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by calt 5y ago
That makes no sense. Mixed use and mixed speed creates an environment where drivers have to notice diversity of traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians.
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by calt 5y ago
If we can increase forest cover, yes. But also, bury trees and plant new ones in their place.
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by calt 5y ago
There's nothing that previously stopped people from doing that. A fine at the library just prevents you from further use of the library.
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by calt 5y ago
A very similar concept is the idea of the innovation token. You only have some many tokens to spend innovating.
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by calt 5y ago
> A possible solution would be to slightly increase taxes on childless to make up for that difference. Not getting dependent/child tax credits already does this.
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by calt 5y ago
> I see that as a good thing, not a bad thing. I believe that's exactly the point this article is trying to make. Inducing demand for cycling is ideal.
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by calt 5y ago
One tip from reading this post: I can see that you're writing sentences that are too long. - Write simple small sentences. - Put a space after your periods. - For engineering communication use white-space liberally. This last one is no
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by calt 5y ago
Ok. And in what wild world of ethics does this even hint at being justified? Torture is not punishment. Torture is torture.
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by calt 5y ago
> It's still delusional thinking you can have a 'relationship' It's overly cynical to think that you need to be intimate and in the flesh to call it a 'relationship' (in scare quotes?). It is a relationshi
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by calt 5y ago
He's probably talking about the butterfly key keyboards build into Macbooks that were notoriously bad in the mid-late teens. The external keyboards were never so bad.
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by calt 5y ago
I actually got more interested in pranayama and breathing techniques after some experiences with N2O, nitrous oxide. It helped me quite a lot at one point, and I have a theory that some of its dissociative effects are a similar mechanism as
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by calt 5y ago
Well. Actually that’s not as terrible of an idea as you probably think. Look into “modern monetary theory”
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by calt 5y ago
Do they manage the private keys? I always thought that they only managed the public keys. I thought that your backup is stored in iCloud or Google Drive unencrypted. Facebook doesn't have direct access to that. You phone must be alread
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by calt 5y ago
Yes. If you're ever talking to someone one on one and they're not paying attention find a way to address it.
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by calt 5y ago
I use mobiussync on iOS. It's not actually FOSS, but given the absence of something like F-Droid that's the way the iOS ecosystem works.
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by calt 5y ago
Once you get past the cute intro it’s a really great history of audacity, interview with some of the creators, and an overview of the ui challenges the new head of ui/ux has to face (keep it simple, but make it powerful, etc.)
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by calt 5y ago
It's hard to understate Thailand's herb culture. They're salad, they're medicine, they're garnish, they're everywhere. In many monasteries monks that aren't otherwise allowed to eat after noon can even hav
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by calt 6y ago
That's a good point, and I think that to a varying degree the relevant parties - Max Roser, Steven Pinker, and Noah Smith - all agree with it. I'm new to this controversy, but after reading these comments for entirely too long it
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by calt 6y ago
He didn't "as if" the zero-sum argument away. In the very next paragraph: > Rather than being drained dry, [the global south] are advancing, growing their share of the global pie even as they deliver better lives to their
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by calt 6y ago
The Goenka centers do have a filtering questionnaire, but I think they tend to just get so incredibly much wrong on their handling of psychological problems. It's infuriating. I will recommend that a friend does one, after giving some
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by calt 6y ago
> Apparently this is a known attainment It's certainly a common enough experience, albeit rare in the middle of daily life on that amount of practice. What it means, benefits, etc. are what's up for question. I guess by "s
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by calt 6y ago
But on the topic of market impacting capitol flight, is that a real possibility? No.
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by calt 6y ago
Intensive retreats aren't to be underestimated. It's a serious spiritual path that isn't designed to make one well adjusted to this world right away. I think the end result can be a fully integrated self actualized person, bu
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by calt 6y ago
The test doesn't sort evenly. One of the most popular online test sites says in one of their descriptions - I forget which one - that "this is the rarest type with only x% of the population." I had a female friend who was an
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by calt 6y ago
But there is also a military political party in the civilian government, and they lost seats in November's elections. 3rd paragraph: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-a.
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by calt 6y ago
> Why they would risk sanctions to do this is a mystery. Sorry for offering wild conjecture, but the first thing that comes to mind is some kind of a payout to generals from China, who is hoping for sanctions from the rest of the world s
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by calt 6y ago
- official docs: Embarrassingly I often neglect to even learn doc tools available to me offline and instead rely on google for even the most basic stdlib documentation.
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by calt 6y ago
I am in Thailand where the tap water is considered undrinkable. Just this morning I went to the neighbourhood Reverse osmosis machine and paid a few cents to fill up my drinking water bottles. I think it's a great system.
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by calt 6y ago
> righteous indignation That's just the default for me while cycling.
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by calt 6y ago
I know many people who hold onto the idea of free market like it's a religion. They call their religion libertarianism (I don't know if this is accurate of libertarian thought leaders) I do have to refute that idea. I'm not

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