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by viburnum 5y ago
The steering wheel in an F1 car only goes about 220 degrees in either direction (drivers have to keep their hands on the wheel and their arms aren't made of rubber). The steering in a regular car goes about 540 degrees in either direct
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by viburnum 5y ago
Her kind of urbanism is meeting people on street, out on the stoop, etc. Outdoors and safe. This is a terrific article that explores the issue: https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/2020/4/13/21218759&#
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by viburnum 5y ago
This is completely false. Read her classic, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." She's trying to get at what makes cities work (variety and density). IIRC she talks about 100 units per acre as the right balance. Thi
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by viburnum 5y ago
Eventually people will come to realize that humans don't belong in space.
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by viburnum 5y ago
I read this and wondered who this fascinating person must be, what terribly interesting subjects they must be interested in, and was disappointed to discover it’s just ordinary business stuff.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Overconfident Midwesterners have to learn the hard way about hills and Cascade concrete.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Yeah, it's badly named. It's not so much a deficit of attention but an inability to control attention.
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by viburnum 5y ago
When learning languages I used to focus on the grammar because it was most interesting to me (and words you can always look up in a dictionary). But for the most recent language I’ve attempted I’ve focused on just learning a ton of vocabula
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by viburnum 5y ago
Same goes for conventional therapy. "Failure to Measure" is #1 on the list: https://feelinggood.com/2018/12/24/120-ten-worst-errors-ther...
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Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)(mattbruenig.com)
293 points by viburnum 5y ago|120 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
Really the solution is to just send robots.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Yeah, the ISS is barely even in space. You can go that far on a train before lunch.
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The Great Escape(prospect.org)
1 points by viburnum 5y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
What a terrific comment. They cite Burns (1980). Burns is still going. His recent work is on why CBT practitioners often fail and how they go wrong. One aspect of his approach is that distortions aren’t all bad. There a good things about t
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by viburnum 5y ago
So a bunch of professors get together and decide that if students have issues with their (extremely expensive) education it’s the result of pathological cognitive distortions. They’re weaponizing CBT against people below them in the status
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by viburnum 5y ago
Getting up and out of bed at the same time every day no matter what is the main thing. Also, for me at least, I have two windows where I fall asleep easily, after midnight, or really early, around 8:30 pm.
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Brain scans look stunning, but what do they actually mean?(psyche.co)
2 points by viburnum 5y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
That’s cheap. USA spends $8 trillion on defense every ten years.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Where would the battery go? I have a soft spot for old trucks and would love to have an electrified one someday.
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by viburnum 5y ago
That sounds insane. In my experience agile works when it’s led by developers and not management.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Maybe I’ve led a charmed life but I’ve never seen any problems with stand ups. It’s just a few minutes of “I’m working on this today” and “okay we’ll pair on that after lunch.” But I guess people can mess up anything.
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by viburnum 5y ago
The Hungarian economist János Kornai wrote about this. Socialist firms face what he called a soft budget constraint (In this case the soft budget constraint isn’t provided by the central government but by sentimental families). The problems
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by viburnum 5y ago
How do you write an article like this and not mention the climate crisis?
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by viburnum 5y ago
Amsterdam does not equal the Netherlands.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Hoover didn’t just fumble it, he was absolutely committed to passivity. If only he had shown the same determination that he had for postwar relief.
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by viburnum 5y ago
All the processor options are really confusing.
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by viburnum 5y ago
This should be in the headline.
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Hucksters on Parade(prospect.org)
2 points by viburnum 5y ago|0 comments
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When McDonalds Came to Denmark(mattbruenig.com)
346 points by viburnum 5y ago|8 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
Not transferring wealth to banks is a good thing. If people are too rich, tax them. If houses are too expensive, build more houses.

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