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by trgn 3y ago
> traffic congestion isn't caused by the number of lanes, but the number of intersections. I wish people understood this more. Parallel travel lanes really just create reptile-brained jostling for position, push-pull accordion effec
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by trgn 3y ago
I understood it much smaller fwiw. As long as you can add useful features really quickly, it's fine if your website crashes every once in a while.
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by trgn 3y ago
maybe they meant europeans, because many of them did lose everything.
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by trgn 3y ago
haha yes, love it
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by trgn 3y ago
I'm the opposite. I live on a crest of a bowl, and it's if I can hear everything, people talking in their yards many houses away.
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by trgn 3y ago
> People often consider their desires to be prime movers, when there they are perfectly aligned with the systems of incentives they inhabit This is the true lesson of malthus' principle of population, not the narrow take that humans
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by trgn 3y ago
I do vaguely remember the Virtual dom was being advertised as faster. E.g. minimizing of updates by evaluating the dom-tree and e.g. moving entire branches. I dont think it was devs misreading intent here, maybe just in hindsight that dom-m
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by trgn 3y ago
Thanks, makes sense. Good evolution too
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by trgn 3y ago
> Policy makers well understand the economy can tolerate a lot of disruption If I understand you correctly, this is my reading of the pandemic as well. We suddenly all realized there is a _ton_ of slack in the system. On the individual l
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by trgn 3y ago
lol Disagree and commit is like your mom saying she'll forgive but won't forget. sounds good on the surface, but really slightly manipulative and rancorous.
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by trgn 3y ago
Really condescending way of talking to a person.
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by trgn 3y ago
> Rural Kentucky is in horrible shape and a lot of people here were placing hope in this, "Rural KY" is not all that big, a couple million people, if that, and solely exists to the rest of the US for low-key victim-blaming elec
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by trgn 3y ago
Seems to be almost daily news stories about huge capital investment in manufacturing in the US, a couple billion here, a couple billion there. Was I just blind to these 5-10 years ago?
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by trgn 3y ago
tangential to your point, and this seems trite, but the hippies were right after all. People need to imagine again. The ability to see a thing, in your minds eye, from all angles, without it having to be fully formed, without it having to b
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by trgn 3y ago
Can't read anonymously anymore, which makes it more like facebook/instagram rather than a grassroots news site (which it used to be for a lot of people). It's a big loss I think.
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by trgn 3y ago
But how do they keep track of all that even so? e.g. school district lines get redrawn all the time. And each school of sufficient size has AP or IB tracks anyway, which basically kills any comparison. And within those, there may even be a
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by trgn 3y ago
It's so weird to me that all this data exists, and that's it available and munged enough to be actionable. Do colleges really keep track of this for the tens of thousands of high schools, not only that, but all the income info, th
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by trgn 3y ago
> stopped relying on common sense This I learned from GEB too I think, the aha moment around 200 years ago when people understood formal axiom system can be arbitrary, and even counterintuitive. Rather than creating a crisis of confidenc
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by trgn 3y ago
> I could go on and talk about what I understand about divine inspiration and knowledge, but I suppose those topics are a bit too speculative for the crowd here... I'm listening :) !
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by trgn 3y ago
100% The Godel proof chapter feels like the apotheosis of the book. The rest almost feels tacked on, e.g. the whole dna-computing ... , even the "strange loops" part, which I would not think is the main crux of the book.
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by trgn 3y ago
I really don't think that this is the case. Godel proved that some truths cannot be proven. That seems pretty fundamental, and I think that's what made him so impactful, e.g. much more than e.g. the halting problem, which is about
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by trgn 3y ago
I thought it was going to be first something like "isn't recursion cool" (like, look at these fractals in sea shells!!!!), until GEB actually tried to explain, in detail, how Godel's proof works. tbh, that's kind of
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by trgn 3y ago
ha, I guess the dog must be the tipping point :)
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by trgn 3y ago
Where is it cheaper? In the USA, 1k/child is on the low end I think.
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by trgn 3y ago
It's one of those cars people refer to by name. People drive their "suburban", the neighbors have a "suburban", in the news the "suburban" will crash through the daycare, not nondescript oversized suv,...
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by trgn 3y ago
Genuinely, it hink they're an imagined practicality. We have a conventional family, conventional arrangements, and granted, I'd loath to buy an suv, out of spite I guess, but we've never been in a situation where our old smal
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by trgn 3y ago
It is so awesome to see how so many European cities are calming traffic. For americans who haven't visited in 10-15 years, the difference is mindblowing, it's something you _feel_. (E.g. brussels, paris, London, many many smaller
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by trgn 3y ago
> The rationales for the introduction of driverless cars include eliminating human error and allowing people with disabilities to get about without having to rely on other human beings. A more convincing rationale is that the corporation
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by trgn 3y ago
lolol I project my certainty very liberally and without constraint. > having one twin convinced makes the second one much more likely to go along. that has been the opposite of my experience
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by trgn 3y ago
Having twins is four times as hard as a singleton. it's twice the amount of work that needs to be done. But you also have twice the issues per head, because responding to one, means ignoring the other, prolonging either the problem in

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