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by tfnw 9y ago
Even with an overall hierarchical design, some places still tend to have fairly major roads with houses on both sides, these are the places I'm concerned about, directing more traffic to these major roads from historically less traffic
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by tfnw 9y ago
Maybe it's some limitation of the human brain that causes us to reduce everything to the same recurring roots :) It may be better to open things up elsewhere, as long as the reason that it is elsewhere is not because elsewhere had a we
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by tfnw 9y ago
Let's say that a given road has a certain service life, maybe measured in tonne-miles (e.g. a car which weighs 1.5 tonnes and travels a mile on the road would reduce the roads service life by 1.5 tonne-miles) (maybe not a good way to m
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by tfnw 9y ago
But how is this different to how the road system has developed from the start? People choose the popular routes by driving on them, then these are the roads that are repaired/upgraded. I don't know if it's cheaper per vehicle
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by tfnw 9y ago
I would be interested to see how the use of lots of small street routes around a main route affects the flow of the main route, and what the efficiency gain generally is. Maybe it is also in your best interests if the street is modified to
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by tfnw 9y ago
@macNchz Why is it okay to push even more of these costs on people around the main route, don't you think that people in all areas should take on their share of these costs. Also struggling to see how a guardrail could be burdensome.
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by tfnw 9y ago
I didn't mean barriers that prevent through traffic, I meant barriers that protect pedestrians.
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by tfnw 9y ago
So, I guess you think that this new driver tracking would be cheaper than traditional obstructions (i.e. speed humps, chicanes, etc...)? I guess it could be, but what are the non obvious secondary and tertiary order costs of tracking all ca
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by tfnw 9y ago
I don't think it is necessarily a worse overall outcome, even if the small streets become somewhat less safe. It could be that installing barriers at some of the more dangerous points is the most optimal solution?
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by tfnw 9y ago
But why should it be for residential traffic, if the through traffic is driving within the speed limit? Again, just because the history of a street made it appropriate for relaxed pedestrian use, should that now be in perpetuity? Maybe a be
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by tfnw 9y ago
First time I've heard of "rat running", but am having a hard time seeing the justification for the negative connotation. I can only see it as a more efficient use of the road system. Just because at some time in the past ther
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by tfnw 9y ago
"Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then. With all the programs running that are demanded of our
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by tfnw 10y ago
Yeah, it's kind of amazing that people can have any sort of an objective view of the world, with the amount of noise being input to their senses. I guess even if you have almost complete garbage in, it is still possible to get mostly n
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by tfnw 10y ago
Given that the world is shown as perceived by the protagonist, what irked me was the straw man depiction of how a "hacktivist" supposedly perceives the world. Maybe there exist hacktivists who perceive the world this way, but it s
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by tfnw 10y ago
Yeah, I think that's how the GP meant it, ideally that would be the way it is thought of, but I could see it being used as a justification to look down on people like that farm worker.
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by tfnw 10y ago
It may be better if a person used that creative energy in a side project, if the product they work on has a large, varied user base. I would not want to stop people being elitist, only for those who are to understand that their behaviour ha
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by tfnw 10y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but what if striving for "artistry" turns out to just cause a nuisance for the user? I think the problem here is that everyone experiences "art" differently, and what may be an impactful exper
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by tfnw 10y ago
I think this is the way it is commonly thought of in society, I don't think this is a particularly good way to look at it though. I think the implied assumption in this framework, is that a laborer is less than a craftsman, who is in t
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by tfnw 10y ago
I don't like the endless repetition by people trying to exploit flaws in the human brain for their own purposes, but if you are able to mentally filter the inanity, you can experience the rare patches of awe inspiring creativity, well,
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by tfnw 10y ago
I find 4chan valuable because it seems to give an insight to raw humanity without the self censoring common in normal human interaction. I would rather people tell me what they really think, and I hope that as humanity evolves, normal inter
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by tfnw 10y ago
It is encouraging for me to see my opinion on this reflected in your comment, I find it very worrying that it is so common for people to seemingly blindly accept the popular narrative on this issue. (Well, I guess I find it worrying if peop
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by tfnw 10y ago
I don't actually see income disparity as the largest problem, within limits it doesn't seem too harmful. What I see as a more important goal is too enable people to choose do things based on what they find interesting/challen
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by tfnw 10y ago
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/ Take your pick, or interpolate between them.
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by tfnw 10y ago
manual upvote (site won't let me upvote normally, this is probably frowned upon, but then you should let people upvote normally)
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by tfnw 10y ago
(In this article): The same people who are condemning taking your bags, citing it as an impediment to evacuation, are suggesting an additional movement restriction, passenger bag checks at the exit. Personally, I think treating this issue i
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by tfnw 11y ago
So, maybe she had a case :)