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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yes there is. Amsterdam has about a quarter the population density of Paris
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's not about taxes, its about making it easier for the city to enforce the ban on short-term rentals.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
If I were a western city, I would simply build enough housing for residents and visitors.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
PayPal does the same thing without taking a 30% cut.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Thats about the energy demand of a single small aluminium smelter
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Taxis are not mass transit , but they are public transport per the definition. Obviously this will not be comparable in capacity to a metro, but it can conceivably be comparable in capacity to bus lines which tend to operate at very low lo
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
If there were automated and electricity was cheap its easy to imagine them being cost competitive vs a bus trip of the same distance just because they're so much faster. Making them price competitive is just a matter of how much th
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Flying taxis is public transportation
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Your first point is a misleading anecdote given there's actually data on this. The amount of empty homes in London is at a historical low [1]. Broadly, cities with the highest amount of empty homes tend to have the most affordable ho
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Why? The only thing that actually changed in the new privacy policy is allowing business messaging.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Walmart.com has third-party sellers, same as Amazon. Both those things are available.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's a joke to suggest housing is ubiquitous in the US. The number of vacant homes in most metros in the US is less than one year's population growth, and as a fraction of housing stock at historical lows.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
I mean, I only say this bc I wrote a tool like OP's back in the day and got a ~5x speedup over `ls -f` in a particular environment, but sure YMMV.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
ls from gnu coreutils uses readdir(3), which only populates a small buffer of dirents inside glibc from the result of getdents. So running ls in any way on a very large directory runs many syscalls and calls into the vfs, which will be extr
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
This article completely misses the causes of the rule changes. Banks and payment processes pushed new rules because they were being held accountable. The changes were all implemented in response to hugely influential NYT opinion piece on
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yes, though there's also a couple other examples. In my experience the biggest barrier to europeans getting fairly compensated is just that people believe it's impossible and so don't seek out the industries that do.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Optiver hires in Amsterdam with comparable compensation to top US companies.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yup. Starlink has launched 1740 satellites, and before starlink there were only about 1500 active satellites in LEO total.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The story [1] literally called them out: "And call me a prude, but I don’t see why search engines, banks or credit card companies should bolster a company that monetizes sexual assaults on children or unconscious women. If PayPal can s
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Like all apps that are "just" WebRTC, jitsi doesn't work well on networks with persistently high packet loss. A VC app needs to work reliably 99.99% of the time, not just 99% of the time.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
I think you're not up to date on the engineering market in London. Google London pays $11k/m (£100k/y) TC to strong new grads these days, and it's not uncommon for exceptional ICs in finance to earn up to £1M/y
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
No, the emotional contagion paper the OP linked. Facebook had no active role in the Cambridge Analytic affair.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It did in 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
TikTok has already been found to be censoring content that criticises the Chinese government [1]. Theres a big difference between that and a nonpolitical public research project that ended up with a minuscule effect size. [1] https:&#x2F
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Thats not facebook. Some scummy companies do sell user data, but facebook does not and never has.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
LEO constellations have way more aggregate bandwidth than GEO satellites
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The same is true of an Xbox and a Microsoft account. The sign up flow requires a full name and the ToS requires you not to give false information.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The highest quality study on this to date [1] found no difference in the prevalence of long term symptoms between kids that had covid and kids that didn't. [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.1
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It’s very well established that the current amount of carbon is the atmosphere is excessive.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
But carbon in the atmosphere has a much worse effect on the biosphere than plastics in a landfill.

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