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by mrgordon 5y ago
Yes I was delighted to learn in Switzerland that before my flight out I could take my suitcases to any train station in the country and they would route them to the airport for me and make sure they made it on the plane. It’s some truly inc
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by mrgordon 5y ago
People can only walk so far especially if the weather is bad, they are older, etc. The point is if I have to walk past multiple gas stations and a car service center with broken down cars and fumes then it’s not a nice place to walk. I have
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Portland is a pretty unique place. They famously drew a circle around the city and said development can’t go outside of that area which forced a certain density and allowed transit to be planned well in advance. I didn’t spent a ton of time
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by mrgordon 5y ago
In your examples for the Olympics, the name is the very last column. So I would need to scan through Rank, Gold Medals, Silver Medals, Bronze Medals, and Total Medals to find the name that the Rank belongs with. Compare this to Rank and Sil
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Well of course this is what I prefer. But the other poster was saying they didn’t see why cities can’t be designed for cars AND for pedestrians. My point is that the policies put in place in almost all American cities for cars (mandatory pa
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The thing you’re missing is that I spent much less than $100 a month in transit costs when I lived in SF. When you have a car there, you will spend probably $500-$1000 on the car, the insurance, the gas, parking meters, etc. Then you will l
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Yes being flat does help for sure. In much of Europe I think they solve this problem with trains or sometimes buses to get to the parks or outlying areas. For example, much of Italy is hill towns and no one wants to walk up huge hills to ge
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Where is that? You may have a different idea of walkable than the other poster. As soon as you have tons of parking spaces, mandatory setbacks, etc. you’ve taken much of the room away from pedestrians forcing them to walk much longer distan
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by mrgordon 5y ago
In Europe this is solved by having a train station in the center. Even the little towns have them which is why it can be lovely to spend a day exploring the area whereas in the United States it’s often easier to assume a small town will hav
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Most Americans would say the Netherlands is tough for driving I think because the cars are smaller, the lanes are smaller, there is light rail everywhere, many pedestrians and bikers everywhere, etc. I think all these decisions are why the
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Lyft Line and Uber Pool were usually $4-5 around San Francisco before COVID and you can use electric bikes through the bike share for $15 for the entire month. Obviously it’s easier if you live near the walkable area, but it doesn’t need to
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The rank goes with the label. Who got first? Tiger Woods got first. It isn't helpful to know that someone shot a 68 and got first without knowing who it is.
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The ones I checked have rank and player name first followed by the detailed scores https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The rank being on the left is like a row index. It helps you count without needing to count from the beginning of the column. For this reason, many data-oriented languages like R don’t even consider the row index to be part of the data. If
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by mrgordon 5y ago
FYI you’re pulling out of date data it looks like https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tokyo-2020-summer-olympic... The US got a lot of recent medals which increases the lead
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Don’t you think the most important column may not be the one you sort by? Most data will have an ID or label (country name in this case) that differentiates the row and gives it meaning. Putting this column last obscures the meaning of the
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Surely the US pulls ahead as currently they have a large lead in total medals and are not too far behind in gold
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Yes most readers know to look for a triangle icon or something similar to indicate which column is currently the sort column if there are multiple options. Changing all the column orderings does feel heavy handed. It’s like if spreadsheets
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by mrgordon 5y ago
It’s an interesting point and I somewhat agree but I think the example takes it too far. The most important information is not the sort column but rather the country name. If I want to see who is leading, I don’t want to scan to the final
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Signed in just to say YES! You get it. Flowdock is by far the best thread implementation ever.
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by mrgordon 5y ago
You’re totally right. And then the entire city is built for giant SUVs when it should be built for people to walk
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by mrgordon 5y ago
You missed the point. The other person was saying that now Uber and Lyft are more regulated so they have little advantage over taxis now.
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by mrgordon 5y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Unfortunately many people call out Obama specifically as a way to take a partisan political jab at the left especially on forums. Trump’s White House was full of crooks who really were there based 100% on
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by mrgordon 5y ago
I like StreetSmartEdge better but I would say ThinkOrSwim is much better on mobile especially for options. Real time quotes go a long way and the options are displayed in a condensed fashion.
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by mrgordon 5y ago
In the extreme case people will set up a paper wallet using a computer that’s disconnected from the internet. Once they have the keys, they can typically keep them non-digitally and transfer coins to that address as safe cold storage
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by mrgordon 5y ago
You’re ignoring that the companies can just keep lots of cash without distributing it to individuals in order to avoid taxation under your system. So for example the company can rent houses, cars, and airplanes for every employee to ensure
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The number of GPUs being produced may be constant but it’s lower than desired. The issue is Nvidia worked with Samsung to fab their chips this time around and Samsung had poor yields. Nvidia should have used TSMC like AMD and Apple but they
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by mrgordon 5y ago
I’m not sure it curtails it rather than just generating new card types that can only mine coins and then are garbage
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The issue is the resale value for actual working GPUs is higher so the miners will often buy the normal cards anyway
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by mrgordon 5y ago
The vast majority of W-2 workers can't deduct unreimbursed employee expenses. So it’s not even that they don’t incur them, but rather that “employees” aren’t eligible

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