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by cylinder 7y ago
Melbourne has a suburban heavy commuter rail network with an underground CBD loop. That's not the same thing as an underground metro like the NYC subway, Paris metro, Tehran metro, Japan, London Underground etc. All of these cities hav
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by cylinder 7y ago
Eh the trams are cute, and smooth, but painfully slow. Better passenger experience than buses, but the tracks and overhead cables are a blight on the streetscape and impact drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists alike. Overall, not worth it. Re
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by cylinder 7y ago
Pretty sure it's the other way around when we want to talk causality here. Wealth allows you to think long term because your short term needs are met and your children are safe.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Isn't that where you'd want flats? Nobody wants a SFH next to tracks. Certain types of people (I won't generalise) always seem to want to call apartment buildings "future slums." This almost never materialises. Is
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by cylinder 7y ago
Eisenhower was vehemently against freeways going through urban areas. Freeways are supposed to bypass cities. He was overruled by the bureaucracy.
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by cylinder 7y ago
What about the fact that some of the most prosperous times for average people come after epidemics and such which result in massive population declines?
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by cylinder 7y ago
Great info, thanks. The Netherlands is truly amazing with the types of infrastructure which have been built for safety and health. I am pro-safety, one of the reasons I left the US! Would love to explore the Netherlands.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Just curious, does this density across all of the country lead to a desire amongst Dutch people to find true wilderness every once and a while? For example travelling to remote national parks in the US or Australia/NZ? Or does it lead
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by cylinder 7y ago
Yeah I lived in Manhattan, never geographically closer to so many friends and rarely saw them. Everyone's too tired or too scheduled. In the suburbs we were often bored and open to just hanging out and not stressing about optimising ou
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by cylinder 7y ago
The hustler culture indicts us to a life of packing up and moving across the country just for a marginally better job offer or degree or cheaper mansions. You see this even on comment threads here discussing where to live in the US. People
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by cylinder 7y ago
They're even alone as babies. Americans have this weird obsession with putting babies to sleep in separate rooms as soon as possible, including newborns, as if this develops some rugged independence. All the research (and common sense)
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by cylinder 7y ago
I think people are just waking up to how good Philippines BPO can get. I regularly deal with several people there and have only started to realise they are in the Philippines
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by cylinder 7y ago
Alternatively, I invite a few degenerates into my home and run simulation games on NBA 2k19 and take bets.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Agree with this sentiment. This machine gets a lot of internet hype. I thought I would buy one but then I got a a Breville Bambino and grinder for half the cost of the Silvia and it takes up half the space and looks nicer. Couldn't be
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by cylinder 7y ago
I just add "serious eats" to my searches.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Why doesn't Google disrupt itself -- the most concise, cleanest pages that focus on what the user is actually looking for (recipe, not a narrative) should be #1. It's even in Google's interest!
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by cylinder 7y ago
Yep, maybe using magazines and other gatekeepers of quality was not such a bad idea.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Patents shouldn't impact an L-1A but help with L1B. But they RFE every petition now anyways. They are good for green cards as you saw.
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by cylinder 7y ago
I think it's worse; he's actually an ideological fanatic.
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by cylinder 7y ago
At least Japan has reasonable social housing and delivery services for them. The problem is their kids don't seem to visit or care. This exists in America it's just in trailer parks in declining interior towns.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Stuy Town is great. Gets so much hate. But I actually miss walking my dog around Stuy Town and speaking with elderly locals who had lived in the same apartment for 50 years more than anything else in NYC. The inner walking loop and fountain
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by cylinder 7y ago
Or we could keep things simple and just have one shared Notes file or Google Doc with separate headers with those hashtags. The above sounds stressful
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by cylinder 7y ago
This industry feels like a giant hypescam tbh. I blame the presence of the word robotic.
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by cylinder 7y ago
There's an implied freedom of political speech. The rest can be regulated by law. By the way the way Americans view the constitution as some sort of divinely bestowed natural law document is highly unusual. For example the Australian
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by cylinder 7y ago
For those Americans considering moving to SF or NYC from somewhere else in the US as an experience, I'd recommend instead trying to live and work somewhere in Europe. I say this as someone who did five years in NYC. It's just not
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by cylinder 7y ago
A lot of people find the year round fog and chill frustrating and would rather have a proper summer with balmy nights and seasons and such I think
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by cylinder 7y ago
Nah it's definitely a thing. Generalisations are borne out of truth. Just look at all the waste ... Living far from work, driving alone in an Escalade or huge pickup 30 miles to work, cooling entire houses to 18C etc. It's in your
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by cylinder 7y ago
Funny but at the same time the UK branch of our company has to do a lot more diligence when they on board a new client than we do and that's due to EU regs.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Take a look at this table: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-companies-profit-per-emp... There are no European companies on the list. Companies that make enormous profits per employee can pay top employees a lot of money.
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by cylinder 7y ago
Yep and anyone reading with a bit of critical thinking skills will quickly discover they have one or two simple premises / theses and then 500 pages of fluff repeating it over and over.

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