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by tylervigen 3y ago
Ha, then you might enjoy this anecdote: In that Tiffany video, there is a chart that appears on screen for a fraction of a second at 7:39 (the correlation "People drowning in swimming pool <> Films with Nicholas Cage"). Tha
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Me too! I would have missed out on all the fun if I had learned the answer on day one.
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by tylervigen 3y ago
If anyone will appreciate this, Hacker News will: this page is un-monetized, has no ads, no cookies, no Google Trackers, and loads no external scripts. You can check! I (the author) don't even know how many people are on the page (exc
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Ha! Love the analogy. I agree. That statistic is totally unhelpful.
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Author here! Glad you all enjoyed the article. It was a fun journey into the history of my community. For the record: I am an advocate of walkability and think there should be more bridges, not fewer. I just wondered how that one got ther
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by tylervigen 3y ago
>I disagree with the central assumption that reconnecting neighborhood roads cut by Interstates should be an exception rather than a rule. Author here: That was not meant to be my central assumption! Sorry if it came across that way. I
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by tylervigen 3y ago
I was pleasantly impressed too! I've always had good luck getting replies from officials, but I got particularly good responses from the folks named in the article. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Author here. That is definitely not what I meant to imply at all! I'm sorry if you interpreted it that way. I love walkability and am an advocate of pedestrian and bike-centric city planning. I wrote that sentence to indicate that t
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by tylervigen 3y ago
I agree that walkability and the culture around cars and walking is abysmal in the United States. However, I should clarify that this particular location is primarily a warehouse for industrial equipment for use at the airport. Most of its
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Ha! Author here. I actually posted it here right after I published it earlier this week. I thought it was more Hacker News material than Reddit material. But no one saw it at the time. Guess it didn't get the good numbers from the
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by tylervigen 3y ago
It's even weirder than that! Residents of Richfield at the time saw the lack of sidewalks as a feature, not a bug. They wanted to distinguish themselves from Minneapolis, so they protested the building of sidewalks because "how
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Author of the original article here. I actually remember that bridge! It's such a huge mass of concrete. For me it is memorable because it's right next to the only Microcenter in Cambridge. If I wanted to buy a Raspberry Pi wh
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Oh I agree! I didn't spell it out in the article (I am the author), but I am a huge advocate of walkability. But if you gave me $1M and asked me to make this area more walkable, I still wouldn't build a bridge there. It's
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by tylervigen 3y ago
While not the key point of the article, if this made you at all curious about engine maintenance then I would recommend checking out howacarworks.com It was posted here a while back and I’ve been enjoying the detailed build up.
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by tylervigen 3y ago
Is there a reason an app needs to check for updates every 5 minutes vs, say, once a day? That would have made this situation 288 times better, and reduced the processing tax on people’s devices.
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by tylervigen 4y ago
I like your theory but I worry that the extreme of the defender “winning” is locking your (homemade) computer in a faraday cage running on a generator and airgapped from the internet. What freedoms will we lose to ensure security?
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by tylervigen 4y ago
> it's not how much you eat, but what you eat and when That doesn’t seem to contradict the article. They both acknowledge that what and when you eat are important.
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by tylervigen 4y ago
But that’s true with or without the AI. Anyone could decide they want to kill you. Most of the time we rely on “not everyone wanting to kill everyone else” to get by.
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by tylervigen 4y ago
Because AirDrop only exposes the info of the sending phone, not the receiving phone.
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by tylervigen 4y ago
I once spent a month blind taste-testing apples with my wife to compare the apples in our supermarket. We learned 4 things: 1) Most of the Honeycrisp varietals that make it to market are good (Wild Twist and Cosmic Crisp being our favorite
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by tylervigen 4y ago
This method is obviously biased towards people who have already played Factorio, and in a lesser way towards folks who play games. Maybe that’s similar to the bias toward knowing FizzBuzz, but it’s much weirder?
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by tylervigen 4y ago
Right but the point is that there may be nothing special about this particular exercise. It’s a bit complicated to get the equipment and training to learn how to do this; maybe that effort is better allocated to just encouraging people to g
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by tylervigen 4y ago
Incident impact and response seems adequate to me. Obviously I’d prefer no incidents, but this with the right layers of security in place to prevent out from impacting users and transparent reporting are the next best thing.
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by tylervigen 5y ago
This is a delightful story. Thank you for sharing.
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by tylervigen 5y ago
Not point of your post, but when I click that link on my phone Reddit won’t let me read it without downloading the app. The two options are download the app or go back to popular. It’s crazy to me that Reddit would be willing to go to that
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by tylervigen 10y ago
In case anyone hasn't read it, the NASA coding process is extremely interesting: http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
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by tylervigen 10y ago
If it's hosted locally, what stops an intruder from stealing or destroying your server once they break in?