bookofsand

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by bookofsand 5y ago
Granted, American suburbs are in poor shape. Question is, what is a viable vision for the future? Hong Kong (17.3k people / sqmile) or s'Hertogenbosch (3.6k people / sqmile)? Packing millions of jobs in a handful of downtown
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by bookofsand 5y ago
In practice, 'bus lines that are not commercially viable' actually means empty behemoths running at times where nobody needs them, wasting way more fossil fuels compared to just letting people own their own comparatively tiny cars
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by bookofsand 5y ago
If we define 'suburb' as a 'low density urban place without the jobs' then I suspect we are in agreement. Urbanistically speaking, the top 2 needs of the inhabitants are 'low density urban place' to live and jo
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by bookofsand 5y ago
> for some reason I managed to do everything with a bicycle/public transport till I got my driving license Reasons being: no job and no kids. I lived for years in the LA megalopolis without a car. Where going to the toilet is custom
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Conservative and women are not mutually exclusive categories. Almost half of conservatives are, in fact, women.
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by bookofsand 5y ago
I don't speak Dutch, so I could not retrieve relevant statistical data. From my memories, the quaint ~100k Netherlands city was mostly townhouse rows and SFHs. I don't recall many 6+ floor megabuildings. Feel free to drop some Str
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by bookofsand 5y ago
I have very fond memories of a quaint ~100k Netherlands city where most of the commuting happened by bike because everything was within a 20 minutes bike ride. Using a car was simply a hassle. By the time you walk to its parking spot, drive
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by bookofsand 5y ago
I'd love to hear more about MPS. I tried looking into it, but the 'getting started' tutorials involved tens of files with arcane (for a novice) logic, so I gave up.
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by bookofsand 5y ago
This is an excellent answer. The number of Passivhauser in the US is apparently in the thousands. What would it take to scale this up to 100-1000 times? What would it take to change the status from luxury good to mass adoption? https:&#x2F
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by bookofsand 5y ago
The US should figure out ways to cut emissions in half. Unfortunately: A. That will not fix the global problem, as US population is too small. Even if we were to completely shut down energy production in the US, the rest of the world woul
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by bookofsand 5y ago
We should ban the Mississipi River, too.
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by bookofsand 5y ago
How does the life of the average human looks like in a world with net zero emissions? How is that life different than subsistence farming? We need to articulate the future, not wax poetically toward some vague economic abstractions. Unless
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by bookofsand 5y ago
A. "serious bicycle or transit prioritization in our major (US) urban areas" will not make a dent in the world global emissions. B. The level of cuts required to bring the world to sustainable emissions level, combined with global
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by bookofsand 5y ago
The numbers don't work out. Let's say in USA we cut meat consumption, car usage and air travel in half. That is quite a lot, congratulations to our eco-conscious citizens! Alas, let's not pat ourselves on the back just yet. U
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by bookofsand 5y ago
For a less US-centric perspective, regional differentials in development persist even for countries with 'homogenous' populations. Italy is a canonical example, with significant differences between the rich North and the poor Sout
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by bookofsand 5y ago
The whole situation is terrible. A. Using extensive app logs to stalk & doxx someone is shitty. Alas this is the world we have built. Way back in 2003 this country still had some leftovers of a moral backbone and could pass CAN-SPAM act
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Developing some fluency in basic arithmetic is a necessary step in correctly and quickly solving more complex problems. It is regrettably the school didn't take the obvious step: task the kid to memorize the multiplication table. A wee
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Ah, I see. The programming model is similar, but the execution of the virtual DOM shifts from runtime to compile time. Cool!
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by bookofsand 5y ago
"How much repetitive and empty of creativity most of life tasks are." The era of rapid technological progress has led to the fetishization of novelty. It is new, therefore it must be much better that what came before. That era h
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by bookofsand 5y ago
The beauty of the virtual DOM is that it relies on pure view functions: given this props+state input, this is how the DOM looks like. Generating DOM fragments on update is possible, but naively done it will quickly get out of sync with the
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Rome collapsed. Population crashed in the V century from 1M to under 100k. Roman institutions survived in Constantinopole for another thousand years, until XV century when that city population collapsed under Ottoman pressure https:/&
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by bookofsand 5y ago
According to a sibling comment, ">60% of Facebook's revenue is from iOS". Our society is selling out on privacy and subjecting itself to mass 24/7 surveillance for a paltry 22.5% of Facebook / adtech revenue. In
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Traditional vaccines != Genetic vector vaccines Traditional vaccines: Expose the immune system to an inactivated pathogen. The immune system stochastically learns to target a number of proteins specific to the pathogen. Genetic vector vacci
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by bookofsand 5y ago
We really do need all resources we can muster, even if by miracle. Covid crisis is not over. The virus is mutating. "the (Israeli) government said that as of June 6, the (Pfizer) vaccine provided 64% protection against infection".
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by bookofsand 5y ago
We all do. The aggressive politicization of the issue makes (made?) it impossible for reputable institutions to even consider running such studies. The Ivermectin signal has been around since 07/2020. It's a shame it took more tha
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Somewhat tongue in cheek: dihydrogen monoxide is also harmful at high doses. While checking the spelling, I stumbled upon https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html , with a delightful quote: Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known c
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Guess. Ruth Porat + Google employee count.
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by bookofsand 5y ago
With high probability, 'just statistics' is an essential component of strong AI. Another essential component is embodiment, of which self-driving cars, and also military drones, are canonical examples. Researchers are taking the c
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by bookofsand 5y ago
South Korea, Israel and the Baltic Countries have received large inflows of Western capital and technological investments. Haiti, not so much. Ballparking a proxy number, for example annual FDI net inflows circa 2010: KOR=10B, ISR=10B, LTU=
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by bookofsand 5y ago
Consider that Germany, given its technological headstart, has reached its carrying capacity a few decades ago. Lo and behold: Germany is slightly under 100% food self-sufficiency. Now throw in a 20k times increase in farming output... http

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