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by pastage 4y ago
Bike accidents are correlated to popoulation densisty in all the statistics I have seen. Is it really that different in Italy?
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by pastage 4y ago
We don't hand out medals to normal people, but incarcinate the ones "who want to teach you a lesson". What you just described is what normal people do on the road. There is a lot of research on this and cyclists are not any d
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by pastage 4y ago
Looking sideways from a bicycle is not something you do for fun, it's a way to see what drivers are up to. Especially when they drive up beside you it's pretty hard to know what they will do.
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by pastage 4y ago
As a white guy I speak out against racism and misogyny, but doing that is not easy and I can not take responsibility for the actions of others. You have to choose your fights, I choose them selectively, and conflicts in traffic is one of th
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by pastage 4y ago
This was true for me, but now days it almost never happen. What changed was that my route got a serious upgrade, with lower speed intersections, better yield signs for everyone. All it took was a well thought out plan for all the streets wi
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by pastage 4y ago
No red lights are not a safety measure, they make car traffic go faster. Most intersections have better throughput without redlight for smaller vehicles at slow speed. As long as the speed of cars is lowered to something safe they are also
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by pastage 4y ago
It can be very hard to understand how to move safely on a bicycle if the infrastructure is just built for motorists. The choices of different groups are motivated by different priorities. You have to understand. Red lights are there to make
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by pastage 4y ago
Many thanks for publishing it, think about releasing it as open source my daughter had a blast modifying the source code. Adding a little sister mode making it almost impossible to beat.
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by pastage 4y ago
Copenhagen is a pretty car centric city though, public transport has traditionally not been that well prioritized. It is good city for bicycles, but the suburbs are sadly made for cars IMHO. There is also alot of infrastructure being built
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by pastage 4y ago
I used to dread hills even as an avid bicyclist, but as soon as I had three big ones on my daily route my body just adapted. So yes topography does affect your choices less people will cycle there, but it does not affect time that much.
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by pastage 4y ago
Bring up your phone assitant and say "I want to take public transport to the meat packning district" and it will probbly work. My seven year old did it, and paid, on her own. GTFS is published by most public transport these days,
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by pastage 4y ago
This is the only reason I do not like riding a bicycle (or other private transport), you have to take care of it, park it and return to it. Just being able to walk and hop on public transport is a great feeling. I guess it's something
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by pastage 4y ago
There are many things to discuss about that, first were your edits correct, secondly how can you make such edits and be accepted on Wikipedia. It doesn't seem like you care about reflecting why you failed at the second one. I guess tha
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by pastage 4y ago
Interesting! Is this allowed in GDPR? I would not think any of these points would be ok. You seem to argue that this is something "everyone does", that does not make it ok. I really thought we had gotten further in the privacy dis
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by pastage 4y ago
I hope you do not use banks that use just email for authentication anymore. Horribly insecure.
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by pastage 4y ago
Lucky you didn't get legionella. That is not up to spec, cold water lines should always be below 25°c. I have never seen such an installation, even in development countries it was done correctly.
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by pastage 4y ago
I guess the "be excellent to each other" note at the end of the post is basically be polite. Often there is a reason why simple request take time. It can be hard to describe why.
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by pastage 4y ago
50 km is a long commute but it is not unheard of. Doing 50km under 40 min is doable, as long as that is possible by car you will have quite a lot of people commuting like that. Almost all commutes are under 40 min but average is 25 min.
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by pastage 4y ago
Been there the last 30 months, then because of that work stopped being fun. Now taking a time out, work gives me as much leave as I need, family/personal is harder to take vacation from. Sometimes you have to.
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by pastage 4y ago
I came from Python and C, for me Java has these issues. I almost never find what I want about java libraries, I waste a lot of time this way. I'm sure you could measure this, but I guess we are just used to read code in different ways.
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by pastage 4y ago
We know that dams are dangerous and that they fail, the smaller ones are decomissioned when not in use not only to improve the ecosystem. A dam is not designed for a life of a 100 thousands years, it's a long time.
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by pastage 4y ago
Dams break and wreck havoc on ecosystems, the US has had it's fair share of coal mine sludge disasters. Even countries with strict environmental agencies and long history of mining have accidents.
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by pastage 4y ago
Composting is good, but it's heavy and hence energy inefficient if it's transported too far. This goes for almost all waste but the amount of water in compost and the transport distance adds upp. Handling waste and composting as l
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by pastage 4y ago
Speed is even more important there, anything over 25 mph should not be allowed in areas where people live. Of course that is not the case even in cities with a clear political will towards walkability the I Need To Drive Fast mentality ofte
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by pastage 4y ago
XSLT can do too much, you can even draw a map with XSLT with styles like Osmarender[1]. Javascript is already the XSLT of json and it is good enough at giving alternatives to a locked down format. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.o
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by pastage 5y ago
Mobs that try to force their own views on others are common. PTAs, or strong willed individuals with kids in school, are mob experts. Good things have come out of those mobs. Amsterdams good bicycle infrastructure was built on mob rule i
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by pastage 5y ago
Group think exists in science too, I mean Newton calling Leibniz a copy cat was a set back and it's crazy that I still had to learn about the priority controversy almost 300 years later. We feed on unneccessary controversy.
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by pastage 5y ago
No this is not new. You have always have a direction set by political views, even if we have decided they are wrong they are still hard to kill like: smoking is good, white people are superior. There is still "science" being done
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by pastage 5y ago
That's prioritization of cognitive load, everyone does it young as old. I've always subconciously made fun of people who can not do what my group can do, but now at +40 I have for many years seen that as a group bonding mechan
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by pastage 5y ago
How does that translate to carbon foot print per dollar.

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