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sbjustin··on HomePod arrives February 9, available to order this Friday
It's also different price models. Google plans to make more money on the things you do with your Home mini. Apple has to price total cost for product since they are less likely to make money after the purchase.
sbjustin··on Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan
I hope they'll bail us out when it comes back to the US due to the lack of vaccinations.

-In no way meant to belittle what they did. I think what they do is awesome. Just being sarcastic about vaccinations in the US.

sbjustin··on Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home
You beat me to saying it.
sbjustin··on Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? [video]
No. Profit is given, not taken.
sbjustin··on Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? [video]
You are mistaken. We as a society have agreed to pay taxes for certain things. As defined in the constitution, some are the post office and raising a military. We pay taxes and expect to get X in return.

Your argument is comparable to saying we've as a society accepted we pay for food. What we get in return for whatever we pay is not part of the equation. I won't pay $40 for a fast food burger.

sbjustin··on Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? [video]
I'm not sure why this is being down voted as this is a matter of opinion - an opinion that many agree with.

In fact, in the US there is nothing in the constitution that supports the taxation of the people for these programs.

I'm all for UBI actually but this opinion is still valid.

sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
The thing that frustrates me the most about what they're doing in the area is that their public transportation is still terrible.

Try taking the Metro from Vienna to Springfield. You have to get almost entirely into DC, then change lines and come back out. Compare to other systems which are much more efficient.

I believe there would be significant less backlash if the Metro wasn't awful and more people were able to use it reliably without ridiculous wait times.

FWIW, I lived there and hated the metro and seldom used it. The tube in London on the other hand - I wouldn't buy a car if I lived there.

sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
Exactly, which in turn burdens all the other roadways such as 29 and 50.
sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
The public transportation in that area is a joke. It's embarrassing that the metro is the subway for our nation's capital.
sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
I grew up with the sound barrier for 66 in my back yard and lived in the area for 30 years. It was absolutely completely open and then a single lane HOV and then HOV at certain hours in certain directions and now the express lane toll.
sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
Greenway is past dulles. Not 66 inside the beltway. You're thinking of the extension on the dulles roll road just past dulles which runs to Leesburg.
sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
It wasn't always HOV only. It became one lane HOV, then all lanes at certain hours and now the fees are through the roof.
sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
It wasn't always HOV only. It is a road, paid for by taxes which used to be open for all. Then it became one lane HOV, then all lanes at certain hours and now the fees are through the roof.
sbjustin··on DC's I-66 express lanes debut with $34.50 toll, among the highest in U.S
You may not be from the area but I used to live there and moved about 3 years ago.

The bigger issue is that these people have paid taxes for years to pay for these roads which already exist and are now being told they can't use the road without paying 10x more money. A road they paid for in the first place. This isn't a toll road built which was funded privately and is trying to make a profit.

sbjustin··on YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
Yeah. It's pretty amazing the speeds at which kids learn but seem to "even" up as they get older. My son is doing this completely different than my daughter. At 3, I can barely get my daughter to eat and my son at 7 months flips out if we don't feed him real food when we're eating now.
sbjustin··on YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
Yeah. She's only allowed on Netflix now. I've seen Sofia 10,000 times.
sbjustin··on YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
We used to let our 3 y/o watch youtube. She learned lots of things from there which was amazing. Colors, Numbers, the alphabet; all by the time she was 2. I'm not a teacher by any means so it was awesome to see this happen.

Then these weird videos started showing up. We took youtube away for exactly these videos that are mentioned in this link.

These are targeting children and it's sick.

sbjustin··on Baby Boomers Who Won't Sell Are Dominating the Housing Market
I'm not sure how this is even a real problem. Try a different neighborhood. I've never had a problem finding a house to buy and I've never heard anyone say that's an issue.

Everything has a price, I guarantee one of those people would sell, given the right offer.

There are many homes for sale in that area also, just not the less than 200k he wants to pay: https://www.zillow.com/homes/Brewerytown,-Philadelphia_rb/

sbjustin··on Joe Walker: NASA's Forgotten Spaceman
This is cool to see on HN. Joe Walker was a cousin of my moms and has always been an inspiration to me. I've never actually met any of that side of the family and would love to if any on here claim relation as well. (You know how families are sometimes)
sbjustin··on Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
Install 1Password and it's basically like having SSO.
sbjustin··on Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?
I could take your argument and say I'm moving into your house, I'm moving around freely and I won't harm you but thanks for the free rent. I don't think you'd like me coming into your house and not following your rules and not paying rent.
sbjustin··on From PS4 to 1.44 MB Floppy: Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS [video]
Haha. I love it.
sbjustin··on Italian doctors successfully transplant a kidney in the place of the spleen
My spleen hurts when I laugh a lot :) (Not really, just that part of my body)
sbjustin··on Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
Great idea!
sbjustin··on White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers
THIS!
sbjustin··on Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?
Users are finicky (I am) :) That adds more work to it.
sbjustin··on The Money is Gone
Yeah. Title is misleading.
sbjustin··on The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015)
This sounds like an manager's handbook today.
sbjustin··on The Real Value of $100 in Each US State
True. One of the reasons I left VA :)
sbjustin··on Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees
The politicians don't care. Vote third party and get someone in there who will actually enact change.
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