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by avn2109 10y ago
This is a good point. Political will is vital. However, I submit that in America, the design of the built environment as a system is profoundly broken. Basically we need to build our stuff closer together. Like feet apart instead of mile
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Twitter and Periscope Shadowban Update(blog.dilbert.com)
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I assure you that in dating, utility is not even close to uniformly distributed over secretaries. It is almost the least uniform naturally-occurring distribution I can think of.
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Come to Grand Central and be astounded by how crappy modern-day transit's architecture is by comparison.
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The problem is that Atlanta's built environment is literally the textbook example of tastelessness and inefficiency. "City" is a loose term for a centerless amalgamation of car-centric sprawl.
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At least Starting Strength and possibly others cover this case in detail, mentioning something like "You might need to lift a PVC pipe from riser blocks at first."
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>> "...swapping wings..." If you were going to do this, you wouldn't swap wings. Instead, you'd swap passenger compartments in and out of various airframes, probably with some kind of automated gantry. This would r
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>> "...almost certainly growing within a hundred yards of wherever you happen to be if you're anywhere in North America..." That's intriguing. Still true in downtown Manhattan?
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>> "...impossible..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies "...famed for one of the best records in investing history, returning more than 35 percent annualized over a 20-year spa
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>> "...but they are profitable..." They're probably not profitable in the usual sense of the word. Instead they're just required by the regulators that enforce the utility monopoly and set the utility rates such th
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I have never trusted the ABP people. But this is not the "opposite of the expected purpose of the application." In fact ABP is working exactly as designed, by blocking other people's ads, and allowing ads that ABP profits fr
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The difference is that Russian state security is protecting him from deportation/abduction/assassination (while also surveilling him) to make sure they get to keep sticking their finger in America's eye. If he leaves the East
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I don't support breathless hagiography in any of its forms, but in fairness a lot of the article is just about how she was technically good at espionage, regardless of who she was spying for.
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One thing is certain: it will not look anything like going to a Toyota dealership.
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Apple's value add is the same as it has been since the very first iPod: User Experience. Apple is a UX company; they've been successful because everything they did was laser focussed on the UX. Right now buying and operating a car
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>> "...sends power away from the slipping wheel(s)..." Exactly this. The best ones are entirely mechanical, without any fancy computers or even viscous couplings. Audi sold (sells?) IMHO the most sophisticated AWD system on
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by avn2109 10y ago
The Chinatown souvenir shops are presumably fronts for counterfeit luxury goods markets in the basement/back room, e.g. fake Louis Vuitton bags etc. And as you say, the massage places are fronts for cat houses. The reason both exist is
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by avn2109 10y ago
This is broadly speaking not true at all. NYC's train system currently runs far below its physical capacity, mostly because of old switching technology. E.g. Paris steadily runs a train every couple minutes on many lines with no proble
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Wait they threw away the Super Soaker branding on purpose? This is madness.
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>> "...highly subjective personal preference." I'm sorry to be the smug guy linking PG on HN, but this essay [0] directly engages your point here and IMHO pretty conclusively refutes it. This is the money quote: "A
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by avn2109 10y ago
I think the parent means that the vast majority of published material is disguised native content such as "submarine" PR pieces, product placement, unmodified press releases etc. Since the overall standards have sunk so low, yello
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>> "Saying that all experts are bad teachers is like saying all <insert ethnic group> are <insert stereotype>." To be fair, the linked article makes exactly 0 claims about "all experts." Instead, the
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This is a cool model. Though in principle it seems like the multiplier is unbounded on the top end, even if in practice we rarely find it > 10.
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* they want to provide wireless internet for surveillance. Facebook's raison d'etre is to surveil you.
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Which is pretty spoofable.
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IMHO the best TeX tutorials on the internet are written by some Helpdesk guy on his blog: http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2010/02/15/lets-le... I'm not affiliated in any way with that site
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>> "...and maybe it's even enough to deter car companies from doing something similar in the future..." As anyone who's ever been near a major automaker's test engineering lab knows, ~all [0] of VW's comp
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>> "...the purpose of this other than marketing..." In fact the whole purpose of having a stock exchange floor is 100% marketing. The real action happens in a colo in New Jersey; the trading floor only exists for the cameras
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E.g. water pumps or air conditioners might be sensitive to the characteristics of the current/voltage waveforms when they first turn on.
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Will there be soft start, and if so do you count that as another feature?

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