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by rtlfe 4y ago
> The article briefly mentions ReasonML, which offers a different syntax which aims to be more familiar to JavaScript programmers but is also likely to be more familiar to most programmers of C-family languages. One thing I don't li
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> letting the MRI machine talk to the laptop than putting redundant chips in every device This sounds like a huge security risk.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Is it even possible to build new housing when the population density is already at 20k people per square kilometre, like in the cities mentioned? Absolutely. The most expensive parts of Manhattan have tons of 3-4 story townhomes that w
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by rtlfe 4y ago
And of course nearly all of those involved cars. There would be basically no bicycle deaths if we didn't have to share the roads.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> over a typically 6-11 year timeframe The dates there are just when the street view photos were taken. All of those smaller apartment buildings can be built in under a year, and 1-3 years for a highrise.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> With radio, air conditioning, seated on a comfy seat,... Last year 40,000 people died in car crashes in just the US. Cars are one of the top contributors to climate change and air pollution. The space they take up prevents people who
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> 4 people can share a ride You can easily carry 3 kids or one adult as a passenger on an e-cargo bike. Or even better, each of the 4 people can ride their own bike and the total cost is still less than one car. > one doesn't get
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by rtlfe 4y ago
And if one of the people turns out to be a creepy perv, the other one can leave without having to depend on them for a ride home in their car.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Also real estate in dense cities is disproportionately more expensive. That's not a law of nature. It's a result of deliberate choices made by city governments to restrict the supply of housing over the last few decades. Also
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by rtlfe 4y ago
In the US it's because the least car-dependent cities all enacting zoning ordinances in the mid-1900s that prevented housing supply from keeping up with demand and made it very expensive to live there.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> New York are famously considered generally rude Unclear why people believe this, but it's absolutely not true. Spend a day watching people walk to work in Manhattan vs people sitting still on the freeway in LA and it's clear
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Or golf carts. If cities would allow them on the streets, they would be a great way to start transitioning away from cars.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Avoiding sweat is not a good reason to keep people in 5,000lb mobile air conditioners. There are plenty of hot cities where the majority commutes by walking or non-air-conditioned trains.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
There are plenty of mid-sized cities with decent bus service and bikeability, where living car-free may not be the easiest option but is totally possible and preferred by many people. Austin, Seattle, Portland OR, Boston, DC...
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by rtlfe 4y ago
That's just not true at all. With the current nationwide housing shortage and sky-high rents, developers will jump on any opportunity immediately. All you need to do is set the right zoning code and streamline the approval process. Che
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by rtlfe 4y ago
I'm no expert on 1800s London, but I'd expect the average person couldn't afford to own a horse and instead walked everywhere.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> In the US, people need cars because of how cities are designed. There are plenty of places in the US where this isn't true, and the number is growing.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> I don't think we could go down to zero cars any time soon Of course I have no idea the specifics of where you live, but I think many suburbs could make this possible within 5-10 years by: -zoning an area to be the suburb's &q
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> People need cars to do things. Some people need cars to do some things. For many of them it's easier and cheaper to use taxis and rentals than to own a car. As more people give up car ownership it becomes easier for others to foll
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Same. I'd love to see somebody like OP riff on something the Atreus [1] to end up with something beautiful, practical, and ergonomic. [1] https://shop.keyboard.io/products/keyboardio-atreus
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Buying cheap clothes and wearing them until they fall apart is fine. Buying cheap clothes and wearing them once is not. Lower class people are not the ones causing problems with fast fashion.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Yeah "serious cyclist" feels so impossible to define that it's meaningless. If I ride to work every day but go to a shop for maintenance instead of buying my own tools am I not serious?
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Our email addresses are often available through a quick search of HN Your customer service strategy is really "go to a small internet forum that only some startup nerds know about and find my email address"?
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> most devs and most job openings I'm not sure. I'd guess very few companies that hire more than 20 devs a year would have any language requirements. But I don't know what % of jobs are at companies of that size.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> That still takes time. Yes. I want to work somewhere that shows they're committed to the long term, not somewhere that's focused on how much I'll get done in my first week.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
I've interviewed at probably 15+ companies over the last decade, and none of them had language requirements or tests. Honestly I see those things as red flags. If you can find somebody with good problem solving skills and proficiency i
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by rtlfe 4y ago
That's pretty excessive. I've switched languages whenever I get a new job, every 2-5 years. I think this is more what OP had in mind.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> In the US, roughly as many vaccinated people in the US die from COVID every day as there are total deaths across the country in motor vehicle accidents. It's truly shocking that we're not doing more to reduce car dependency.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
That sounds better for basically everybody except Elon.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> No, that’s typical software development. Software that controls multi-thousand pound machines at 70+mph isn't typical, and typical practices don't necessarily apply.

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