clairity

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by clairity 4y ago
to be clear, even though i ranked them, my bar for a good film is whether i'd watch it again or not, and all the ghibli films i've seen, except perhaps arrietty (i haven't seen earwig or earthsea , but the consensus seem
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by clairity 4y ago
shape of water was good for it's ethereal scenery and underlying storyline, but for the 2018 oscars, i thought 3 billboards got robbed for best picture. that was the last year i paid any attention to the oscars (especially consider
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, spirited away is hands down the best ghibli film, for that ability to grab your spirit and transform it alongside chihiro's (the young protagonist). it's probably one of my top 5 or top 10 films of all time. i liked monono
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by clairity 4y ago
right, they should have put it underground right before USC/expo park.
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, that's exactly the kind of change i advocate as well. it's low cost and high bang for buck. LA instead spends millions of dollars doing studies and community outreach and anything else before they actually implement these kin
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by clairity 4y ago
he was one of the few because the idea that monopolies were good for consumers is about a 5th grader's level of thinking. in a perfect world where monopolies serve a single, narrow segment, don't overreach into adjacent markets or
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by clairity 4y ago
and that's why i commented. thiel is an idle opportunist, not an innovator or thought leader, and should be disregarded in such confines.
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by clairity 4y ago
yes please. i have these conversations with people here in LA and they look at me like i'm an alien. but LA is really the perfect city for dense, multi-modal, mixed-use neighborhoods because of the perfect weather (esp. low humidity) a
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by clairity 4y ago
customers don't all want the same single vendor though, as we have varying needs (outside of true commodities).
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by clairity 4y ago
> "Everyone...Peter Thiel..." no, not this fake thought leader. business school literally teaches cornering markets (in strategy, but also marketing), and has for decades before those guys were even born. they literally recycle
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...like driving to Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms and buying broiler chickens directly from him." reading omnivore's dilemma when it came out impulsively made me want to do that, but of course the impracticality o
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by clairity 4y ago
> "...very difficult technological problem." it's not a technological problem at all. it's a sociopolitical "problem", of wanting to influence others for personal gain. it's more practical to consider t
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by clairity 4y ago
i'd love to taste yours in the hopes of finding something enjoyable. i've tried cold brew at some of the fanciest cafes in LA (with foam even) and none of them made me want it again. it reminds me of the IPA fad with beer. i tried
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by clairity 4y ago
it's not faster or more straightforward though. you still have to grok and hack it, so might as well grok and hack it cleanly rather than adding superfluous elements (especially considering accessibility, which is a whole espteric can
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, and it's dismaying to say the least. we also do high-speed rail to nowhere for political not civic aims. ~85% of californians live near the coast, and/or wants to visit the coast, and we put rail through the central valley. e
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by clairity 4y ago
i was actually reading a bit about oslo the other day. i'd wanted to see maps and pictures of the underground roads/parking but the article i was reading didn't have any.
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by clairity 4y ago
that’s not practical for cross-country travel, but it’s imminently possible in cities. think how much greener and human scale cities would be if all cars were underground, including parking.
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by clairity 4y ago
also, the question is how much structural elements influence outcomes (not merely decisions), not whether they do or not. that’s the extra complexity of a social system built atop a biological system built atop a chemical environment built
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, to me, spacers and extra non-semantic elements smell like a hack, so i try to refactor those out. sometimes you can't do that with the current state of css (which thankfully is now changing, albeit still slowly), but most of the t
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by clairity 4y ago
but flexbox already has that built in, with space-around or space-between. you also have gap for more regular spacing needs, and margin on the flex items as a last resort.
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, i've heard something like that before. competition wasn't the only factor, but it was a meaningful contributor. the tokyo operators compete on service and amenities (differentiation strategy), which is what allowed them to fi
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by clairity 4y ago
that's fair. to each their own.
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by clairity 4y ago
yah, i can drink it, but it tastes old so i don't prefer it. at a cafe i'd much rather get a hot espresso drink (latte, mocha, or cappuccino) since i can't make those at home, and at home, delicious fresh hot coffee. i real
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by clairity 4y ago
i'm really not a fan of the spacer example, as it reminds me so much of early 00s layout (in this case, adding a bunch of empty spans/divs to represent the spaces). there's a recent proposal for custom functions in css that i
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by clairity 4y ago
LA's metro, like MTA, also currently has fares and doesn't keep out the homeless, as fare enforcement here is a complete joke, so i hear what you're saying. i think the point was that being unvalued would mean that people wou
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by clairity 4y ago
it's infuriating. LA would be 17th by GDP in the world if it were a country. for comparison, tokyo would be 10th (if it were a country) and mexico is 16th. we have perfect weather for 8 months out of the year, and for the other four, i
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by clairity 4y ago
my experience of tokyo was as a tourist some 10 years ago, so i can't speak to the breadth of the transit experience there. i just remember being very impressed with the quantity and punctuality of trains and don't remember any ho
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, we should better price in the cost of free roads rather than try to rebalance by making public transit free. i'd suggest making registration fees even more contingent on length and weight of vehicles, on a superlinearly escalating
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, free inevitably means unvalued and creates distortions in markets that lead to unintended consequences (like homeless people using trains as makeshift housing). in contrast, market competition is one of the reasons cited by the tokyo t
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by clairity 4y ago
you should also try the LA metro for how bad a transit network can be under poor management and corrupt city government. we have some of the best weather in the world, where multi-modal transportation is imminently viable, and yet we'v

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