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by jbay808 5y ago
Agreed. I'd love to see more apartment buildings have bakeries, cafes, or other public spaces on the ground floor. Then you can get to know not only your neighbours in your own apartment building, but in shared spaces for the surroundi
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They're very good lectures, too.
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Agree on all points, but I just wanted to mention that the "finding my folder" step got a lot easier for me when I noticed I could copy and paste paths. With my folder open in the explorer window, I just click in the path display
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And frequency/throughput. At peak hours, the Shinkansen can depart about every two minutes(!). I would regularly step into the train station five minutes before my departure. Or just buy a ticket at the station when I get there, with n
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One thing to consider is that these routes, if they get proper use, do tend to bring the population density and GDP along with them.
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As a counterpoint, I think Japan's investment in rail networks has paid off considerably. I suspect that country would be far worse off today if they didn't have the transportation networks they do (both HSR and normal rail). No
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Wasn't it basically modelled after the Autobahn?
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That's a good point. It might be less clear how to find the OO function that corresponds to a given imperative command.
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Definitely. One of the big problems, for me, is that there are at least two completely different interfaces with incompatible function names and arguments. While the object-oriented interface is frequently recommended, the pyplot interface
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Are you arguing against me, the essay, or the excerpt? I don't think your rebuttal really hits at the main body of the essay, which is about how competitive pressure can trap groups into miserable situations that no individual wants, b
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> How did things get the way they became? Is it due to iron wrought natural laws, or historical decisions we could freely agree to change? Reminds me of Scott Alexander's Meditations on Moloch , which also ponders this question. I
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Thank you very much!
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That's an often-quoted statistic that really doesn't mean what it looks like. The main reason their conviction rate is so high is not that they have some bloodthirsty kangaroo court, but rather that charges are very likely to be d
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by jbay808 5y ago
Where can I learn more about the costs and challenges of thoughtful reforestation, and the key differences between the responsible and irresponsible sort? (Just popping in to ask because it seems like you might know). I'm interested in
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> men and women are equal in terms of their ability to be communal… but are they? Even if the two populations aren't equal on average , undoubtedly some men are more communal, and some women are less so. You can't do compariso
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I wanted to watch Downtown Rocket with my family, but it's just not available anywhere outside Japan. So I actually ordered the DVDs from Japan, but they don't have English subtitles so my family can't understand them. Ther
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In my area the local cinema used to do put on old Studio Ghibli movies. They always completely sold out.
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Good luck with your negotiations.
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Living in an expensive area like Vancouver, a home theater might not be an option. Most of my friends rent a room in a sharehouse where they're not allowed to have guests, or where the TV is a communal area. Others live in basement sui
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How do you know this?
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The wealthy class are, presumably, wealthy enough to pay the carbon tax and still enjoy the perks and privileges of private jets though? It's not like they're being exempted from a ban on flying private jets, but rather a tax
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Solar panels are mostly black. Do they reflect more sunlight back into space than what was under them?
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I, for one, think it would be terribly difficult to maintain mines, steel mills, farms, water purification plants, chemical plants, concrete plants, auto factories, living quarters, hydroponic farms, plastic plants, glass plants, textile fa
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by jbay808 5y ago
Just to expand on this, it's the sort of thing that sounds like it shouldn't work, because the competition can just wait you out and raise prices down the road too. But it can, because relative advantage is stateful and path-dep
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Ah, my perspective is coming from Canada where every mortgage is variable rate. ("Fixed rate" mortgages are only locked in for five years). One would think that would cause US real estate to appreciate much faster than Canada wh
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This, unfortunately, also implies an explosion of interest rate risk. Given a fixed monthly payment, I'd much rather be paying it at high rates that have a good chance of dropping, than at low rates that have a good chance at rising. E
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Humans are a k-selected species and we die pretty easily. What makes you think so?
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> It's hard to imagine humans going extinct http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd... Page 6 helped grow my imagination. The ice ages are not the worst it ever was.
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What do you consider to be catastrophically incorrect? If the model predicts that a glacier disappears in 2050 and it disappears in 2070 instead? Or if the lack-of-model makes a lack-of-prediction about glacier disappearance, and then it di
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Something to keep in mind about making unknown changes to a landscape: it's not by coincidence that most changes would be for the worse. It's not because the status quo is globally optimal, but because humans have invested a lot i

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