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by et-al 2y ago
My main point was that there's plenty of reasons for China and Japan to be different, especially when it comes to driving norms. Are you surprised as the other poster was about these differences between China and Japan? And going back
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by et-al 2y ago
One is an island nation that's been fairly open, the other had waves of isolationism, famines, and only recently opened up their markets in the late 80s. Private car ownership was not on the table until probably 25 years ago. But to pl
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by et-al 2y ago
I was actually referencing public transit, but (poorly) chose to write "railways" last night because it rhymed with highways.
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by et-al 2y ago
Wait, author contrasts speed of development in China with a criticism of urban renewal in America without even addressing property rights in China? Those ultra modern subways and apartments of Chengdu didn't happen without many familie
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by et-al 2y ago
They didn't normalize the data? https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by et-al 2y ago
If we're workshopping this for you: "climate change" has alliteration and is only 3 syllables compared to "instability" which has a mouthful of 5 syllables.
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by et-al 2y ago
It's 2024 and some people are gonna gatekeep that if you're not shoving cams in some bigwall granite, it's not climbing?
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by et-al 2y ago
Well if we're talking about "wall climbing", the set of moves don't expand that much as one progresses. Your technique needs to be more efficient and your transitions and balance on point, but it's not like there&#x
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by et-al 2y ago
With bouldering, the set of moves is fairly limited and what actually prevents someone from pulling harder comes down to flexibility, core strength, and contact strength.
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by et-al 2y ago
I only watched the video, but without taking in account the texture of the holds, the grading aspect would be limited. One also learns to just recalibrate according to regions. E.g. climbing 11d at one gym, versus 12a at another.
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by et-al 2y ago
If anything with large towers, I wouldn't be surprised if the HVAC is routed adjacent of the elevator shafts in the center of the floor.
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by et-al 2y ago
> Should I have a serverless function running on a timer that uses Pagerduty's API? If you're on AWS, there's already heartbeat monitoring and that can integrate with CloudWatch to notify PagerDuty.
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by et-al 2y ago
> There have been other ways of living beforehand and I expect we'll be about to figure another way in the near future. Or we revert back to serfdom and slavery.
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by et-al 2y ago
Eh, drivers don't even like other drivers. Take road rage for example. Windshield perspective (or myopia) and car brain are both real phenomena: - https://grist.org/cities/2011-01-25-if-driving-is-so-great-w... -
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by et-al 2y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210873
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by et-al 2y ago
> driver responsible faces NO consequences? Because the court just views as driving "accidents", mere oopsies. There was also this driver, Raja Whitfield of SFSU, who hit and killed a man crossing the street at Geary and Goug
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by et-al 2y ago
Isn't Clear just a more exclusive TSA PreCheck? It only works because the normies haven't saturated it.
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by et-al 2y ago
I think the core issue is that anyone can easily create a URL for a file that looks like it was published by the Microsoft team. Instead, if Github uploads used the uploader's Github account in the URL path, scammers would need to reso
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by et-al 2y ago
We understand the implications, but I would not want anyone to bring forth children that are unwanted, thus bringing more unhappiness into those parents' lives (and their surrounding community). Our society needs to treat children as a
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by et-al 3y ago
Shared meeting notes is a common one. Brainstorming in FigJam is another. If you're collaborating with other folks on a project, it's beneficial to see updates in realtime to maintain that one source of truth. Otherwise your work
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by et-al 3y ago
There's plenty of cities in the US where you can experience totality. The bottleneck will probably be renting a car from the airport. 1. Check the Clear Sky Charts map fghorow shared ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by et-al 3y ago
America tried this in the 1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_Un... > Over three months from December to March, public support dropped from 79% to 42%. Some schools moved their start tim
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Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool(observablehq.com)
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by et-al 3y ago
Cynically, I'm concerned administrative bloat will catch up in 5-10 years and they'll have no choice but to charge students again.
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by et-al 3y ago
You're living in a national park, but also 15 minutes walking from civilization.
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by et-al 3y ago
I think the author is trying highlight that one doesn't necessarily fancy tools. The productivity space has so many options that it's easy for one to get overwhelmed with settling on the "best" option. My partner relies
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by et-al 3y ago
SEO, unfortunately. As Palomides mentioned, most people just search for a website they will go to instead of typing in whatever cute domain you've crafted.
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by et-al 3y ago
What about the early 2000s adoption of .ly (Libya)?
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by et-al 3y ago
Pakistan's neighbor, India, has also been shutting off the internet quite a bit. 84 times in 2022: - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/25/a-tool-of-poli... And Punjab had its internet sever
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by et-al 3y ago
On top of this, the CPUC lowered incentives for solar last year: https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/11/california-solar-...

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