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by rovolo 4y ago
The phrase "cities without commercial on street level and residential above, cities where you need to own a car" is adding a condition onto "this is how cities die" to say that the original prediction doesn't apply
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by rovolo 4y ago
> the piece argues that we should let go of our common-sense categories and use the descent-based ones, like the biologists do. The piece has a list of conclusions at the bottom > taxonomy is not automatically a great category for reg
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by rovolo 4y ago
The difference between getters (or properties) and attributes (or fields) is that getters are a real function and attribute access does not use a function. The attribute access is less work because you don't have to do a method dispatc
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by rovolo 4y ago
The common way to distinguish between the definitions is to say a tomato is a culinary vegetable and a botanical fruit, but not a culinary fruit. > The question of whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable found its way into the
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by rovolo 4y ago
> Back in America, most people I knew lived and worked in the same general region/city. Perhaps this is a uniquely Dutch problem This isn't a uniquely Dutch problem. The longest commute you mentioned: Utrecht -> Eindhoven: 1
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by rovolo 4y ago
From the OP: > Still, perhaps you are skeptical of parseNonEmpty’s name. Is it really parsing anything, or is it merely validating its input and returning a result ? While the precise definition of what it means to parse or validate som
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by rovolo 4y ago
Are the workers depressed because they are "not ideologically self-motivated", or because they must spend time doing something they don't see the point in doing?
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by rovolo 4y ago
These are definitely better examples than you previously used. That said, I think the tax assessments don't accurately state the value of the land vs the building. I don't think OnlineGladiator is correct about the universality of
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by rovolo 4y ago
The issue with the COP graph (9:05) is that it's comparing the mini-split system to the prior system. The mini-split doesn't have radiators in the same place as the prior system, so he runs it 1-2˚ hotter (7:50) to get the rest of
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by rovolo 4y ago
It takes a lot longer to walk across a street when you have to wait for a walk signal. City streets can be 1.5-2 lane residential streets which you can cross basically on demand, making them equivalent in time to walking on the sidewalk. Ba
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by rovolo 4y ago
There are two parts to your question which I think are important to address: the importance of role modelling in general; and the importance of ethnicity/gender/sexual identity in particular. First, role models are important becau
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by rovolo 4y ago
Your [1] example is a 100+ unit apartment building. In the context of this thread, we're discussing single-unit buildings like your [3] example.
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by rovolo 4y ago
> While slavery made individual southerners wealthy, it's abolition [...] took millions out of poverty. But your original argument was about the economics for the enslaver , not for the population . > It's the same economi
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by rovolo 4y ago
The 2% is a bit misleading because the fire severity depends on how well it's contained. ~50% of fires are "confined" to an object, mostly cooking fires inside pots. Garages are 5% of non-confined fires, which is similar to l
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by rovolo 4y ago
2013 grad, no intern experience, BS, not a top school 20:5:3:1
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by rovolo 4y ago
> Nor does "subjective" entail "ideological" unless you're going to torture the term ideology being having a useful meaning. What is your useful definition of "ideology"? Why isn't "subjective
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by rovolo 4y ago
My guess is that it's for efficiency. You have to dynamically allocate a string and then copy it to the destination if you separate "format" and "output". If you combine them, then you can directly output during for
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by rovolo 4y ago
What's an example of Edison or Tesla doing multiple "revolutionary things no one's ever done all at once"? I'm genuinely interested, but details matter a lot. For example, the Edison company's contribution to e
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by rovolo 4y ago
I was curious how expensive marble actually was, so this is my attempt at looking at historical archives: Tiles were ~1" thick: https://archive.org/details/TheBookOfVermontMarbleAReference... Using an 1889 price b
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by rovolo 4y ago
> Cheap low-pile carpet on plywood Part of it is that carpet and plywood are fabricated materials. Prefabricated plywood and wall-to-wall carpeting weren't really things until ~1930s. The older materials seems more luxurious now, bu
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by rovolo 4y ago
Thanks, these are much stronger claims, plus they include recommendations. This basically confirmed what I thought your larger goals were. > I don't believe covid is more dangerous than the jab. A million EU residents died of covid
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by rovolo 4y ago
Claims (2, 4, 5, 6) are very weak because you are making them absolutes (e.g. "don't stop"). By themselves, these 4 claims don't tell us what our plan of action should be. They become misinformation when they are used as
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by rovolo 4y ago
> by accident Imagine you install a 'clapper' in your bedroom to control the lights. You say "works great for me, let's install this everywhere". Someone responsible for an auditorium then says "so clapping
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by rovolo 4y ago
Your points about the American definitions of "white" are certainly valid. The US racial system was primarily built around creating "black" and "indian" (and later "asian"), and it's certainly ar
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by rovolo 4y ago
I'm not sure about abuse statistics, but these are the U.S. stats for kidnapping: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2021-ncic-missing-person... 2021 missing-person stats: - 94.5% (231k) runaway - 1% (2,555) abdu
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by rovolo 4y ago
The advice is that state is hard to deal with, so you should try to isolate it from the rest of your program. You can even organize stateful components like a cache to isolate the stateful components. - Make your stateful components "d
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by rovolo 4y ago
> Inflation is not the result of profits, gouging, etc. Inflation is the measure of the price of goods > It's the result of funding the deficit by running the printing press Increasing the money supply indirectly increases the pr
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by rovolo 4y ago
> Byzantium would disagree with your analysis...except it doesn't exist anymore because it couldn't solve the problem. Leslie Lamport commenting on the 1982 paper. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research
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by rovolo 4y ago
> shocked that Portland is growing ... massive homelessness crisis. This statement reminds me of "Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded".
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by rovolo 4y ago
I tested it again locally and it's working for me. Just for you to double check, here's an article with pictures: https://osxdaily.com/2018/02/12/show-hidden-files-mac-keyboa...

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