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Waiting in a queue to see a Web site

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I bet the constraint here isn't what's serving the website but either an external dependency that they don't have control over so that can't scale or a relational database that they didn't have the budget or expertise to scale

Edit: or just that humans have to actually look at it and you're waiting to talk to one

My local government does it all async to avoid that issue

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Maybe even 8,000

To anyone confused, they're referring to "if true love is one in a million there would still be 7000 people in the world you could be in true love with"

This was back when there were merely 7 billion people on Earth

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I think the joke is that the lofi studying girl has spent an insane amount of time on it because the stream runs 24/7 but he's still not satisfied

I was a bit confused because they called it a "job"

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EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

The more of this kind of small vehicle traffic we get the better supported it is. Safer traffic patterns, dedicated lanes, repair stores and vendors, etc.

I think you're also seeing some political organizing to that front, too. Cambridge MA has a biking advocacy group putting pressure on government to put in more biking infrastructure.

Big car might have a stranglehold on big government but people paying attention to small local elections can make a big difference

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tumblr reading comprehension: electric boogaloo

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Irl I often repeat what other people say in my own words and ask them if that's what they believe. It both helps me understand where they're coming from and confirm I get them

On the Internet I almost never do.

Communication is a two way street. You can be as explicit as you want but if people are trying to win an argument instead of have a discussion they're going to misconstrue what you're saying more often than not.