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by Panzer04 2y ago
Neither of these point to any direct causation. I don't think anyone would disagree that finance has an impact, but these are only indirect evidence. It seems to me that increasing urbanisation and desire to live in cities could easily
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by Panzer04 2y ago
How is this not a defacto transfer of wealth from renters to owners? Rental supply will go down due to reduced profits, and therefore ultimately rental prices as a whole will go up once a new equilibrium with fewer rentals is reached. These
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by Panzer04 2y ago
This is 90% of internet suggestions. Lots of people want to buy and don't really think through the second order of their consequences (which largely fall on renters, in the end)
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by Panzer04 2y ago
If you've never written a driver before, of course it's going to take weeks or months to get somewhere (speaking from experience, having written a few of my own as early tasks at a new job) However, once you understand the APIs pr
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I always find it interesting how knowledge makes it hard to comprehend the difficulties other people have. I used to barely understand git, but after a couple of years working at a company that relies on a rebase workflow, I'd like to
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Ill probably go look this up, but do you mean functions of a higher type than normal powers like eg. Tetration, or something more complicated (am I even on the right track?)
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by Panzer04 2y ago
In AU the standard is a floating rate mortgage, with most fixed alternatives capping out at 5 years (which obviously has much more limited up and downside than a longer duration 30y equivalent). Those fixed loans can be more or less expensi
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Its hard to believe a 30y fixed bond wouldn't cost a ton of money to break, depending on the point you sell it. Imagine a 30y yielding 3% with new loans yielding 6%. That bond would be priced at half its face value in order to make up
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by Panzer04 2y ago
A good part of the article argues that we aren't getting that safety, though. Spending a week around the moon to make up for hardware shortcomings is not encouraging. It appears by and large that most of the components being used for t
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The government is almost never the right provider of a commodity service. What possible benefit is derived from having the government manage the making of loans, already a competitive market? Mind that the US is somewhat unique in its subsi
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Why can't you cheat death? Excluding accidents and the like.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Couldn't agree more, at least on the strength front (I focused on that for 6mo 1.5 years ago) - Just those basic lifts will massively improve your muscle, and a lot of those improvements persisted despite doing very little strength wor
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Presumably that derives from the overhead of encoding an english character as a full byte? Given there's only 26 characters normally, you could fit that into 5 bits instead, which funnily enough does actually line up with the chinese c
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I don't think (electric included) unicycles will ever have the same stopping performance of conventional vehicles - the center of gravity is just much further forward than in any two-wheeled vehicle. The requirements imposed by the bal
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by Panzer04 3y ago
In a physics sense it would happen when the torque applied by the forward momentum is higher than the force applied by gravity - the higher you are above the contact point with the ground, the more torque you apply and the more likely you a
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by Panzer04 3y ago
A precipitous amount of older airships went down due to bad weather. I suspect the risks are too high for modern sensibilities - they just seem too vulnerable.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
So goes the argument of every roadside downtown strip who complain about the removal of their curbside parking. The reality in many cases is that walkers make up a substantial, if not majority of the business in these places (referring to d
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I agree with this answer the most. There's a vocal segment of society that are very active on social media and tend to dominate these sorts of discussions, while the bulk of the population is just living life. I'm inclined to agre
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by Panzer04 3y ago
You can't possibly equate the situation on windows or android with iOS. It's trivial to install an app from outside of the app stores on both, whereas it's entirely impossible on iOS.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Yeah, that's why I specified "relative to roads" :P. There are capacity limitations, they are just much more generous than the alternatives.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
We have those, but we call them GPUs. E cores are meant to make a much milder tradeoff of performance and features than would be required to jam that many computing units into that area.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
To be clear, these emissions include the manufacturing cost, which for reasonable users seems to make up ~80-90% of the carbon footprint. The power usage of the phone itself and associated data centres etc is only a small portion. It's
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by Panzer04 3y ago
A single use of an electric kettle sounds like it would completely dominate this consumption. The time cost is certainly the greatest expense here, power is cheap in consumer computing contexts, generally speaking (at least nowadays with mo
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I think this tends to sound like a better idea than it is. It's good for power users who want to optimise their UI to suit, but regular users aren't going to do that. Gesture navigation's lack of discoverability is a problem
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's pretty clear attempting to get numerous bad actors to fix their polluting behaviour isn't going to make things happen any faster (and is in any case a monumentally different task). So we must deal with the problem after it oc
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by Panzer04 3y ago
My more conventional frustration is wide roads with shitty traffic signalling that hold up a crowd of pedestrians while 10-15 cars crawl through the intersection. That being said, at peak times some areas definitely get extremely busy with
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I like to think of PT as placing an "upper bound" on how bad traffic can get. If PT is faster than sitting in a car, people will take PT instead, alleviating congestion. This more or less results in traffic getting worse until it
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It will depend on your definition of "city". I live in Melbourne, AU, and realistically only the inner couple of km around the CBD are "proper" city area where space is truly at a premium. In the CBD and surrounding area
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The misunderstanding here is that cars are the primary way people commute into the city. This might be true in some places, but for most cities PT and residents make up the bulk of commercial traffic in a city - it makes sense when you cons
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's the difference between being a publisher/game developer and a hardware company. Hardware companies see games as a means to sell consoles. Game developers see platforms as a means to sell games. If you're coming at things

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