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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Public transit that is not subway on rails suck big time. Bus Rapid Transit called. It promised 95% of the raw speed and 4x the service frequency at 25% of the cost.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
I worked on a wireless network management product for ~5 years, integrating with multiple vendors, and I'm putting fiber in my walls later this year
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
I tend to find it helpful to ask, "is this proper REST as in HATEOAS, or is just 'REST-ish'?" It's usually just REST-ish: predefined URL patterns, roughly 1:1 with specific resource-APIs; they care about your HTTP v
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The Federov link towards the end of this piece remindeded me of some older science fiction on the topic, specifically, C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (published 1945, just before the atomic bomb got the genre's attention.) In thi
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Bugs aside, the Free Market mode makes for a really nice dynamic where you had to get good at all sorts of different tactics and weapons, instead of just being good at one of them.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> It just feels like there is about to be an asset wipeout across the spectrum That's generally expected when interest rates rise. Most assets have value now because they ought generate returns in the future -- but you can get inter
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The slightly cheaper tactic may be to actually to buy a fully refundable fare (usually for thousands) for much later in the day, and then cancel it and ask for a full refund. (This is also how airport lounge abuse is done.)
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Really the third world is still basically defined in terms of your historical relationships to the US or the Soviet Union. Despite the end of that particular conflict the membership in various worlds hasn't much changed.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Er, like the Immoral Journalist? "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." — Hearst, apocryphally
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The EU was concerned about marine toxicity and the potential for the concentrated forms to cause serious eye damage!
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
https://somafm.com/sf1033/ SF-1033 does likewise a little spooky to hear about someone being talked down off the golden gate bridge doubly spooky during the Giants-world-series riots
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
If you like these, consider also his work in The City (1990). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPpJbgod_k
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
I suspect they're not actually as good as the newer insulins. "I am an endocrinologist working in the biopharmaceutical industry, and it surprises me that we still need to scapegoat drugs like insulin for high drug prices (“Inject
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The author of this piece has a book, "Freedom from want: the human right to adequate food". The publisher's summary quotes Richard Pierre Claude, founding editor of Human Rights Quarterly and professor emeritus, University of
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> The part that’s always missing with these rent vs buy analyses on HN for some reason is that it’s totally ignoring the opex cost of operating your own hardware which is going to be non 0. Effectively hiring, retaining, evaluating and r
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
The current administration's ideas of supply-side reforms starts with the Defense Production Act and ends with Executive Order 11615. The opposition party's idea of supply-side reforms involves looking for additional ballots in Ge
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Yes, metric is nice. In the meantime, the acre is the standard unit of area for farms, fields, residential property, other property, parks, and certain other uses of land. A house on a quarter-acre lot generally has a backyard, and would fi
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) just for overkill. I would also like to draw attention to the distinction between Wake Forest University (of Winston-Salem, NC, via GSO airport) and Wake Forest, NC (closer to RDU airport). The latter was of
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> 1 Let’s see. It’s the 1980s, and our economy has been beset by 8-12% annual inflation, amidst general stagnation. Is there anything we could do in this situation to increase economic output, and thus the supply of goods and services, a
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOyIJVUaoeg
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> It is quite trivial then to get a fortress up and running and produce far more food, drinks, and goods than you ever need and grow your wealth rapidly. At that point it turns into a big-system management game with a variety of mechanis
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Generally it'd be more efficient to build a nuclear power plant with the materials from the RTG, and power many houses.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> It doesn’t feel very efficient, especially residential construction. My neighbor is building a garage with some finished space above. It’s sat without a garage door for literally months now - everything else is done. If all you have to
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
Investment in new techniques is limited due to the limited prospects of saving money. Construction is an efficient business; gains are possible but hard, and material transportation prices play a much larger role than one might be used to.
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
If you are looking for economist words I think the one that matches your description is the phrase “rent seekers.” Your value judgment on investment is, ah, popular in some circles, but its placement on the Y Combinator news forum is ironic
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
It’s not for construction and maintenance. It’s for inspection. The scaffolds exploded after some facade bits fell on someone and they passed Local Law 11, and they radically increased the number of inspections and basically required scaffo
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> Let people wait on the platform as the train arrives. This is something that basically every train operator but Amtrak does. In no small part because the platforms are too narrow — something that getting rid of several tracks would rea
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
For NYC diesel trains, you're talking about stretches like the one from Croton-Harmon to Poughkeepsie (by car, it's about 40 miles). I'm not sure whether this counts as "short." https://www.reddit.com&#x2
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
> I can't speak to whether it would cost less to do these experiments in space, I'm no expert on the colliding of particles and the implications thereof. I'm a nonexpert who has some vague idea of how these things work. Th
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by fennecfoxen 4y ago
More directly, Northern Ireland is where the king of the English nation once sent the peoples of England to colonize the lands of the Irish nation. These peoples thus settled have remained culturally distinct as the favored elites of the ru

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