Sounds nice, except that, as the OP pointed out, Craigslist IS broken, and all these years later still isn't fixed at all.
Had I responded directly to OP, you would have a point.
The individual to whom I did respond made no such distinction, and in fact was criticizing CG for their simplistic coding, not any actual issues; thus, my points remain valid.
Wisdom would be gained by discovering the effect of fire by putting your finger in it.
No; Wisdom would be gained by noting the effect of fire on your finger, and learning a lesson from it. "Discovering the effect" is akin to learning, which is but a path to Wisdom.
So, honest question here - who pays you to make idiotic, hateful comments on/. every day, and what's the going rate? I could use a little spare income.
And oceans, and mountains, and good education, and good transportation, and better weather, and less christians, less fat people, better food, better art, better music, more sports, more outdoor activities, more diversity.
Wait... what did the fly over states have again ?
Judging from your post, a lack of narcissistic douche-bags, apparently...
Love the irony of AC responding to a post criticizing coastal elitism with... wait for it... coastal elitism!
Kansas City isn't the best town (like the whole state of AZ) to be caught in as a non-christian caucasian.
As a lifetime 'non-christian caucasian' and Missouri resident, living not far from KC, I say, without doubt, that you are full of shit..
As a 'non-christian caucasian' and Missouri resident, living not far from KC, I say, without a doubt, that AC is not full of shit. Things have improved since I've been here but still.... there is the very definite odour of fundamentalist evangelical christianity. And the mormons, christ! Yes, jebus is coming back to Independence so lets build him a spiral staircase
Are you sure you're not talking about Branson? At least KC doesn't have annual hate conventions...
As for there being "nothing to do," I'm not sure where you get that notion; we get the same movies/music/etc as everywhere else... Plus, unlike Cali, we get to play with guns and 4x4's pretty much unfettered.
The fact that you consider movies and music to be the sum total of "things to do" says it all.
Where did I make that specification? Oh, yea, I didn't, you're assuming, and making silly assumptions at that, considering that the portion of my post you copied in your reply includes venues of entertainment other than movies and music...
As the cost of home production decreases it will force limits on corporate profits. The oil people know this and keep the cost of gasoline low enough that electrics and alternate fuels aren't competitive. Manufacturers will have to do the same thing.
I really think you're barking up the wrong tree with the "cost of production" angle - I highly doubt the cost of acquisition is the major delimiting factor preventing the majority of people from adopting the practice of 3D printing at home.
Want evidence? One word: Linux.
If the failure of Linux to be adopted by the masses has taught us anything, it's that a price tag of free does not compensate for ease-of-use and staying within one's comfort zone.
Personally, I can't imagine most people will take an interest in 3D printing until it's as simple as giving a voice command to the Replicator. Sad, but that's the world we live in.
There's a reason why it's cheaper to live in Hicksville. It sucks out there. There's nothing to do.
Then why are Californians relocating here (the midwest) in droves? Oh, yea - because they can pretend to be rich (a 2/bed 1.5/bath ranch house that would cost you over a million in Cali goes for less than $200,000 easy around here), and midwestern governments don't have to tax the shit out of residents to pay for taking care of 8 million illegals.
As for there being "nothing to do," I'm not sure where you get that notion; we get the same movies/music/etc as everywhere else... Plus, unlike Cali, we get to play with guns and 4x4's pretty much unfettered.
I thought the ubiquity of high-speed internet access almost everywhere eliminated the need for centering technological progress around a particular geography...
With a company there will be a physical location. You want that physical location to be where the talent is.
So, in a country with a 360 million+ population, you're telling me there are zero talented people outside northern California? Somehow I find that difficult to fathom... probably because it's complete bullshit.
Also, heat is bad for electronics, so why in the name of everything holy would tech startups want to base themselves in an area that regularly experiences triple-digit temperatures?
You loose less days of productivity due to weather in high temperature areas vs snow areas.
Protip: Want to be taken seriously? Make sure you spell and grammar check. FYI, It's spelled l-o-s-e, not l-o-o-s-e. / grammar Nazi rant
I've lived in a place that gets to -50 F in the winter and climbs to 110 F in the summer. Trust me, a day that is 110 is a lot better than a day that is -50.
Careful, I think I hear the Hyperbole Police coming, to drag you off to Exaggeration-traz...
Seriously, though, you do realize there exist many, many temperate regions that stay between the temperature extremes you've mentioned, right? I.e., the vast majority of America.
I thought the ubiquity of high-speed internet access almost everywhere eliminated the need for centering technological progress around a particular geography...
Also, heat is bad for electronics, so why in the name of everything holy would tech startups want to base themselves in an area that regularly experiences triple-digit temperatures?
My prediction for the VP candidate is going to be a Cheney 2.0
Some rather sketchy politician with really questionable ties to industries whom everyone is pretty sure is just doing it as a means of making a shit load of money, consequences and country be damned.
So.. Karl Rove?
Nah, Methuselah always prefers to run things from the shadows...
This is going to be used for the elderly and those who have medicine without which is it hard or impossible to remember to take or why to take your medicine.
This is the only reasonable use of the technology I can think of... which is why it probably won't be used in such a manner.
OTOH, my 86-year-old grandfather, who suffers from memory issues (as well as many other maladies common to men his age), and yet the age old "Su-M-T-W-Th-F-Sa" pill box technology has served him for decades without failure... a solution looking for a problem, perhaps?
You went to the doctor, and he prescribed the fix. TAKE THE FUCKING MEDICINE OR DONT GO AT ALL.
Gee, I guess you're right; shame on me for doubting the omniscience of those who manage to (barely) pass the medical exams./sarc
Seriously, since when did the profession of "doctor" become elevated to the level of infallible god? Newsflash, Sparky: Doctors fuck up. *Some* Doctors prescribe medication based not on patient need, but on what the Big Pharma rep giving him his weekly BJ wants him to prescribe. I say this from personal experience of 13 years of suffering from gallbladder disease, having untold numbers of doctors sell untold numbers of useless pills to me, without running a single test. They are, for the most part (and again, based on my personal experience), nothing more than glorified drug dealers.
Also worth noting, the majority of drugs dealt by doctors don't actually "fix" anything, so much as mask and/or treat the actual symptoms. "Fixing" your illness would be bad for their bottom line, i.e. no repeat business.
We don't need assholes like you deciding they know better than a PhD. Half-course antibiotics breed shit like MRSI.
Nice strawman, though poorly constructed - aside from pointing out the obvious, that medical doctors are not necessarily Ph.D. holders (Try M.D. or D.O.), were you aware that MRSA originated from within the medical community? Specifically, the national hospital system in England. Contrary to the fantasy you're positing here, a good portion of antibiotic resistant bacterium come from lazy doctors and hospital staff, not patients. Hence the reason you're more likely to die from a secondary infection while at the hospital, than what put you there to begin with.
Pain meds are different, I'll admit that... but you didn't specify what you're talking about and if you ahve that kind of attitude for one medication, you likely have it for another.
Idiots are going to fail to complete their antibiotic dosage regardless of whether or not you track them, so what good will it do? When facing a pandemic, what good is it to know who's to blame, when we should be focusing on the solution? Seems counterproductive to me.
so that doctors can... rev up a patient’s medication adherence.
Edited to emphasize the truly frightening part of this statement...
So, my health decision are no longer my decisions to make? Yea, just try and force feed me some of Big Pharma's dope, you'll be pulling back bloody stumps...
You know, I kind of like the idea of deciding for myself what medication I take and when. The idea of my doctor trying to make me ingest a sensor like I'm some sort of medical prisoner is more than a little creepy to me. What's next, is he going to give me forced ball-shock treatments if I refuse to eat healthy?
You are exactly the reason we need devices like this. Either take the medication as prescribed OR don't take any medication. But stop selectively breeding resistant bacteria that impact EVERYONE else.
Yes, out patients choosing their own drug schedule for narcotics explains why the vast majority of antibiotic resistant strains originate from within medical facilities...
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... but someone's raising a wall around their little garden.
That doesn't mean what you think it means.
The real story here is that someone actually thinks posts on Twitter represent anything other than the mad ramblings of a fringe margin of society.
Sounds nice, except that, as the OP pointed out, Craigslist IS broken, and all these years later still isn't fixed at all.
Had I responded directly to OP, you would have a point.
The individual to whom I did respond made no such distinction, and in fact was criticizing CG for their simplistic coding, not any actual issues; thus, my points remain valid.
Wisdom would be gained by discovering the effect of fire by putting your finger in it.
No; Wisdom would be gained by noting the effect of fire on your finger, and learning a lesson from it. "Discovering the effect" is akin to learning, which is but a path to Wisdom.
Cargo pants, muscle shirt and a utility vest full of unfathomable gizmos. Fedora.
Not just any muscle shirt, mind you, the black see-through mesh one.
That just screams "professional."
craigslist was a technological shithole when I last went apartment shopping in the mid 2000s.
amazingly it now looks and works... exactly the same?
I guess they're getting their money's worth out of that "beginning html" book?
Old handyman's adage:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Also, Occam's Razor.
Patience, my young padawan...
Ha, obviously someone has not read my post history...
So, honest question here - who pays you to make idiotic, hateful comments on /. every day, and what's the going rate? I could use a little spare income.
It's an interesting gadget for hackers (ooops, I mean "makers").
Would be far more interesting if we could get our hands on the damn things, without a 3 month wait...
Pretty sure they ended that practice, if not post-9/11 then definitely post-Gone in 60 Seconds
There's a reason why it's cheaper to live in Hicksville. It sucks out there. There's nothing to do.
Then why are Californians relocating here (the midwest) in droves?
They aren't. I have data to demonstrate this.
I moved from San Jose to upstate NY about eight years ago...
Since when does "upstate NY" qualify as part of the midwest?? What a maroon...
And oceans, and mountains, and good education, and good transportation, and better weather, and less christians, less fat people, better food, better art, better music, more sports, more outdoor activities, more diversity.
Wait ... what did the fly over states have again ?
Judging from your post, a lack of narcissistic douche-bags, apparently...
Love the irony of AC responding to a post criticizing coastal elitism with... wait for it... coastal elitism!
Classy.
Kansas City isn't the best town (like the whole state of AZ) to be caught in as a non-christian caucasian.
As a lifetime 'non-christian caucasian' and Missouri resident, living not far from KC, I say, without doubt, that you are full of shit. .
As a 'non-christian caucasian' and Missouri resident, living not far from KC, I say, without a doubt, that AC is not full of shit. Things have improved since I've been here but still.... there is the very definite odour of fundamentalist evangelical christianity. And the mormons, christ! Yes, jebus is coming back to Independence so lets build him a spiral staircase
Are you sure you're not talking about Branson? At least KC doesn't have annual hate conventions...
As for there being "nothing to do," I'm not sure where you get that notion; we get the same movies/music/etc as everywhere else... Plus, unlike Cali, we get to play with guns and 4x4's pretty much unfettered.
The fact that you consider movies and music to be the sum total of "things to do" says it all.
Where did I make that specification? Oh, yea, I didn't, you're assuming, and making silly assumptions at that, considering that the portion of my post you copied in your reply includes venues of entertainment other than movies and music...
TL;DR, I assume?
Sadly, as much as guns are portrayed as deadly, other homemade weapons can be far more deadly.
Such as?
Uh, bombs maybe?
As the cost of home production decreases it will force limits on corporate profits. The oil people know this and keep the cost of gasoline low enough that electrics and alternate fuels aren't competitive. Manufacturers will have to do the same thing.
I really think you're barking up the wrong tree with the "cost of production" angle - I highly doubt the cost of acquisition is the major delimiting factor preventing the majority of people from adopting the practice of 3D printing at home.
Want evidence? One word: Linux.
If the failure of Linux to be adopted by the masses has taught us anything, it's that a price tag of free does not compensate for ease-of-use and staying within one's comfort zone.
Personally, I can't imagine most people will take an interest in 3D printing until it's as simple as giving a voice command to the Replicator. Sad, but that's the world we live in.
There's a reason why it's cheaper to live in Hicksville. It sucks out there. There's nothing to do.
Then why are Californians relocating here (the midwest) in droves? Oh, yea - because they can pretend to be rich (a 2/bed 1.5/bath ranch house that would cost you over a million in Cali goes for less than $200,000 easy around here), and midwestern governments don't have to tax the shit out of residents to pay for taking care of 8 million illegals.
As for there being "nothing to do," I'm not sure where you get that notion; we get the same movies/music/etc as everywhere else... Plus, unlike Cali, we get to play with guns and 4x4's pretty much unfettered.
I thought the ubiquity of high-speed internet access almost everywhere eliminated the need for centering technological progress around a particular geography...
With a company there will be a physical location. You want that physical location to be where the talent is.
So, in a country with a 360 million+ population, you're telling me there are zero talented people outside northern California? Somehow I find that difficult to fathom... probably because it's complete bullshit.
Also, heat is bad for electronics, so why in the name of everything holy would tech startups want to base themselves in an area that regularly experiences triple-digit temperatures?
You loose less days of productivity due to weather in high temperature areas vs snow areas.
Protip: Want to be taken seriously? Make sure you spell and grammar check. FYI, It's spelled l-o-s-e, not l-o-o-s-e. / grammar Nazi rant
I've lived in a place that gets to -50 F in the winter and climbs to 110 F in the summer. Trust me, a day that is 110 is a lot better than a day that is -50.
Careful, I think I hear the Hyperbole Police coming, to drag you off to Exaggeration-traz...
Seriously, though, you do realize there exist many, many temperate regions that stay between the temperature extremes you've mentioned, right? I.e., the vast majority of America.
Kansas City isn't the best town (like the whole state of AZ) to be caught in as a non-christian caucasian.
As a lifetime 'non-christian caucasian' and Missouri resident, living not far from KC, I say, without doubt, that you are full of shit.
Take your coastal elitism and shove it up your hindside.
I thought the ubiquity of high-speed internet access almost everywhere eliminated the need for centering technological progress around a particular geography...
Also, heat is bad for electronics, so why in the name of everything holy would tech startups want to base themselves in an area that regularly experiences triple-digit temperatures?
My prediction for the VP candidate is going to be a Cheney 2.0
Some rather sketchy politician with really questionable ties to industries whom everyone is pretty sure is just doing it as a means of making a shit load of money, consequences and country be damned.
So.. Karl Rove?
Nah, Methuselah always prefers to run things from the shadows...
This is going to be used for the elderly and those who have medicine without which is it hard or impossible to remember to take or why to take your medicine.
This is the only reasonable use of the technology I can think of... which is why it probably won't be used in such a manner.
OTOH, my 86-year-old grandfather, who suffers from memory issues (as well as many other maladies common to men his age), and yet the age old "Su-M-T-W-Th-F-Sa" pill box technology has served him for decades without failure... a solution looking for a problem, perhaps?
You went to the doctor, and he prescribed the fix. TAKE THE FUCKING MEDICINE OR DONT GO AT ALL.
Gee, I guess you're right; shame on me for doubting the omniscience of those who manage to (barely) pass the medical exams. /sarc
Seriously, since when did the profession of "doctor" become elevated to the level of infallible god? Newsflash, Sparky: Doctors fuck up. *Some* Doctors prescribe medication based not on patient need, but on what the Big Pharma rep giving him his weekly BJ wants him to prescribe. I say this from personal experience of 13 years of suffering from gallbladder disease, having untold numbers of doctors sell untold numbers of useless pills to me, without running a single test. They are, for the most part (and again, based on my personal experience), nothing more than glorified drug dealers.
Also worth noting, the majority of drugs dealt by doctors don't actually "fix" anything, so much as mask and/or treat the actual symptoms. "Fixing" your illness would be bad for their bottom line, i.e. no repeat business.
We don't need assholes like you deciding they know better than a PhD. Half-course antibiotics breed shit like MRSI.
Nice strawman, though poorly constructed - aside from pointing out the obvious, that medical doctors are not necessarily Ph.D. holders (Try M.D. or D.O.), were you aware that MRSA originated from within the medical community? Specifically, the national hospital system in England. Contrary to the fantasy you're positing here, a good portion of antibiotic resistant bacterium come from lazy doctors and hospital staff, not patients. Hence the reason you're more likely to die from a secondary infection while at the hospital, than what put you there to begin with.
Pain meds are different, I'll admit that... but you didn't specify what you're talking about and if you ahve that kind of attitude for one medication, you likely have it for another.
Idiots are going to fail to complete their antibiotic dosage regardless of whether or not you track them, so what good will it do? When facing a pandemic, what good is it to know who's to blame, when we should be focusing on the solution? Seems counterproductive to me.
so that doctors can... rev up a patient’s medication adherence.
Edited to emphasize the truly frightening part of this statement...
So, my health decision are no longer my decisions to make? Yea, just try and force feed me some of Big Pharma's dope, you'll be pulling back bloody stumps...
You know, I kind of like the idea of deciding for myself what medication I take and when. The idea of my doctor trying to make me ingest a sensor like I'm some sort of medical prisoner is more than a little creepy to me. What's next, is he going to give me forced ball-shock treatments if I refuse to eat healthy?
You are exactly the reason we need devices like this. Either take the medication as prescribed OR don't take any medication. But stop selectively breeding resistant bacteria that impact EVERYONE else.
Yes, out patients choosing their own drug schedule for narcotics explains why the vast majority of antibiotic resistant strains originate from within medical facilities...