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Re: The AirPods Effect

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Post by throwaway2037 »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #612
throwaway2037 wrote: post #590

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I have a hot take about commuting by car from the suburbs into midtown Manhattan (the densest part). The trick is time of day. If you are a gov't bond trader, it it is pretty normal to get to the office around 6AM. You can easily beat morning traffic arriving that early. Also, your day ends very early, so the return commute is also easy.

That doesn't sound like much of a useful trick, unless you plan on switching professions to bond trader.

This is a classic myopic HN reply. I will be downvoted for this harsh response: You fuckin' dummy, "bond trader" was an example profession that is (1) high income and (2) needs to arrive early to work. Probably most lawyers and many medical doctors would be simliar. Also, if you own multiple pizza stores that need to get started early, the same rules would apply.

Re: The AirPods Effect

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Post by joxdosba »

aiisjustanif wrote: post #734
joxdosba wrote: post #123

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Am European, at least in the big cities, public transport is mostly not worth using unless you are too poor to afford better options. Too crowded, too hot, there’s a decent chance of arriving at your destination drenched in sweat. Not to mention how absolutely gross the people sitting next to you will often be. I’ll happily take a few parking fines every day rather than getting in the tube.

How about in European big cities where that is not the case? Prague, London, Prague, Budapest, Zurich, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna…? So many people, especially not particularly poor people, use them to commute every single week. Notoriously, for some of these cities, it is slower to travel by car for your commute.

I live in London, temperatures in excess of 30C are frequent on the Tube. If I’m going to or coming from the gym, that’s fine. Otherwise it really isn’t.

The metro in Prague is indeed good, it’s just not a big city.

Zurich also has excellent public transport, but it’s really a village at best.

Madrid has Barcelona beat, but still occasionally suffers from a lack of air conditioning frequently leading to absurd temperatures.

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Post by pclmulqdq »

ares623 wrote: post #724
pclmulqdq wrote: post #611

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The Brazilian government keeps the crime contained to specific areas, where it gets extremely bad. In the US, a generalized lack of enforcement means small amounts of nuisance crime spread around.

uhh, could it be perhaps you've just been living in the "specific areas" where crime is "contained" in the US.

If you mean “cities” then yes. Google the word “favela” if you want to see how things work in Brazil.

Re: The AirPods Effect

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Post by herbst »

lostlogin wrote: post #743
m12k wrote: post #524

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Douglas Adams summed it up eloquently: “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented af…

I’d like a special exemption for social media, with it being in category 3 always.

Or you are just old (me too)

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Post by bookofjoe »

Reading the comments and debate about whether or not AirPods use is rude or not when others are around, it seems like the uproar over Meta glasses but in a minor key.

Re: The AirPods Effect

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Post by bookofjoe »

dolebirchwood wrote: post #729
basisword wrote: post #391

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>> The moment I start talking to someone, automagically the NC is paused as well as any audio you were listening to. This is one of those features I thought would be great and unfortunately had to disable in minutes. If you ever listen to music and sing along, even for a few seconds, the volume cuts because it thinks you're talking to someone. It's a shame. There's so many really great AirPods features and I feel lik…

I work from home alone and frequently talk to my cats (I'm not crazy). Had to turn the feature off as well because of it.

>frequently talk to my cats (I'm not crazy)

Chuffed to find a kindred spirit here!

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Post by Barbing »

goodmythical wrote: post #506
Barbing wrote: post #393

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Wow, was it a computer fraud abuse act thing, I mean claimed to be? Obviously nothing violent! Thanks for sharing.

I plead guilty to financial fraud, thanks for the interest! Curious how you project certain assumptions, though. Makes one curious about your own activities.

We’re on HACKER NEWS!

:( hey I didn’t wanna be rude… I retract the question

Smart hacker news poster comfortable talking about their legal history… feel like I suggested they set out to gleefully hurt people or something

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Post by Barbing »

IncandescentGas wrote: post #460
Barbing wrote: post #393

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Wow, was it a computer fraud abuse act thing, I mean claimed to be? Obviously nothing violent! Thanks for sharing.

Few who paid their debt to society and moved on are excited about random strangers wanting to do their own petty little performative mock show trials to sit in smug judgement over them. Please stop.

Smug?

Show trial?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609479

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Post by retired »

andrepd wrote: post #742
retired wrote: post #679

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The Netherlands has plenty of crazies using public transport. Every other window on the train has the emergency number on it for a reason. I refuse to travel in second class, hate being close to people that blast music, use drugs, puke or eat a broodje pindakaas. The Netherlands even has segregated busses for asylum seekers because there was too much violence. Dutch people have their own busses and asylum seekers are…

You make it sound like it's an absolute warzone (your demographic certainly likes to push that narrative even in the most uneventful of places!). Yes I've taken trains back home from nights out at 4:30 in the morning where there were drunk girls talking loudly and (gasp!) trash on the floor. There's certainly no-one "blasting loud music" in the average train and definitely not "doing drugs". Ofc there's a non-zero nu…

I would see people doing drugs about twice a week during my commute pre-Covid

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Post by jaapz »

patcon wrote: post #363
infecto wrote: post #283

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Not sure what your trying to a argue but it simply depends on the local laws but from a safety perspective I cannot think of many opportunities the sound would save you as it’s already loud enough from wind noise alone. I ride with a comm system that I play media over and trying to be reflective of my past and I don’t see it. Not really advocating one way or the other like yourself, I don’t have that strong of a feel…

> I cannot think of many opportunities the sound would save you as it’s already loud enough from wind noise alone I am a bit stunned reading this.. Is this a common perspective of motorcyclists?

Have you sat on a mktorcycle? The motor and air noise drowns out pretty much everything else anyway - I ride with good earplugs because I don't want to become (more) deaf.

When you learn to ride a motorcycle you learn to look - look behind you when changing lanes, look in your mirrors, basically stay aware of whatever is happening at all times by looking. Because you're sure as hell not hearing a lot.

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