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by rsynnott 4mo ago
A bit of both. Adamstown, a new (2006) suburb of Dublin, is a very obvious example; it was planned on the basis that it was on a train line, and a station was built as part of the initial development. Less dramatically, you tend to see dens
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I think London commuter trains generally finish up around that time. This is fairly typical for commuter trains in general, really; a last train time of midnight to 1 am, resuming around 5am, is common. 24 hour commuter trains are relativel
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Well, both.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
In this case the hotel claims they weren’t told what it was.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Ah. I’d consider _city-level_ readings an absolutely useless metric here, because, particularly if it’s a city with a large commuter hinterland, a lot of people were simply not present in the city, but still existed out there somewhere, run
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Are the anti-AC zealots in the room right now? Lived in Europe all my life, never seen this, in the past 40 years. I think it’s more an American fantasy than anything else. Historically, aircon in Northern Europe was pointless except for la
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I’d assume lack of quality high resolution data. Weather stations all over the place, with records preserved indefinitely, is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
They’ve rendered that in a rather confusing way. 13 incidents is for _two_ decades, not one.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
We did not see a massive decrease. We saw a short-lived drop to levels normal in the mid tens. It is barely a blip on the graph. WFH won’t save us, unfortunately.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
This is a fairly well-known phenomenon, and sometimes comes up in geoengineering discussions. It’s dangerous ground; thing about fine particulate matter is you generally don’t want to breathe it.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
What baffles me is, how do the people who like him justify this to themselves? Do they just pretend it's not happening? Like, this is third world dictator levels of corruption, but the third world dictator's corruption is _usually
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> It is common to build an airplane in your house for years ... Define _common_!
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
As with bitcoin fans before them, Poe's Law is in full effect with the AI boosters.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
What, after all, is a bit of light fraud, if it saves an estate agent some time?
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Gab doesn’t federate, so isn’t really part of the fediverse. They’re just using the software; they’re their own thing, not part of a distributed social network. One could make an atproto island that didn’t federate, I suppose, but it would
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Hrm, I’d have said that Mastodon, if anything, was leftier than bsky (unless you count Trump’s mastodon instance, but as it doesn’t federate you probably shouldn’t). It would certainly have a larger hard-left representation. Nostr, being va
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
What do you mean by ‘obscured’ here? Bluesky users can voluntarily sign up to blocklists (as could Twitter users before Melon broke the API, though they were never a first class feature there). But they’re not _mandatory_? Like, if you want
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> which is to keep working your ass off, build a family with high total income and grow upwards. Eh? If you're moving to a _larger_ house (I assume that's what you're talking about here) the last thing you want is house pr
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
London's a bit different due to its sheer _scale_, and the degree to which it's already built up. San Francisco's a much smaller city, and in theory has a simpler problem. But it's not dealing with it. I'm from Dubl
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
So, per the article, it is apparently difficult to find a one bed apartment for under 5k a month. Assuming that's true, half her take-home salary going on rent would get her a lot of the way there!
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
... What would the mechanism to achieve fewer people be? The Logan's Run approach? Governments have mechanisms to make there be more housing, if they want to use them. Only extremely scary governments have mechanisms to make there be _
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Yeah, I think people miss this. Generally, the only way to benefit from growth in value of your home is to either downsize or to _die_. (Also, of course, depending on timescale, doubling may not be that impressive. If you'd put your mo
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I think this is _ultra_-regional. There certainly are places in Europe where it's more or less the case, but definitely can't be said of Europe as a whole.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> The US was still very much involved in its development and testing ... Wait, how was that? The Concorde was essentially the Franco-British entry in what was once a rather fierce international race to build a supersonic passenger jet (t
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Possibly not the intent, but this comes across as rather desperate. You had a lot of similar sentiments towards the end of the early-noughties bubble, particularly in reference to property bubbles.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Oh, _now_ we care about IP, do we?
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
So, the multinational company is probably better at lying than the average person is at discerning lies. There’s an argument that the best approach is to totally ignore what the vendor says and listen to trusted experts instead. If you’re b
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
How would that happen? Chip and pin has been mandatory for years, as is 3dsecure.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> Besides heat, countries with a lower GDP probably have less ACs installed than richer countries. I suspect that's actually not the case, because most of the richest European countries have climates where it's rarely necessar
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
So, either it's misuse/abuse of the system (that is he is not terminally ill and is nevertheless getting compassionate use), or he _is_ terminally ill (though that seems improbable here), and is concealing that. Either would be a

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