spaethnl

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by spaethnl 8mo ago
How is that LVT "rent" different from any other traditional property tax being "rent"? As near as I can tell, it is just a different way of deciding how the property tax burden is levied. Downtown property gets taxed muc
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by spaethnl 2y ago
What you are saying is Russian propaganda. Nearly every country that has been attacked has forced conscription. The US did during WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and we weren't even attacked in 3 of those. Were we authoritarian then?
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by spaethnl 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what cost do you believe that you currently personally bear for this?
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by spaethnl 3y ago
Before the node-size race we also had the clock-speed race. Eventually it was common for processors reach 2-4ghz, and after that the clock speed gains stopped being practical because as you increase clock speed you also increase energy requ
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by spaethnl 3y ago
I suspect it does matter because the inability to understand arithmetic likely effects higher level learning. For example, If you want it to learn statistics, it likely needs a good understanding of arithmetic. All tasks that rely on it wil
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by spaethnl 4y ago
I tried making a couple characters, and this whole thing is extremely impressive. First I made a rabbit that lives in my backyard. It was able to talk about the neighborhood animals and its activities. For example: his best friend Jeff the
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by spaethnl 4y ago
Who is "they"? You dismiss the "strongtowns" argument as if there is some consensus that it has been debunked, but I don't think there is such a consensus, so you'd need to support that claim. Further, the wors
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by spaethnl 4y ago
Sure, but that isn't what we're talking about. The comment that this thread branched off of is about the relative difference in danger of 10mph with a modern vehicle, not 20, 30, or 40mph. I don't think I agree with that user
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by spaethnl 4y ago
There are typically two kinds of roads these speeds are reached in the US: 1. Expressways, where pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed. They are walled off with specific entrances and exits. 2. Country highways, where pedestrians and cyc
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by spaethnl 4y ago
I don't see the rhetoric you are talking about used by mainstream climate change activists; I see reasonable changes: 1) Power most things with electricity instead of fossil fuels. 2) Generate electricity with sustainable technologies
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by spaethnl 4y ago
I think you are right: A city government or business wouldn't do this because they would have to take on the entire cost themselves because they don't have any control over the other end of the more global balance sheet: the rural
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by spaethnl 4y ago
I think it would be great if that subsidization came in the form a universal FoodStamps only spendable on nationally produced strategic goods. This would make subsidization more transparent to the general public, while also enabling free-ma
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by spaethnl 5y ago
This project is actually on my near-term TODO list. I've been planning on implementing it as a recipe site where every ingredient is a recipe itself.
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by spaethnl 5y ago
Apple could implement this with a default of "automatically decline all", allowing users to only manually opt-in when they feel the need without ever seeing a prompt. If you mean html/css prompts rather than actual browser pr
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by spaethnl 5y ago
Yeah, I have been looking forward to that for a while. I'm hoping that if their app isn't flexible enough to do menu-based dosing that it will be possible to side-load my own app to do that dosing. As an aside, the OmniPod 5 was j
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by spaethnl 5y ago
I think this article does a great job covering many of the difficulties of T1D. One component I think was under-emphasized is the fact that correction insulin doses are not based on what your current blood glucose(BG) levels are, but on whe
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by spaethnl 5y ago
I (genuinely) wonder how much that is attributable to having no actual use for other math, vs 1. not having been taught math early enough for it to be second nature 2. not having been taught useful every day applications of the math so as t
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by spaethnl 5y ago
Yes, I've been looking for something like that. I think there are two great under-explored use-cases for this: 1. Laptop ergonomics are really poor for taller people who need to hunch over to see a screen. Decoupling the screen from th
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by spaethnl 6y ago
I think the issue was that Pokemon Go used certain types of map elements as their Pokemon capture points, e.g., Landmarks, or something. People weren't adding "Pokemon capture points", they were adding non-existent Landmarks
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by spaethnl 6y ago
I think it would be easier, more reliable, and more energy efficient to wait for microled displays, which seem to be right around the corner. I get the impression that they might be available by the end of the year or next year, and might b
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by spaethnl 6y ago
For a point of reference, which other languages have you learned?
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by spaethnl 6y ago
None of us like the crazy number of prompts. Most (all?) of us like to be the one who controls what we can do with our own devices. These standards return some control to the user , rather than the corporation. But then we get more prompts
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by spaethnl 6y ago
When I was looking into this months ago I had the same concern. I've read about how common lisp packages tend to become "finished" and not updated after a while, but that doesn't intuitively make sense to me for a packag
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by spaethnl 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the parent, but to give an example for a non-rectangular UI for manipulating (programming) text: Combine structural editing[1] overlaid on some kind of 3d graph that shows how your entire codebase fits togethe
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by spaethnl 7y ago
There is this, though expensive, and not in production: http://www.energy-observer.org/en/
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by spaethnl 7y ago
I just spent some more time looking at OSM's place data, and I'm not sure if more has been added since last looking at it, or if I wasn't using it correctly, but it seems to have more than I remember. I see that a couple of p
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by spaethnl 7y ago
We actually aren't using the accessibility data from the Places API, we are collecting and displaying custom data that is provided by users (detailed ratings, reviews and pictures from regular users, and highly detailed building assess
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by spaethnl 7y ago
I develop an application at a university that allows users to share and lookup accessibility information on public places that uses Google Maps and the Google Places API. We have run in to exactly the same issues as described in this post a
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by spaethnl 7y ago
I've been thinking that a natural way to split up many large corporations that are anti-consumer would be to require: 1. Hardware manufacturers be separated from software manufactures 2. All hardware sold must have available appropriat
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by spaethnl 10y ago
What a bizarre response? The parent is suggesting that there are other topics that people feel are important and want to discuss, and your dismissive response seems to be, "We have all of these other things to discuss that I think ar

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