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by rossng 6y ago
Yes, and it's often referred to as 'gentle density'. The idea is to build relatively dense housing, but at a human scale - mostly 3-5 storeys. Combined with narrow streets that support walking and cycling, this creates enough
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by rossng 6y ago
Sure, I can at least give you my opinion. * They eliminate a lot of street life. Towers almost always have completely dead frontages at ground level - and they are unlikely to be directly adjacent to a real street. You will be driving to a
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by rossng 6y ago
History has shown us that mass rebuilding of cities is a terrible idea. Strong cities develop organically. Slow evolution of the built environment has a kind of 'antifragile' nature. It prevents you from accidentally doing too muc
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by rossng 6y ago
We need to get to this point: (number of people vaccinated) * (vaccine effectiveness) > (herd immunity threshold) At this point, the R0 drops below 1 and the pandemic dies out by itself. However, if everyone keeps wearing masks, it looks
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by rossng 6y ago
That rather depends on how honestly your government is applying the rules.
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by rossng 6y ago
This is a great illustration of why the GDPR - and enforcement of it - is so important. The average user has absolutely no chance of navigating the digital advertising sewer without all of their data eventually being sold to the US military
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by rossng 6y ago
This reminded me of an interesting scheme I encountered in North Macedonia last year. The government now allows citizens to claim a 15% refund on VAT up to a cap of about 500 USD per year[1]. The only way to get this refund is to ensure tha
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by rossng 6y ago
Given that the government is currently busy trying to make trespass a criminal offence, I wouldn't bet on it any time soon.
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by rossng 6y ago
This is one of the most intellectually dishonest things I have ever read on Hacker News. There is _no_ evidence presented here that wind and solar are responsible for anything more than a negligible fraction of this species loss. It reminds
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by rossng 6y ago
I'm not sure you're comparing like-for-like. A large number of the people living outside cities are subsistence farmers in developing countries and have unsurprisingly low carbon footprints. There is significant lifestyle inflatio
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by rossng 6y ago
Banks have notoriously terrible uptime! See, for example, the wide range of multi-hour to multi-week outages suffered by many UK banks in the last few years. Most of the legacy retail banks regularly take down their online banking for hours
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The Hamler Programming Language(hamler-lang.org)
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by rossng 6y ago
Microsoft seem to be particularly rubbish at this. For example, the Microsoft Store (when it works at all) does not acknowledge the idea that you might live in a non-English speaking country but speak English. For example, here it is lookin
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by rossng 6y ago
The language doesn't seem like the interesting part here. Bosque appears mainly to be a vehicle for exploring a different way of thinking about compiler IR. From the MSR site[1]: > In the Bosque project we ask the question of what h
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by rossng 6y ago
For Haskell stuff, you can go one better and use Hoogle: https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=%28%3C%24%3E%29&scope=set...
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by rossng 6y ago
This reminds me of a website called Cooking For Engineers[1] which uses diagrams to represent the parallel and sequential parts of a recipe (e.g. [2]). [1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ [2] http://www.cooki
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by rossng 6y ago
This is a common refrain, but I don't think it's supported by evidence. The poorest people cannot afford own a car[1] - and one can hypothesise that the high entry cost (purchasing a car, buying insurance) is a significant reason
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by rossng 7y ago
> English still hasn't eaten up Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Yes, it definitely has. Ireland has (optimistically) ~1-2% native Irish speakers. Welsh is spoken by maybe 20-30% of people living in Wales. I couldn't find a number fo
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by rossng 7y ago
A friend in the industry explained to me recently that part of the problem is requirements creep while the engines are being designed. I am definitely _not_ a mechanical engineer - so take what I say with a grain of salt - but I did think t
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by rossng 7y ago
> billions of dollars to spare on huge transport infrastructure projects that aren't cars Cycling infrastructure is almost ludicrously cheap. You can build pretty good bike infrastructure for a decent-sized city with O(€100m). A sin
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by rossng 7y ago
Denmark has a similar service called eBoks, but it's a proprietary SaaS product rather than an open standard. What's the user experience like with the Italian system? Does every company support it?
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by rossng 7y ago
I have never used it, but I do get the impression that Estonia is pretty far ahead of everyone else. I don't know if this particular use case is natively supported (but would be interested to know). I suppose it would be possible for a
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by rossng 7y ago
Of course. There are plenty of different ways to build such a platform (or contract it out) - I'm not advocating any in particular. The UK has a rather interesting example in the GOV.UK Verify service, which federates the identity veri
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by rossng 7y ago
This is a reflection of the fact that we have no good way for someone to digitally prove their identity. Some countries are getting close-ish - Denmark's NemID system, for example, is used by a lot of financial institutions. However, t
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by rossng 7y ago
Then the shard _is_ the secret key. The court has no more power to compel you to give it up than any other secret key. I'm not sure what you're proposing here.
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by rossng 7y ago
I assume this company has customers in the EU. If the bug still exists today, try dropping a GDPR complaint to one of the European data regulators. Though they have limited resources, they have started taking these things pretty seriously [
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by rossng 7y ago
Yes, you can paste a string with internal spaces. I guess you can also disable JS and type whatever you want. Passwords with spaces work absolutely fine, too - it's just the signup form that is broken.
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by rossng 7y ago
It's annoying in either case. Passwords should be any string I want! You're just going to hash it anyway. I found it particularly egregious that Zoom's form auto-trims any spaces from the end of the string - so they are delet
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by rossng 7y ago
This seems par for the course for their support. I tried to report that their signup form automatically, silently deletes spaces from your password (!?). After a painful process of trying to explain the issue, it was summarily ignored. They
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by rossng 7y ago
Hoogle is pretty nice, and few other languages had an equivalent until quite recently. I'm hopeful that cool type-powered IDE features will start to arrive once haskell-ide-engine is a bit more stable. It's getting there! There ar

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