L_Rahman

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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Private vehicle drivers in NYC are a special class of selfish and low integrity city residents.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
the extremely radical move would be to pull a Taipei - you can't leave your garbage on the street, the truck just comes everyday at different times and you walk to the truck with your garbage time variation means people's differen
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
The choice in front of Garry is fundamentally different from the one he tells most people to make. I think virtually everyone here would quit their job and try a startup for a year if a famous investor believed in them and wrote a check for
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Pinboard happens to be a web service run along the same principles as the article we're discussing. The bus factor is high, but I suspect that Maciej has a plan that'll let us download our archive even if he does get grabbed by th
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
It does not. See FAQ here: https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Seeing Like a State Robert Caro's Lyndon B. Johnson biographies The Overstory
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
/u/op00to: This is challenging because ramen is classified by a mix of base, seasoning and thickness. Roughly bases can be: bones of chicken, pork, fish or in rare instances beef. Often there is blend of these bases Seasoning: sea
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Why not stick with Korean pronunciations? The pronunciation is deterministic from the alphabet.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I'm guessing a pretty significant minority of HN's users maintain offshore seed boxes to get other copyrighted content and for them it might be pretty trivial to add partial peering of libgen content.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
With roadmap decisions like these, the compute or storage cost for the data is an insignificant part of the product decision making. The real cost of doing something like this is doing user research to figure out the set of human behaviors
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Walking through LIC makes me deeply unhappy but I agree with you completely. In terms of its ability to deliver on raw numbers of housing increase it has been a total success and arguably helped keep rental pressure off my crappy Alphabet C
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I am not making that assumption, only pointing out that my argument hinges on that being the case and concede that if he does get extradited it was smarter from his perspective to be a fugitive.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Assange's living conditions were entirely self inflicted. He could have surrendered himself to the Swedish authorities, undergone a trial and had he served time would have spent time in a prison system known for its humane treatment an
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I also carry a mechanical keyboard around, and one of the ways I deal with this is to type for a few minutes and then sent out a message on the office chat to ask if it's bothering anyone and emphasizing that I'll stop if it'
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Replying to this after having a spent a few days in Tokyo, a city based on which Alon makes many of his arguments and I have to say it is also miserable. The experience of Tokyo neighborhoods is a relentless wall of gray, right until you ta
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Alon’s continued insistence on super spiky housing with a focus on towers remains something I can’t get behind. The East Village is mostly 3-5 story mixed use apartment buildings. It has a population density of 82000 people per square mile.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Your life right now has unpriced externalities among them: deaths from vehicle miles driven, sedentary car bound lifestyles, parking lot deserts, reduced childhood autonomy, pollution, highway driving commute times, class segregation by nei
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
And even bus based mass transit hits carrying capacity limits. Bogotá’s bus rapid transit system, which is among the best designed in the world (train-like boarding platforms, all door entry, express and local “tracks”) is nearly impossible
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
They're both prominent US allies; they're states with some religious identity fundamental to their existence; they're integrated into American civic society - Saudi money in the US economy, academic partnerships between US an
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
While this is true of its peers, no one has ever accused the University of Chicago of being left leaning. The unrestrained neoliberalism (deregulation of consumer protections, unwinding of antitrust policy) that characterizes our time is li
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Grades are determined by curves. There's no absolute scoring in most university classes, especially in engineering and science programs. Professors usually draw something similar to a bell curve along the grade distribution and set the
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Hadn't fully registered till this comment, the degree to which the modern web is anchored to horizontal (usually left-to-right) writing and the design patterns of vertical scrolling that come with that assumption.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
Not below sea level but close to it and mostly flat: Kuala Lumpur, Dhaka, New Delhi, Kyoto, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Mumbai, Lagos together they represent almost a billion people and the world's biggest cities. Should
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
German interest rates are below zero right now. There actually are hundreds of billions of dollars flying around the world chasing the slightest hint of return. So yes, we do have the money. Also MMT.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I believe /u/gherkinnn has painted a picture that represents both of our desired futures.
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
The alternative to cars isn't walking in a car based city, it's a combination of any of the following modes: subways, light rail, bus rapid transit, bikeshare bikes, personally owned bikes, electric assist personal vehicles (bikes
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
It is stunning to me that we can more easily imagine a city center with a collaborative hive mind of self driving cars than we can one with no cars at all. Why do we want that future so badly?
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I live in Manhattan. I can afford to live literally anywhere in the world, probably more comfortably than where I am now. The question is whether the people who cook my food, do my laundry, plumb my home, deliver seltzer to my bodega, butch
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
There is way for engineers to exercise their power to prevent things like this from happening, but it can only happen through collective action. Getting fired for not acceding to a demand like this isn't the result of an individual man
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by L_Rahman 7y ago
I accept this criticism and I’ll rethink my position on this. Thank you for continuing to engage with me on it.

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