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by trgn 3y ago
Yup, the visually dominating pieces end up _feeling_ wrong. It'd really bother me tbh.
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by trgn 3y ago
Exactly, this will reduce readability of a board. It's like highlighting the black key notes on sheet music. You think you're making it easier, but end up just adding too much redundant info and it clutters the page. Or like addin
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by trgn 3y ago
> Like what activities and locations do people partake in. It's less about delineated activities (which are a number, countable, very modernist), and more the day2day enjoyment of nature, as it bleeds through city life, you don&#x27
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by trgn 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing. I'm just saying that they are a qualitative different experience, to the senses, in the way they are integrated in daily life.
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by trgn 3y ago
> there are enough green spaces that's the point. America has green spaces, UK has country side, terroir if you will. A green space is a delineated, commoditized destination. Drive there, park there, do your thing, go back. A countr
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by trgn 3y ago
fair enough, EVs pollute less than ICEs, still an improvement imho
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by trgn 3y ago
It is indeed both, they're not mutually exclusive. electric cars also increase quality of life for everybody having to suffer the cars in their neighborhoods. They're much more quiet and don't pollute the local environment. C
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by trgn 3y ago
All true, also sad. That aside, how's the EPA responsible, not sure if I understand the connection?
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by trgn 3y ago
All true. _everybody_ drives huge SUVs. A few rugged men(TM) driving a large truck isn't the problem, they're couleur locale. It'd be adorable, like people wearing cowboy hats in Texas. The web of interwoven incentive structu
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by trgn 3y ago
> not keep their occupants safe in a crash. perfect expression of the tragedy of the commons. Until there's top down government intervention, people choose to be either part of the problem or part of the solution.
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by trgn 3y ago
One of the reason I'm holding on to an old car, apart from out of spite, is the big windows and fantastic visibility. It's like stepping into a sunroom compared to new cars.
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by trgn 3y ago
Level of responsibility between driver and cyclist is categorically different. A driver will kill when inattentive or impatient. This disconnect between magnitude of input (slouched like a bag of potatoes, dozing) and magnitude of output (c
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by trgn 3y ago
This was the seed that destroyed the American city. Roads were humongous 100 years before car was invented. It was fine, a buffer for the smoke and filth of the industrial city, but still multipurpose, accessible. Once cars started driving
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by trgn 3y ago
Hobbes called it. Fully coming to terms with the downstream implications of this assessment, which Hobbes also did, is less palatable.
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by trgn 3y ago
> my experience sets me apart from anyone under 35 in tech great to hear. It's nice to hear experienced practitioners speak with confidence about their future prospects. The doom&gloom you read a lot about agism etc.. are scary.
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by trgn 3y ago
> has to be weighed up against the indirect downsides Renumeration is directly measurable (and I think directly attribute to sustained investment in the industry, notably VCs), while the indirect downsides are just harder to pinpoint how
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by trgn 3y ago
> I've never worked for a VC firm I don't think it actually matters (?) All practitioners, in VC funded company or not, benefit from frothy demand for programmers, even if a lot of that demand is driven by "dumb" mone
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by trgn 3y ago
I understand, directionally I'd agree, but practically speaking, would you rather be a computer programmer in an era when VCs are dumping money in software, or in one when this is not case?
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by trgn 3y ago
Thanks for clarification, will look into it
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by trgn 3y ago
Maybe we're just splitting hairs on what it means to be "a webpage", but I feel like people are _not_ writing webpages in WebAssembly. Instead, you get video games, interactive animations, photo editing apps, ... Basically, d
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by trgn 3y ago
Hating on Mercator is just pavlovian concern trolling at this point (it's the first thing people learn in their GIS classes, whatever). People are so obsessed with conservation of area, it's cringey, Freud would have something to
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by trgn 3y ago
I reread Eric this weekend, somewhat on a whim. Real pleasure. I also had totally forgotten he came up with the premise of the Good Place. He had such so many ideas.
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by trgn 3y ago
I think stepgen gould (?) joked that taking that perspective, you could easily argue that the purpose of the human organism was for shit to make more shit.
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by trgn 3y ago
the fact that people are caught in the safety arms race (which really just means buying a larger, heavier car). a rational decision individually, but trashes up the city and makes it less safe for everybody else, especially pedestrians and
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by trgn 3y ago
> I'm not sure which side I'm on in your comment I was referring more to the large vehicle arms race. > Right now I'm focusing on the first 2 R's of the 3 R's > I'm reducing my footprint by reusing an
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by trgn 3y ago
The tragedy of the commons perfectly encapsulated. Until this government has the courage for top down intervention, either people choose to be part of the problem or choose to be part of the solution.
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by trgn 3y ago
> Also interesting is that the total number of registered vehicles in the US declined by over 25 million between 2012 and 2019. There is hope! Really? Awesome! The future is bright indeed. EVs are objectively better than ICE-cars, they d
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by trgn 3y ago
In the conventional american city everything is 20 minutes away. Nothing is truly inconvenient, but nowhere has that glorious vibe of effortless living either. In the burbs, every errand is alright, but it's also low key demeaning.
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by trgn 3y ago
Belgian houses are exceptionally ugly. Very badly proportioned. Belgium has the most beautiful cities in the world, but what that really means is that all the attractive areas predate the 30s. Once outside, it's a shockingly ugly count
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by trgn 3y ago
> After reading through all the depressing comments from people who think restaurants and hotels are superior to a family atmosphere at home, They don't say it's superior. Multiple things can be true at once. People often like

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