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Quillbert182··on Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta
Largely because the people on scooters ignore traffic laws. I'm in an area of Atlanta where they are still allowed, and the riders regularly run stop signs and red lights without checking if a car is coming.
Quillbert182··on Why is hydroelectricity unfashionable?
And it better be left alone. Hetch Hetchy has already been destroyed, we should preserve what little we have left.
Quillbert182··on How to hide your IP address
First thing that comes to mind is using a TOR hidden service
Quillbert182··on [dead]
It's Turing complete, isn't it?
Quillbert182··on Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back
There are people who have no one but themselves. It's much easier to imagine this when someone has no living relatives.
Quillbert182··on The Strid: The ‘deadliest stretch of water’
I don’t know about in a kayak, but I imagine that the current is too strong for a swimmer to hold on. The water will also suck you down deep underneath, almost certainly lodging you into one of the tunnels for the short remainder of your life.
Quillbert182··on Microsoft Has No Plans to Let You Move the Windows 11 Taskbar
That still works, it just doesn't line up visually.
Quillbert182··on Gen Z never learned to read cursive
That's the same for me. I had to use it for every (non-math) assignment from 3rd through 6th grades.

I found it much slower and more cumbersome, and I have not used it since.

Quillbert182··on Gen Z never learned to read cursive
I do, and I have to agree with the parent. The only time I ever read cursive is the occasional note from my grandparents.
Quillbert182··on Gen Z never learned to read cursive
Personally, as someone who wrote only in cursive for 4 years of my life, I find that cursive is significantly slower and more cumbersome that print.
Quillbert182··on Gen Z never learned to read cursive
I was taught how to read and write in cursive at school, and it was mandated that all non-math assignments were written in cursive from 3rd through 6th grades. I hate writing in cursive and have always found it slower and more cumbersome that block letters, and as a result, I haven't done it since other than for a select few things such as my signature.
Quillbert182··on Low risk way to preserve value during inflation?
I am by no means an expert, but one thing I have heard may be an option is Series I Bonds, which, if I understand correctly, pay interest equivalent to the inflation rate.
Quillbert182··on As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
That doesn’t mean China can’t access the data, and we have no guarantees that there aren’t copies of all that data in China.
Quillbert182··on Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
Yes, the right to life is apparently quite controversial.
Quillbert182··on A whole age of warfare sank with the Moskva
I agree that missiles are the future, but unless the enemy is coming to you as is the case with Ukraine, then you are going to need a platform to deliver the missiles.
Quillbert182··on Worldle Unlimited
This is a fork I made of the game Worldle [0]. Like wordle, you can normally only play once per day. I made a few tweaks so you can play as often as you like.

[0]: https://github.com/teuteuf/worldle/

Quillbert182··on Worldle Unlimited
I don't want to take too much credit for this, it is a fork of a preexisting game [0]. All I did was make it so you could play unlimited times per day.

[0]: https://github.com/teuteuf/worldle/

Quillbert182··on Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 [video]
He is planning to release the source code at a later date. He is waiting because the source code is intertwined with a ROM Hack he made, and he is unable to release the improvements without releasing the ROM Hack in an unfinished state.

The overhauled version will run on a real N64 as long as it has the RAM expansion pack.

Quillbert182··on MIT graduate students vote to unionize
For the uninformed, what is the purpose of a student union?
Quillbert182··on Police seized $10k from him. a court ruled he had no right to an attorney
This is definitely a concerning device, but you would think that it would be harder to take password protected keys off of a device than it would be to swipe a credit card.
Quillbert182··on Police seized $10k from him. a court ruled he had no right to an attorney
It's not illegal in the U.S. to hide your assets or to hold cryptocurrency, and I'm sure a prosecutor would try, but possessing cryptocurrency is hardly evidence of crime. I definitely agree with your second point though, it would be a much better solution to criminalize civil asset seizure, but that is a much harder thing to achieve in the short term.
Quillbert182··on Police seized $10k from him. a court ruled he had no right to an attorney
That's how it's ended up, which is a shame. The idea behind cryptocurrency had the potential to be used for good, but the execution has been so poorly pulled off that it ended up being scams, speculation, and air pollution.
Quillbert182··on Police seized $10k from him. a court ruled he had no right to an attorney
This sort of stuff is why cryptocurrency was created. Despite its flaws, it does impede the governments ability to take your assets without criminal charges.
Quillbert182··on CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health
> That's really only a thing for the private universities and those don't make up a large percentage

That's not true in my experience. In my state and surrounding states, most of the large state schools care a great deal about extracurriculars.

Quillbert182··on Why We Banned Legos (2006)
This is slightly off-topic, but I would like to point out that the belief that God created the universe and belief in evolution are not mutually exclusive. I believe what you mean is Creationism, which is the belief that God placed everything exactly as it currently is and that creation will never change.
Quillbert182··on Why We Banned Legos (2006)
Stuff like this is why we get parents claiming that teachers are trying to indoctrinate children.
Quillbert182··on Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
Would be a shame if someone used Monero.
Quillbert182··on Nine-year-old kids are launching DDoS attacks against schools
I'm sure kids searching for DDoS tools have never heard about VPNs.
Quillbert182··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
I think Disney might struggle to buy Microsoft, given that Microsoft has 10x the market cap.
Quillbert182··on Using RSS to replace social media
YouTube itself does have that same option under the subscriptions tab, it will only show videos from your subscriptions in chronological order.
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