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by rtlfe 6y ago
Groups like that are always populated by people with the worst of the worst outcomes. There's no indication of how likely these problems actually are.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> Where do you get the information that "suffer forever or die" is the fat part of it? Presumably they're referring to the 87% number that they quoted. But importantly that's 87% of hospitalized patients, and only a s
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by rtlfe 6y ago
IIRC ~20% of covid hospital patients were on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic, and that has gone down as we've learned more about treatment. You can't assume that people were on ventilators just because they were hospi
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by rtlfe 6y ago
There's a lot between what the US has today and eliminating roads. To start, we should have fewer motor vehicle lanes, wider sidewalks, lower speed limits, more protected bike lanes, intersections designed to minimize crossing distance
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> would drive if they had free parking, didn’t have to pay tolls, didn’t think it was terrible for the environment, etc So basically your argument is that people would drive if it weren't terrible in every way? By that logic, people
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> the median earner to own a 2,400sqft single family detached house on a quarter acre in a socioeconomically homogeneous school district Why would that be the goal?
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by rtlfe 6y ago
The existence of things that don't work well in high density isn't a good argument against density.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
As one of your sibling comments points out, it's only this way because of the prevalence of cars. If we didn't place so much emphasis on making it easy to drive everywhere, we'd see far more housing and offices adjacent to tr
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> walking or cycling cannot cover the distance that a powered vehicle can The whole point is that in a dense city, you don't need to cover a long distance. 75% of car trips in NYC are under 5 miles, which is an easy distance to cycl
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> Commuting is almost entirely driven by city centers and population density that inflates real estate/rent costs so high It's actually lack of density that inflates the costs. Nearly every major US city has zoning laws that ke
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by rtlfe 6y ago
Low income neighborhoods would be among the biggest beneficiaries of high quality cycling infrastructure, but a lot of people tend to reject it as gentrification.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> the data clearly shows the benefits of growing up in neighborhoods with high income earners, and the disadvantages of growing up in neighborhoods with low income earners Of course being in a wealthy area is better than being in a poor
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by rtlfe 6y ago
Alternately, make some inexpensive common sense improvements to the streets.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I feel like my neighbors would say "yeah that's how it's supposed to be, get a car if you want to be safe"
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I turned my 60 minutes of daily commuting with podcasts into 60 minutes of walking around my neighborhood with podcasts.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
It's a lot easier for a bay area company to successfully have remote workers in Idaho than in Romania. The time difference is minimal, cultural differences are less, and it's easy for the person to visit the office.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
If you haven't yet, be sure to call your city councilperson and demand improvements for cycling safety. Probably nothing will happen, but it can't hurt.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I live in a town with good transit that borders a major city with excellent transit, and it's shocking how much people fight everything that would make our town better. Bike lanes, bus lanes, and increased density are routinely rejecte
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> There is something about commuting that is a net stress inducer (whether by car or something else) Anecdotally I don't think this is true for walking and cycling commutes.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> This article is (badly) written by un-qualified authors (two software developers) Indeed the first sentence talks about "corona deaths." No qualified medical professional would write that in a paper.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> I don't understand what this is even about? Agreed. I read the whole thing twice and couldn't identify any thesis.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> Eventually most content creation is just going to be supported by people doing other things to earn a living. That's fine for many types of content, but do we really want world news and investigative journalism to be done exclusiv
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I really can't tell what they're trying to say here. > giving more away for $0 online would improve outcomes > there is nothing inherently worse about paying a fee Aren't these contradictory? Is the author taking any po
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by rtlfe 6y ago
To do it via code, you have to write the code change, run it to make sure you didn't break anything, get the code reviewed, wait for it to compile, and then deploy. In database, you run one simple query.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I work in a language that only allows double quotes, but I still occasionally type a string with single quotes because that was the accepted style at my last job.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> I'd love to hear from the HN experts if that is a very bad idea Yes > and how to do it better. Put these users/passwords in the database like all the other users so that you can shut them down when the passwords leak to th
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> It scared the crap out of me from all the HN stuff I'd read. Probably that's why you were successful. Lots of people make mistakes because they don't understand how important it is.
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> How it went unnoticed is that we were all busy with our own stuff, he was put on some small project that none of us were working on, and we just assumed that nobody would be stupid enough to hire someone without at least /some&#x2
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by rtlfe 6y ago
> Once you’re settled in, 95% of programming isn’t hard. It doesn’t involve algorithms, hard design problems, performance or storage constraints. It sounds like OP thinks the hard parts are algorithm design and architecture. I wouldn&#x2
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by rtlfe 6y ago
I would guess that most satellite and big data code falls into the non-hard category. In my experience working with things that sound similarly challenging, it's usually the case that one person or a small group of people do most of th

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