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This made it to the HN front page 4 days ago, under its (terrible) previous name "The secrets of the Shinkansen": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762060
by decimalenough 6mo ago
This made it to the HN front page 4 days ago, under its (terrible) previous name "The secrets of the Shinkansen":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762060
And the top comment was mine, pointing out a bunch of factual mistakes and misleading claims:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765032
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- nunez 6mo agothe "city merging" thing also happens in the US! particularly with school districts. this is why many gigantor middle/high schools exist; they serve HUGE coverage areas with many cities that are too small/rural to have their own school districts.
- bombcar 6mo agoThe bus from Cars 3 says “You about to feel the wrath of the Lower Belleville County Unified School District!” - and it works because almost all school districts people are familiar with in the USA have names similar to that, with the combinations and crossings of county and city.
- connorboyle 6mo agoYou seem to be using vanilla (or one might say "area-weighted" population density numbers. The article specifically says that they are using population-weighted population density numbers for comparison: > Population weighted density refers to the density multiplied by the actual number of people living in each area, and more closely reflects the density that people experience. One indication of this is that they give a different value for London's population density (9.2k / km^2) than you do.