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by timerol 7y ago
TFA definitely agrees with this opinion, but also asserts that learning about the meta teaches you what fundamentals are most useful to know. > Note what I’m not saying, however. I’m not saying that I should actively pursue the meta — th
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by timerol 7y ago
One of the stated benefits of UBI is that it has the potential to replace other forms of welfare more efficiently. Instead of people getting separate benefits for food, housing, unemployment, etc, they get the one benefit: UBI. This removes
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by timerol 7y ago
PG never justifies this, and just claims that "with essay writing, publication bias is the way to go." There are a huge number of essayists that I have the option to read. I would prefer to read each of their best thoughts, rather
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by timerol 7y ago
The problem with your statement is that some people view handling a situation better as getting more cars through a bottleneck in a certain amount of time, and other people view better as making sure that all humans in the area stay safe.
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by timerol 7y ago
Building more housing would result in that revolving door just being an entrance. CA would still get the influx of "wealthy young software developers", but would also be able to keep all of the "middle/lower class native
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by timerol 7y ago
You might be interested to learn about the Gehl Door Average, a metric that Jan Gehl came up with (based on his book Cities for People). It measures the number of doors per 100 meters of street frontage, and is a contributing factor to walk
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by timerol 7y ago
> Note that when I say 95%-ile, I mean 95%-ile among people who participate, not all people (for many activities, just doing it at all makes you 99%-ile or above across all people). This is the start of the second paragraph of the articl
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by timerol 7y ago
> This does not mean I don’t want to be around people, I very much do. I love collaboration, whiteboard sessions, small brainstorms, midday team coffees, and happy hour drinks. These things build community, make the work better, and are
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by timerol 7y ago
It is definitely not that, since the article shows that a^b = -b^a. I suppose that it's the choice that ij = k as opposed to -k? I'm not sure, but the article's implication that nobody else cares why things work to be distrac
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by timerol 7y ago
Moore's law is a specific example of a manufacturing learning curve, which can be described here: http://www.strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/learning_curve... . This is generally what people mean when they
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by timerol 7y ago
Counterpoint: The NVIDIA Titan RTX has 4608 CUDA cores. We won't see 1024-core CPUs because GPUs cover that use case already.
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by timerol 7y ago
I always find it interesting to see the different paths people take toward learning the same thing. When I first did multivariable calculus, I learned that the gradient points uphill, and the negative of the gradient points downhill. I&#x27
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by timerol 7y ago
Allowing people to live near where they work takes stress off of the infrastructure, not the other way around Edit: I made an incorrect comment on permitting for a minute because I was looking at the area, not just SF county.
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by timerol 7y ago
Ideally there would be expensive parking lots right at the edge of the area, and cheaper parking lots further out. So you could park and walk right at the boundary, or park near the Broad Street Line and take that in. Or you could park at a
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by timerol 7y ago
Are you comfortable parking your car inside of your garage? Even with a full tank of gas? Safety issues are real, but they have been solved before and are being solved now
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by timerol 7y ago
This article is about public transit construction costs, so your comment is fairly off topic. In the realm of public transit, American costs are absurdly expensive
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by timerol 7y ago
This argument really bothers me. "Having your own property is part of that identity" makes sense, but that is pretty much the exact opposite of "agreeing to collective laws that limit what you are allowed to do with your prop
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by timerol 7y ago
> I still think bulldozing 3% of a city’s built environment in 5 years time seems extremely unlikely, but YMMV. Having the average age of replacement of a building be at 150 years old would result in approximately 3% of the city being re
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by timerol 7y ago
As mentioned in the top comment on this article, this is why the software community avoids fractures by programming entirely in FORTRAN. /s Your comment is an argument against any new programming language.
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by timerol 7y ago
> “If we increase the voltage on the car side then we can reduce the current we need to push through the cable….so we are looking at higher voltage drivetrains,” says Elshout. Presumably connect the batteries in series rather than parall
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by timerol 7y ago
This is commonly believed but untrue. A certain volume of vehicles will drastically slow a road, regardless of how well people drive. Unless by "drove in a way that focused on keeping traffic flowing" you mean "wait in the on
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by timerol 7y ago
Homelessness is a very complicated issue, but it would absolutely be better for all people currently without homes if rent was that cheap. Many people who currently are living on the street or in shelters would be able to find stable housin
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by timerol 7y ago
Servo is supposed to be a playground of sorts for architectural innovations in the browser space. Successful experiments from Servo will then get ported to FF. Project Quantum ported over the Stylo CSS improvements from Servo: https:/
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by timerol 7y ago
Can I get a source for this? It seems incorrect, given that water is more dense than ice, so the gravitational pull of melted water on nearby water should be stronger than the gravitational pull of ice on nearby water (due to the decrease i
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by timerol 7y ago
Responsive tolling on roads makes a lot of sense. Roads carry more people at 50 mph than they do at 30mph. So if you use the price of the road to keep the road moving, you can make a more effective road, rather than letting it be overwhelme
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by timerol 7y ago
The model for banning cars from cities is either establishing a car-free core of less than a square mile, or establishing "superblocks" where car travel is only allowed on the perimeter of the block. Exceptions are made for delive
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by timerol 7y ago
This is a very broad point. It's compatible with everything from "anything goes as long as you connect via HTTPS" to "Big Brother is watching if you don't turn off all electronics nearby and talk quietly". The
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by timerol 7y ago
I often hear about how Vienna is a public housing paradise. (ie, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-par... , https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl..
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by timerol 7y ago
Agreed. It really bothers me that the article has this to say about the POTUS: > He’s guilty, but the issue is how guilty, in comparison to his accusers.
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by timerol 7y ago
I agree with most of your points. However, these articles are mostly focused on removing cars from the ultra high-density areas where they are ineffective. Going from NYC to the Adirondacks for a backpacking trip? Can't beat a car. Goi

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