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New comment by mikysco in "It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own"

mikysco — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:45:32 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "How good are American roads?"

mikysco — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:34:43 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens"

mikysco — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:20:41 +0000

Novo's rise is due to the proliferation of its new blockbuster weight-loss drug, semaglutide (aka Ozempic)

New comment by mikysco in "Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make"

mikysco — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 17:40:01 +0000

Loved reading this.

Here's an archived version that still has the photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20140713012712/https://gizmodo.c...

New comment by mikysco in "Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time"

mikysco — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:36:01 +0000

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...

New comment by mikysco in "Show HN: I automated half of my typing"

mikysco — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:30:22 +0000

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"

New comment by mikysco in "256TB SSD from Samsung"

mikysco — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:12:29 +0000

Why the downvotes? This is observably true “for most people”

New comment by mikysco in "Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech"

mikysco — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:43:40 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "Walmart’s redesigned website looks better than Amazon"

mikysco — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:08:05 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "Stanford faculty say anonymous student bias reports threaten free speech"

mikysco — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 02:49:27 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

mikysco — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:49:54 +0000

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

New comment by mikysco in "The mid in fake midcentury modern"

mikysco — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:55:19 +0000

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."

New comment by mikysco in "EU Regulator: Proposal to force websites to pay telcos puts Internet at risk"

mikysco — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:56:50 +0000

Website wouldn't load for me... cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2rSRyD...

New comment by mikysco in "AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes"

mikysco — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:02:50 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins"

mikysco — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:07:38 +0000

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...

New comment by mikysco in "Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins"

mikysco — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:05:11 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case"

mikysco — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 21:33:29 +0000

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

New comment by mikysco in "Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case"

mikysco — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 21:00:06 +0000

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.

New comment by mikysco in "EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024"

mikysco — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:41:50 +0000

The standard charging cable Apple has supplied with new iPhones for years now has been USB-C to Lightning.

New comment by mikysco in "[dead]"

mikysco — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:31:41 +0000

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".