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The part of the story that’s missing is that at the time these streetcar lines were built, the mass adoption of automobiles was about to start. Within a decade or two cars were everywhere, and the streetcars were no longer needed. Edit: Wik
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See these comments for links to better descriptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32329545 The description in the Freethink article is incomplete.
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> … trams and horse carriages, and that these didn't pose much of a problem? Horse manure was a huge problem on city streets. (Trams we’re originally horse-drawn.) > According to the 89th Annual Report of the Board of Health, n
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Can you refine “legal battle” further? Does it imply a complete immediate capitulation on all matters if the opponent is a lawyer, or does it imply something else, like one’s best advantage in this case is to stay out of the courtroom?
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> Most people really do have to pivot up through some more average jobs first before landing the Big Tech jobs with huge paychecks. But the assertion here is that too many “pivoting up” jobs are a negative indicator. (An “upper class” p
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XKCD 1319 gets the economics of automation wrong because it makes the assumption that you value the time spent on every activity the same, in particular that you equally value drudge work and programming. The reality (for me at least, and I
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> It's cheaper to move to [city] than it is to build a house in SF and always will be. This is exactly it. Further, attempts to preserve the current population size of a city and keep things the same as they are can only try to depr
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Here’s a list of ChromeOS Flex supported devices https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094
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The YouTube video is here: https://youtu.be/c6hnQ1RKhbo
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What the author should have made more clear is that we’re starting to see technology that eliminates the “local developer environment” completely, and we’re also starting to see collaborative real-time code editors. Taken together, we can i
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To add a different perspective about why someone might not know how legitimate the pills they’re buying are, here’s a photo of a Haitian street vendor with pills: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/67/21/
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Or, the content that is popular right now (i.e. highly ranked in search results and heavily linked to) is dominated by material aimed at novices, because the readership is dominated by novices. The issue is that the ranking stops working we
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Full Story: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/24/goldman-sachs-r...
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> Building a BirdPi… https://birdnetpi.com/
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If this resonates with you, Victor W. Hwang is also the founder of Right to Start https://www.righttostart.org/mission > Right to Start fights to expand entrepreneurial opportunity for all. We drive civic change through:
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> People can help with firefly conservation by avoiding pesticides, [Marten Edwards, professor of biology at Muhlenberg College] said, and turning off outdoor lights, which confuse the bugs’ mating habits. > Another way to help, he sa
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> … there isn't one single right answer to improve accessibility. This is very true. Like any optimization, there is a point at which improving things for one community makes things worse for others. An example most of us are famili
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> … minus the tax deduction to rent. Make sure to not use the deduction verbatim, but calculate the amount that the deduction reduces your actual tax bill.
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Aren’t you assuming that the risk/reward of breaking into a house to steal a firearm is lower that trying to acquire one by other means? (Illegal arms dealers, using false or stolen credentials, etc.)
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> In a scenario where passive funds are the best investment vehicle when looking at long term returns, what’s the role of buying and/or trading individual stocks? Just to be clear, there are two interpretations (possibly more) of “b
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A clearer title (from the article) would be: Retail investors’ holdings in index funds exceeds active funds for the first time More specifically: > As of March 31, Morningstar says, retail investors had $8.53 trillion invested in index m
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> The adhesive they use to bind the screen to the body has gotten consistently tougher over the years... Unless they ditch the adhesive... We talk about this adhesive as if it's easily replaced with some screws, but I wonder if that
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> That’s not how we build cities; modern cities have urban planning departments, traffic engineers, zoning etc. I don’t know. My father spent his career as an Urban Planner in a Planning Department (in Ontario, Canada), and he never had
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> You are still not getting this. I understand perfectly well what you’ve said, and I don’t disagree with any of it. The point I’m trying to make (badly, apparently) is not that. My point (and I believe the point of the linked article, a
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Text-only: https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_058efe221cb8dff299fa7abcf3...
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> when they can just as well leave the choice to somebody else, at exactly zero cost. This is where the confusion lies. “Zero cost” here means “it’s a few lines of code, a few cpu cycles to handle it. What’s the big deal?” But I’m not ta
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> You could crash, but you can also throw. Somebody somewhere sometime might be able to do a better job with the situation than you can right there and then. This is a very big assumption. Edit: The assumption is that this day can ever c
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I’ve been thinking a lot about this kind of problem lately. My thinking was triggered by a description of real-world contracts by Lawrence Lessig, in a talk about crypto. [1] His point was that in most real world contracts there are many, m
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Very interesting! (I was pretty loose with my "mirror neurons" reply, hoping that someone would provide corrections and/or more nuance.)

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