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by surfmike 8y ago
Autonomous vehicles (rightly so) will be held to a higher standard than humans
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by surfmike 8y ago
That bill was DOA.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Related: the jetlag fast. Fasting for 12-16 hours and then eating your next meal in the morning in your new destination is supposed to help adjust to jetlag faster. https://harpers.org/blog/2012/03/the-empty-s
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by surfmike 8y ago
I hope this forces the NYTimes to allow online cancellations too.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Many beautiful San Francisco buildings are simple boxes with a Italianate facade. Many generations later, people still seem to admire them.
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by surfmike 8y ago
The article specifically says they might not be causal. The correlation is interested, however; anecdotally I know many of my friends feel like buying a house is a necessary prerequisite before having kids so a causative effect is plausible
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by surfmike 8y ago
Yeah I should have mentioned Caltrain but it really just travels from one expensive place to another.
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by surfmike 8y ago
The housing prices are increasing all throughout the bay area of course. Unlike NY however there are not great train connections to Silicon Valley; there is BART to SF and nice areas around Bart stations have also seen substantial appreciat
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by surfmike 8y ago
Agreed that homes and college are getting insanely expensive. But as a counterpoint, a higher % of the population own homes and go to college than in decades past (though certainly accruing higher debt than was needed before).
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by surfmike 8y ago
Yes, I think parent saying "rather than" means that they prefer one over another. A both/and additive approach to diversity is much more just and healthy than an either/or zero-sum one. Indeed the latter just becomes dis
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by surfmike 8y ago
Not any worse than Google. They did enter a bit late and Android and iOS had enough momentum that most app developers couldn't be bothered to make a Windows phone app.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Totally agree we need role models from all groups and should make sure especially that the ones who are minorities get all the attention they deserve. That doesn't mean that our existing ones should be undesirable because of their gend
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by surfmike 8y ago
You can keep gas stations and upzone. When I lived in Oslo our closest gas station was in the basement of a four story apartment building and commercial center. ( https://goo.gl/maps/vN2dH4zPd8U2 scroll till you see the
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by surfmike 8y ago
Right, all my friends who have had kids in the last few years swaddle. It took me a while to realize this is a recent trend.
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by surfmike 8y ago
I've seen it reroute me to save time (based on live traffic) but never seen this behavior. Perhaps in your case it's this feature behaving poorly, or some other bug.
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by surfmike 9y ago
And Canada is very diverse but has relatively high trust.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Willingness to trust strangers. https://ourworldindata.org/trust
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by surfmike 9y ago
C++ gives you a lot of rope to hang yourself but style guides help constrain the language to deal with issues like the one you described: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Static_and...
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by surfmike 9y ago
If the process is the same, faster should always be better.
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by surfmike 9y ago
One way: it discourages people from moving to a downsized home when that's appropriate.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Not strong supporters by any means, and many resistors. Wikipedia has a good page explaining the history. The most you can say is that some Catholics leaders were too compliant and did not protest enough, but countless other Catholics worke
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by surfmike 9y ago
Agreed; I'm just arguing that it's disingenuous to say the church controls the government in this case.
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by surfmike 9y ago
That's more about the monarchy; the monarch is not the spiritual head of the church, and the fact that they are considered the lead if anything shows how the state triumphed over religion.
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by surfmike 9y ago
nit: Ireland is very much not a part of the UK. Germany's church tax is only paid by members of a particular religion.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Poland and Ireland yes, but that's because of popular support. The church despite its past popularity as well as its resources has little influence on politics in Spain, Italy, Germany.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Religion proved to be a strong counter to communism in Eastern Europe. It's no wonder they're scared.
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by surfmike 9y ago
Generally most of us humans are anthropocentric, even though we want to balance that with respect for the environment.
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by surfmike 9y ago
When you say Australia is involved in this, do you mean the Australian govt is involved or just that China is doing this on Australian soil? I don't understand from your comment whether you're referring to the Australian govt or t
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Automated Vehicles Can't Save Cities(nytimes.com)
3 points by surfmike 9y ago|0 comments
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by surfmike 9y ago
California actually changed the incentive structure for PG&E to deal with this issue. One of the reasons California has had flat demand despite growing a lot.

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