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Pretty key point right here: it takes a lot of infrastructure spending over a long time to build a city. Can't just snap your fingers and change how that money got spent.

Plenty of the pedestrian-friendly cities with good trains and all got built up during times when there weren't any automobiles.

They're nice to look at and great to live in. But it's not possible to transform Salt Lake city or San Antonio into New York City with the snap of a finger. Takes capital, takes time, and people need to live their lives in the meanwhile.

Transit around here is good in some bits, bad in others. House prices are about double, maybe more, if the house is walking distance to good transit. And transit isn't free. Better economics to own an inexpensive car and drive it. For a lot of people, money's tight and need to put food on the table for the family.
I recall during my first degree, I once rewrote an essay, making the essential points clearer. I still believe it was my best essay, but I got the lowest mark with a comment that it was "too simple".

I got the highest mark for an essay I wrote the night before it was due with no knowledge of the subject. Just used a bunch of clever sounding words and threw in a fake bibliography at 8am in the library.
those growth includes capital gains, and it's not in small, measured steps like 7%/pa, but in large spurts and stops over many years.

if you have consistent costs every year to pay, you cannot rely on capital gains to fund it imho. Only coupon payments from bonds can do that - unless you're willing to take the risk that you might have to eat into your capital for down years.
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i don't see where they might store their clothes and other such items, unless they are living out of a suit-case (which, to be fair, might be quite a good minimalist kind of life)
Since coffee contains a large amount of MAOA inhibitors, the difference in taste preference can be explained by different MAOA variable number tandem repeat genotypes in the population. From these, MAOA-LPR is the most widely studied, and has been shown to be connected to criminality and violent behavior—especially if paired with childhood maltreatment, which tends to change the activity of MAOA by methylation, which is a type of heritable epigenetic modification.
> It's a question of resource allocation

Yes it is, and the people not willing to discuss it are the car people.
Oh, you're right. But still:

"you are being deceitful" 1 result
"you are being dishonest" 42 results

... if I tried them all they might add up to over 100, but still. It's hard to make the case with a few searches, maybe I shouldn't have started this ^^ It's just something I notice constantly. E.g. half of the time, "I'm not entirely sure I agree" is a sincere statement, the other half it's just "I disagree" in more words that are supposed to give an impression of depth that isn't there.
Nature might be like this, but we can maybe build an artificial system which is not.
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I know women in marriages you have in mind who, after they felt closed to me opened up and turned out they were super unhappy. They stay because of kids and because the have some feelings for husband still. But they don't like that and have a lot of resentment.

But, it does not necessary describes his situation. It sounds like two people with different initial interests.
Do recall that the Soviets for a good bit had a leg up on rocketry and were more or less neck-and-neck on thermonuclear weapons.

When your adversary has intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons aimed at your cities, you do whatever you can to avoid those being used, including whatever espionage you can get away with.
you might need to be near your house that you let out as an AirBnB rental, so that you can take care of stuff for it (or pay for some sort of management in lieu).

If your cheap housing is far away from your asset, that will have a cost associated with managing the airbnb rental that you need to account for (either with time, or payment).
> I think it's sort of funny that they called out the flavor as tasting like "ordinary coffee," since people in my experience are extremely fussy about their brew.

The average coffee drinker in Finland isn't really a coffee snob. Mostly everyone just drinks the same handful of brands of pre-ground coffee, drip brewed through a paper filter. You go to a restaurant or a little bakery-cafe, you get the same stuff. Not labeled, no choices to make, but everyone knows what it is. It's just ordinary coffee.
Individual people can be radically different in what makes them feel loved, satisfied and connected. If the OP never has to understand this, he/she is fortunate. More likely, there is someone in that person's life who would appreciate some directed curiosity.
This is all Peter Thiel's fault.

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
Richard Feynman on pseudoscience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo
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The future is already here.

Sneak preview: it's awesome, sort of. Traveling and living short-term in different places has many wonderful aspects, but it's not perfect. There are also many downsides/hassles.

I also suspect the number of people who will want to do this for a long period of time (>1-2 years) is fairly low. Then you have to figure out where you want to live and if it's not in your home country, you have to deal with where you really want to live versus where you can get residency.
Think about how powerful it would be to make people believe that, though. Then, by deduction, since power desires to increase its capacity, necessarily its power must be overblown :^) semi-/s
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A flat prior over a probability space with only four possible events, but in reality there are of course many more possible events from which those four were originally picked.
Inflation is measured by a basket of items that doesn’t currently include housing. So chances are it’s significantly higher for most people.
"The Five Love Languages" is literally trademarked. It's a framework that's designed to sound plausible, like a horoscope. It's not designed to be accurate, it's designed to make you go, "oooooh" and repeat the trademark. "Having relationship issues? Oh, have you heard of the Love Languages®? I read about it the other day..."

If your partner doesn't want to touch you, what's the most likely explanation? That they "don't speak your love language", or that they aren't attracted to you?

Ok, and if you are that partner, but you don't want to lose the relationship, what's an easy response? "I don't want to touch you because I don't find you attractive," or "I'm sorry babe, I do love you, but we just don't speak the same love language"?

The whole thing is very Cosmo. It's designed to sell in the same way as Cosmo.
It literally explains why this show is not as good as the original.
There is such a thing as one sided relationship where one person gives and other don't. And the giver is not happy in the long term.

There is value in being able to ask for what you need and being able to realize when giving is not reciprocated.
That is genuinely amazing. I miss perl.
I started living out of airbnb’s a year ago, and simply downgraded all my stuff into a giant checked back, a carry on, and a backpack. Everything else is either gone, or packed in my car, which is in storage.

Turns out all I really need at this point in my life is clothes, my laptops (personal and work), and a handful of miscellaneous items.
The concept of 'trusting science' is utterly absurd.

We may choose to trust certain scientists because no one has the time or inclination to critically assess all primary literature, but the nebulous idea of 'trusting science' should be thrown in the dustbin. No matter what side of the political spectrum you live on.

Edit: to add, I'm certain that a large majority of good scientists would agree with the above.
Talk about security by obscurity!
Of course it gets better if you get more than 7%!
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Seems kinda unromantic to say that, just because I'm a millionaire with a PhD, I can't fall in love with 99% of the population.
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I am using Ubuntu, pop os to be exact. Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.
Admittedly, I'm not someone who is very knowledgeable on the subject, but that is not what I got from the article at all. My read on it was that the US needs to be more diplomatic instead of forceful, and try to reach some sensible cooperation with China. That doesn't strike me as doing nothing? Also, as a non American, the "we're not special" narrative does resonate with me. American rhetoric is so often full of implicit superiority complex that does make the rest of us grind our teeth a bit. (The phrase that comes to mind immediately is public figures talking about "American lives" when what they should be saying is "human lives", another is calling for example, a black Englishman "African American" when he is neither African nor American). It's something that I suspect normal Americans are sometimes blind to, because it is so ingrained in the culture.
The fundamental principle of science is doubt, not trust.

“Believe in science” is just a new religion for the intellectual class.

Obviously, knee-jerk doubt is no better than knee-jerk trust, but there needs to be a balance, and recently the marketers & manipulators (even those employed by governments, corporations, international organisations, …) have caught up on the fact that labelling misinformation as “science” makes it much more viral…
This is just bad advice. 7% might be achievable, but it also might not be. Are you truly willing to risk everything on the hope you can live in someone else's home a couple of months of the year? Why not just do the same yourself?
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Paint.NET is non-free software ... for an extremely petty reason.

The reason? Someone new to programming changed the author in the about box and published it on their website.

Well, the author sure showed those terrible plagiarizers by making the project non-free. (Meanwhile, it is as easy as ever to modify .NET applications without source access - see e.g. the numerous mods for Unity games.)
https://thebookofshaders.com/

and a good sandbox is https://shadertoy.com/

and you should consider unity too, this is a good tutorial but also lots of good info about graphics in general:
https://youtu.be/kfM-yu0iQBk
But once better tools have been published, why not show what you did?
There’s a discussion about this in GitHub:
https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/13783
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> Are you trusting science to be a pure discipline, motivated only by the search of the truth?

A distinction can be made between science on the one hand and scientists on the other.
I think it's a bit weird to talk of the universe being just or unjust. The universe is what it is. To me, an action taken by a person can be just or unjust, and a person can be said to be just or unjust based on a sort of average of their actions.

As for the nature of life, I don't think that we can go from, say, a tree casting shade and thus making life harder for other plants being natural, or predators being natural, to saying that compassion and cooperation in humans is unnatural. Quite the opposite. Human beings are, from birth, naturally compassionate and cooperative as well as the opposite. We are "capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares". But a lone human is always a very fragile creature, in fact I'd even say that it is more unnatural than anything else. We are, most of us, social beings who not only benefit from but require the company and cooperation of others to function and flourish.

And of course, protecting yourself and your dependents from threats is natural. We are social, but also tribal. But when do we decide that another group is a threat? Why do we take from others, or harm them? To me, it seems the answer to that will usually be out of fear and or out of want. And while those might occur naturally, they can occur more or less, depending on circumstance and outlook.
Saying incriminating things and denying them later is generally not a good way to stay out of trouble.

And I don't think incoherency and contradictory statements generally work well in court.

A Chewbacca defense only works in cartoons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
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Not in most jurisdictions. Most animals are sentient and can't be inventors on a patent.
Are you sure that if the dev team will ababdon the project tomorrow it will b existent and people will trust it 5 years for now? If not, it's centralized. Also, how can it be a stable coin if there is nothing explicitly stated as peg?
But people want to buy self-driving cars. And nobody wants self—limiting cars. So it’s not really a case of leapfrogging anything

It’s not like manufacturers are waiting on the government to let them sell limited cars
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do you think a lot of people would be willing to donate to telegram? what would be an average annual donation per user? I bet it would be a lot less than what big tech makes, and there is no reason to believe durov would settle for that
It does seem like they would have an advantage there, although they would still be affected.
Usually, that position is restricted to humans. Maybe there's a crow sufficiently competent at mayoral duties, but crows aren't great at abstract verbal communication via sentences; I doubt any crow would be good at the job. (Though if no crow is competent, why have laws restricting them from being eligible?)
It looks like nanocolors is a fork of colorette with a few (substantial?) changes, see https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/wiki/Colorette-Changes. However, the author of nanocolors, Andrey Sitnik, only added attribution info about colorette after Jorge Bucaran went public about the fork on Twitter. If the fork had attributed colorette from the start, would there be drama here?
Kotlin's co-routines are pretty nice. Technically it uses colored functions but because it is statically compiled language, there is no chance of doing this wrong as that would simply be a compile error.

The way suspend functions work in Kotlin is that it is essentially syntactic sugar for async await where calling a suspend function implicitly awaits it; which you can only do in a so-called CoroutineScope (for example another suspend function).

It's actually very similar to what go does. Instead of go foo(), Kotlin makes you write something like CoroutineScope(CoroutineName("myscopename")).launch { foo() }.

It's actually very similar to what go does as well. Instead of go foo(), Kotlin makes you write something like CoroutineScope(CoroutineName("myscopename")).launch { foo() }

The difference is that a coroutine scope is a thing with a name and some behavior. For example, you can control how the coroutine is dispatched for example. Some dispatchers might do everything on the main thread. Other dispatchers use thread pools. Very useful if you are integrating some blocking IO framework where you don't want to block the main thread.

There's more to it but it's a pretty well designed solution for what is a tough problem space.
I think Chomsky is saying the opposite; that we should resist and thwart this will to dominate things in the world. It’s easy to forget he’s basically an anarcho-communist (and not in the pejorative context that label is often used, but as an intellectual school of thought). And before anyone calls it Marxism, ancom as a philosophical tradition derives from Kropotkin rather than Marx.

Leftist politics in general assume that most people are actually good, and society to the extent it exists is there to protect the majority of good people from the few baddies who want to hoard all the resources. Even if we take that will go power as an intrinsic feature of the world, those displaying antisocial behavior should be cast aside.

Not saying I’m 100% agreeing with this, but that optimism in the general goodness of people is a core tenet of leftist political views. And Chomsky is and has been a thought leader on the American left for the last 50 years.
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I also like MX bust only use it to handle constraints and find a suitable use of a chip resources. After I have all resources planned it's CMSIS all the way, not that complex.
The best programming book I've read was The C Programming Language, sometimes just called ANSI C, by K&R. It's under 200 pages and builds up the entire foundation of C from scratch. Reading it put me in a great position to understand other programming languages and concepts down the road. The only problem is it's kind of steep, about $25 on Amazon right now.
The oughts were a particularly bad decade for stocks, one of three in the past century. It isn't fair to choose a test period where stocks under-performed 50% of the time.

A portfolio that includes some gold would have performed well enough during the 70s and 00s (gold wasn't a commodity in the same sense in the 30s).
I wish this weren't the case in more places in Canada and the U.S. Where I grew up in central Canada this would almost certainly be a similar experience, but I did happen to live within walking distance, even in the awful suburbs, to every school I attended. Now on the west coast, without a family, I have no doubt that everyone walks their kids to wherever they need to be. There are about 15 schools within some reasonable walking distance, and I think that's incredible and I hope that propogates. Weather is a non-position to me, I don't see how it could be sufficiently arduous as to require a car all the time if the other conditions are met (maybe some of the time), but I'd be curious what I'm missing there. I grew up in hilariously cold winters and now live in extremely wet winters. This of course changes if you've chosen or have had to live really far out from where you need to be every day, but my impression is that this is more often a choice in NA than it is in EU where the centre is the premium for all these reasons (afaik)
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>I've noticed a lot of smaller creativity/productivity apps are not available in distro repos. They're far too niche to get attention from distro packagers.

That's what AUR is for.
I'm not aware of such a tax in Spain, at least where I leave.
Or 15%! Or even 100%! Yes, life sure is easy when you can just throw a number at the wall.
I do this right now and have been living in airbnbs with my wife and child for over a year paying comparable rent we did in Denver. We actually got featured on the Today show for it a few months ago. AMA?

Biggest thing is the multi month stay discounts. Sometimes we get 60-70% off. We're in Florence Italy right now in a great location and paid roughly $2000 for 45 days (so significantly lower than our Denver rent). Once you get packing down really the biggest pain I've found is car rentals which seem stubbornly expensive and stuck in the stone age so we prioritize places with great public transit.
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Yes, but the science in this context usually refers to the work done by its practitioners.
In my experience, the pro-nuclear arguments have become more BS filled lately. It's a tell that a position is bad when the arguments used to justify it are bad. If there were good arguments, why didn't they use them?
As someone living blissfully unaware of the struggles people go through in countries with rampant government censorship -- sorry, control for the public good -- of the Internet, it was a bit a of a shock when I got some first-hand experience.

I had a customer that wanted to set up some web servers in China so that they could sign up students for some classes at their school.

At first I just assumed that this is a straightforward matter of selecting a Chinese region in a public cloud, deploying a couple of web servers, and we'd be done by lunch. Easy!

Turns out... that this is actually technically achievable, as long as: You have a Chinese business registered in China, you have a photo ID that you register with the "local authorities" (in person!), pay in Renminbi from a Chinese bank account, and read and write Chinese.

No, really. That's the process. Really: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/overview-checkl...

They want to make sure they have someone by the balls. It's either you personally, or someone willing to step up and take the risk of jailtime on your behalf if you publish anything the Grand Pooh Xi doesn't like.

Meanwhile, I can spin up a server in Dubai or South Africa or Brazil like... right now. No paperwork. No prostrating myself in front of the Police to beg for permission to be able to post government-approved content.

Meanwhile, on the map of AWS or Azure regions -- or on any CDNs map -- there's just a hole where China is. It's like those photos of Earth from space, where you can see the city lights glowing brightly everywhere except for North Korea, where there's just darkness.

Remind me, why do we do business with these people again? Why do we give them our money?
The second instance is a totally different entity and does not own the patent or bank account of the first, unless they decide to somehow merge their state-vectors and become a single entity.
> First load is important for any public facing site. A 7-10s delay on first load means you’ve lost the game no matter what happens on a second load, because there often won’t be one.

I hear this said a lot, but have never quite understood it myself.

What industries have pages that are hit by new customers and need to be a big complicated SPA?

Any SaaS can have a landing page/login page which it can use to background load assets needed for the service itself. And if someone already knows of and wants to use your service they'll wait a few seconds.

Online shops maybe?
Yeah we're doing the same actually and between myself, my wife, and our kid we've got it done to three checked bags and 2 backpacks. It's freeing in a way to get rid of most of that stuff honestly.
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> But I do wonder to what extent his views are based on a possibly over-optimistic view of the world's potential

They definitely are. Chomsky should forever be respected for his work in linguistics, his work on the media and his research into US power. Manufacturing consent was published in 1988 and it is more relevant then ever.

His personal political views are however completely unrealistic and ignore human nature entirely.
In what sense can 'totalitarianism' be measured as a moral wrong besides the amount of violence and oppression it inflicts? By that measure there's infinitely more reason to need to look inward at America's domestic and foreign policy than there is to enable the cold warrior type's fantasies of war with china.
In general I agree with you, but the more I consider topics like this the more I see it as a problem of correlation strength vs. effect size. That is, at the population level there may very well be a strong correlation between birthday and certain personality traits, but the effect size is likely to be infinitesimal compared to everything else we know about what shapes a person’s psychology.

I actually think this is one of the ways that published science tends to distort rather than clarify our view of reality, as the strength of correlation tends to be overly emphasized as measure of quality or relevance.
But you don't make data private by obfuscating it and then passing it to people you don't trust.

You make data private by not giving it to people you don't trust, or by encrypting it and not giving the key to people you don't trust.