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Turkey's Ancient Tradition of Paying It Forward(bbc.com)
2 points by mertd 7y ago|0 comments
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by mertd 7y ago
Except simply surviving in a non-urban environment is even more mundane and exhausting.
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by mertd 7y ago
r/NBA brought to you by Huawei.
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by mertd 7y ago
What the stats don't tell you is that the city is divided by a 8 lane freeway where the affluent folks live on one side and FB campus is on the other side.
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by mertd 7y ago
Interesting way to discover the curse of dimensionality.
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by mertd 7y ago
> Also I was buying airline tickets and Delta told me there were just 2 left at this price for ... a plane nearly 70% empty. I don't think that's a contradiction given how many price tiers there are. Next price may only be $5 h
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by mertd 7y ago
Most management companies are local. One can kind of see how WeWork would work by being bigger than all management companies and having a global presence. Assuming their kind of risk in a robust economy is lucrative. But I fail to see how W
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by mertd 7y ago
Helmet technology made an important leap in the last few years by adding protection against rotational forces. If you are in the market for a helmet, consider getting the MIPS version (or Bontrager's Wavecell). MIPS costs only slightly
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by mertd 7y ago
That's interesting. There must be a reason cyclists prefer the busy street over the said one. People are not that irrational. I have seen cases of "improved" cycling infrastructure, for instance, like adding an impractical bi
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by mertd 7y ago
Does using cameras rather than sideview mirrors have any benefits? Surely they add more modes of failure compared to mirrors.
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by mertd 7y ago
Usually in these comparisons Visa/MC TPS figures are averages whereas crypto TPS are peak. Big difference.
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by mertd 7y ago
Urban planning took a back seat because they rushed to open it before the municipal elections. Fortunately the voters are not amused by the irony anymore.
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by mertd 7y ago
Do you mean 2 degrees? 20 is very steep.
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by mertd 7y ago
How do you reckon that the government won't keep cutting the cost to make budget for the next shiny fighter jet?
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by mertd 7y ago
They don't have the muscles and cardio to tap into and burn the fat as efficiently.
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by mertd 7y ago
There is plenty of them in the bay area. Aldi is the most similar grocer I can think of.
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by mertd 7y ago
Last mile logistics is a huge market (FedEx, UPS). On-demand last mile logistics as opposed to once/twice a day delivery is likely a lot smaller.
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by mertd 7y ago
A side street would see a few cars per minute. Compare that to a freeway where you are continuously surrounded by multiple cars doing high rpm.
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by mertd 8y ago
No. The bull run could sustain for another 10 years or end tomorrow. I bet people predicting the downturn are also still heavily invested in stocks.
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by mertd 8y ago
We also got this little thing called Prop 13 in California between then and now. That and we figured out how to make really tiny transistors and the entirely new industry set up shop here.
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by mertd 8y ago
A nugget of cycling wisdom says when you get fitter, cycling doesn't become any easier, you just go faster. Similarly with automation, we are just ending up with more efficient means of production but not less work overall.
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by mertd 8y ago
The main attraction is that automation will make car ownership non-sensible. Even right now, taking a cab every single time is economically at break-even or better for many urban dwellers. If you take out the driver, then cabs can be much c
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by mertd 8y ago
> No one talks about the noise. That's almost the only thing the article talks about.
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by mertd 8y ago
We have other stores of value that don't take up as much space and permanently destroy a finite resource.
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by mertd 8y ago
You still paid the seller's agent.
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by mertd 8y ago
Because your choice of phone brand does not tie you to a specific grocery where you can buy rice crispies. You can simply cross the street and shop at a competing grocery.
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by mertd 8y ago
The study you linked does not back up your claim.
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by mertd 8y ago
Public will used to hold some very shocking positions in he past.
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by mertd 8y ago
Lives would also be lost in the ensuing confusion if US were to switch to the metric system.
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by mertd 8y ago
Yes but it won't make a sonic boom.

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