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by danans 1y ago
> Is there really opportunity if you can't afford it? If your argument is that a suburban lifestyle of convenient access to opportunity is not universally affordable given the current configuration of American society, then I'd
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by danans 1y ago
> The discussion seeks to understand what that balance is. In the suburbs people generally seek more space, privacy, and security, while still having relatively easy access to opportunities. It sounds like you (like me) have found our pe
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> I can really find no noticeable difference in the way of life other than everything I do outside of the home is a lot easier to access now Yes, small walkable towns are nice. I personally prefer them to unwalkable suburbs by a long sho
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by danans 1y ago
> Not to make it sound like a competition, but I can do it in 5 not living in a city. Why does it take so long in a place that should be optimized for keeping everything close by? I can walk to 3 different ones in 5 minutes - I live in a
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by danans 1y ago
> The difference is really only that people in towns of 3,000 people want all the jobs, services, and amenities as possible. Whereas suburban folk fight tooth and nail to keep it all out. But the question is: Why? Why wouldn't you w
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by danans 1y ago
> But not without having to travel. And once travel is in the picture, you can be to the same places just as fast from a farm as you can from another point in the city. Your phrase "having to travel" is painting with a very bro
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by danans 1y ago
> But it remains that average American lives in larger, more dense communities than that, so the idea of needing transportation is quite strange and defeats the purpose of the density. Generally, American suburbs (where most Americans li
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> Yes, but why would anyone want to live on what is effectively a farm, but without the benefit of separation from other people or land (read: income) that a farm offers? They don't want complete separation from other people. They
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by danans 1y ago
BeOS sold to Palm. Palm developed WebOS and sold that to LG. I wonder if any of BeOS ended up on my current WebOS powered LG TV. I bet someone here knows.
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> Either something is grossly wrong in that some are willing to have a stupid machine do that poorly (writing Sports Illustrated articles), or something was always grossly wrong in that we were paying someone to do something that never d
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by danans 1y ago
Fair point. Last time I took that train (mid 1990s) it didn't run to Pontiac or Troy, and I recall there being very infrequent service. A far as I know, it's not the major mode of passenger transit between Detroit and Chicago.
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by danans 1y ago
> A third reason I didn’t identify with the Rationalists was, frankly, that they gave off some (not all) of the vibes of a cult, with Eliezer as guru. Apart from a charismatic leader, a cult (in the colloquial meaning) needs a business m
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by danans 1y ago
> In the US, "between cities" is more like New York to Las Vegas, not Las Vegas to... uh, I couldn't think of another city in Nevada off the top of my head. What under-serviced route were you thinking of there? Why would
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by danans 1y ago
> We don't even have anything resembling real AI at the moment. Generative models are probably some blind alley. I think that the OP's point was that it doesn't matter whether it's "real AI" or not. Even i
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> An issue that's deeply intertwined with reusability is reliability. We put absolute emphasis on reliability with expendable launchers. But if you think about it, this is even more paramount in the case of reusable launchers. Hardw
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by danans 1y ago
Thanks for such a deep explanation, especially for those of us who know nothing about launching space rockets. > Remember that the management culture was one of the hottest topics in the investigation of the Challenger disaster. Perhaps
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by danans 1y ago
I don't think that he's accused Texas' governor of that, and that might be the more important relationship in that state. After all, consider how much California helped Tesla early on. Also, if you think that accusation you
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by danans 1y ago
> But Elon has killed his brand with his politics, and the robotaxi initiative is a desperate attempt to gain ground. But it's going to kill someone and it will be 100% on him because he's the one pushing this when there's
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by danans 1y ago
> 100 years ago there was a period of prosperity in the US following WWI. Prosperity for whom? See for yourself where inequality was in the 1920s vs the post WW2 period: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequal
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by danans 1y ago
> It feels like the USA is becoming like India (and others) where a middle class lifestyle depends more and more on the work of the extreme poor. With a longer perspective, the trend in the US can be seen more as a reversion to a prior s
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by danans 1y ago
> If everyone has access to medical care, housing, and education, does it really matter if some people have more on their bank account? It still matters when some people have 6+ orders of magnitude more wealth than the median person. Bec
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by danans 1y ago
> Your imaginary dystopia is certainly possible, but I would warn against having complete conviction it is the only possible outcome. Absent some form of meaningful redistribution of the economic and power gains that come from AI, the te
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by danans 1y ago
What's the point of the look if they're electric? A few steam engines operating for historical tourism doesn't seem like a big issue for emissions compared to the millions of ICE cars. We should keep them operating on thei
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by danans 1y ago
> But it’s the only time in my life I’ll get to ride a steam engin There are historic steam engines operating all over the US. I know of a few in Northern California alone. But not coal mind you, most are oil fired.
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by danans 1y ago
> I'm straining to think who besides yourself might think ubiquitous American rail and walkways were imaginary We agree with each other. I know they were real in the pre-car era (and I have lived in some of the few remaining walk
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by danans 1y ago
> I love Disney and I love Dolly Parton, but it says something deeply broken about our national priorities when their theme park trains outclass public infrastructure in billion-dollar economies. Be serious Reducing public transit to an
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by danans 1y ago
Perhaps not useful to you, but they are the only way the LLM has to know what it is doing. It has to reason about the problem in its output, since its output comprises almost the entirety of its "awareness". Unlike you, the LLM d
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by danans 1y ago
Unless I missed it, the article doesn't say anything about a tourist district. If anything, it's focused on the neighborhoods that are not in the tourist district. That said, we need to start qualifying the phrases we use to desc
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by danans 1y ago
> but start to face the ... animals, police, theft, physical danger and more and those As aren't going to remain As for long. These are the real dangers that a roof and walls offer you protection from. If you happen to find a benign
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by danans 1y ago
> Americans believe that Denmark or Switzerland has an educated and altruistic population. But if you talk to a Dane or a Swiss person about politics, they will laugh and tell you that their country is full of evil and stupid idiots, too

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