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by vvpan 10y ago
Well, the theory, as I've heard an urban planner explain in a video, is that the problem with projects is that they are populated by people of exactly the same class. A mixed income/background area is less likely to turn into what
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by vvpan 10y ago
It has grown, and more sprawly type of development has been accumulating around it, sadly. This is Moscow region and the population has been growing very fast. Parking space has become an issue as well.
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by vvpan 10y ago
I can't say much about mathematics of taxes described in the article, but I always thought that Soviet Union got a lot of it's city planning very much right. Even a small town is built as a relatively tight formation of high-rises
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by vvpan 10y ago
Perhaps the point of communes is not to convert the whole world forever, but to create the world you envision around yourself. Temporality becomes real only when one has a vantage point in the future and through written record. That it did
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by vvpan 10y ago
As great as it was wheeeen...?
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by vvpan 10y ago
I don't think that's what "hardcore" means to a vim user. Vim is all about convenience for me.
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by vvpan 10y ago
Please tell more.
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by vvpan 10y ago
That is unrealistic and has very bad consequences on the neighborhood. I've heard urban planners (in lectures) say that when there is not a row of parked cars between a street and the sidewalk, people are much less likely to walk and s
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by vvpan 10y ago
Is "Pynchon Gate" named after Thomas Pynchon?
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by vvpan 10y ago
This follows tit-for-tat the story of every other street lighting development in the past. It gets invented, implemented, lauded and then disappointment sets in. At least according to a fairly exhaustive book on the topic called Disenchant
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by vvpan 10y ago
Perhaps not the best question for HN. But I used both a year ago and did not see a single thing in SOLR that ES didn't do better. Starting from documentation to ease of configuration and querying, features... Documentation alone was wo
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Companies are making money from our personal data – but at what cost?(theguardian.com)
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by vvpan 10y ago
It's reverberation chamber.
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by vvpan 11y ago
The biggest problem with those websites is not that they look the same, but they are all equally bad. 95% of the time they barely contain any useful information and are just 4-5 pages of images icons and vague text, it's useless fluff
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by vvpan 11y ago
Cause innovation is all about design.
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by vvpan 11y ago
It's a preview and it's for developers.
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by vvpan 11y ago
Never had the headphones, but somebody gave me a pair of desktop speakers and I've been very disappointed. They sounds "as if" they are awesome, that is pack a lot of bass into a little box, but the sound comes out over-basse
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by vvpan 11y ago
"should we remember him as brilliant pioneering scientist, or as an occultist who thought he could talk to angels?" I don't understand why it's a problem to say that he was both.
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by vvpan 11y ago
Or in this case the opposite.
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by vvpan 11y ago
They mention that they controlled for it.
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Most threats to humans come from science and technology, warns Hawking(theguardian.com)
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by vvpan 11y ago
He was also mentioned on Torrent Freak recently condoning strong anti-piracy measures. https://torrentfreak.com/dont-terrorize-the-public-over-pira...
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Putin's Internet Adviser owns a torrent tracker(translate.google.com)
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by vvpan 11y ago
So without any experience you are able to charge $150/hour?
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by vvpan 11y ago
An important thing to mention to anybody who might be interested in that book is that it's _not_ about art of memory technique, but rather about the philosophical and religions beliefs and practices associated with it. It's a hist
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by vvpan 11y ago
Hey, those airline tickets are expensive.
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by vvpan 11y ago
What does "next-generation" mean?
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by vvpan 11y ago
You are giving the individual human mind too much credit here. There are whole industries that thrive on our weaknesses, they find every little breach in our mind and abuse it. And they've been quiet successful at it.
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by vvpan 11y ago
Nothing wrong with being critical even when you don't have a solution.
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by vvpan 11y ago
I believe Slava was looking for an extra technical cofounder. He is extremely technical himself. Eventually it was him and two other people - Mike, who is sort of semi-technical (he doesn't write the DB afaik, but works on many other t

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