yostrovs

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by yostrovs 8y ago
In the summer, stopping next to a diesel bus when on a bike you often get hit by the heat of the blowing engine cooling fan. Which strangely often feels both refreshing and heat stroke inducing at the same time. Have you noticed anything ab
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by yostrovs 8y ago
To add, the accused professor is, along with the signers of the ridiculous letter, are obviously completely corrupted. Similar to politicians who campaign on fighting corruption and then go and do it themselves, this woman should be treated
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Comparisons, however made, turned out to be false because of lack of information. Soviet Union may have had tremendous output of steel, on paper, but nobody had a microwave till the 1990s. The word economy was something else there than what
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by yostrovs 8y ago
So much destruction post 1940s coupled with slave labor (local political prisoners and German prisoners of war) leads to roads and steel plants being built quickly. The population though lived on near nothing till the 60s.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
But what the voters were convinced of isn't what is going to happen. That's the work of politicians who know how to do their jobs right.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Again, hard to argue against wild speculation. The train is being built within our current reality and people's desires are part of that reality. Arguably, the freedom that cars provide is an incredibly powerful and beneficial thing fo
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by yostrovs 8y ago
The ranking algorithm is secret, so one can't know much about how it actually works. But, considering how much effort is spent to increase site speeds, the reality is that that's the impression that developers and site owners have
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by yostrovs 8y ago
The California rail links cities together. Here's the map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Cahsr_ma... There are a few stops near San Francisco and Los Angeles, but those areas w
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by yostrovs 8y ago
You're wrong about car ownership in Europe vs U.S. In America there's basically 1 car per person, in Europe there's one car per two persons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Now that I think about it using my endless imagination, the concrete pillars may serve as platforms for contemporary art installations. When that becomes reality, the politicians in California will be patting themselves on the back about ho
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by yostrovs 8y ago
My "what if" question was about a train line that is never finished. An unfinished train line doesn't carry trains and doesn't move passengers. It doesn't decongest highways of traffic either. Its role will probably
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by yostrovs 8y ago
"Beginning construction without all of the financing in place represents a strategic gamble by the rail authority, and by Mr. Brown, that once enough work is completed, future leaders will be loath to walk away from the project and lea
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by yostrovs 8y ago
The politicians did the lying about how much it will cost, how fast it will go, how necessary it is, and when it will be built. And they made sure the referendum with all those lies and benefits for special interest groups happened.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Well, in America almost everyone has a car and there's a road system that will take you anywhere you want to go. Americans don't like public transport overall, for reasons such as privacy, being able to play your music over the sp
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by yostrovs 8y ago
The Europeans are predominantly learning English, the world's language. Americans already know English. Plus, ask any American who took French in high school how much French they still retain. The answer will most likely be zero. It&#x
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Agreed. The obsession with page load times tilts the equation toward sites that spend more money on developers than content creators. Nothing against developers, but people indeed are looking for content rather than fast sites. I'd be
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by yostrovs 8y ago
US emissions of CO2 have fallen much faster than Europe's. Europe likes to talk a lot but not to compromise. So while they could be fracking and displacing dirty energy sources, they instead use oil and coal where the US uses natural g
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by yostrovs 8y ago
The parent post is off topic it would seem. My comment was very much with the topic of the parent.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Robots are gender neutral. Perhaps the parents of these children should have gotten themselves a FANUC or two, which are easily programmable without the psychological consequences.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Wait times for non-elective surgeries for people on Canadian government healthcare are significantly longer than for Americans on private insurance. Many Canadians travel to US and pay out of pocket to get something fixed that shouldn'
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Truth in advertising is not a common quality of communist sympathizers. Utopian visions are dirtied by reality and mathematics. So when Bernie, in his 70s, found out on live radio that they have months long waiting lines in Canadian hospita
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Money in politics actually does little for the candidates. Please review Freakanomics on this. As a recent example, Trump won with a great deal less money than what Hillary used. Had he used more, we would not hear the end of how money infl
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Whoever sets the targets and is applauded in the media is not the same as the one that has to meet those targets. Retirement comes first, basking in glory for having helped save the world comes first, becoming an "ambassador" for
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by yostrovs 8y ago
By the way, HN being one of the most censorious platforms, my post is no longer visible on the topic's discussion page. Think about that.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I'm not in the business of defending abortion, actually very much agnostic on this topic and don't think it should receive the attention that it does. But man-oh-man, calling fetuses parasites is simply wrong and makes one look he
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Seems like your view of fetuses is that of parasites, not even subhuman as slaveowners had of their slaves. It's an odd, counterproductive defense of abortion.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
For some reason, this comment, by another user, was killed: "I suspect they're not running campaigns to stop public funding of roadways though, as it's a subsidy to their business. As someone who lives in a commuter town and
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by yostrovs 8y ago
"A 2012 Brookings study analyzing data from 371 transit providers in America’s largest 100 metro areas found that over three-fourths of all jobs are in neighborhoods with transit service—but only about a quarter of those jobs can be re
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by yostrovs 8y ago
They're killing government run and managed public transportation, not public transportation in principle. They don't fight group rides on Uber or private bus companies. This is a typical critique from the left: You don't like
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Science doesn't apply to a rapidly changing, politically charged topic.

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