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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
What I don't understand is the bit at the end (spoilers): he finds out that a person who Kraken's fraud team sees as a victim of scams, but hasn't been able to contact, has called his Gauntlet. He's then able to reach ou
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
I think this is exactly what the GP means when they discuss donating to political causes. If you can donate your $100 to buy a week's worth of food for a family in need, or donate it to a political campaign that credibly promises to e
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by digital-cygnet 3y ago
I think you've misunderstood the law you've quoted. It's not about "crossing without checking", it's about the pedestrian "yield[ing] the right of way to all vehicles". It's hard to imagine from
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by digital-cygnet 4y ago
I agree that this time will be keeping public policy academics and epidemiologists busy for decades to come, and that it's a very interesting question what the right calls were in retrospect. However, I want to point out that you'
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by digital-cygnet 4y ago
The comparison of real household income to vehicle CPI doesn't really make sense. The "Real" in the first stat refers to the fact that it's CPI-adjusted, while the latter can be thought of as being in nominal (unadjusted
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by digital-cygnet 4y ago
Taking this in good faith, as the HN guidelines ask us to, I'm fairly certain that either your recollection or your measuring equipment is faulty. Taking the "less impressive" https://goo.gl/maps/t1soU1WK
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by digital-cygnet 4y ago
Federalist 10 (James Madison) does pretty explicitly state this. It seeks to explain how the proposed US Constitution protects against one of the key problems with representative government -- that of faction (aka, what we would call partie
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by digital-cygnet 5y ago
I think what you're missing is that they are not avoiding "going rock climbing one more time"; they are avoiding "being a person who habitually rock climbs", because while each excursion is low-risk the aggregate ef
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by digital-cygnet 5y ago
The standard NYC lot is 20x100 (some a little bigger, some a little smaller). The prewar walkup rowhouses that blanket the city fill the lot basically entirely, and can easily fit 20 units (one-bedrooms or studios) in dense/expensive a
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by digital-cygnet 5y ago
Honestly, this did not resonate with me at all. It seems like more of a just-so story than a coherent argument commensurate with his sweeping hypothesis (that much of human history can be explained by our erroneously using absolute wealth
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
The key driver of our apparent disagreement is likely the definition of "urban (or dense suburban)" in my post. There are plenty of places and use cases for which cars are magical things, whisking you from place to place with no
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
Great points! I am working on a post about this and will incorporate this observation.
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
Thanks for the comment -- yes it is, but all sides also have more apartment buildings on them so it doesnt change the analysis. I probably could have explained that better in the post
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
I'm not sure I fully follow "I am pretty far from your utopian dense dream yet largely living it", but I think there are two potential points of disagreement: 1) Living in dense cities is not for everybody, but given that lar
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
This is something I've been musing over recently as well: cars really are responsible for much of what is unpleasant about city life. When people gripe about cities, their complaints are often around: * Noise. From where I sit, th
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
There's a chicken-egg problem at play, though. We can't build denser cities because we need to build 4-lane roads and parking; we can't get rid of these roads and parking because people need cars because the city isn't d
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
In my experience, most people really do not understand how fundamentally unsuited cars are to solving urban (or dense suburban) transportation problems. Without really staring at the underlying geometry, it is hard for laypeople to understa
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
(2018) -- so bits of this already seem dated, for instance the idea of a profusion of coins being a feature, not a bug, of the crypto space: > “Think of this as an incredibly efficient barter system,” says Harvey. “Barter is generally in
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A quick, visual illustration of the folly of street parking(digital-cygnet.medium.com)
1 points by digital-cygnet 6y ago|0 comments
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
This does not appear to be an April Fool's Day joke or otherwise satirical. It is, however, hard to make seriously. If I'm understanding him right, the claim is that it is a moral wrong to being someone new into the universe and t
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
The pro-Tesla view is that this is like comparing an iPhone to feature phones in 2008 on the basis of sound quality and keyboard action (unfortunately I couldn't find their actual review from that year in a quick google). The question
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
I think this article actually makes quite a fresh and interesting point, after the first few paragraphs that sound like stock self-driving skepticism. The author is pointing out that imagining self-driving cars of the same form-factor and n
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
The article mentions this: > AppleTV Plus plans to make the “Peanuts” specials free to stream for nonsubscribers during short windows around relevant holidays. But as with HBO allowing PBS to air “Sesame Street” episodes after a period
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
I would be interested in hearing more about this, within the bounds of what you can share publicly. Most of the touted GPT-3 use cases I've seen to date have dried up or are still in limbo, so hearing about a real production use would
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Public Key Encryption: Temporary Privacy, Temporary Security(digital-cygnet.medium.com)
2 points by digital-cygnet 6y ago|0 comments
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
> People signing up for a test through Verily had to do so online, using an existing or newly created Gmail account Talk about burying the lede. I thought it was bad when Facebook required an account to use the Occulus[1]; for an Alpha
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by digital-cygnet 6y ago
This is one of the few articles that violates Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1], in that the answer is actually a qualified yes. This is a topic that is often touted by the FIRE movement, but one I feel could use more mainstream underst