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by phicoh 9y ago
The big thing seems to be population density. If you build massive suburbs with low population density then the only way to move around is by car. To big for a bike. Not enough density for public transportation. And then you get endlessly c
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by phicoh 9y ago
Maybe norms work differently in the US. Bikes are the majority on cycle paths. But that doesn't stop 'mopeds' from passing left and right. Car drivers don't have much patience with bikes and mopeds that should be on the
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by phicoh 9y ago
I wonder what will happen when electric bikes start to dominate. Let's assume that an electric bike can easily do 25 km/h (15 mph) and slower bikes will do roughly 15 km/h (10 mph). In Dutch cities, especially in Amsterdam, y
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by phicoh 9y ago
The practical problem with having two qualities of water in a home is that the contractors who are working on water installations are not careful enough. Obviously you want to have zero risk that drinking water gets contaminated with less c
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by phicoh 9y ago
If there is a choice between having to watch annoying ads and not having those details, then I go for the more basic system that is ad free. (I do use openstreetmap for 99% for my navigation, mostly because I care about open navigation syst
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by phicoh 9y ago
One way to look at it: consumers don't spend any money on Google products. So they can continue to use youtube, gmail, search, maps, etc. Maybe just less if ads get too annoying. At the same time, Google's real customers (advertis
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by phicoh 9y ago
Running a marathon is risky because of the load on muscles and joints. That's specific to running. Doesn't have anything to do with extreme aerobic exercise. If you replace running with equivalent amount of cycling then there are
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by phicoh 9y ago
This argument doesn't make much sense to me. Running is hard on your body sure. Lots of load on muscles and joints. But then you use as argument 'extremely biased towards aerobic capabilities'. This argument doesn't make
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by phicoh 9y ago
In my experience, ice is the most tricky part. Normal tires have no grip on ice.
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by phicoh 9y ago
So it seems that for most of our past, this would actually have been beneficial. The article says: "We found that drinking a sugar-sweetened drink with a meal significantly decreases fat use and diet-induced thermogenesis (heat product
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by phicoh 9y ago
My (entirely non-scientific) opinion is that most people exercise the wrong way. After a bit of training, muscles can store carbon-hydrates for about 1.5 hours of exercise. When these carbs a burned, muscles take new carbs directly from the
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by phicoh 9y ago
Once you have built a residential neighbourhood, parking on the streets is a sunk cost. Cities need money for the police, to collect garbage, etc. So there is no point in coming up with convoluted schemes to charge people for services that
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by phicoh 9y ago
Looking at data from the city of Amsterdam, which has specific reasons for keeping track of the value of land, then a reasonable price for a piece of land in a good location is about EUR 3000 per m2. So for 10 m2 you would expect to pay EUR
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by phicoh 9y ago
No, I'm talking about the cost to own a piece of land. In most areas it is possible to compute what a piece of empty land costs. Even if that piece is right in the middle of a city. If you want to have a car (or otherwise rely on cars)
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by phicoh 9y ago
Suppose that parking a car takes about 10 square meters. Then you can easily compute what parking should cost in a certain area. There probably are places where 10 m2 costs around £3,000 per year, but they are relatively rare. Traditionally
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by phicoh 9y ago
You can't blame this on Trump alone. 8 years of Obama gave increased spying, kept the insane TSA, blocked people born in Iran from entering the country (independent of what nationality they currently have). Gave the ESTA Visa Waiver pr
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by phicoh 9y ago
Vehicles turning right is a big problem in the Netherlands as well. Not so much that they block intersections, but that bikes going straight have priority over the vehicle turning right, bikes take priority and then get in an accident. It d
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by phicoh 9y ago
Strange that is was like that for ages in the Netherlands. On minor residential roads the speed limit is now usually 30 km/h (around 20 MPH), but is was 50 km/h for a long time (30 MPH). Often a car has to wait to overtake a bike.
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by phicoh 9y ago
My email client is text only. Of course I have it setup that I can easily extract all attachments and then point a web browser at them. In my experience, it is rare that I need to look at an image or pdf, etc. I'm not doing web develop
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by phicoh 9y ago
Ages ago I set up my mail client to pipe HTML e-mail through 'lynx -force_html -dump'.
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by phicoh 9y ago
Maybe I'm just lucky, but form other people I only get the flu or a cold. Maybe you can explain what kind of disease you expect to get from touching objects other people have touched?
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by phicoh 9y ago
Alternatively, the computer industry forgot about backward compatibility and now has to relearn it. Color TV was designed to be compatible with black&white. Stereo FM radio compatible with mono, stereo vinyl records with mono. Electrici
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by phicoh 9y ago
If you assume that IPv6 adoption is only due to IPv4 address shortage, then the rate of adoption makes a lot of sense. Whatever alternative to IPv6 you can come up with, as long as there is plenty of IPv4 space, nothing will happen. Unless
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by phicoh 9y ago
When wikileaks was launched, I thought that Assange was such an idiot that it would never get off the ground. How wrong I was. Note that Wikileaks did try to redact the material they got. So eventhough they messed it up, they tried to do th
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by phicoh 9y ago
Breaking an RSA public key consists of two phases. The first phase is massively parallel and indeed doesn't require much storage. However, the second phase requires solving a massive set of linear equations and requires a more conventi
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by phicoh 10y ago
My recollection of that period is that Microsoft kept changing the formats of Word and Excel files fast enough that trying edit those files with Word Perfect or Lotus was domed to fail. At some point even finding a common version among diff
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by phicoh 10y ago
Another way to look at that is that people are sharing pictures of cats on Facebook because that all that it's good for. Most people have to many 'friends' to share anything more personal.
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by phicoh 10y ago
My impression is that Microsoft was a lot stronger than Facebook or Google are now. Not having a Facebook account is annoying, but there is a very large world outside of Facebook. If you have a website that is not in Google's index, th
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by phicoh 10y ago
I disagree that C was looking for spotlight. C was the system programming language of Unix. Many people wanted Unix, so they started programming in C, because that was the best supported language. In the late 70s, byte code interpreted Pasc
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by phicoh 10y ago
The ultimate reference point is whether the person watching the screen at the scanner can see everything or not. If most of the time laptops are transparent enough then why bother asking people to remove them. On the other hand, if routinel

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