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by yesfitz 10mo ago
I think we have a disagreement in terms beyond "density". I'm talking about bicycle as transportation, and I believe you may be talking about bicycle as recreation. To clarify, transportation is a means to get you to a destin
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All right: As an average person, I've observed that both my childhood and current neighborhoods (Mid-Atlantic and Midwest respectively) have increased in the number of cars present, and that's within and between neighborhoods. I h
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You must have misunderstood my comment as something other than interpretation. >it's an impressive, forgettable spectacle. I provided a handful of other possibilities, but in the absence of any statement from the creator, my interpr
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
No one asked that question except for you. The other commenter and I were talking about cars. Car ownership rates increased slightly, number of households nearly doubled, and average population density went up in every state except DC. Ther
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
What's the point? Without any context, these transformations are pure spectacle. And it's bad when you take something that had meaning and turn it into a spectacle. This site could be a commentary on the frivolity of AI, a takedow
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
Fantastic news, population density has increased substantially![1] 57.5 average people/square mile in 1970, growing to 93.8 in 2020. 1: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/density-d...
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
If you live anywhere like Houten[1] anywhere in the US, please tell me ASAP because I'll move there tomorrow. From my area of the Midwest around Iowa City, there are decent paths that connect the local towns, but intra-town cycling is
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
Based on the census, cars were NOT just as plentiful. The number of cars per household has risen slightly[1] (although they stop keeping track after 3 cars), but the number of households have doubled[2] between 1970 and 2020. As for the bik
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Does your house stop being a house if the price goes down? Does your car drive worse if no one will buy it? I'm not saying it doesn't suck to overpay for something, but you can't expect too much pity when you lose money specu
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Something that's not addressed is how this situation plays out for 5-over-1 development[1] that's becoming the norm (or other mixed-use buildings). Basically, the buildings cashflow solely on the residential, but the commercial sp
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
Since you brought up treasury bonds, during the 2023 Banking Crisis, the Federal Reserve created the Bank Term Funding Program[1] that let banks borrow against the par value of bonds, rather than the market value. I thought it was a really
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Archived Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20250707142246/https://folk.comp...
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
The paper cited only studied software engineers at one Fortune 500 firm over 5 years, but the article states (emphasis mine), "[The paper] found that younger workers suffered career-wise by working from home, receiving less training
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by yesfitz 10mo ago
"Cheat" might not be the most helpful way to think about this particular situation. More like a glitch in a multiplayer game.[1] It's not "cheating" in that players are using the system as-is, and after a critical m
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
I like the idea, but I think the game progression needs another pass from a designer. I started on "Level 1" and got 2 things wrong (both false positives if it matters) and instead of feeling like I learned anything, I felt as tho
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Models are typically smaller scale/scope... So a "real urban center" could probably easily provide service that smaller cities can't. As to why Iowa City doesn't run on Sundays and Federal Holidays: The University
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Could you provide the steps you take to use LLMs as a tool? I'd like to compare them to the steps I would take to delegate a task to another human.
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Skill to effective output quality. I'm sure there are people who are more skilled at using a cell phone than I am. It doesn't matter. Similarly, we all have had co-workers or friends who aren't very good at using search eng
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Exactly so. If I'm going to do anything with it later, I'll have to read it again anyway. It's self-culling with time. I've got unread messages deep down on the list. Things that I wanted to do something about months ago
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
I'm an unrepentent "neither". Trash, Archive, Folders in Folders, Tags, forget it! Where is it? In the Inbox. If it's unread, I need to do something, if it's read, I don't. Although if my clients start to slow
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Anyone able to feel the dots could learn to distinguish bills this way without learning braille beyond that, regardless of their vision. Anyone who didn't find the feature useful could ignore it.
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Video, roughly 2.5 minutes long. Summarized for those already familiar with al-Shara: "He disavowed Al-Qaeda in 2016". The video itself is propaganda because the West wants new Syria to align with them instead of Russia and Iran.
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
The same can be said of any tax meant to curb a behavior (sin tax). What traffic-reducing policy would you suggest such that all people are affected equally?
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Most recently you said, "I agree it’s worth comparing beef sources!" So is there any hypothetical harm reduction that you believe is too small to be worth your time to encourage?
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I hesitate to use the word "quibbling" now, but it seems like a poor use of time to compare beef when even the most environmentally-friendly beef is multiple times worse than alternatives. I think this harm-reduction approach migh
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If you wrote a post (or posts) like this one detailing your reasoning, I'd like to read it.
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It's not "quibbling" to correct your mischaracterization of the truth. If you'll forgive me borrowing your logic: "I'm not saying that people should eat beef, but many people do eat beef, so it's worth
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
Why do you say that a vegetarian/vegan population is a fantasy?
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"... among the most ..." According to your source, there are 15 sources of protein that emit less greenhouse gases (GHGs) per 100g of protein than farmed fish, including poultry and eggs, and 16 sources that emit more (including i
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by yesfitz 11mo ago
The lack of large apartments in the US is at least partially caused by building codes requiring two means of fire egress (meaning two separate stairwells in taller buildings) which limits the size and layout of individual apartments. Here’s

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