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New comment by alwaysdoit in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

alwaysdoit — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:51:55 +0000

Personal cars also take up space on the road when they aren't being used. It would be much easier to build physically separated, safe biking lanes and drop off areas if we could use all the space we currently dedicate exclusively to personal vehicle parking on public streets.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting"

alwaysdoit — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:46:25 +0000

Mostly agree, but choosing not to risk a new collision in order to maybe get there slightly faster (what if you damage the ambulance and are unable to continue?) to maybe help someone does seem like the right call

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Assistant to the Regional Manager"

alwaysdoit — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:39:52 +0000

He never says "AI could lead to post-scarcity" in the entire piece. In fact, he says:

> Before making this argument, I want to defend the topic. Utopia is not around the corner; these issues don't have any practical urgency. But I agree with Bostrom that thinking about utopia “can serve as kind of philosophical particle accelerator, in which extreme conditions are created that allow us to study the elementary constituents of our values.” Reflecting on utopia might tell us something interesting about human nature more generally.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?"

alwaysdoit — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:46:56 +0000

TBF, for the more popular shows, they are spending that money on an English dub (which is considerably more expensive).

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment"

alwaysdoit — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:35:34 +0000

This almost always means "security patches" but the general public almost always interprets this as "feature updates" and tech journalism never manages to draw the distinction.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Apple must pay a man $1,000 for not including a power adapter with new iPhone"

alwaysdoit — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:01:59 +0000

If they really wanted to, they could offer two versions: one which includes a charger, and another which does not and donates $5 to an environmental charity.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes"

alwaysdoit — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:20:51 +0000

Why do some people believe that deliberately and carefully trying to fix a problem and inadvertently introducing an unforeseen side-effect is worse than deliberately choosing not to do nothing about a disease that leads to sickness and death?

New comment by alwaysdoit in "The endgames of bad faith communication"

alwaysdoit — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 04:13:45 +0000

I am a pretty big advocate for good faith communication and think the article is right that it is necessary. The thing that disheartens me though, is the asymmetric nature of the problem: good faith communication is hard. It takes time and patience. Bad faith communication is easy. You can write 20 bad faith drive by comments in the time it takes to post one thoughtful reply. And due to the wide open nature of most of these platforms you're rarely interacting with the same person twice. So it's hard not to feel that that effort is entirely going to waste.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021"

alwaysdoit — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:43:54 +0000

Commercial property tax rates (incl rental) should be higher than residential. All things being equal, it would be preferable for someone to own the house they live in, rather than pay rent to another party indefinitely for exclusive access, and our tax code should incentivize in that direction.

Kotlin Static Site Deployment with Kobweb

alwaysdoit — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:54:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bitspittle.dev/blog/2022/staticdeploy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30304628

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by alwaysdoit in "DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often"

alwaysdoit — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:44:57 +0000

I guess you're going to volunteer to feed them the human blood they need to reproduce, then?

New comment by alwaysdoit in "It's your device, you should be able to repair it"

alwaysdoit — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:08:40 +0000

No it's not, it's looking to enshrine that standard by law for everyone. Nothing is stopping consumers from demanding phones that are self-serviceable, they just simply aren't willing to accept the tradeoffs involved (larger size, worse thermals, higher price, etc). If you disagree, there's an unserved market segment wide open for you!

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federal robocall ban"

alwaysdoit — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 05:32:26 +0000

> To the extent that interpretive canons accurately describe how the English language is generally used, they are useful tools. … [But w]hen this Court describes canons as rules or quotes canons while omitting their caveats and limitations, we only encourage the lower courts to relegate statutory interpretation to a series of if-then computations. No reasonable reader interprets texts that way. [Alito in concurrence]

Why would it be horrible if there were a well-defined grammar for legal texts?

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers"

alwaysdoit — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 06:38:08 +0000

Disagree. The abandonment of advertising in favor of paywalls in media is directly contributing to the increase in polarization and consumption of disinformation. Quality journalism is getting harder and harder to access. People might subscribe to one or two, but they are unlikely to shell out for a publication that does not align with their preexisting views. Meanwhile the propaganda and fake news remains free to read.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up to $392k in 2019"

alwaysdoit — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:33:34 +0000

If 401k contributions are included in earnings, why shouldn't pensions be?

New comment by alwaysdoit in "There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”"

alwaysdoit — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:41:49 +0000

I actually lost money when the first company I worked for sold.

At settle, I received a wire transfer for $7.22. The bank charged me a $15 incoming wire transfer fee.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it"

alwaysdoit — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:11:39 +0000

The NYT has been doing really, really well financially the last 4 years. Their stock price is up almost 300% since 2016--not the only metric, obviously, but it certainly gives some indications of how concerned investors are that it will stay in the black.

Other, smaller papers are not doing nearly as well.

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code"

alwaysdoit — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:56:27 +0000

If you repeat the process many times will it reduce that error rate, or are the errors non-independent?

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Shift to Remote Work Based on 7k HN Who Is Hiring Posts"

alwaysdoit — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:56:41 +0000

Pairing maybe?

New comment by alwaysdoit in "Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook"

alwaysdoit — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:09:39 +0000

Yeah, it's weird that the discussion has centered around censorship, rather than like... why didn't law enforcement shut this down sooner? Or at least properly prepare for it?