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by pouetpouet 8y ago
This argument doesn't hold water. Why is there no decent regional train system in the US then? Your point explains why there is no coast to coast NYC-SF bullet train, fair enough. Each US megaregion [0] could have a decent train system
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
It's nice to hear from the designer himself not to overinterpret the choices. It could have been any other photo, any other colour for the bike.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Moreover the US signed the Convention du mètre [0] in 1878. By law all US customary units are based on SI units since 1883 [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_Convention [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
This is what I have in my mind: green with a black top. Like the staedler but with green instead of blue. https://discountoffice.nl/productImages/8/large/Q640366-1.jp...
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Sycamore and linden are the perfect example of this.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
The original is from John Bartholomew and co. from the Edinburgh Geographical Institute. It was published in 1914 in the Atlas of economic geography by Oxford University Press. https://archive.org/details/atlasofeconomi
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Many works are left to rot on fragile film reels.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
It is similar, but Hill Climbing moves one parameter at a time. While gradient descent moves along the steepest gradient adjusting multiple parameters at a time, but it requires the function to be differentiable https://en.wikipe
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Half of the problem with cars is a geometric one, they take up too much space. They give rise to sprawl and thus increase the demand for cars in a vicious cycle. Them being electric or self driving will not solve that.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
There are also overnight trains from venice to paris operated by Thello.com. For other destinations check out Nightjet and Euronight.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
The federal gas tax was and still is 18.4 cents/gallon. It would need to be raised to 77.7 cents/gallon. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/7/24/some-perspecti... Worse, that was in 2014
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
I checked: Paris-Bordeaux toll is 55€ (US$63 with tax) for 563km (350 miles) of highway, 583km total. Add 34L (9 US gal., 39MPG!) of fuel @1.5€/L (US$6.6 per gallon) that is 51€ of fuel. So toll+fuel total, that's at least 106€ ($
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
I would look into graded readers. Related : Do 20 pages of a book give you 90% of its words? Link: https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-9... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Reading full novels is the original spaced repetition tool. Words get reused regularly in context.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
The benefits drop precipitously after the 15 or 20min mark. A 10-20min walking or biking commute is good. 30min of driving in traffic is not.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
if only more countries invested in soft power instead of saber rattling.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Related: The Lwow School of Mathematics before before WWII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematic... https://culture.pl/en/article/maths-madness-and-the-manhatta... HN
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
way less than poeple living there. Unless there is some sort of a unique land value tax
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
not only live events. Even books are sometimes mistranslated. See https://www.amazon.fr/Syst%C3%A8me-deux-vitesses-pens%C3%A9e...
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
The alphabet is a phenomenal invention. I mean the alphabet in the large sense, be it the Latin, Greek, Russian alphabet or any alphabet, abjad, abudiga or syllabary. The Chinese writing system is a notable exception (along with Japanese Ka
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
The world is not down to China and the US. How about walking on French or German roads? How about cycling on a Dutch or Danish road? People there are rule abiding, very much so compared to China, and at the same time respect pedestrian and
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
kWh is for energy stored in this example, the "size of the tank". kWh is analogous to toe (tonne of oil equivalent) or gallons of gas. kW is for power, that is the flow of energy (energy/s), another non SI unit is horsepower.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
thank you for taking the time to write this
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
how is FCF (normalized per market cap) a better metric? What kind of fuckery is P/E vulnerable to?
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Oh. This Clovis. I didn't know there was a debate over the burial of Clovis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
can you expand on that? Is FCF free cash flow?
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Members of the Russian orthodox church I suppose. Sectarians are likely also eastern orthodox but not under the Moscow Patriarchate like Old Belivers or the Catacomb church.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
The US have too much retail space. Retail is not really dying there is too much of it. https://www.statista.com/chart/9454/retail-space-per-1000-pe... https://qz.com/1032723/theres-much-more-e
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
Japan will also have the Mitsubishi Regional Jet with 90 seats.
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by pouetpouet 8y ago
I don't know about the UK but in France, big cities got 3 post deliveries per day at some point. I'm sure Paris got more at some point.

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