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by quicklime 9y ago
Agriculture accounts for a third of worldwide carbon emissions. So energy still isn't abundant enough to fuel 10x humans, unless you change the fuel source from food to something more efficient.
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by quicklime 9y ago
The difference is that when Caucasians answer "California", the follow-up question is rarely "which European country are your ancestors from?"
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by quicklime 9y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that the three ads mentioned in the article (Snail, Burning Bunny, Steamroller) are incredibly tacky? The Apple ad from that era that people love and remember is Richard Dreyfus' Crazy Ones, and the author
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by quicklime 9y ago
I'm not sure about London, but this has been studied before in other cities and it's been found that the benefits significantly outweigh the risks: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920084&#x2
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by quicklime 10y ago
Sure, but sometimes people are sad when they lose things, even if they don't "need" them. I totally agree that the title is clickbaity, but the sentiment expressed in the article is legitimate.
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by quicklime 10y ago
I think the author probably agrees with you that London won't "fall" in the sense that it will cease to exist, or even fail to prosper. Rather, she's arguing that London is the most important city in the world due to its
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by quicklime 10y ago
But you were specifically talking about people who assert their legal right. Riding at night without lights is illegal in Oregon. Perhaps those cyclists can be blamed, but innocent pedestrians who have the right of way shouldn't be.
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by quicklime 10y ago
This sounds a lot like victim blaming to me.
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by quicklime 10y ago
When I was an expat, I used to use google.com/ncr ("no country redirect") to avoid being redirected to a results page I couldn't understand.
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by quicklime 10y ago
The population of San Francisco proper is only ~800k but the population of the Bay Area as a whole is about 7 million people, which is only slightly less than Greater London's 8 million.
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by quicklime 10y ago
I consider having access to maps and ridesharing to be life changing, not just tawdry gimmicks. I'm not exaggerating - for example I don't think I would've been able to go car-free without Citymapper and Lyft. I don't ha
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by quicklime 10y ago
A typical car park is about 2.5m wide and 6m long, so 15 sq m. A typical car weighs about 1.5 tonnes, so the load on the floor of a car park is 100 kg per sq m. I think it would be hard to exceed that with people, without breaking the fire
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by quicklime 10y ago
I think the fundamental thing you're overlooking is Amazon's wide selection. There's a long tail of relatively low-demand items that a company like Walmart would just remove from their shelves. Looking over my recent Amazon o
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by quicklime 10y ago
Why does a busy life put a less busy life "to shame"? I'm not sure if you meant it literally, but I do know a lot of people who do. They literally get offended and defensive if I suggest they have some free time to do somet
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by quicklime 10y ago
Another way of thinking about this is that the marginal cost of biking is only 1 extra hour per day. And there's no reason why this needs to be done every day - he could just bike in once a week.
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by quicklime 10y ago
I'm not really seeing the link between (I presume racial) homogeneity and clean toilets - there are plenty of developed countries with multicultural societies and progressive social programs. For example Australia is just as multicul
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by quicklime 10y ago
On top of this, many candidates have visa-related restrictions that would prevent them from doing this legally.
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by quicklime 10y ago
While it's true that every voting system has paradoxes, I don't feel that this makes every system equally bad. The US has what I would consider a big systemic problem, which is that the first-past-the-post system leads to spoiler