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by erispoe 12y ago
It's about developing an addiction. And addiction is a function of regularity, for alcohol. Day-to-day impact is not necessarily a good measure because it can have no negative impact at all as long as you have access to the product. A
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by erispoe 12y ago
Yeah, tech workers in SF making 150-300k certainly "can't afford to drive" I am sure.
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Drinking 3 drinks a day, the amount necessary to have an effect on liver cancer according to the study, makes you pretty much an alcoholic, not just part of the vast number of people "who drink alcohol".
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I wonder what's the interaction between the two, that's not described in the article. Can you alleviate the risks of drinking alcohol by also drinking coffee? Irish coffee anyone?
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by erispoe 12y ago
Comparaison made on municipality size is flawed in general, because the boundaries of a specific jurisdiction depends on political circumstances, not on urban growth. Take San Francisco: it has only 800k inhabitants for 8M in the Bay Area,
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by erispoe 12y ago
This is great. The Mixergy stuff she's referring to, though, is incredibly badly delivered. No I don't want to subscribe to a newsletter to receive a mp3 file in my inbox and then move that file to my phone so that I can listen to
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by erispoe 12y ago
People are not "fleeing" other cities to come to SF because it's undense. They come to SF because SF has jobs and it's nice to live here. I'm somewhat unconvinced that more density in SF would make it less nice for
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by erispoe 12y ago
A lot more than N-K people have a problem. The fact that K < N drives prices up for everybody, not only for N-K people.
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California produces hell of a lot of almonds. Almonds grow on trees that demand a lot of water, and a constant flow of it, too. Other crops you can do without for a year, or adapt more easily from year to year to new conditions. With almond
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How a bored student invented the electronic spreadsheet(npr.org)
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by erispoe 12y ago
Can you elaborate on these limitations?
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Yes, that works in the Central Valley, where it is already relatively easy to build HSR. It doesn't in urba areas. The constraint on the profile of the infrastructure, both horizontal and vertical, in a function of the speed. In the en
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It is cheap because it doesn't account for the hard part of building HSR: buying land, clearing legal hurdles, and indemnizing landowners. I would be happy to see Elon Musk come with a solution for that. We could use some creativity he
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by erispoe 12y ago
The hard part about infrastructure is getting it through cluttered urban environments, like the Peninsula or LA County. The advantage of HSR is that it can use existing tracks to serve San Francisco and Los Angeles before new, more rapid tr
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by erispoe 12y ago
And a muddle of confirmation bias added to sunk cost fallacy for refusing to admit one's first assumption is incorrect.
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by erispoe 12y ago
They did this cartoon to denounce the way the French Minister of Justice was mocked in some conservative demonstrations around marriage equality and access to assisted procreative technologies as a monkey. People were shouting "Taubira
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Yes, I think you're right. In Rotterdam everyone ride bikes, regardless of their income. Whereas in SF, it seems more a young, relatively affluent thing.
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by erispoe 12y ago
I wonder to what extend the intensity of bike theft will incentivize bike users to buy and use bikes of low value. I have conflicting anecdotal experiences about this. I lived in Rotterdam, where bike theft is intense, but where people usua
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Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and Causation(econtalk.org)
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There is very little chance that BART would be faster than Caltrain on the Peninsula. Caltrain has a good right of way that could host 4 tracks. I would focus on Caltrain here, not BART.
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Tipping actually gives an incentive to do way too much and often to pester the customer with unecessary attention. Probably not everyone is fond of getting her glass ostensibly refilled every 5 minutes, which happens with the emphasize on s
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by erispoe 12y ago
Well, true, there is no data to back it, so it's pure speculation. However, if your all business is based on an external service that you have no control on has that has no legal nor contractual obligation to you, then you should be re
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by erispoe 12y ago
Indeed, a lot of businesses with economies of scale and network effects can become monopolies. If we want to experience the benefits of free-market and competition, from a consumer point of view, we need to implement it through regulations.
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by erispoe 12y ago
What about years without the Earth?