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Can you explain a little more? It seems on first blush that a no-cars city with good public transport and good support for walking and cycling would be much more democratic than a city where people rely on cars to get to places. Bikes are much cheaper than cars, food is much cheaper than gas. It's much cheaper to take a public transport link to a destination than to take a taxi or rent a car. It seems very counter-intuitive to say "cars are democratic" where then are lot of people who can't afford a car. They also seem much less scalable than the alternatives.

I'm lucky enough to live in a city with lots of shops in walking distance of my apartment. There's a discount supermarket 15 minutes away where I buy most of my food.

If I lived in a city where all the big supermarkets were in strip malls or commercial estates on the outskirts of the city, I'd have to buy my food at smaller convenience-style stores with much higher prices and a poorer selection of goods.
I'm only talking about the city of Chicago. Once you get past the innermost (ie: oldest) suburbs (Evanston, Park Ridge, Oak Park, Cicero) you're in Suburban hell.

I'd say your experience is primarily with the suburbs, not the city.
To a layman, anything less than "know your customer" is "anonymous".
I don't give a shit about the things you mentioned and I read books and long forms every day, so get off your high horse.
I hear you. But some are hard to measure and some just takes longer than a few days to show results. I will probably follow up on the earlier rounds, and maybe also update the posts as well with the results. Though for every day there's one more "hack" to follow up on.
Your comments are incredibly awesome. I find myself coming to the comments here after a post like this specifically to see your take on things. Bookmarked.
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At the other side, the author presented the less fitting anedocte he came up with, saying "see, even if I try hard to refute the hypothesis, I can't". And it's not an extraordinary hypothesis.
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My insurance costs haven't changed much based on my commute. Oil changes can be amortized to about $12 a month. We're still not anywhere on the same planet as the $700 figure. If wear and tear are adding up to $600 a month when you're only driving 45 miles a day, it sounds like your car is effectively dead and needs to be replaced.
Can we see the gzipped size side by side with real size on network panel?
Good idea, will see what I can do. Thanks!
It's worth considering that the 55 cents per mile average probably includes the cost of the car... if you're paying $500 a month for a car payment, and you need a car, even half as much, you still have to pay $500 for the payment... meaning if you spend half as much in gas, you're now at $600/month and paying >90 cents per mile, it's all relative. You only really save on the cost of a vehicle if you already own it (no payments) are lucky enough to have minimal maintenance costs, and/or can otherwise eliminate a vehicle payment. Gasoline is generally a fraction of the cost of owning/operating a car.

That said, I tend to live pretty centrally located mainly to make my commute easier, if I could also have nearby (within a 5-7 minute walking distance) shopping etc, I'd really like it. The Phoenix area added light rail (my apartment is actually really close to a stop), but only a limited number of places I need to go are along a nearby route.

Of course, I am pretty lazy... I've been parking farther away on purpose to get more walking in when I go places, including work.
>Cars are analogous.

No they aren't. Many people need a car every day. Almost nobody needs a plane every day.
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>Whats wrong with a police department having a tank? I'd say it's a waste of money, but if it's completely free there's no downside.

First, it's not all about the money. Second, the tools you use, shape your practice ("If you have a hammer", etc).

Those tanks only reinforce the idea of the militarization of the police forces. Next time, they'll be tempted to use it to crack down some student shit-down or such. Or go bust some small time drug dealer. Perhaps killing a few innoncents in the process.

See, for example: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/swat-t...
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Same can be said in the opposite direction. All that parking space and all that road space wasted in cities means removing the freedom to live in the city for many, possibly more than the ones who are currently driving in.
Think you meant, "low maintenance!" :)
The universe already contains human-level intelligent agents. They're called humans.
As a minor nitpick, the plural of cul-de-sac is 'culs-de-sac' (not 'cul-de-sacs' as appears in the title).
While cost+ pricing is frowned upon, it is indeed wildly used...for most small businesses it is the simplest approach, especially for commodity products and services.

I do agree though that for a technology startup, cost+ pricing should not even be on your list of options.
I was reading about how iBeacon will revolutionize contact less payments but when I read about square wallet, I thought this is already done without any need of iBeacon.

Thoughts? Am I missing anything here?
http://mozilla.debian.net/ is probably what you're after.

Debian uses the 'ESR' versions (long-term support, for enterprises etc) of firefox as it's stock browser, as it's impractical to review the latest and greatest every few weeks for security. The above link gives you the appropriate lines to add to your apt sources.list to get whichever version you like for whichever flavour you're running.

This gives you Iceweasel though, not Firefox, however the only difference is the branding.
Shrink the street to gain curb space. Look at Broadway in NYC: you have all kinds of events and public markets going on down just about the entire length. Gaining curb space encourages people to walk, which in turn spurs local businesses, which encourages more people to walk (because there are all these awesome storefronts to shop at).
Assuming you can read. And can read the language it's written in. Neither of those is a given.
This would be amazing on a device like the Moto G or something similar. If they get this in the sub $200 or sub $100 price point with reasonable performance, it could be a real big deal.
So if you say you fixed it, do you have any before and after results?
I'll add that I'm a supporter of our transit system. I moved to my current apartment in part to be near it (and it plays a role in deciding where I'd like to work). But even after configuring my life about as much as is possible in this city to make the train an option, the car is still very often the most convenient, hassle-free option.
At least one person who is not the author seems to have liked this book, so I challenge the assumption that it "appears to be a bad book".

And... it's a book, dude. You can check it out from the library or buy it used for ten bucks and stop reading it if you don't like it; that's not going to ruin your life. If you have enough time to reply to my dumb comments on HN, you must certainly have the time to start reading the book for 30 minutes and decide if it's worth continuing or not :)
No tips but but did you employers know about this before you demoed it?
> diversity

Still looks like a sausage fest.
But humans aren't necessarily Turing machines.
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These are two reasons to believe taxis should be cheaper than personal ownership.

Well, could be. But the cabbie's wages quickly eat into those gains.

It makes far more sense to rent an airplane than buy one because almost no one travels enough to justify the purchase. Cars are analogous.

Hardly. A 737 lasts for decades and spends nearly a full half of that time in the air; of course no one flies that much. Cars on the other hand, if driven slightly over the US average- say, 20,000miles/year- will hit 200,000 miles in just 10 years, and most cars are _done_ by 200k.
1) What the heck do they mean by a hologram? The analogy here baffles me. Is this just a layman's analogy, or does this actually mean something scientific?

2) Anybody have any suggestions on a high-quality layman's explanation? I finished reading Feynman's QED the other week, and loved it, and was wondering what the closest might be for string theory.
The usual internet twaddle. How many commenters on this thread have bothered to look up incidents of this nature in their districts, neighbourhoods or whatever, and called their councilman or congressman?

I guarantee none. Spend less time online and more complaining to your representatives. You will achieve a lot more in turning things around, ie if you really want to, cowards.
Maybe.

But just looking at expected value ignores risk. Most people are risk averse, especially at the amounts of money we're talking about here.
>One of the problems with the street layouts described here is that pedestrians have to follow the same winding routes that the cars do.

Why do they have to? I don't see why you couldn't build a more natural walking path away from the street traffic that would be less objectionable to homeowners since there wouldn't be the automotive noise and danger to children.
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I don't think anyone's going to argue that point

Apparently lots of people are willing to argue that point by putting their money where their mouth is.
Any start-ups trying to help mortgage brokers / originators? Many like Ellie Mae, LPS and others feel like old school application vendors. Of the banks, who "gets it?"
In terms of costs that directly arise from miles driven, I can't think of any that add up to 200% of my gas expenses. Like, even if you're replacing a $200 part every single month (which should not be happening), that still doesn't work out to the numbers you're citing, and the numbers you're citing are still less than the numbers I was objecting to.
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Alternatively, he could mean even less than low maintenance :)
That's just not true, you can't say that about all european cities. Vienna has excellent public transport for example.
Whether or not somebody is a terrorist is largely a matter of perception. Consider the case of Shaker Aamer.

"The Northern Alliance took him into custody in Jalalabad on 24 November 2001, and passed him to the Americans. The US routinely paid ransom for Arabs handed over to them."

"Status: Cleared for release in 2007. Still held at Guantanamo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaker_Aamer

I will grant you, if you want to narrowly define political prisoner to someone who is exclusively a political dissident, you are right. How do you classify people held for over a decade without charges? The political prisoner label is expedient because it implies that the reasons for holding that person are that they are simply undesirable, and that they should not be allowed to be a part of a society; not because they are guilty of some specific act. Hell, even political prisoners get their day in kangaroo court. We have not even put up show trials for these men.
I don't see explained anywhere what causes them to make the leap that, because the math of holographic theory works, the universe 'is' a hologram. Doesn't it just mean that they've found a way to convert between two abstractions?
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Find a collection of experts you can turn to that are on your side: accountant, lawyer, web designer, insurance, business coach/advisor. You want your ducks in a row in these areas from the start even if you just have conversations and people picked out.

Understand the danger of early stage investment. It can shelter you from market realities. It can also enable something big that you own very little of.

My 6 month project turned into 12 years... It will take longer than you expect. The sooner you release something the better. Once you have people paying for something, it gets real and exciting.
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We should definitely not criticize, yes, unless we can provide some kind of positive feedback. I agree. I like how the article had good words in it. We should endeavor to make more articles with good words.
yet here you are posting on an internet forum
If you use Gnome I've been reasonably happy with htitle.

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>The article mentions that Atlantic Station sits on a large parking deck, but doesn't explore how its 7,200 parking spaces can make an otherwise small outdoor mall very busy at popular times. Cars remove you from your immediate surroundings, but they also enable you to temporarily be part of a community physically distant from where you live.

Going into a mall hardly qualifies as "being part of a community".
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So thumbs up for trying new things. I really and sincerely mean that.

Now I'm going to say something that will sound discouraging but has your best interests at heart: do you currently have 100 people who absolutely, positively could not run their business without UserApp? Or, as an intermediate goal, ten? If not, your only job is for you to go out, as an actual person rather than a web page, and recruit those users one at a time. Your service level can be stupidly unscalable -- forget "Here's our API documentation", you can literally offer "Give me your laptop and I will write the integration for you. Right now. I'm serious. You think I'm not serious? Laptop. Now." (My understanding is that Patrick Collison was doing this for Stripe in the early days.) If they stop using it, rather than doing deep analytics magic to discover what lead to their lack of engagement, you should call them up and say "Dude, I literally coded the integration for you. Level with me: why isn't this everything you need in user management? What can I implement for you to get you to revert that commit?"

After you've got 10/100/etc people who really like your service, you can start thinking about scaling acquisition channels. In the process of doing that, you'll likely optimize the living daylights out of them, and in the process develop intuitions for "This test is a priority for me to run" versus "This seems like it's likely a poor use of my time even if it succeeds."

At the moment, the cart appears to be a step or two in front of the horse.
They would subsist merely on great clouds of smug, rainbow baths, meditation, and unicorn droppings. The rest of us, of course, will drive a car.
The indirect auto costs are paid by everyone (and pollution is attributable to the bus riders as well), so it gives an incentive to own a cheap reliable car that isn't depreciating much. If I take my kid to someplace 1 mile away it's $3.75 and 15 minutes by bus, or ~$0.80 and 5 minutes by car. I do prefer to walk if it's only a mile.
Thank you, that is awesome. So are all the problems ones of a pedantic nature? For example I understood the inverse function description as a definition even though there was a range (which I also knew) for which it was invalid.

Generally I consider those sorts of things to be the difference between writing 'proofs' versus explaining concepts.
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This article is not about police tanks. (Even though it's horrifying that if the tanks were about to roll into America's equivalent of Tianeman Square, our American Tank Man would just be tasered, at best.)

This article is about the prison/police system becoming the fundamental axis of civil society. Schools are run like prisons, and increasingly with police presence. Minority groups are, as always, increasingly targeted for harassment and neutralization. If you get on the radar of the police state, you and your family will be hounded forever. If you are imprisoned, it's more likely than not that you'll be held in solitary confinement.

The article doesn't seem to answer the question I wish I knew the answer to -- how did we get here? What happened that made the United States this way? Was it always like this, behind the curtains, just a nest of HUAACs and J Edgar Hoovers?

Well, now the J Edgar Hoover of 2013 knows everything about everyone, he can arrest anyone for any reason at any time, and he can't be opposed by any means I'm aware of. That iconic picture of a hippy putting a flower in the barrel of a riot cop's gun could never happen today -- as soon as the hippy reached for the gun I'm sure his head would be blown off.
Yeah, this is trouble, because the common understanding of "hologram" is very different from the actual definition.

As far as I understand it (and another person has explained it better below), the indication is that the way we perceive the universe indicates that the "data" producing those perceptions is not stored in the same structures we see or detect - instead, those structures (space, mass) are sort of "implied" by a more fundamental way of "storing" that data, which we interpret secondhand because we can't perceive the original. Not sure if this is clear or accurate, but that's what I've taken away from previous articles on a holographic universe.
If you're seeing video playback without audio, it's likely a ChromeCast codec issue.

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Speaking of control, I think an interesting way to conceptualize what's happening here is a cybernetic/organicist model (a tradition that goes at least as far back as Hobbes).

The nation-state can be thought of as a superorganism, and this requires complex systems of feedback and control. We have resource inputs, which are processed via the churn of economic activity (this is analogous to cellular respiration). This activity sustains the citizens (cells) while also providing resources via taxes to the government (the executive control / brain / etc). The government, in turn, uses those resources to sustain itself and exert control over the body-state, as well as powering the police/military for internal and external defense (somewhat analogous to the immune system).

So this is all a very complicated machine, the nation-state feeding off resources and in turn providing for its own sustenance and protection. It is, as Hobbes noted, basically a giant form of life.

Of course, this idea can be taken much further (the NSA is essentially a somatosensory system) but I'll just leave it at that for now.
It seems I'm woefully ignorant in the ways of online forum posting...

I had assumed that excerpting a specific portion of TFA and highlighting why I found it particularly insightful would have been germane to the conversation thread.

If only there was a way you could have expressed your opinion that my comment didn't add anything to the conversation without resorting to sarcasm and obtuse rhetoric... (Unless you haven't crossed the 'able to down-vote threshold yet... in which case, no worries).
The whole idea is to further display and reinforce your own splendour, adding subtle peer-pressure to everybody else.

Kinda like academic publishing, right? Pretty sure the Erdos number[1] was around well before Academia.edu.

To make it clear - I think a lot of Academia.edu's practices are annoying - login wall for papers etc. But academia would be well served if it took better advantage of some of the possibilities online collaboration brought (think of the Polymath projects). CiteULike/arxiv cannot be the high point of online academic publishing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
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The first Crysis had some good things in terms of freedom of movement and tactical options. I'm told Far Cry 2 is pretty good in this regard as well.

Otherwise, the original Operation Flashpoint/ARMA are pretty much the ultimate FPS sandbox. As long as you are ready to eat bugs and suffer the terrible physics. Completely different from Deus Ex, obviously, but definitely not on rails.
This might be far-fetched, but I wonder whether it is Lenovo. Just saying because Lenovo's PCs and Servers have excellent Ubuntu support.
Only if we map 1 car to 1 person

Please read my parent. He said:

If the model is that we own our self-driving cars it may be that they can be parked at much greater distances (10+ miles)

That's what I was replying to.

Some older European cities from pre-car eras are built like that, and it's wonderful.

And a fair number of pre-automobile European cities are built with tiny streets. Hence, part of why micro-cars are so popular in Europe.
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Yeah. We do a lot of security work and have clients inside the Federal government. We run Github inside our firewall. Something like this would be pretty rad, I just emailed it to one of our infrastructure guys.
"but I'm critical of having to subsidize the excessive amount of infrastructure necessary for the lifestyle choice of unnecessarily travelling very large distances"

Why choose this choice as the the line in the sand?

Are you also critical of having to subsidize the excessive amount of infrastructure necessary for the lifestyle choice of living in a strictly large than necessary place, for example?

Because you subsidize that to a large degree too.

Everyone who has a larger dining room because they have made the lifestyle choice of wanting to host dinner parties.
Or large kitchens.
Large bedrooms.
Large yards.
You name it.

It's all strictly unnecessary, and all lifestyle choice. Among other subsidies, all of it takes up valuable space that could be given to the public, or something else done with it. It requires more infrastructure - greater water supplies, greater sanitation requirements, power supplies, gas supplies, what have you.

Yet we subsidize this just the same as you are paying for roads, you are just paying for it in different places.

In truth, we subsidize a large number of lifestyle choices that impact infrastructure (having kids, riding bikes, heck, even buying groceries, you name it).

From what I can tell, it just seems some people are upset that they subsidies don't always match whatever their particular ideology of how cities should be built is.

Just remember there really is no "better" or "worse", when it comes to lifestyle choices, just different (you may impose moral judgements on lifestyle choices depending on ideology and viewpoint of purpose of society, but the truly vast majority of these moral judgements are not universally shared)