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by rpearl 9y ago
That's not even the entire train network, just the Tokyo municipal-run subway system I believe.
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by rpearl 9y ago
a cheaper way to achieve this is to have a centralized currency and mature financial infrastructure.
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by rpearl 9y ago
Yeah I used to think that. If you have any amount of dynamic data with a non-trivial representation, and you don't want to have to go through awful ad-hoc things of "when I update this data structure, tell the stuff on the screen
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by rpearl 9y ago
You can look at the relatively standard metric of EBITA (which Dropbox says is positive) right here https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/box/financials and note that it was -$100M in 2017. You can also
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by rpearl 9y ago
EBITA is a common way of demonstrating that a company has figured out a viable business model: it tries to show that, given the assets it has acquired and the expenditures it has made and is in the process of paying off, the company makes m
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by rpearl 9y ago
It doesn't help with scaling (you can have multi-car trains but it's much harder to have multi-car busses) or max speed, but it would certainly be an improvement over the current situation!
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by rpearl 9y ago
Slow, unreliable due to traffic, difficult to scale with the number of people.
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by rpearl 9y ago
They say right in the article that they're doing image resizes on the server, for instance. With a customized library too...Hope it's sandboxed well!
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by rpearl 9y ago
Wait the argument you are making seems to be "one chooses to be a nazi and hate, so we should stigmatize that" therefore "one chooses to get married, so we should stigmatize that" Do you not see how the actual content of
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by rpearl 9y ago
Great, I can entertain thoughts without accepting them. I am not the person I'm concerned with here. The social signal required in debating actual genocide is, fundamentally, a problem. This doesn't happen in a vacuum. Debating ac
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by rpearl 9y ago
So you think we should be debating the nazis about whether or not we should consider genocide? The problem is that there aren't two sides here. Even engaging, at all, legitimizes the notion that this type of idea is up for debate. It&
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by rpearl 9y ago
> "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" > "Isolation only promotes extremism" Is it? Several wars have been fought over this particular ideology. Massive amounts of resources were expended with the sole goal of stamp
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by rpearl 9y ago
https://www.eclipseglasses.com/pages/safety
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by rpearl 9y ago
"Do not tolerate the segregation that has made it illegal to sit non-violently in a public place." Let's see... whose speech is this organizer advocating intolerance against? It appears to be the business owners who say &quot
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by rpearl 9y ago
Eh, fuck it. What's your solution? I gave a nice, uniform principle that allows as much as tolerance as is possible without eroding all of it. Many before me have offered it too. Again, it's not a new idea. You pick it apart, clai
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by rpearl 9y ago
But we're talking about social mores and private actions here in this thread...
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by rpearl 9y ago
"Tolerate all speech..." ...the next word is "that", a qualifier. And that qualifier answers literally all your questions? There is no successful formulation of absolute free speech, because then you must allow intolera
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by rpearl 9y ago
There's a very clear social contract of tolerance though: Tolerate all speech by those who do not violate the social contract of tolerance by using their speech for intolerance. Tolerance is not an absolute. It's a peace treaty. T
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by rpearl 9y ago
You assert that there's a magical unbiased optimization mechanism. There is not. You then assert that women will do equal work for less money than men and then make a bunch of inferences based on this, ignoring multiple faulty aspects
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by rpearl 9y ago
1. A claim about universality across human cultures. Demonstrably false: http://s3.amazonaws.com/fieldexperiments-papers2/papers/0004... 2. A sweeping variety of claims about the personality differences of coworke
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by rpearl 9y ago
The author's claims are not factual. The "biological" bases he asserts as fact are debunked, and not even recently. You say that we should engage with him, but there's nothing of substance there to engage with. So then,
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by rpearl 9y ago
For swimming at a college level, we got up at about 4:30, swam 5-7, lifted 7-8, then classes, then swam 4-6, then stretches/bodyweight exercises. This was while classes were in session. During the winter training trip, we would do the
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by rpearl 9y ago
Firefox was noticeably faster for me on first paint when I just tried both of those. Caching effects? CDN latency? Some part of the network? Nondeterministic browser behaviors? who knows. This gut-check test isn't particularly useful.
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by rpearl 9y ago
the home-as-an-investment-for-profit mentality leads to some really poor social interactions. I wish we had different social norms around housing. For instance, after a 1980s crash, Tokyo's housing norms shifted and the result seems re
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by rpearl 9y ago
Ah yes, Google should definitely punish end users because of what ISPs are trying to do.
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by rpearl 9y ago
Fixed the typo: https://regexcrossword.com/playerpuzzles/595e8c8e86584
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by rpearl 9y ago
I have two qualms about this claim: The first is purely economical. Does this not simply indicate that there is insufficient supply of electricity storage (ie batteries)? The second is... wow, if excess supply of energy is a reason there
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by rpearl 9y ago
UBI does several things. There's no single "the reason".
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by rpearl 9y ago
Other countries spend way less than that on healthcare (spending more like $3k per person) because they use more efficient systems. Private healthcare is extremely expensive. So that "somehow" already has a known solution.
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by rpearl 9y ago
But sometimes that scarce resource is time . You pay a person for their time doing a service. For instance, waiting tables. Cleaning. Staffing a counter. Driving a truck. Nothing (or very little) is constructed there, it is just a service

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