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by keiferski 3y ago
This hasn’t been updated in nine years but it seems to confirm that there are only two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airport_railway_stati... But I suppose the majority of overseas travelers coming into Franc
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by keiferski 3y ago
Most of the major airports in France have train stations built-in. For example, you can fly to Paris airport then take a train directly to Lyon; no need to go into the center of Paris first. It’s really not much different from changing flig
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The Wickedest Man in Oxford(archive.nytimes.com)
2 points by keiferski 3y ago|0 comments
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by keiferski 3y ago
Oops I forgot to include the title. Yep, both film and novel are called Cosmopolis.
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by keiferski 3y ago
For the most part, though, markets elude the grasp of representation. How can a novel capture this opaque, all-powerful, and essential force? I thought Don DeLillo’s novel (and later film adaptation) Cosmopolis did a good job exploring
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by keiferski 3y ago
I’m not sure I’d say more important, but definitely of equal importance. Especially in terms of how people perceive public transit; i.e. is it just for people that can’t afford a car, or is it clean, comfortable, and a viable alternative to
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by keiferski 3y ago
There is plenty of broad agreement, you just have to look at Japan, or China, or Singapore, or Turkey, Poland, or Switzerland, or Korea, or another dozen countries around the world that have clean, safe, and (sufficiently) beautiful public
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by keiferski 3y ago
I think social perception plays a big role too. In most countries where public transit is widely used, it’s used across nearly every social class. No one thinks that riding the bus is something only poor people do. That isn’t the case in Am
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by keiferski 3y ago
It’s odd to me that these anti-car polemics never talk about why Americans don’t want to ride public transit, while people in most other countries have zero issues adopting it wholesale. Instead they just make it into a simplistic, morali
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by keiferski 3y ago
I have used ChatGPT in a variety of ways with Anki for language learning, as well as just learning stuff in general. I wrote about my experiences here, maybe you’ll find it useful: https://neurotechnicians.com/p/generat
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by keiferski 3y ago
Are there any universities going in the opposite direction, deliberately maintaining a sense of rigor? The only one I can think of is St. John’s College, which requires reading a ton of classics in their original languages.
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by keiferski 3y ago
Of course, a lot of things are not accessible to tourists. But it’s fairly easy to see inside most buildings and generally just tell that e.g. the library is smaller or that the department of X is in a 8-story modern building vs. a 2-story
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by keiferski 3y ago
I think the number of purely mental fields is fairly small, especially in technology. More than that, though, are how amenities affect future applicants. If I was a prospective student choosing between Oxford and say, Princeton, the quality
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by keiferski 3y ago
I recently spent about a month total in Cambridge and Oxford, just as a remote worker / tourist. Having previously visited Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, etc. it was my impression that American universities have an order of magnitude m
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by keiferski 4y ago
You can read many of their works directly here, on a site that (pleasantly) doesn’t seem to have changed since the 90s: http://www.ccru.net/archive.htm
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Ask HN: What's the longest domain name you've seen used by a real company?
3 points by keiferski 4y ago|2 comments
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From Capsule Hotel to Coworking(soranews24.com)
1 points by keiferski 4y ago|0 comments
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by keiferski 4y ago
I think it is much more useful as a "word processor" than as a source of information. It's really good at reformatting text, changing it into questions/answers, summarizing it, etc. For example, I'm a huge fan of An
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by keiferski 4y ago
It's my understanding that most of these cheap flights are heavily subsidized to begin with. But my point was more that just as we have certain expectations for other things, it would be nice if we had the same for air travel – and not
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by keiferski 4y ago
This is a case where I wish society didn’t optimize for the lowest price and instead made it acceptable to pay more to make the default option more appealing. Yes, you can always pay for business class, but it’s framed as an upgrade, not
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by keiferski 4y ago
I think this can be generalized to, “when you lose the ability to create a certain Form, you also lose some of your ability to imagine new types of that Form, and instead just rely on shuffling existing versions of it around to generate nov
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Using ChatGPT with Anki(neurotechnicians.com)
4 points by keiferski 4y ago|0 comments
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Dallas Airport hotel is only for American Airlines pilots(wsj.com)
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Łódź: The Promised Land, a City of Density and Diversity(sah.org)
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by keiferski 4y ago
Well, because I was a college kid that just wanted my $350 dollars back. I didn’t really want to get involved with filing a claim.
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by keiferski 4y ago
Yeah I just wanted my money back and to move on, not get involved with the courts.
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by keiferski 4y ago
I've had to deal with difficult landlords a handful of times and I'd say the common thread is that they expect you, the tenant, to not understand your rights and the laws that enforce those rights. This is especially the case in l
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The Old (2018)(neocha.com)
115 points by keiferski 4y ago|53 comments
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by keiferski 4y ago
...when one is in the flow state, they are completely engrossed with the one task at hand and, without making the conscious decision to do so, lose awareness of all other things: time, people, distractions, and even basic bodily needs. Acc
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by keiferski 4y ago
I think the royalty is much more tied to the identity of the UK, especially when perceived from abroad and in popular culture. The global response to Lady Diana’s death, Downton Abbey, James Bond, just as a few examples. Most of the other E

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