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by panglott 12y ago
There is nothing at all unethical about preventing the most intrusive and annoying advertising practices. Allowing advertisers to auto-play music is a terrible idea for publishers, because it damages our relationship, but we have to cope wi
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by panglott 12y ago
So Buzzfeed's ethics are fine as long as they cheerfully ignore major scandals involving high street banks altogether? ;)
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by panglott 12y ago
Ugh, so this is example where Chomskyian linguistics just totally overtook the field.
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by panglott 12y ago
I don't understand the distinction that you're making here...a lack of intergenerational transmission? Isn't all language at heart a personalized colloquial parlance? The contemporary world of highly codified standard interna
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by panglott 12y ago
It's kind of weird to refer to the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s without reference to the Derg, the Red Terror, and the economic and political violence that caused it to happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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by panglott 12y ago
Maybe, but pedestrians have a higher rate of actual accidents. ;)
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by panglott 12y ago
Yes, the frustrating thing about the bike helmet debate is that it totally misrepresents the kind of safety gear that's important. I never wear a helmet, but I ALWAYS have reflectors, front and rear lights, a hat to keep the sun out of
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by panglott 12y ago
Walking is pretty dangerous: you could be walking and spontaneously stumble, or slip on wet leaves, and clip your temple on a fire hydrant. That's it for you! Walking is quite dangerous, and is in fact has the highest rate of injuries
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by panglott 12y ago
Folders are great. I started commuting with a full-size Dahon that I put under the seat, but now I think it's better to have a small folder and a fixed full-size bike rather than making a trade-off.
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by panglott 12y ago
Transit and cycling are quite complementary. Transit and auto traffic are more at odds.
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by panglott 12y ago
Helmets are still the best way to reduce a lot of head injuries among motorists. Cars travel at a much higher speed than pedestrians/bicycles, so it takes a lot more to dampen the injuries, and auto-related head injuries are simply mor
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by panglott 12y ago
I suspect that bike-friendliness correlates with transit-friendliness. Most cyclists are proponents of transit diversity and multi-modal transport. And conservative states are more hostile to funding transit because it requires government s
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by panglott 12y ago
Wearing a helmet would also improve the safety of people driving or walking around. But strangely we don't hear all the nagging lectures for people to wear a helmet when they are driving or walking to a corner store, whether or not it&
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by panglott 12y ago
Of course, that covers a huge percentage of bicycle usage. I wear no helmet when commuting, but I'll wear a helmet in unusual conditions. Most cycling is done in fine weather in ordinary situations.
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by panglott 12y ago
This is the single best argument I've ever seen for not wearing clip pedals. I always commute with flat pedals because it's easier and more convenient, but the safety issue has got to be huge.
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by panglott 12y ago
As a beginner, I ~hated~ the print statement. The print function had analogous syntax to all other functions, whereas the print statement always seemed to use some kludgy tricks.
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by panglott 12y ago
Pretty nice article! The only thing I'd say is about your "extensibility" section. The value of this is a little abstract. After I learned programming Basic as a kid, I put it aside for a few years because I felt like I had &
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by panglott 12y ago
The problem with wood as a fuel is that any densifying human culture can burn it faster than it grows. Industrial uses compete with household uses for cooking fuel and heating. Europe in the 14th to 16th centuries saw massive deforestation
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by panglott 12y ago
Neat, I don't need to figure out how to wear it over my prescription glasses. But then, I can't install it on the TV ;)
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by panglott 12y ago
Tom Vasel called Sid Sackson "the Jules Verne of modern board gaming", which is so right. Focus is just an amazing lightweight abstract strategy. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/789/focus
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by panglott 12y ago
The idea that chatauranga evolved from tafl, rather than tafl being loosely inspired by chess, seems pretty speculative to me. Kind of weird to skip straight from mancala to The Landlord's Game to the Spiel des Jahres. The games of the
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by panglott 12y ago
I think blind programmers mostly just use ASCII braille, with standard accessibility equipment like braillers, braille notetakers, and screenreaders.
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by panglott 12y ago
Out in the grassland, 50 miles from any existing center, a farmland is indeed a more productive use of the hectare than paving it over and building an uninhabited-but-dense urban center there.
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by panglott 12y ago
Maybe high taxes on land area would encourage densification if they were sufficiently high, but I suspect the prices necessary would cause problems in other areas. Like taking arable land out of agriculture because the land is taxed at the
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by panglott 12y ago
The primary purpose of language is to facilitate social communication in primates.
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by panglott 12y ago
Well, social communication. And deception and manipulation are surely a part of human social communication, not least child rearing.
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by panglott 12y ago
But a hectare in an isolated backwater has less value than a hectare in an urban area. The land-value tax boils down to a tax on the site-value of land, which necessarily has to account things like proximity/distance to commercial cent
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by panglott 12y ago
Well, it operates in a different way from opportunity costs, which could counteract a "pushing on a string" effect. And perhaps for many properties in the mid-range of site value, the opportunity cost is masked by high information
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by panglott 12y ago
This is why it's important for cyclists to use the road network. Streets designated as bike routes are actually pretty great: quiet, easy to share, and connected to the road network. Bike lanes are more important on more arterial roads
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by panglott 12y ago
I was going to suggest that rice and coffee are generally grown in humid areas where fresh water is not a problem, but fortunately I decided to Google first. http://calrice.org/ Their biggest selling point is that Californ

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