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Example (with Perl!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY

If you don't have a car, and the bus runs infrequently, I bet many people spend an hour getting somewhere. Anecdote, not data, but https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/low…

If you have to take a bus for an hour to get to your four-hour shift at a stressful minimum wage job, where your manager is abusive and the workplace is unsafe, your mental health …

In my experience, they are often young and at the beginning of their career. They are still medical doctors, not to take anything away from them, but I mostly rely on them for refe…

c.f. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Since Uber will predict the fare, I can occasionally AB test in NYC. The rates are basically the same as taxis now, so far as I can tell.

It isn't perfect, but the Mighty (bemighty.com) is basically an iPod Shuffle that you can download Spotify offline playlists to. It filled that niche for me.

At first I thought book was in Slovenian or something, until I realized there was some DOM level decryption happening. I simultaneously wanted to open it up to figure out how it wo…

I hear this line of thinking a lot, and I still don't understand why Uber would be the one to rake in all the self-driving cash. What do they have that a new self-driving debt-free…

Sort of? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-man-fine...

There was a time when this concept was revolutionary. https://www.pps.org/article/wwhyte He literally filmed what people actually did in public spaces, and came up with great guide…

The actual article title is "The Hidden Horror ... " Having been there, financing is but one of its many horrors. NYC is great for many reasons. Having high end airport malls is no…

The study was 16 swimmers and 16 runners. From the paper itself: "For runners, sprint/power athletes were defined as those who competed in 100–400 m races and high jump, while dist…

Likely only half the world, given how it arrives -- which probably wouldn't save us given the interconnectedness of all the supply chains. Could half the world plausibly build a ce…

This is such a relief to see purely for personal reasons. I was there as a child, and had some memory of 'buses with little wheels on the side' -- and had eventually convinced myse…

That is not Amazon. ~ whois s3-amazonaws.com Domain Name: S3-AMAZONAWS.COM Registry Domain ID: 2246085106_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com Registrar URL: …

He's not quite anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nottingham Perhaps this is meant as a public service, just to gather best practices. If you want to build your own thing, …