nathanasmith

I won't pretend it's the greatest but I've lived in quite a few 2nd and 3rd tier US cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, Jacksonville Fl, Nashville, Knoxville TN and quite a few others and the buses are certainly capable of getting you to work and back. Everywhere I've lived the buses run 7 days a week from early in the AM to late at night and some run 24 hours a day in Atlanta. Pretty much any bus route will see a bus come along every 20 or 30 minutes with some stretching out to 45 minutes. Some routes though will see a bus every 5 or 10 minutes depending on the day and time.

Even in Jacksonville FL which has more land area I think any other US city, there is no urban part of the city that is more than a half mile from a bus stop. You can even take a bus from the north extreme end of the city to the extreme south, where a shuttle connects that will then take you to St. Augustine (a suburb of Jacksonville), a grand total of probably 60 miles, for less than $4 total. That doesn't seem too bad. Is it perfect? No. But I think the public transportation system problems may be a little overblown at least in the cities I've lived in.

You might find the rest of the wikipedia article interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

[0]https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-622085-start-0.html

Android on a tablet is not for everybody though since depending on your app choices you could be in for a lot of programs intended for a phone looking blown up on this screen. So far, that hasn't been an issue for me since I mostly stick to the browser, Anki, Ghost Commander, Moonreader, emulators like SNES9X and PPSSPP which all either have tablet UIs or it's just not relevant.

The last thing I got this tablet for and which also works great is Termux to have a real command line interface and, though I didn't plan for this, Linux on DEX which gives you either a full blown Ubuntu desktop or you can just start up a BASH interface in a couple of seconds. It's great and it's the real thing right on the tablet. Even works with a keyboard and mouse with the Ubuntu desktop appearing on the tablet rather than external display. It's amazingly responsive too. Much moreso than I expected on a Snapdragon 670 with 6GB of RAM.

If you're thinking about an Android tablet, give this thing a shot. I don't work for Samsung; I'm just a happy user and since OP mentioned it and seemed to be satisfied as well, here's my 2 cents.

Edit: also my girlfriend has a Motorola Play Z something or other and that splash screen really is something else with the "HELLO MOTO" blaring and the robot doing a backflip I cringe every time she reboots it.

>Look at the volume column

The really odd thing is getting your volume numbers from CoinMarketCap in the first place when according to this well argued deck[0], 95% of those numbers are fake.

What you're looking at there is completely distorted as unregulated exchanges have a huge vested interest in inflating the numbers to dupe projects into paying higher listing fees and since most of the time, the fake volume doesn't track the waning and waxing of the real volume of legitimate exchanges, not only is that fake volume wrong quantitatively but it's also wrong relatively making it worthless and CMC practically worthless by extension though they do claim to be addressing the issue.

[0]https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...

I've had a few situations where people thought I had years of experience with some technology, framework, or programming language when actually I just picked it up last week. One situation in particular, I had a buddy who was using WordPress as the basis of a pretty profitable affiliate site business he was running until he ended up running into some issues that involved needing to make some pretty significant modifications to WordPress itself. He offered to get me in on his affiliate business if I could solve his problem for him. To make a long story short, though I had never even looked at PHP or WordPress before this, within 4 days of using spaced repetition to learn PHP and the intricacies of the WP framework, I was fluently writing plugins that handily solved his problem and a whole lot more and never had to open the reference books again as the whole thing was committed to memory. Not tooting my horn just giving an example of how what ESR was talking about above can be actualized.

Anecdotally, after reading a paper on this, I made a Python script to drill guitar pieces, chords, progressions, etc. in an interleaved fashion and I believe it has helped me become a better player. Before doing this, when I would practice, e.g., scales, I might start in A then B, C, etc. but what I noticed was after doing the first scale, the rest were just minor variations so my training went from deliberate to auto-pilot. Now, with interleaving, I have to give some brief thought not just to how to mechanically perform the piece but what exactly the piece being asked for is. Consequently, during a performance, my ability to go from an intention of doing something on the guitar to actually plucking the first string is much more comfortable and faster.

Imagine you're a programmer and you're in some kind of professional rut. You consider your options. You could learn a functional language, maybe get into mobile development, find something else to do altogether, or any other of myriad paths. If you think long and hard enough about any single option you can probably convince yourself it's the right choice. Or maybe you get overwhelmed and just give up. The question is too abstract and so are the alternatives hence the overthinking.

What I do is take the abstract and make it concrete. Instead of looking at this monster problem from the inside, I picture the end result. What am I actually trying to accomplish; what will my life look like when I do. When I see that and it usually comes pretty easily, what to do is simple. Ask myself what's the very next specific action I can take to accomplish that vision. If the answer isn't obvious I get even more specific. Maybe I need to literally get up out of my chair. Whatever. I do that thing, ask the question again, do the next thing, then the next until I'm done.

I'll probably burn some Hacker News points here but the old adage needs to be updated. Never attribute to stupidity or malice what can be attributed to both stupidity and malice.

For some reason this answer reminds me a lot of Steve Ballmer's (in)famous response when asked about the iPhone.

Edit: should have mentioned NSFW

Hahaha. Yeah, come try it asshole. At least you won't have to worry about the climate anymore.

[0]https://www.gwern.net/docs/spacedrepetition/2001-simon.pdf

That's a bizarre conclusion but whatever.

>- Its weird everywhere else in the world to sell firearms in the same store as kids toys, milk and cheese. Weird.

It's a giant department store. They sell everything. By saying it is weird, you are projecting your own biases.

>- Gallon cups have indeed existed in promotions at various fast food outlets in the US, maybe not McDonalds I suppose.

Yeah. Not McDonald's. It's almost like I said that. I also have never seen any fast food restaurant with any promotional cup size approaching anything near a gallon.

>- It's extremely rare to have people pull away from a bowser without checking the hose has been put away when you aren't pre-paying for fuel (i.e. many places around the world). However almost every image and video of it posted to car forums etc are from the United States.

Oh you saw it in some pictures in a car forum? Well I guess that settles it then.

>- The US government is perceived as corrupt to many people in many nations, and the current office is making that perception greater. That is why people can accept that this level of corruption in Baltimore has happened.

Yet the link I posted shows the US, like I said, to be perceived as less corrupt than, e.g., France. And Spain. And Japan. And Portugal. And on and on.

>But these were just lighthearted examples, and I digress.

You aren't being "lighthearted" any more than the people you are parroting who originally made these comments were. You are spreading lies and being hateful. You think you are better than "those people" in America so you spew your hatred on the internet. Except most of what you say is false or based on some other crap you, wait for it, read on the internet.

To the downvoters: I'm just devastated you took some of my internet points away. But thanks for reminding me I'm on r/hackernews. Nice "rebuttal"

An exaggeration in itself but then you go on to support it with claims that are either entirely false or orthogonal to the point. So I corrected you. Yet somehow I'm supposed to be "offended". Since you are so good at internet psychiatry, here's another word for you. Projection.

Why not? Everybody else is making it. Besides, it gives the commenter that oh so delicious smug sense of unearned superiority. Besides, everybody else is doing it. Except..

>It's like when you see people buying a rifle in Walmart - Only in America.

People buy rifles in all kinds of stores all over the world so why would Walmart be any kind of exception?

>Or when they're getting a one-gallon cup of Coke from McDonalds,

This literally does not exist.

>or drive away from a fuel bowser with the hose still plugged in

People do this anywhere they are allowed to pump their own gas. FWIW in my 40 years, I've seen the aftermath of this exactly once.

To respond to your other comment:

>I disagree - I don't watch any [mass media]. This honestly seems like exactly the sort of corruption I'd expect to hear about in the US...

Except according to the corruption perception index, the US is less corrupt than most European countries[0] including the likes of France, Portugal and Ireland, and far less corrupt than the vast majority of countries in the world. You claim to not be watching the media but you're getting your false information from somewhere so maybe turn that off too.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

I don't know many fellow Americans that are of Norwegian descent but the US fairs better than the UK on lists of human development, happiness, and productivity. That has to mean something.

The comment didn't say "these select 8 European countries that are a mere fraction of the overall European population", it said "Europe" which last I checked was a continent encompassing dozens of countries with hundreds of millions of people, the vast majority of which are below the US in the ranking. If the comment was meant to be restricted to a very small subset of Europe then it should have reflected that in the wording. To which I can easily select a small subset of US states that would still outrank those countries. Without getting overly specific, do you really think you are happier than the average person living in Hawaii? Really? Really?? As far as your second "point", I didn't say anything about socialist hellholes so you're straw manning me. Also FWIW, none of those countries are actually socialist so if you're asserting that, you're again, flat wrong.

>Well, it's not that hard to beat European countries if you're working 300 hours per year more than them...

So the statement that "Europe" was more productive than the US was wrong. Yes, that is what I said. As an aside to your other point, according to my research, Germans work the least of anybody and rank lower in happiness than the US. Not to mention the western European countries like Portugal and Ireland that actually work more hours than Americans. I don't see you mentioning that but then that would be inconvenient to your narrative..

> and the core question is: how much of the US "productivity" originates from the scamming going on at Wall Street, i.e. it has no meaningful human labor associated by which this "profit" was created?

Those weren't questions I responded to but erroneous statements. But on with the goalpost moving. I love this one. Within a few seconds you say we work 300 hours a year more thus the obviously superior productivity (which is a bit disingenuous since we are more productive per hour and many countries outwork us in total hours) then you follow up with it's all a scam cuz "Wall Street". So which is it and does it hurt talking out of both sides of your mouth like that? Basically you don't want to be enlightened and correct your errors. You want to argue and bully your way into being right no matter what. Of course, just between you and me, what you really want to do is bash the US and feel oh so superior which is just sad and pathetic. Sorry it doesn't work that way. Europe is overall less productive and less happy than the US. Period. The denial of this fact is precisely what I responded to. Choose a small subset of the continent and I can play that game too. Funny how you like to make your assertions as if they are fact when it's just a bunch of received internet wisdom that doesn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

Just for fun, in the CIA world fact book, I looked up Liechtenstein which has the highest productivity per capita in not just Europe but the entire world and the District of Columbia which has the highest per capita productivity in America. Both are about the same size at 60 something square miles. I'll leave it to your imagination which has the higher stats. You guys think you are so much better than everybody else. You're wrong.

I apologize for not including links this time but why bother when you'll just try to move your intellectually dishonest goalposts again necessitating further refutation. Not that I'll bother. You were wrong then and you're wrong now. You base your new assertions on mutually exclusive statements that you wrote within 30 seconds of each other. You are laughable and not worth arguing with so go ahead and entertain other readers with your whining about how much """better""" you wish you were. I'm ignoring you since I have more "productive" things to do. Ha!

edit: I just happened to glance at the tag line in your profile and realized I've been sucked in to wasting 20 minutes debating an angsty teen.