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by trgn 3y ago
Two things can be true at the same time. There is a lot of cheating in america, but nowhere near as much as in low-trust countries. fwiw - I think Americans value integrity a lot more than most other places, and academic cheating is not nea
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by trgn 3y ago
> Loud isn't the goal, the tone is. I wish this was actually the case in practice. There s definitely something special and musical about some ice engines, a true sensual experience. But then in practice, people who actually value t
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by trgn 3y ago
> - The cars are very safe, very conservative drivers So great to hear. Seeing videos of self-driving Tesla made me fear for the worst.
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by trgn 3y ago
Vector will eventually just be another data-type in all db-systems. Already so many production systems have their data replicated across multiple dbs, just to accommodate different use-cases. I'm not keen in adding yet another one.
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by trgn 3y ago
Not sure if this is what you're saying, but the truth that nobody wants to hear is that cars are inherently dangerous because of their speed. The best way to save lives if have roads that encourage calm careful driving (bollards, singl
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by trgn 3y ago
Is a person present with automated tolling? And wrt court challenge, I mean, the photographic evidence is right there, car running red light, can't be more clear. Why would it be dismissed? And Why does every crime need witness? Plenty
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by trgn 3y ago
> Cameras are treated as revenue streams But that's just like your opinion man. > not safety improvement devices. But they are. Speed and red light cameras reduce injury and death. I want myself and my family to live in a city wh
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by trgn 3y ago
My comment was not about christians=good, pagans=bad. It's that St Augustine, somewhat counter-intuitively puts the blame of the collapse of the roman empire, not on the barbarian hordes, but on the upstanding romans being too timid to
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by trgn 3y ago
Yes, dark windows prevent eye contact and communication. People aren't walking with baclavas on, it's the same for blacked out windows.
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by trgn 3y ago
I've noticed the same shift. Drivers are worse now than 10-15 years ago. Drivers are more aggressive (tailgating, rolling stops, speeding, ...), more sociopathic (tinted windows, louder pipes, larger vehicles, fake license plates,...),
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by trgn 3y ago
I don't get this line of reasoning. A police officer doesn't need to be present for code enforcement (ie. property inspections etc..). A police officer doesn't need to be present for parking enforcement. A police officer does
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by trgn 3y ago
Not to mention Freuds enormous impact on art, literature. Fashions come and go indeed. His thinking will endure, there'll be revivals.
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by trgn 4y ago
This is why we need taboo-formation around environmentally damaging behaviors and nurture virtuous aspirations towards environmentally responsible spending. That is, if it means riding your bike to work, or it is a shift in ostentatious spe
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by trgn 4y ago
For sure, NOLA too, beautiful! Savannah, Asheville, old streetcar suburbs in general, small college towns ... Those are the kind of urban environment that are an easy sell. Calm traffic, safe mobility options, diverse mixed housing options,
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by trgn 4y ago
The aspirational American city is Charleston, its gentle density, lush, verdant. Not he apartment blocks of NYC. That's the picture that needs painting. One of town life. Not necessarily apartment life.
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by trgn 4y ago
> Don't own it? You shouldn't get a say. That's such an unattractive sentiment, blergh! The larger your building, the higher your responsibility to your community. A building doesn't only sit on your lot, you're
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by trgn 4y ago
300m could build around 500-700 apartments, housing 1500-2000 people-ish. Ballpark numbers. Municipalities need to be active participants in increasing supply. Not dumping free money and increasing demand. Also, no need to picture soul crus
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by trgn 4y ago
> The realization came to me with age same > self-service software enabled now grates and irritates me to no end. haha yeah, devil's bargain
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by trgn 4y ago
lol It's really uncanny, every time, there it is, man must submit to the technology rather than have technology submit to us. Because a self-driving car is advanced technology, therefore men must move with self-driving cars. Even if th
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by trgn 4y ago
I guess it depends on the location. More lanes don't equal better traffic. In my city, every road is pretty much a 2-3 lane highway for cars, and it seems like a huge waste of space. Invites speeding, crashes. There's been road di
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by trgn 4y ago
> preserve these weird cultures for the sake of it, not because anyone benefits from it If the world ever turns into grey goo, it won't be because of an out of control AI, it will be because actual people have willed it into the wor
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by trgn 4y ago
No! This line of thinking must be severely confronted. There's a third option. It is _your_ fault, meaning your commonwealth, your polis, your politicians, your city council, ... The fact that so many cyclists and pedestrians get casua
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by trgn 4y ago
I mean for sure. But let's be real here, the difference really is night&day. There's a spectrum etc etc, but there's genuinely a categorical break somewhere. And america is on the other side.
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by trgn 4y ago
I disagree with you, but I wouldn't downvote your thoughts for sure. It really is a catch22. Biking is often not safe on existing roads. But what is the alternative? Not bike at all and wait until we have bikelane utopia? It's jus
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by trgn 4y ago
Agreed with the overall sentiment, but I hope the tech-rush does not us forget the low-tech. Bollards, trees, ... A safe bike-lane really is only a few bollards away, a safe bike-lane can be made _today_.
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by trgn 4y ago
> My pet social theory is that an unbelievable amount of our societal woes stem from this false dichotomy in the American mind Agreed, it's a failure of imagination. Americans, for whatever reason, cannot make that leap in their min
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by trgn 4y ago
the only time I'd appreciate windmills from an aesthetic point of view is when they are very very far away. Nearby, they are horrible to all senses.
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by trgn 4y ago
The aspirational american city is not the extremes like NYC or SF. It's the verdancy of places like Charleston, New Orleans, Ashville, ... That kind of gentle density and mixed use are wonderful city environments that much more than 25
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by trgn 4y ago
Joel Kotkin has made his career on being an urbanist who champions the suburban development pattern. He's a contrarian in that sense (that's cool!). He's also the archetype of the home owning californian boomer (that's l
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by trgn 4y ago
That's just saying the same thing as the article. But instead of reconsidering the premise, this is just doubling down on it. > We should ALWAYS strive to have more and better data. If you value data in and of itself, in other words

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