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by namdnay 3y ago
I’m not sure the evaluation above is “fair”. “Positive” would be a better term People never like to be told they’re mugs
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by namdnay 3y ago
> We have one car per driver and expect to maintain or exceed that ratio for the next three decades as we can’t afford to spend the increased time needed to do all trips via transit. Or even transit plus ride-share. That's exactly w
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by namdnay 3y ago
If I remember the stories correctly, Robin hood lived in the forest with his merry men. Not in a palace in the bahamas :)
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by namdnay 3y ago
Yeah you have to really separate the lanes and go heavy with cameras and fines (at least at the start). One thing that never works is when municipalities are too timid to really close off roads/lanes for buses and instead opt for a bit
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by namdnay 3y ago
what you can do with bus lanes is take an existing multi-lane road, and turn it into a single lane road + a dedicated bus lane. This has the advantage of making things easier for the bus and also harder for cars. So people start to see the
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by namdnay 3y ago
So you're saying that in a country that has been organised around the personal automobile for the past 70 years (going so far as to actively undermine public transport in certain cases), there are few cities with good public transport?
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by namdnay 3y ago
Woks are carbon steel, not stainless
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by namdnay 3y ago
Yes buses are a good compromise, especially since you can close the other lanes and give up the space for humans
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by namdnay 3y ago
Which cities? And what parts of these cities I’m pretty sure public transit represents the lions share of trips in Manhattan or London zones 1-2
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by namdnay 3y ago
The problem with that is it doesn’t solve the surface space problem, i.e. unnecessary city sprawl and reduced walkability due to 30% of space being dedicated to roads
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by namdnay 3y ago
Especially since you can just get a carbon steel pan for 50
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by namdnay 3y ago
I think “granite pans” (which aren’t) are basically enamel, like a Le Creuset
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by namdnay 3y ago
I’m not sure you can really season stainless steel? It’s not porous
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by namdnay 3y ago
Pho is funny because it’s Vietnamese trying to say “feu” as in “pot au feu”.
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by namdnay 3y ago
If it were purely population density you’d see massive cars in the Nordic countries, and small cars in Los Angeles
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by namdnay 3y ago
I think it’s mainly because each new mode year has to be “better” than the last. It’s easier to be “better” (more head room, more boot space etc) when you’re bigger. So individual models grow and then new ones come in below. For example the
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by namdnay 3y ago
> RAV4 small SUVs Only in the US would anyone refer to the 2013 RAV4 as "small" :)
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by namdnay 3y ago
To give another perspective: > Not only you need to deliver your own work as an IC, but you need to coordinate other people and ensure that things get done. That for me is the definition of a senior/lead engineer > Not only this
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by namdnay 3y ago
> If the org requires that my teams handle interaction, now I'm hiring people with mixed skillsets in one org, which inevitably waters down the engineering side. Why on earth would being able to handle interactions “water down” engi
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by namdnay 3y ago
I think it was a joke
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by namdnay 3y ago
yes I'm talking about the global 1%. i.e. us, who are polluting far far more than our fair share
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by namdnay 3y ago
that's why i said 90% , there are also things like flying doctors etc.. i'm talking about the "american dentist flies around on the weekend for fun" usecase
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by namdnay 3y ago
but "upper middle class" in the US is the 1% ! I think it starts at something like 60k income per family member (so 120k for a couple)
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by namdnay 3y ago
Great I guess, but isn’t “personal aviation” (and 90% of general aviation) exactly the type of activity we should be discouraging? It’s incredibly carbon inefficient. (I feel like the person who says the party is too loud and has to stop, b
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by namdnay 3y ago
The obvious solution in that case seems to be to make the test more difficult . If everyone is getting 90% right you can definitely spice things up a bit
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by namdnay 3y ago
"PI Planning Events"
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by namdnay 3y ago
> They are much worse at Software than even Apple ?? > But they are smart enough to know their weakness If they were they wouldn't have insisted on building their UI layer on top of stock android
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by namdnay 3y ago
Personally I gave up having my own computer about 10 years ago. Probably not the “safest” strategy, but I always found it a bit wasteful to buy a second device.
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by namdnay 3y ago
what contracts are the california workers on? someone who can be fired at any moment is not going to report a minor injury..
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by namdnay 3y ago
in the workplace? definitely

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