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   by viburnum 7y ago

   Ummm Mark Zuckerberg has a billion times more power than I do.
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   Does anyone know of a good group for tech workers to join to counter these issues? As an individual I don’t feel like I can do anything about this.
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   I know, right?! It’s sooo much nicer that way. That’s a good demonstration of how bikes are really just slightly faster pedestrians and not slow cars.
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   Nope, the Netherlands is one of the densest countries in the world and it’s below sea level. Sprawl is not necessary.
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   Even when America traffic engineers mean well, they screw up bike infrastructure terribly. They get all the details wrong. Generally their designs are too complicated, too cheap, and rely on paint instead of common sense about how bikes act
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   When you make lots of room for driving fast and parking you’re pushing buildings farther and farther apart and imposing the costs on pedestrians. Postwar American cities are unwalkable by design. Hot places should have narrow streets and th
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   There’s tons of evidence that wide roads induce people to drive fast. If you want walkability then you need drivers to be scared they might scratch their side mirrors. Tom Vanderbilt’s excellent book “Traffic” goes into depth about this.
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   Yeah, it was a joke about the limits of marginalism to solve coordination problems.
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   by viburnum 7y ago

   Dagen H is a good lesson for why incremental solutions to climate change aren’t enough. Sometimes you need to change a lot of stuff simultaneously and for that you need decisive coordinated action.
10. 640.▲
    by viburnum 7y ago

    Instead of a heavy-handed centralized government mandate like this they should have used a tax incentive to encourage people to drive on the other side.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    Learned the hard way.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    Boeing stock has done incredibly well over the years. Shareholders didn’t care about engineering and financialization then but maybe now they will.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    The Honda E is quirky without being try hard. Kind of like a Nissan Figaro.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    They do try to make them weird-looking. The BMW i3 was bonkers. All I want is a regular Golf or Golf wagon that can go 160 miles or so on a charge. It’s not just electrics. Honda used to make sleek cars but now they have weird shapes and cu
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    How to Retire by 40(ftalphaville.ft.com)

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    by viburnum 7y ago

    Like everywhere else in the world, once reactionary plutocrats take over the media, the country becomes ungovernable.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    There was something posted on HN years ago about a mainframe that ran the French railway pension system. There was something funny about different pay rates for rates going uphill or downhill, whether the engineer was a military veteran, et
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    Jane Jacobs has this all figured out in 1960!
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    The problem is when you follow that logic to its conclusion, then everyone needs a car, streets are replaced by six lane roads, and only giant big box stores are left.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    I’ve read that every street in the Netherlands is completely rebuilt every thirty years. One good thing about density is you need a lot less infrastructure. America way too much infrastructure and its poor state of repair shows it.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17144748/c...
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    Thanks. I actually do the doorframe thing, and you’re right, it’s not enough.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    They should go one step further and shut the whole site down
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    When nice places for people become too expensive, the obvious thing to do is to make more nice places for people. In America, however, it is only legal to make more nice places for cars.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    This is really interesting. Why dead lifts?
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    If your posture is so bad that you literally can’t or don’t know how to stand up straight, your hamstrings might be super tight. Mine were, anyway.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    I have comment on this post that might answer your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21243525 Basically some whole wheat flour is heavily processed and reconstituted.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    I really enjoyed this article. I remember reading about the WSU Bread Lab etc a few years ago and it was great to get an update. Here are two older articles about bread that I really liked (both feature the Bread Lab): https://ww
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    Hegel attacked Leibniz and calculus. Philosophers can be weird.
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    by viburnum 7y ago

    I know that Musk knows he’s lying. I feel so sorry for his fans.