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by superqwert 7y ago
That is certainly the implication :- "Environmental website ecopassenger.org calculates that Greta’s train journey to Davos, Switzerland, emitted just 44 kilograms of CO2, compared to an expected 262 kilograms had gone by plane."
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by superqwert 7y ago
Additionally, her environmental impact would only really be true if her flight was cancelled as a result of her taking the train. Is there evidence that this happened?
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by superqwert 7y ago
It is not exactly clear whether passenger flights are less environmentally friendly than various other options. Driving for long distances can be worse for the environment than flying commercially[0]. The article claims that Greta saved ene
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by superqwert 7y ago
"Goddamn right journalists should be above the law!" - so the Monarchy should not be above the law (Magna Carta), but journalists should? The last people I would want to have additional privileges are journalists, who often love t
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by superqwert 7y ago
I've tried to cancel a credit card and told I needed to withdraw all money first (I had +£5). I withdrew it, and asked them to cancel it again. They started processing, but by the time they had got anywhere, I'd acquired interest
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by superqwert 7y ago
nice!
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by superqwert 7y ago
In fact, it seems for 53 that none of the lineStrings match the stopPointSequence lat/lons
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by superqwert 7y ago
but then... why would my query have matched your query in the cases of 389 and 631?!
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by superqwert 7y ago
Interesting! I wonder why the Line strings blob differs... Maybe it doesn't represent bus stops at all, but points at which the route changes for the purpose of drawing?
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by superqwert 7y ago
I think I've found the issue with the 11m distance - the 11m distance is: [-0.126102, 51.502769] to [-0.126018, 51.502714] What is happening is that the TfL sequence API is starting the bus route sequence on one side of the road of Par
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by superqwert 7y ago
The numbers on 389 and 631 agree with my post linked above to 3SF... Rerunning my previous query on 53 gets me: min: 11.176937891670061 lq: 69.77607205565486 med: 147.79705350080133 avg: 219.3995096050874 uq: 291.84606245281907 max: 1121.23
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by superqwert 7y ago
Using TfL open API ----------------------------- 389 inbound: min: 24.14811016418819 lq: 63.13737031546762 med: 117.45915732519208 avg: 159.1719773263877 uq: 188.0955557392336 max: 845.60445291754 389 outbound: min: 27.01945592261999 lq: 41
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by superqwert 7y ago
thanks for the link - very interesting!
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by superqwert 7y ago
Transport for London has the open tfl API - I'm gathering data from there
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by superqwert 7y ago
I haven't got the precise details yet - I've analysed about 20 bus routes so far and they have an average distance between stops of 128.4m. But till I scale up the analysis to all bus routes, I cannot say for certain that it is th
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Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?
85 points by superqwert 7y ago|104 comments
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by superqwert 7y ago
I wonder how long the seeds will take to germinate. I have some seeds of a hardier and more common bamboo Chusquea culeou, which have been stratified in a variety of ways and put in moist soil for over half a year now - none have germinated
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by superqwert 7y ago
Redux pretty much is CQRS + event sourcing, as applied using functional paradigms. A while ago I built a system that would use a React CQRS plugin and provide optimistic concurrency - allowing really fast UIs at the expense of users having
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by superqwert 8y ago
Again, even this has variations - Einstein's method of arriving at SR and GR differed entirely from the way experimental physicists arrived at QM
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by superqwert 8y ago
Of course, any number of subsets of the theory being disproved could falsify the super-set theory. But if there are two super-set theories, and you cannot falsify one over the other, then those collections are not falsifiable. Some philosop
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by superqwert 8y ago
Have you actually read the article? "Some philosophers and scientists have argued that there is no scientific method; they include physicist Lee Smolin and philosopher Paul Feyerabend (in his Against Method)" And even the previous
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by superqwert 8y ago
Which scientific method? Scientific methods differ a lot between the sciences - especially between the physical and special sciences, for example.
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by superqwert 8y ago
Something I've found to be exceptionally good at helping with reading (I've been reading ~50 books a year for the past 5 years, on top of a full time job and family) is to use Goodreads - it gives you those short term endorphins w
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by superqwert 8y ago
What does this mean: "Sometimes we need to acknowledge that our brain can cause us to do things we don't want to"? Surely you mean "sometimes we do things we don't want to be doing"? Blaming it on your mind is
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How deep does the London Tube go?(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
3 points by superqwert 8y ago|0 comments
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by superqwert 8y ago
Server error
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by superqwert 8y ago
I would agree on position 1, but there are many different possibilities it were not true, such as if you were living in a simulation. My point 2 was not supposed to mean that current theory was wrong as much as there (most likely will) b
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by superqwert 8y ago
Google: faith /feɪθ/Submit noun 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. "this restores one's faith in politicians" So you may reconsider whether you are using a different definition of "faith&q
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by superqwert 8y ago
I think you may have a different understanding of "faith in science" than brobdingnagians. It could mean anything, such as: 1. A belief that the scientific method will definitely approach reality (a realist/pragmatist claim)
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by superqwert 8y ago
I live in London and have a 1 hour commute by tube. I read even if I have to stand in a sweaty, crowded space. It helps with distracting me from the horrors of the journey. It also means I get ~10 hours reading done a week, which has come t

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