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by oposa 7y ago
Maybe a couple can survive changes in the housing and job market well enough that it they don’t mind the changes to their quality of life. But it very likely will be noticeable to their kids when other families have stronger finances and be
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by oposa 7y ago
I have found this to be distinctly not true. I don't know of many places were living a more modest life is a good choice. It seems like most people who says this have already benefited from cheaper education, real estate, their partner
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by oposa 7y ago
No amount of education is going to save you if the truth isn't viable. The truth isn't "climate change exists". The truth is "climate change exists and you are going to pay for it". And there isn't much of
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by oposa 7y ago
Of course it is easier to change zoning or make reforms when you address people's concerns. Thinking that there can be development when everyone is either fearing having to move or have most of their assets in housing is what doesn&#x2
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by oposa 7y ago
I have had similar thoughts. There is a lot to say about the information age, but I have mostly changed my perspective. I don't think it is a technological revolution, or more correctly because of the technological revolution, these th
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by oposa 7y ago
As a Northern European it does seem a bit of a bad deal that women are expected to work but there isn't much of a guarantee for parental leave, affordable child care or even vacation. But I guess there isn't that much precedent fo
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by oposa 7y ago
By definition you wouldn't know many lonely people. The chronically lonely ones are going to be the people who didn't end up getting married when they "should" have, couldn't make it into a proper career or fell out
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by oposa 7y ago
You can find most information on seat61. Many countries just don't have very good infrastructure. It is often either slow in its own right or you have to transfer between trains, or even different operators. I think it is more of a &qu
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by oposa 7y ago
You can, because you just have to make them fast enough to be competitive. Really fast train will probably never be widespread because they require to much infrastructure. A train going 5 times the speed of a car requires a lot of very expe
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by oposa 7y ago
It is a matter of perspective, but I think the more accurate view is that personal travel is what keeps the trains (or the planes) running and business travel makes the profit. You need the "bulk" for flexibility, frequency and ma
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by oposa 7y ago
Doesn't seem fine to me. Denmark has some of the highest taxes on cars, high taxes in general, is overall expensive and increasingly has dysfunctional politics and uncompetitive infrastructure [0]. Part of the benefit of being a small
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by oposa 7y ago
Gothenburg to Stockholm is longer and takes 3 hours by train, and that is with a train from 1990. That is of course the prime route in Sweden, but it still isn't fast.
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by oposa 7y ago
Unfortunately that is mostly the ocean. It takes around 3 hours to get through Denmark between Sweden and Germany. You could probably double that if you wanted to traverse Denmark. Three decades between the Øresund Bridge and the Fehmarn Be
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by oposa 7y ago
Buses could probably work in urban areas if there were less cars. Today cars come from far and wide "bunch up" in cities. Much of the reasons why trains are better in urban areas today is because of the dedicated space and being e
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by oposa 7y ago
> There is no unsolved technology problems with busses. They have similar physics problems as cars. 1. They can't go very fast nor carry a lot of weight before they become uneconomical or unsafe. 2. They especially can't go ver
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by oposa 7y ago
It isn't particularly surprising that those with less money would limit their purchases at the corner store to non-essential items. That is usually how corner, or literally convenience, stores work.
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by oposa 7y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-rus... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=maersk
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by oposa 7y ago
"Hackers" of course already more or less happened to Maersk.
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by oposa 7y ago
Thiel gets way too much credit for being pragmatic (or whatever you want to call it). As far as I have read he has held those views for a long time, whether you like them or not. It wouldn't surprise me if it goes back to his parents o
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by oposa 7y ago
There is a lot you can do, but you shouldn't have to. This isn't someone burning down their school. This is the first world becoming the third world in digital. In the third world you always to watch yourself so you don't hur
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by oposa 7y ago
Unfortunately not in the foreseeable future. It is a couple of years old at this point, and I haven't really tested it either. I think you would also need palm rests to recreate the experience well enough.
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by oposa 7y ago
A lot. But isn't that big of a concern (but being curious is a great thing overall). There always going to be things are obscure, irrelevant or hidden. But that isn't what people are missing these days. Almost everything that you
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by oposa 7y ago
I don't know. I think there are some parallels, but more in the sense that many audiophile probably don't care that much about the audio. It is more about singling that you are successful enough to buy and care about different thi
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by oposa 7y ago
It can of course be discussed but I think many of the 'natural' incentives to organize, or even notice something, like scarcity and expense isn't there anymore. These days there are just so much to compete with. I guess what
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by oposa 7y ago
> Why are so many mechanical keyboards tiny? They don't want to spend the money for more switches? Yes, to some extent at least. But maybe more the pcb, plate, case etc. I have a pcb for a ms natural style keyboard (without the nump
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by oposa 7y ago
Sure, that is sort of what I am saying. It is hard to build a community around custom cases when injection molding starts at $5k. It is like trying to start a band (before the Internet) with no venues, demo or posters. That would be infinit
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by oposa 7y ago
It is also, like many things in hardware, a software problem. The purpose of a keyboard is to interact with software. And that software is biased towards certain layouts. It is hard to change the layout too much without quickly becoming a n
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by oposa 7y ago
I don't think we are talking about the same diy. There is one definition of diy, which I guess is now more common, that means self-repair, crafting or hobbyism. But there is also a more distinct definition, as in diy culture, that mean
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by oposa 7y ago
> But 3D printing solved the first problem and they are mostly soldered with wires rather than experimenting with pcbs. It doesn't really. Modern diy culture is ultimately about publishing. That is what puts you on somewhat equal fo