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by trgn 4y ago
Looks fantastic. Dumb question, but this is an intro it seems. It's not going to have gamers shoot machine guns FPS-style through these street right? Right?
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by trgn 4y ago
This is sadly getting downvoted out of fear and callousness. Drivers cannot, will not, refuse to the very core of their being, accept that they are in control of a multi-ton metal battering ram, which is orders of magnitude more deadly and
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by trgn 4y ago
> Want to save lives? High speed motorcycling should simply be illegal. Just make that; high speed _cars_ should simply be illegal. It is drivers killing motorcyclists, not motorcyclists killing drivers. Because cars are both heavy and f
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by trgn 4y ago
Me too. In our extended social circle, we're seeing home schooling become more and more popular. Online schools, self-guided pacing and curricula, unschooling etc... A whole range, but whatever it is, not classroom based education. Hom
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by trgn 4y ago
> We also have seen the stratospheric rise of narcisism. > I've wondered if this is a new phenomenon Christopher Lasch in the 70s has a very precise answer to your question. Narcissism is the inevitable defense mechanism to navig
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by trgn 4y ago
States have an unspoken (but true) interest in lotteries because they are an important pacifying force. As long as a multitude believe there is a magical way out, they will not rise up and riot. State run lotteries really took off after the
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by trgn 4y ago
"if we don't someone less ethical will." But they still will, why wouldn't they if supposed ethical researchers do as well. I've heard this sort of argument before, and I understand the reasoning behind it.
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by trgn 4y ago
I would love to see more headlines like this. Tech isn't value neutral. Oil and ICE cars inherently, by their very nature, create the conditions for a more aggressive and dehumanizing society.
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by trgn 4y ago
sure, happy to take out the `now` and change to "that pretty much every content shat out is ads."
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by trgn 4y ago
Not necessary. The piece is an excuse for some cutesy first world problem complaining, and dropping some expensive name brands to set the tone. It's not necessarily to sell a specific product, but more to establish the wsj as a magazin
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by trgn 4y ago
That's such a very narrow perspective, that Bezos was just modeling to be a great leader. Bezos showed himself to be a really poor leader in fact, modeling exactly the wrong behavior. Shatner was on that trip as a prop. Most famous spa
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by trgn 4y ago
The article just takes "cui bono" and runs with it. Nordstream blown up by CIA, wink wink. Also, obviously!, total collapse of industry within 2-3 years and return to serfdom.
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by trgn 4y ago
Great share thank you. Passion and frustration, living in the shadow of giants vs standing on their shoulders.
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by trgn 4y ago
The book itself is so much richer than the catchphrases. It's just as important today as 60 years ago.
765.
by trgn 4y ago
Yes, they definitely need to be on the outside. Absolutely, they really make an amazing difference wrt keeping the apartment cool.
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by trgn 4y ago
> I don't particularly think it is, and perhaps it's healthier to have the employer/employee relationship or the internet creator/consumer remain at some distance I definitely agree with that. Sorry if I side-tracked
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by trgn 4y ago
Yes, I'd agree, this is a problem of modern society in particular. I think the challenge is to keep what's valuable and discard what is not. We are terrible at the latter.
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by trgn 4y ago
By labeling it, the human condition is further being commoditized. With taking a therapeutic approach, part of our wellbeing is now yet a little more objectified, can be assigned a market place value, and becomes interchangeable (two months
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by trgn 4y ago
My parents recently moved to a similar building with huge glass windows (different part of the world). They ended up installing black mesh roller shades, and pretty much need to keep them down half the year, to keep out the heat. For all in
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by trgn 4y ago
They are more quiet and don't pollute the local environment. They are a small but meaningful improvement to the quality of city life.
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by trgn 4y ago
I hope we never have flying cars. Regulars cars are already crap technology that degraded our cities and countryside, spewing noise and exhaust everywhere. Flying cars is just doubling down on that. Crap technology to paper over the limitat
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by trgn 4y ago
> a tortured term 20 years later To me, it has helped to see postmodernism more as a literary term, rather than an epoch. Postmodernists looked at the modernist hellscape and understood it completely: its mechanisms, its origins, its tec
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by trgn 4y ago
Wrt baudrillard. It always strikes me how well the modern condition was understood by the 70s. It's equally baffling how little has changed. Perhaps more specifically, the internet is not nearly as much of a transformational technology
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by trgn 4y ago
> no, traffic lights are efficiency. That's exactly what I said. Traffic lights for governing car traffic are the result of a modernist obsession with efficiency; in this case a pre-occupation with car travel speeds, throughput, ...
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by trgn 4y ago
Yes, I'd agree. Let's start with reducing those to two lanes then as well :)
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by trgn 4y ago
I have no idea with pedal driving is, but if you mean that traffic lights invite that pathetic type-A kind of driving, accelerating to the next lights only to immediately have to break because the next light is turning red, yes, that's
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by trgn 4y ago
Yes. We should start everywhere with turning them off and introducing four way stops. Then re-assess which intersections need that light, or need a roundabout. Traffic lights invite aggressive driving because drivers want to make it through
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by trgn 4y ago
Roads are generally very wide in this country. Plenty of space to accommodate both cyclists and cars safely. Cars for those who need it, biking without the threat of getting killed for those who can. It's and/and.
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by trgn 4y ago
Target fixation is apparently how many motorcyclists crash. They see the tree and then ride directly into it. The first thing they teach a rider is looking where you need to go. It doesn't come naturally at first, because it often mean
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by trgn 4y ago
Absolutely, in practice, math degree is such a good indicator whether a hire will grok code.

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