you can repeatedly “pump” the levers of a leaky hydro brake to increase stopping power.
Re:Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:16PM (#29912784)
I think the logic is government dollars competing with private dollars, especially during a supply shock, will send prices up
Re:Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship
on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:13PM (#29818844)
you should really round 69.69 buttloads up to 69.7
Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many sta...
on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:10PM (#29679684)
Presumably relative to countries that don’t share these same 2-staircase fire regulations