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by trgn 5y ago
> The highway engineer puts a proper bikelane, makes the highway wider, and tells the politician that its going to cost 100 million dollars to do a couple of kms. Yikes! That's criminal. You can get an excellent bikelane with a few
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by trgn 5y ago
Let me take a try why you feel that way. (I might be wrong). Stoicism is very easily repurposed, because it is divorced from a religious praxis, and therefore easily assimilated. It is pithy and vague enough too, its maxims can fit on a bum
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by trgn 5y ago
I think the parents are _exactly_ getting the point. Separating look&feel from functionality isn't that easy. In any kind of UX, they are bound to various degrees, depending on the use-case.
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by trgn 5y ago
That's all true, and yet, and yet. > and seeing your influence grow as you are trusted with more things. That's the ideal scenario, that you earn the esteem and trust of your peers because the work you do speaks for itself. The
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by trgn 5y ago
Public roads are not a racetrack, and it's regrettable many people treat it as such. That society for some reason tolerates "spirited" driving, people using the road as their personal rollercoaster, is one of the worst lapses
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by trgn 5y ago
Yep. Apothecaries were the main source of routine medical care for the masses. To the extent that "an apothecaries wages" was an idiom to refer to their high incomes, somewhat pejoratively. This is still the case in many communiti
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by trgn 5y ago
Tragic to read. The biggest thing imho is that drivers are making left-turns at speed. They should come to a full stop. Drivers are extremely extremely inconsiderate and selfish. When turning left, drivers are generally looking into the opp
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by trgn 5y ago
This is _it_. There are so many good examples of dense but verdant urbanism in the US. But they all predate cars. Funny thing is, people still will pay top dollar to either live in these neighborhoods, or visit them on vacation (Savanah, Ch
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by trgn 5y ago
100% Music is embodied, more so than speech. The real relationship between communication and some axiomatic irreducible form of human expression flows the other way. Good literature is close to poetry, good poetry is close to music, good mu
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by trgn 5y ago
Waw, great memories. The set also came with instruction booklet to make an F1 car, which was just as cool.
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by trgn 5y ago
I love deBoers writing when it's about _something_, but the navel-gazing gets old really quick. Yikes! If he truly feels sorry, he just needs to move on. He seems to understand what he did was foul. Well then, move forward, be a good m
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by trgn 5y ago
That's exactly my point. Buildings should not look "cool", they should look timeless. A good building needs to last centuries. What looks cool now, will look stupid 5 years from now. It's fine if a building looks off its
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by trgn 5y ago
Architecture which does not fetishize the engineering aesthetic, which is mindful of its impact on the public realm, and which does not consider the building-proper as an artistic expression in and of itself. Basically, anything before mode
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by trgn 5y ago
This kind of architecture is absolutely cringe-y. The architects basically out themselves as detached sociopaths, and the patrons out themselves as gullible idiots. A building like this is a shtick. "Cool" for about 5 minutes. It
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by trgn 5y ago
Agreed. It is quite clear what the story is about, and projecting excessive meaning on the elephant (or even a completely wrong interpretation) is typical of literature classes being designed more to entertain the intellectual kick adolesce
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by trgn 5y ago
You're describing the stereotype of a mean drunk. In reality, there's also the happy or the sentimental drunk. They might just laugh it off or smile big and hug the person bumping into them. For sure, alcohol reduces inhibitions.
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by trgn 5y ago
haha, yes, you're right! fwiw - I also wanted to know what happened there right after their encounter.
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by trgn 5y ago
Since this list is so broad it includes pretty much any professional activity, as a counterpoint, compare to Adam Smith, who had a lot more rigorous definition, and for who wealth creation can only happen when labour is applied to the produ
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by trgn 5y ago
It's also the consequence of being shackled to a literary technique common to these long form articles, for authors to write themselves into the piece, in order to make the content more relatable to the audience. It's a form of ex
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by trgn 5y ago
That's a selective reading. In fact, I wish more politicians would actually read the Prince, and explicitly incorporate the overall lessons. Machiavelli mostly advices leaders of not surrounding themselves with yes men, not letting the
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by trgn 5y ago
Agreed that the most liveable cities really exist already, and they are all older, walkable, and predate cars. These new ecotechnic utopian proposals fetishize efficiency and convenience. They also completely fail to capture what makes a ci
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by trgn 5y ago
Negative interest is a return to the origins of banking. You would pay a bank to hold your assets. What you got in return was the convenience of not worrying of getting robbed, or being able to transfer large sums across large distances wit
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by trgn 5y ago
I'd rather have everyone drive a Tesla than everyone a 2-ton SUV. Not to say there aren't flaws with the Tesla autopilot, but being surrounded by oversized death machines driven by disinterested sociopaths is way more dangerous.
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by trgn 5y ago
Hoping the housing squeeze will be a trigger for gentle densification in more of the depopulated interior cities of the USA. My midwest city is a lot more pleasant place to be than it was only 10 years ago. Many more amenities in walking di
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by trgn 6y ago
This work-around copies the values (in your examples), or the references (if the props are functions or objects), which is just wasted cycles and memory bloat. It's harder for runtimes to optimize, because with that mixin `o1` changes
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by trgn 6y ago
> It's similarly grating to Germans to hear their language mispronounced by others. Americans are generally very tolerant and patient with non-native speakers butchering proper english. So no, it's not nearly as grating to an A
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by trgn 6y ago
I think "remotely habitable" is key. Humans can barely colonize Antartica. There's zero self sufficiency there, and there seems to be zero appetite for anybody actually settling there. At most, you get adventurers who'll
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by trgn 6y ago
The ending conclusion is so bizarre to me. From the article: > That’s a question to think about as you start to read this thing, whether for the first or fifty-first time. Daisy is this man’s objective, but she’s the wrong fantasy. It wa
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by trgn 6y ago
Rather than comparing it to the authoritarian architecture of the postwar period (which was horrible), I think it's more fair to point out the actual inspiration for Speer. It was the City Beautiful movement and the existing examples o
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by trgn 6y ago
Yes, flippantly, because each new generation of historians needs to find a new hook to hang their career on. They add nuance, but it's unclear if it will stick. The same happens for example with the rehabilitation of the Vikings, which

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