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by trgn 2y ago
but all those buildings are up to code now too right? And the fact that people keep them occupied for so long and renovate speaks to their intrinsic quality I'd think. but tbh - quality is somewhat a red herring. Today, quality is all
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by trgn 2y ago
Sorry, yes, 19th to 20th century. Neighborhoods with the Full House house basically.
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by trgn 2y ago
turn of the century suburbs truly are goldilocks neighborhoods.
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by trgn 2y ago
thx, good way of summarizing it, and I think I understand this state of affairs the same way you do. > To make a city difficult to commute into by car breaks ... I think 90% of this is a mental fear. What we are really talking about in m
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by trgn 2y ago
This is my biggest gripe in the US. it's not the cars per se. it's that sub/ex-urbanites want to change the city to conform to their values. keep your car, i don't care, drive everywhere, but don't trash up the city
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by trgn 2y ago
A city not worth visiting is a city not worth living in.
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by trgn 2y ago
According to Vitruvius, Roman engineers had to learn music so they could tune the ropes of ballistic devices to the correct tension by listening to their pitch when striking them. Music was part of the quadrivium as well, on par with astron
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by trgn 2y ago
So weird this is getting down voted. Immutable objects would just be structs with sugar. It's mutability that gives you the power to keep a reference to an object, but have it keep up with the operational lifecucle of your app/pro
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by trgn 2y ago
> the fact that it’s repeated will make it ugly to many. That's fair actually, a lot of people find novelty attractive.
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by trgn 2y ago
> It’s cheaper to build lots of identical things. Yeah, just have them build lots of nice-looking identical things.
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by trgn 2y ago
> Anyone bitching about home aesthetics How does it have to be one or the other though?
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by trgn 2y ago
> they need that early morning sunlight to help keep a healthy schedule this is the part that I don't get. So a teenager needs a later schoolday because they're night owls. 100% agreed with that. But why would they need the ea
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by trgn 2y ago
Why is starting at crack of dawn bad? For night owls, so much daylight is wasted in the early morning hours. For children, they'll be shoved off into a classroom building at dawn any way, might as well enjoy more daylight after the sch
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by trgn 2y ago
> a majority of adults all around the world are alcoholics there's no way that can be true right? And isn't alcohol already taxed a lot for the same reason?
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by trgn 2y ago
Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.
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by trgn 2y ago
ICEs don't develop same torque at every rpm, it takes a while to get to maximum. It's noticeable in how a car speeds up.
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by trgn 2y ago
Fair enough, I follow. but we've had about 20 years now, and it doesn't seem like any improvements have materialized, if anything, there's only negatives with kids being on their phones during school time. it's ok to axe
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by trgn 2y ago
with [1], you already said it. iPads serve that function. Have these really improved classroom education, or is it just a more convoluted, fidgety way to get through the materials? > There is no reason that a students phone couldn't
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by trgn 2y ago
what useful thing does a smartphone do during school hours?
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by trgn 2y ago
A tragedy of the commons can only be solved top down.
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by trgn 2y ago
Weird, people eat out more than ever too.
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by trgn 2y ago
galley kitchens are awesome, super practical, keep mess out of sight.
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by trgn 2y ago
yeah, I've seen them, much better way to build. it doesn't solve the traffic issue, people still drive everywhere, but within it, it's a little village. the one near me is immensely popular, i love to go visit too, just for d
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by trgn 2y ago
OP is right, these neighborhoods exists. it's so hard to put your finger on, but you recognize it when you see it. it's not necessarily downtown vs suburb, some suburbs are just kind of foul too. Just this weekend, me and my kids
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by trgn 2y ago
but they don't though. kids are so much more independently mobile than here, is that really not the case? I mean, you can literally just see it, you'll be on the bus to your tourist thing or whatever, and some 10 year old is ridin
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by trgn 2y ago
Agreed. in suburbs, cul-de-sac neighborhoods and such, you'll still see kids, but only within that fishbowl. It's the core areas where kids are gone. Traffic is also much nastier there. lots of intersections, vagrants skulking aro
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by trgn 2y ago
The lego one is actually pretty nice, and cheaper than most ready-made models. The one part that isn't quite right, and I'm not even sure I've ever seen a model that does this right, is the moon's orbital tilt, so the ea
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by trgn 2y ago
For sure, but unfair comparison. Leave an asphalt road unattended for 10 years and it's cracked and overgrown, barely better than a dirtroad. A cobblestone at least will be salvageable, just will need a good weed wacking. Baseline qual
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by trgn 2y ago
Absolutely. It's the would you rather live in the ugly or beautiful house on the block dilemma. By maintaining the beautiful house, you assume a public responsibility - with all the tall poppy syndrome effects that may entail.
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by trgn 2y ago
> 1. First, beauty is subjective There is such a thing as timeless beauty. > 2. Labor costs Doesn't explain why all sense of proportion is lost too. Plus, machines can churn out ornamental and intricate materials just as well. &

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