Brakenshire

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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   The Outer London figures haven't changed much with the extra year of data: 2012 Q3 £275,000, Q4 £270,000, 2013 Q1 £266,500, Q2 £276,000, the Croydon figure went down by £8,000 over that period, so it's unlikely to be two years of
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   I agree about the importance of walkability and public space. On reflection, it is possible that self-driving cars (and their ability to go perfectly from point to point) could make walkability economically redundant, which would be very da
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   That's true, but you get the same isolation with public transport - people do not chat on the London Underground, or on the commuter trains.
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   That will be the simple average rather than the median, so it's biased by crazy oligarch prices. Here are the median house prices: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... Mos
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   > "No one owns a car" is not a nice transition, no matter how awesome you think it is in the latest novel you read about able-bodied and pretty 20-somethings. Public transportation really sucks in a lot of places precisely beca
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   I wonder whether this might be a category with long-term viability in certain city environments - light, small, padded cars that travel at 15-25 mph would be able to mix in a much more natural way with pedestrians and bikes than traditional
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   I think it's interesting, also, to think not only of the freedom this would bring to people with disabilities, but also just to children, and their parents. Kids could have a prepaid card/ticket which takes them only within 5 mile
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   These sort of low speed manoeuvers are in my opinion quite awkward with traditional control and viewing systems, which is presumably why there has been so much development of parking sensors and cameras, and now automatic parking. I think m
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   by Brakenshire 12y ago

   Just a thought - do you need a permanent residence to have a bank account?
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    To quote from the Economist article about this yesterday: > There are four important questions raised by the FT's work. First, which data are wrong? ... > "Capital" is a sprawling book based on an enormous pile of refer
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    I think you're being far, far too gung-ho about the demise of doctors. Their presence might be at risk over 50-100 years, but for the foreseeable future technology will act primarily as an aid, not as an independent decision maker, and
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    There's obviously a strong intention to find some way of rationalizing your existing political opinion when a book like this is published, either against the status quo (in the sense of agreeing with the book) or in favour of the statu
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Lots of people use game theory to rationalize behaving in a selfish way. This rhetoric of such-and-such an idea being natural, and therefore inevitable, is always used as a core justification for any ideology, whether feudalism, monarchy, c
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Thanks.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Yeah, that is what I intended (as in fine-grained controls).
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Apologies for asking such a horrible question, but is there a rough timeline for it being production ready? It looks very interesting.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    I agree. Anyone know whether there's an Android distribution which will give you more granular control over permissions? Cyanogenmod seems to be a little better, but I haven't used it myself.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Yeah, the actual style they use for the navigation app is shown in the next picture down, and is far more sparse.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Apple used some of the old data, before OSM changed its license to share-alike. That data is probably still in there somewhere, but I think it's very unlikely they are incorporating any OSM updates, past about five years back, because
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Have you tried the Scout App (which the article is about)? How does its search work? I agree that geocoding has been a problem for OSM, especially for building numbers, where the data often isn't there. But on the software side there s
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    In Settings > Navigation, you can change the routing engine, incidentally, which might solve that problem. Although the other options require an internet connection for the initial calculation.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Yeah, iD can be slow. If you're just adding roads, the Potlatch 2 editor (available in the dropdown menu next to the edit button) is less polished, but perfectly adequate, and much faster.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    One solution might be for them to maintain their own error-checked database, and then provide a website and map overlay ontop of OSM, pointing out where the discrepancies are between the two. Then local mappers could go around and confirm t
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Google simply doesn't have the data in the UK, it has probably a tenth of the footpath and cyclepath routes compared to OSM, let alone all the information about surfaces, unofficial paths etc. Share the recommendation for komoot, altho
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Seem to be quite a few newly registered, aggressively pro-Modi accounts on this thread.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    > Note that 'pro-business' is a politically empty phrase. After all, no candidate in any election would claim to be 'anti-business'. Not sure I agree, for instance no candidate would claim to be 'anti-life',
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    > After the speech, Marchiori returned home in the hopes of realizing his ambitious design. "When I came back to Italy, I asked the university for 20,000 euros to develop a search engine, but instead, they financed a project about t
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Ah, thanks, silly mistake.
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    Soft costs dominate residential installations, but not utility or commercial installations, and it's only a matter of time until they fall away significantly (especially in the US, where the market doesn't seem to have shaken them
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    by Brakenshire 12y ago

    The categories are useful, but it would be great if you could work out a way of returning relevant search engines to a particular request, inline with that request. It just reduces friction. > Would the suggestion of making them searchab