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by trgn 4y ago
It's amazing to see. The last ten years, the galvanizing project of every european city has been calming cars. I didn't really realize it until I was there the last few summers on vacation, and the difference is night&day with
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by trgn 4y ago
> which puts a bit of a floor on the level of perceptual and cognitive function available Absolutely. I cannot believe people are actually equivocating on this. A drunk driver is hundreds of times more dangerous than a drunk cyclist, it
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by trgn 4y ago
I cannot believe this is getting downvoted. The reasons cars are inherently dangerous is 99% because they are heavy and fast. Everything we build around that (traffic rules, dedicated lanes, buffer spaces, ...) is purely to deal with this f
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by trgn 4y ago
lol way to miss the point. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device to emphasize a point. I'm so tired of the internet. Anyway, yes, let me revise, bicycles are the best invention, of ALL TIME! Power loom: ushered in capitalist mode of product
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by trgn 4y ago
Bicycles are the best machine from the industrial revolution. Quiet, healthy, efficient, harmonious with our sensibilities. I think it is precisely these aspirational qualities that is enraging the morlocks in their cars (speaking for US on
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by trgn 4y ago
> if it hadn’t devolved into a run this whole story would be a foot note in a quarterly filing. Rather I suspect there was a bit of market manipulation by some wealthy valley insiders that took a relatively routine asset management event
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by trgn 4y ago
It's not that weird. It's basically a checking account. Lot of countries those have fees attached. It's also the historical origin of banks. strong men with vaults to store your coins. It's no longer attractive because o
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by trgn 4y ago
I think we're saying the same thing, I probably misphrased. Grandchildren will use grandparents estate to cling on to homes in hcol. That boomer wealth is just going to stay locked up in real estate. Any sale of meemaws home will fund
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by trgn 4y ago
This is the battered spouse argument in our relationship to our living environment. Well of course the air is unhealthy, but see, you need to understand the whole story! Categorical thinking is not always because of a lack of nuance or of z
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by trgn 4y ago
Yeah. The great wealth transfer, the estate of dying boomers transferring to their grandchildren, is only just starting. It's not going to be a windfall, it's going to completely flood into real estate. It's basically what ha
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by trgn 4y ago
There's also a 7.50 electronic transfer, what is that even?!
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by trgn 4y ago
I agree 100%, but just want to add my2c. Unit tests are in general never wasted, in the sense that they trap regressions before release. I don't think they necessarily are good to validate work though, or at least, they do so poorly. I
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by trgn 4y ago
> tolerance should be their most important virtue. Certainly. Hard to put in practice too.
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by trgn 4y ago
> It sounds like you believe those in power are more astute or intelligent than those they exercise power over. It's not what I said at all. It's inevitable that the levers of power are held by some. We've been lucky in th
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by trgn 4y ago
That's true in the ideal, and I 100% agree. But not in the actual real world, because, very tritely put, nobody is an island. Individual choices always have some blast radius. Some small (what movie I'll watch), some large (what c
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by trgn 4y ago
While I agree with this, it's sadly a game theoretic reasoning, that is to say, fearful, relativistic, utilitarian. Again, not being dismissive at all, but it says something about the state of our thinking and quality of our ideals, wh
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by trgn 4y ago
I get where you're coming from, but it's not an error. It's your civic duty to make that distinction. By definition, half of people are worse (however you define worse) than average. The world is truly held up by the inertia
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by trgn 4y ago
The answer is right there, so obvious. More mass in motion at high speeds, all things being equal, is more danger, damage and destruction, more wear and tear on roads. Simple physics. It is a tragedy of the commons. Any individual rationali
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by trgn 4y ago
Absolutely. It's a huge cliff. Old people eventually can't drive, and in car centric places, immediately lose all independence. we're going through it right now in my family. Keep your ears open and you hear it all the time;
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by trgn 4y ago
elasticsearch also has native support for vector tiles output, perfect for rendering maps in web/mobile apps. In general, any geo-app, it's not just about doing the searches/computations quickly, half the battle is efficientl
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by trgn 4y ago
They don't ignore that part of the population. It's just exhausting to always have to equivocate when it is the obvious. Yes, obviously, cars are a necessity in more remote places. Nobody's taking away your cars. Maybe this n
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by trgn 4y ago
No. Young people always have had no money. It's the nature of being young. Cars are really just trash technology that has made city life worse. Older generation have an emotional attachment to cars, and project a lot of virtuous attrib
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by trgn 4y ago
> The amount of people that are looking at their lap It's uncanny. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. That half cocked head, the periodic glancing up, one hand out of view. It's the posture of like half the drivers out t
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by trgn 4y ago
Yeah, a few hours of optional study hall before or after school would be so good. It gives some buffer for the studious kids. Plus, 50% of class time is wasted anyway. Just teach essentials. Getting on my soap box: most important buildings
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by trgn 4y ago
Yes! Both are not trashed up by cars. That's the relationship. I think that's the main reason why the escape-to-the-woods fantasy is so strong in the US. It's an escape from car dependent drab. You don't have to flee to
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by trgn 4y ago
Yeah. Some things need to be kept out. Funnily enough, it's nearly always car related. Repair shops, gas stations, parking lots, ... Nothing trashes up a city more than cars.
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by trgn 4y ago
Why can it not just be hyperbole, a stylistic choice? This is all just internet discussion, with some speculation and exaggeration for color. Why do we need to equivocate in a discussion on events from three generations? Some guy/gal w
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by trgn 4y ago
Yes, 100% agreed.
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by trgn 4y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. Looking forward to read it! > in a culture that confuses the mechanism of liberation (the car) with liberation itself, It's essentially reification. I often think modernity is fully characterized by
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by trgn 4y ago
If you want to make the connection, the less accusative, more simple interpretation is that because of their activism with Let Grow, they have the energy and commitment to actually push this story. Most people would just eat the humiliation

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