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New comment by londgine in "The new toll to drive into Manhattan won't change much by itself"

londgine — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 03:42:39 +0000

I was in London recently, and I noticed that there weren't too many vehicles, and even though roads had only one or two lanes per direction, there wasn't any traffic in the city center. I asked some locals why that was, and they said that the tube from the suburbs was fast and frequent, and it was expensive to bring your car into the city. I hope the streets of NY will calm down, and then they can even start closing lanes and turning them into larger sideways, bike lanes, or trees.

New comment by londgine in "Neopets is still around"

londgine — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 03:31:48 +0000

I was young when neopets was big, so I didn't experience all of the aspects of the game. but I do remember that when signing up, it asked my age. After answering truthfully, I was told that I need my parents to sign a document for me to play. I obviously wasn't going to do that, so then I learned one of the most important things about the internet, it is okay to lie.

New comment by londgine in "Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)"

londgine — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 06:13:19 +0000

In Tel Aviv Israel it is normally 90 or higher and humid. A large portion of the locals commute to work with bike or e-mobility devices. Most offices have bike rooms and showers.

New comment by londgine in "Diamond prices are in free fall in one key corner of the market"

londgine — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 02:54:04 +0000

$3k is a bit much for me to feel comfortable spending at a store well known for selling Chinese knockoffs. Is there a way for a layman to test that the stone is indeed a diamond, and not something like lab made cubic zirconia?

New comment by londgine in "New York is about to crack down on short-term rentals on September 5th"

londgine — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 08:32:34 +0000

Either that, or simply built more (or in NY case, higher) apartments. There is obviously a demand for both short term rentals and for long term rentals. Rather than building enough housing, NY decides to ban one and give it to the other.

This solution reminds me of the "careful mate, this foreigner wants your cookie" comic https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2656977204337311&set=a...

New comment by londgine in "Conferences are inadvertently excluding many attendees from foreign countries"

londgine — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:06:26 +0000

It's a power game. Presumably less Americans visit places that require visas since there are enough places that don't. So Americans may not want to go to Europe as much. Currently plenty of European tourists go to America, so maybe that doesn't bother them as much. Pick a third world country like Jamaica. Americans can go there visa free, and Jamaica wants Americans to continue to come, so it stays visa free. However Jamaicans require Visas to go to the US, because the US had decided that it doesn't need to encourage Jamaicans to come to the US, enough already do.

New comment by londgine in "Select Parts of the Bible for the Use of the Slaves in the British West-India"

londgine — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:00:19 +0000

One thing that I remember learning was about one of the Mexican native tribes (I think Aztecs). After their entire army was defeated by a few hundred Spaniards, the general was annoyed that the natives fought, so they enslaved everyone and had them demolish every single building in the capital. The enslavement was so bad that soon after that 90% of the natives died. Imagine that after losing a war, your job was to work yourself to death in order to destroy your entire national legacy.

New comment by londgine in "Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’"

londgine — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:03:15 +0000

The problem with many trains is that you have to book a specific time (like with airplanes) or else the price rises significantly (like with planes). The price is almost more than air flight. And in the US, passenger trains have to wait for other types of trains, making them artificially slower.

New comment by londgine in "Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)"

londgine — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:29:03 +0000

But it was replaced by a chess club. I assume that similarly intelligent people play chess.

New comment by londgine in "Woman Is Awarded $1.2B in ‘Revenge Porn’ Lawsuit"

londgine — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:42:24 +0000

Presumably there is no way he will pay the full amount. So what can he do? I guess he'll have all of his assets emptied and then he will only work in places that will pay him in cash. I know that fathers who don't pay child support can be placed in debtors prison, but I don't think he can. Maybe if he moves to a foreign country that is nice to expats, and not too nice to the US, he could work and save up money there (Maybe UAE).

New comment by londgine in "Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)"

londgine — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:22:03 +0000

I might be missing something, but what was wrong with the game bridge? Why did the leader of the nation hate it?

New comment by londgine in "Texas questions rights of a fetus after prison guard who had stillborn baby sues"

londgine — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 02:55:31 +0000

Nope, in Texas it is also illegal to murder a baby. In fact, murdering a baby is more illegal than killing a fetus.

New comment by londgine in "Why This “Zero Calorie Sweetener” Isn’t Zero Calories"

londgine — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 04:14:27 +0000

https://www.tictac.com/us/en/products/tic-tacr-mint-flavors-... Similarly, tic-tacs are labeled as having 0 grams of sugar even though they are nearly 100% sugar. That is because their chosen serving size is 1 tictac, and 1 tictac is 0.49 g, which is 0.01 g below the limit for reporting.

New comment by londgine in "Airbnb Hosting Isn’t What It Used to Be"

londgine — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:13:42 +0000

The owner's house is outside of Orlando, in a gated community. When I go traveling, I want to be close to where there are things to do. If you are willing to spend so much to go to Disney world, I would assume you also are willing to spend the money to stay in Orlando.

New comment by londgine in "Airbnb Hosting Isn’t What It Used to Be"

londgine — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:11:19 +0000

I don't know if it's just me, but Airbnb recently stopped working for me on chrome. A partial website would load, with the basic images of a property, but I was never able to load more. I later discovered that Firefox works, so I use that, but not before planning my previous trip with booking.com . That was when I realized just how bad Airbnb's search is. With booking.com you can take an area of a map and sort by total price. With Airbnb you can only sort by price per night. but with cleaning fees varying a lot, that is pretty useless information.

New comment by londgine in "The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays"

londgine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:43:45 +0000

While this does look like a biased one sided post, a year passed and I couldn't find any response from SUSE. So I'm guessing that there is a lot of truth behind this. Although I'm not quite convinced that this is antisemitism, but rather anti-non-christian. I suspect that a similar post wishing Muslims a happy Ramadan would be taken down.

New comment by londgine in "USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15"

londgine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 07:09:23 +0000

USB C was designed in 2014. How did you have it on your Samsung device in 2010?

New comment by londgine in "USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15"

londgine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 06:33:58 +0000

Look inside the USB c port. Do you see a little bar sticking out, that is the breakable part

New comment by londgine in "USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15"

londgine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 06:33:17 +0000

The correct orientation perpendicularly to the edge of the phone. No one gets exactly 90 deg. The more you are off, the more likely you are to break or wear down something. That something that breaks is in the phone, not in the cable.

New comment by londgine in "USB-C Confirmed for the iPhone 15"

londgine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 05:10:17 +0000

I've had issues with my past 2 usb c phones. the female connector has a hidden male part in the phone. when you insert the cable incorrectly, it can damage that internal male part. it is much harder to replace that part then just getting a new cable. the lighting cable was a classic male connector to a classic female part