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by digging 3y ago
> A and B being closer works for cars, too. Only when the distances are greater than short-walk distance. Cars take up (huge amounts of) space at their destination by parking. You can only push two destinations so close together before
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by digging 3y ago
This has nothing to do with my comment or what I was replying to, which was a comment about crowded public spaces.
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by digging 3y ago
> Most of the sound from a modern car with a functioning muffler is wind noise What? Like wind hitting the extremely aerodynamic surface of the car designed specifically not to catch the wind? I have never heard or read this in my life -
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by digging 3y ago
I'm not pretending people don't have their own lines, but I think they're fundamentally wrong to say the line exists within the space of "doing unequivocally good things for poor people [which admittedly may have negativ
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by digging 3y ago
> Modern cars with functioning mufflers or electric powertrains... aren't actually that loud. Until their tires hit asphalt. Cars have to go very slowly for the engine to be louder than the tires, and that noise is a function of w
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by digging 3y ago
Good article, thanks for posting.
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by digging 3y ago
Oh this is one of those conversations; I'm leaving
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by digging 3y ago
Theoretically all those interactions breach the social contract and could be acted upon by making complaints. However, someone loudly driving a multi-ton car down your road is always "okay". Also... I live in a low-density urban
699.
by digging 3y ago
...This is the state of people living under car-dependency, not dense urbanism supported by public transit and walkable areas. Car noises stress people out, make them irritable, impact their health. Driving in traffic makes people angry&#
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by digging 3y ago
> There's a line somewhere where "giving poor people comfort" goes from providing good and useful social services to essentially a bribe. I'm not sure I agree. Like giving out literal tons of candy and soda would be a
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by digging 3y ago
That is unfortunate but realistically there's never going to be a political overhaul of that scale where all moves are perfectly synced. As long as they're actually working on the transit enhancements it seems completely acceptabl
702.
by digging 3y ago
> Now imagine the discretion of "people of all ages backgrounds income levels etc" would fall to his or her purview to decide. How much room for discretion is there actually in promoting diversity? I suppose you could forcibly
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by digging 3y ago
The principles would be the same even if we concentrated on small cities. A city must promote social diversity to grow the quality of social interaction (even indirect interactions, like walking through a neighborhood built by different ide
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by digging 3y ago
Light pollution is relatively easily solved, there's just not much will to do so. Noise pollution is best solved by reducing car-dependency which is a non-starter in most North American cities; I can't speak for Europe but I under
705.
by digging 3y ago
I love how "giving poor people comfort" is always actually a "power grab." I'm sure it does have political benefits for the mayor, but that's also a natural outcome of good policy . (Not the only one; often go
706.
by digging 3y ago
This seems like a non-sequitur. I don't see that there's any way to interpret the title that doesn't imply there are new discoveries in the laws of physics.
707.
by digging 3y ago
As soon as chat bots are helpful, nobody will care. Most customer service right now is low quality and chat bots are currently making it worse so people are justifiably angry/worried. But that's a phenomenon of the present.
708.
by digging 3y ago
Consider a wax apple that looks and feels real. Does it matter if there's no actual fruit when you bite into it? Low-level interactions might be inconsequential, right up until the moment you need to probe a little deeper and find th
709.
by digging 3y ago
One of those points relates directly to paint-only bike lanes. None of the others do. Any conversation about expanding bike infrastructure needs to acknowledge existing bad bike infrastructure and common bad techniques in order to explain
710.
by digging 3y ago
If your definition of bicycle infrastructure excludes anything insufficient to facilitate increased usage, then yes we can agree it is obvious that building such will facilitate increased usage, but that's a useless statement. But if w
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by digging 3y ago
Find a psychiatrist in your area who specializes in ADHD (psychologytoday.com is actually a great resource) and ask about ADHD diagnosis. You may want to get more than one opinion though; not all diagnoses are equal.
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by digging 3y ago
> kind of obvious that if you build out dedicated bike lanes, cyclists are more likely to prefer them to alternate routes. That's not obvious at all; it's not even true. It's not uncommon in US cities to install long, wide
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by digging 3y ago
I've had almost the exact situation at my work. I eventually even put nohello.net in my status message and forced it to show up whenever someone messages me (which felt rude! but important). Wrote up a pros/cons document of async
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by digging 3y ago
Chat apps like Teams, Slack should be used as essentially internal email with the option to drop into real-time synchronous chat. The main difference is that you have to be on the same instance so there are cases where email is still more
715.
by digging 3y ago
So one should not own a sofa? Sitting on a sofa is a near-daily experience I'd like to be able to keep having, which is why I buy quality.
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by digging 3y ago
Until it's been found, you mean?
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by digging 3y ago
Well, I've understood Glassdoor to be useless for years due to supposedly allowing companies to control the existence of negative reviews, and I've never had an account. However, this is pretty disturbing and deserves to be more w
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by digging 3y ago
> vote with your wallet. In other words, do nothing of any impact.
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by digging 3y ago
Which major tech companies would it be good for while being bad for Apple? Keeping in mind that the owner of a device is also allowed to repair without certification.
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by digging 3y ago
If you haven't read it, the Octavia Butler trilogy called Lilith's Brood is a great multi-generational story as well.

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