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by ocb 4y ago
> Sadly, I personally can't see how this remains to be the case any longer... RBR with Newey or Dall'Igna with Ducati have been in championship dry-spells for a really long time (last year's win for RBR was the first champ
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by ocb 4y ago
It's a case of the relatively spread out development pattern and associated wide rights of way being advantageous. Minneapolis can tack on fairly substantial bike infrastructure without totally screwing over cars, which would be just a
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by ocb 8y ago
> Do people really spend that much more time outside than I do? Am I some sort of sky-avoiding freak? Haha, have you noticed how half of the cars suddenly have ski racks as of the past month or so?
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by ocb 8y ago
Your point is valid but the person you replied to was specifically asking about Boston. I admittedly don’t know a lot about the public transit infrastructure in Boston but I have a hard time believing it’s less extensive than e.g. Seattle,
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by ocb 9y ago
Isn't the whole point of a space telescope so that you don't need adaptive optics? Or are you making a joke?
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by ocb 9y ago
I think it's ridiculous that the author poses the question of why anyone would want to live there and then immediately waves it off with "it's a whole other story". So, thanks for sharing at least one detail about why an
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by ocb 9y ago
Could you clarify why those things are mutually exclusive? And to be clear: I don't know how to feel about Bitcoin and the attention it has received lately.
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by ocb 9y ago
I'm certain there's some compelling argument to made about Amazon abusing its market position but this isn't it. You say "Prime has been proven to be losing money the more a customer buys" like that isn't an ob
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by ocb 9y ago
I'm not going to engage with you beyond this but that doesn't even make sense given that the US makes up ~4-5% of the world population.
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by ocb 9y ago
Ignoring your completely made up percentiles and the fact that you're a right-wing troll, poor people in the US get to call themselves poor because they face real problems where the not-poor don't. Access to healthy food, healthca
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by ocb 9y ago
What kind of psychopath-filled nightmare land do you live in?
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by ocb 9y ago
This is extremely misleading. The pro-status quo party boycotted the referendum. I'm relatively ignorant of the political situation in PR but it's obvious that this isn't a situation with near-universal consensus.
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by ocb 9y ago
If you live in the US that can't be true. The Interstate Highway System, state highways, etc. are government funded infrastructure that isn't funded locally. The mortgage market is also distorted/subsidized nationwide by the
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by ocb 9y ago
This is getting very off topic, but I think that's a terrible basis for disregarding the ethical argument against eating meat. Why is it "species-ist" to think that mammals and other animals with highly developed nervous syst
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by ocb 9y ago
It seems like it's assuming that you're starting on the freeway already... totally ignoring the 30+ minutes it takes to get onto I-5
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by ocb 9y ago
Yes, it did? Boulder seems like a nice enough place to live. I was pointing out how preposterous it is to claim that the Bay Area is a "cultureless void" because of tech bros and left-wing politics and then claim that somewhere th
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by ocb 9y ago
Portland, LA, and Boulder all have the problems you listed... Also the idea that Boulder has some kind of culture that the Bay Area doesn't is laughable. Disregarding that only 100,000 people live there, I've never seen a place mo
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by ocb 9y ago
Germany's aversion to credit cards is somewhat cultural, isn't it? Datenschutz, Datensicherheit, etc.
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by ocb 9y ago
6-7 hours can't possibly be correct, that's how long it takes driving.
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by ocb 9y ago
Not really true, pretty much every intra-regional trip would be well served by high speed rail. Seattle-Portland, Charlotte-Atlanta, Minneapolis-Chicago, etc. All of these trips are currently frequently taken by car because flying is a nuis
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by ocb 9y ago
> Due to the risk, I naturally didn't try to get a date with anyone when I was in leadership positions... despite much, much temptation since they were impressive inside & out. When you write things like that, phrased like that,
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by ocb 9y ago
I don't know, overoptimistic real estate developers? My point is just that asserting that rents in SF are increasing because they are trying to reach some kind of equilibrium with Flint, MI obviously involves glossing over tons of fact
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by ocb 9y ago
This seems like kind of an absurd oversimplification. Maybe what you're saying is true over geologic timescales but if SF suddenly had a large amount of vacant housing, rents wouldn't continue to increase regardless of what's
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by ocb 9y ago
P = NP is interesting precisely because of what you're saying: it feels trivially obvious that they aren't equal but no one can actually prove it... which sort of implies that it's not trivially obvious.
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by ocb 9y ago
No, obviously not just like Washington DC. I'm not even expressing my opinion in the matter I'm just explaining why Puerto Rico isn't always included when people say "the US"! Why did I get downvoted?
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by ocb 9y ago
Because it's distinct culturally and politically from the 50 states and (along with the US's other territories) therefore not always necessarily included when one is discussing the United States. Nor do its inhabitants necessarily
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by ocb 9y ago
Obviously it is legally a territory of the US and Puerto Ricans are American citizens but it's not one of the 50 states.
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by ocb 9y ago
Side note: coffee is also produced in Puerto Rico. Whether or not that should be counted as part of the US is debatable but it's interesting that there was no mention. Edit: NPR article from 2015[1] discussing coffee production in Puer
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by ocb 9y ago
Not true in the vast majority of usages. Maybe in scientific writing, but this is a blog post.
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by ocb 10y ago
Do you have a source for your claim about the there being a point in density where infrastructure costs stop scaling linearly? Intuitively, economies of scale imply the opposite of what you're saying--that infrastructure becomes less e

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