enoch_r

20 ms·

151.
by enoch_r 10y ago
One could just as easily say "I have no doubt that you love traveling the speed limit through your neighborhood, but if your neighbors felt the same way, they wouldn't need to be coerced into it by enforcement and design." Ev
152.
by enoch_r 10y ago
> This is sort of necessarily true - people wouldn't be choosing to drive unless they felt it was better than alternatives. Taking away that option is necessarily forcing them into worse alternatives. This is absolutely not "ne
153.
by enoch_r 10y ago
> If you want to get rid of cars, you have to provide some alternative (preferably better) mode of transportation for the people and stuff within them. Are we participating in the same conversations? In my experience, people trying to &q
154.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ideally, I'd love to be able to work in clj(s). But I have work experience in python, perl, and php. Aside from programming languages, I've worked extensivel
155.
by enoch_r 10y ago
> Creating DIY medical drugs would certainly be something to be concerned about, but I don't see the problem with DIY medical tools. The FDA does see a problem, though, which is why other companies have had a huge amount of diffic
156.
by enoch_r 10y ago
The hack here is simple: this group did not get FDA approval for their device. Greedy corporations have repeatedly tried to make money by competing with Mylan with cheaper Epipens, but they've been prohibited from doing so by the US
157.
by enoch_r 10y ago
These things always devolve into a shouting match between the planners and people who value solitude or a big yard. I agree with the anti-density folks on one thing: big yards are awesome, larger houses are very useful, and I want my kids t
158.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Sometimes US firms go out of business when they compete with foreign firms. Even if that's because of "unfair" subsidies from foreign governments, that's indistinguishable from some foreign technological improvement that
159.
by enoch_r 10y ago
In certain especially pedestrian unfriendly places I've lived (orange county area), the buttons really do give pedestrians a lower status. First, you don't get the walk sign if the button wasn't pressed before the light chang
160.
by enoch_r 10y ago
To play devil's advocate, can someone provide a single historical example of a case where dumping "worked," in the sense that one country's manufacturers were able to rake in large profits after their foreign competitors
161.
by enoch_r 10y ago
When I got married and had a child, I went from car free to one car. Still a low car lifestyle (commute and grocery shop by bike, prioritized a walkable location during our house search, etc) but my car usage definitely increased. Still, it
162.
by enoch_r 10y ago
> This extensive list of skills is exactly why cycling is a lifestyle choice/hobby, not an effective method of transportation. > Car ownership isn't much better. I suspect the list for car ownership would look much longer, a
163.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Implicit association tests have little predictive validity--that is, if we know that someone has more "unconscious bias" in an IAT, we should expect zero difference in their behavior. See: http://www.law.virginia.edu&#x
164.
by enoch_r 10y ago
If you're running something that doesn't do live code reloading, it won't work without restarting whether or not you're running it in a container. If you're running something that does do live code reloading, it s
165.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Linux has its headaches, but > The only reason yum, apt, pacman, etc exist independently of each other is because the maintainers of each package manager are too stubborn and prideful to see the value in combining their efforts. To me th
166.
by enoch_r 10y ago
> looking at the pictures it seems like a dangerous place to rely on autopilot with the intersections To some extent, I agree--uncontrolled intersections on highways are dangerous. On the other hand, in this particular case, a 14 foot ta
167.
by enoch_r 10y ago
> What are the on-the-road stats for automatic driving? Aren't they better than human drivers already? Probably not. The fatality rate for urban interstates in 2007 was 0.54 per 100 million miles. That's the type of environment
168.
by enoch_r 10y ago
I posted this elsewhere, but since a lot of people seem genuinely confused about why someone would want a project like this, I'll say it again. I use `chromium --kiosk-mode` as my daily browser. Chromium has features I value highly (e.
169.
by enoch_r 10y ago
You don't get it. Someone built an experiment in minimalistic UI design . "Technical people" started a massive pile-on, declaring "this is stupid, this doesn't have a minimalistic codebase at all." That's
170.
by enoch_r 10y ago
By defining the probability distribution as the historical distribution of one-year returns, you're severely warping the possibility space. Imagine two experiments: Experiment A: you flip a coin 1000 times. You estimate the probability
171.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Imagine waking up in a strange facility. There's a tray in front of you with a pill and a label that says "eat me." In World A, the drug causes amnesia--after 12 hours, you'll fall asleep, and completely forget the prece
172.
by enoch_r 10y ago
This is wildly untrue--to a greater extent than one might expect. If you're a pedestrian and are hit by a car at an impact speed of 40mph, you have a roughly 50% chance of dying. The odds of death if you're hit at 25mph are roughl
173.
by enoch_r 10y ago
You may be right for most people! I'm sure you're right for yourself. As someone who lives in such a neighborhood (and lived for two years attempting to survive biking and walking among the plentiful parking, wide streets, and zer
174.
by enoch_r 10y ago
It's important to note that not all these debates take the shape of "homeowners vs. commuters." The article used Clinton Street in Portland as an example. Who was upset that Clinton street was being used as cut-through by imp
175.
by enoch_r 10y ago
One of the examples in the article is Clinton St, a designated "bike boulevard" in a dense residential neighborhood of Portland, 1-2 blocks south of one of the bigger, cooler commercial streets in the city. This is not a case of s
176.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Is it true that this increased the value of some homes at the expense of others? At least in Portland, where similar measures (though less widespread) have diverted auto traffic away from certain streets, they haven't diverted auto t
177.
by enoch_r 10y ago
It's much more difficult to change streets into cul de sacs after the fact, but I can't imagine that forcing through-traffic to take certain streets doesn't reduce the value of homes on those streets, regardless of the method
178.
by enoch_r 10y ago
Coming from the other side: I run Linux on a Chromebook Pixel 2015, but I don't use Crouton, I just replaced ChromeOS entirely. Except for "ctrl-L" on every boot (which, really, I don't reboot my machine enough for it to
179.
by enoch_r 10y ago
I found this quite interesting: > We also find two further interesting pieces of evidence. First, we show that intergenerational mobility in the 15th century was much lower than at present – the intergenerational earnings elasticity betw
180.
by enoch_r 10y ago
A paper by two economists finds evidence that intergenerational wealth effects have persisted over very long periods of time. They note that their results are "new and remarkable" in the context of a large existing body of empiric

More ›