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by nayuki 4y ago
I don't think so; the emergent urbanism conversation is a step in the right direction. The anti-car stuff is extremely toxic because a large segment of society refuses to listen. Induced demand is how every lane-widening project is a h
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by nayuki 4y ago
Not only that, right now is the middle of the night in Tokyo. If you change the "depart at" time to something like 5 PM, the driving time is estimated to be anywhere from 65 to 125 minutes.
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by nayuki 4y ago
Note: AMD Radeon HD 6950 was released in year 2010 with 2.64 billion transistors. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT was released in year 2020 with 26.80 billion transistors. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6950.c405
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by nayuki 4y ago
Not Just Bikes preached this concept in "The Gym of Life": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0
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by nayuki 4y ago
I can't speak for your situation, but I can tell you that Toronto made it work. Despite the fact that the majority of the land is single-family detached housing, it seems anyone is within a 1.0 km (0.6 mile) walk of a bus stop thanks t
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by nayuki 4y ago
I can't speak for the US, but in Canada the city's budget is set first, then all the properties are appraised, then the property tax rate is determined. Expensive properties do not automatically increase the city's tax revenu
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by nayuki 4y ago
Defaults are powerful. Undoing them will feel uncomfortable. Since the 1940s, the vision sold to society is one of private motor transport, free-flowing highways, and houses on big lots. The past 80 years have seen the execution of this pla
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by nayuki 4y ago
> that population density caused covid, sars, etc to spread I wonder why the USA, with all its fantastic green suburbs and private motor transport, had a much higher COVID case rate and death rate per capita than other countries that hav
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by nayuki 4y ago
Most of your argument goes against suburban living. Concrete and asphalt: If you add up all the parking lots and roads in a suburb and divide it by the number of people, the area is much larger than the amount of concrete per apartment dwel
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by nayuki 4y ago
Bike infrastructure is compatible with mobility scooters.
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by nayuki 4y ago
Cars cause the pollution. Cities would be cleaner if suburbanites didn't drive in.
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> prefer to live like ants Unnecessarily inflammatory wording. (Don't use the popular "shoebox" either.) > Moving from a large place with a forest backyard Most Americans live in suburban houses and over 90% of suburbs
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by nayuki 4y ago
Like 2007 ( https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/us-daylight-saving-ext... ) and possibly 2024 ( https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-tha... ).
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by nayuki 4y ago
In metric units: 58 million gallons = 0.22 gigalitres. 1 million acre-feet = 1233 gigalitres. We're looking at about 4 orders of magnitude difference between Nestle's extraction and agriculture.
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by nayuki 4y ago
I think Qualcomm already charges for value on its own customers, eh? I recall something about them taking royalties from device makers as a percentage of the full device price, not a fixed cost per chip. e.g. https://www.cnet.com
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by nayuki 4y ago
Not related but another GitHub issue today: https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-k... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390
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by nayuki 4y ago
I can't recall the quote or source, but it went something like: A CPU is a compiler that transforms a serial instruction stream to a wide (acyclic) graph of data dependencies. This refers to concepts like out-of-order execution, supers
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by nayuki 4y ago
Merch for failed companies like SVB would give new meaning to "tombstone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_toy
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by nayuki 4y ago
Excellent work. This is good time to remind web front-end developers that you don't need to click a link to bring up a "printable" version of a page. You can make every HTML page print-compatible through stylesheet rules wrap
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by nayuki 4y ago
"16 terawatt-hours of energy per hour" is simply "16 terawatts of power (continuously)". I want to see writers move away from the unit kWh and instead use joules, which is way less confusing and harder to misuse. Also we
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by nayuki 4y ago
You are right. The OP's examples of networking, SQL, etc. are NOT the foundations of computer science. I know as I did my undergrad in actual foundational CS theory. Here are the foundations of computer science: Sets, Boolean algebra,
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by nayuki 4y ago
The fact that disability isn't a choice means that disabled people can't become undisabled, and abled people probably shouldn't make a choice to become permanently disabled. Because rural/urban living is a choice, this m
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by nayuki 4y ago
So let food prices rise. This is a more honest method of accounting, because it is the people consuming the food who pay the cost of producing the food. The status quo is that people indirectly pay for food through taxes, higher service cos
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by nayuki 4y ago
> doing something inefficient for the benefit of society ... ADA Having a disability isn't a choice. Living rurally is.
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These numbers are nothing compared to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
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by nayuki 4y ago
What's the difference between photographing the real moon and photographing an image of the moon? You might say that the real moon is infinitely far away and has a straight line of sight. Okay, what about the moon through periscope mir
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by nayuki 4y ago
I got the exact same interpretation of the article and really dislike what they wrote. They start off by trumpeting their wondrous AI image enhancement technology. They make just a passing reference to the deliberately blurred moon image wi
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This is just like ant pheromone paths.
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How is boxed null possible? The documentation for Optional.of(T value) says that it'll throw NullPointerException if value == null. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optio
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by nayuki 4y ago
Minus wasn't mentioned in the article, but the distinction between hyphen-minus (U+2D) and minus sign (U+2212) is very important. When you put plus and minus side by side (+−) such as in a financial context, the two horizontal lines sh

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