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by tafda 1y ago
Moral Mazes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes ) is a sociology classic along these lines. Here's a relevant interview with the author, Robert Jackall: https://anso.williams.edu/files&#x2F
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by tafda 2y ago
Wind speeds and live fuel moisture level are the critical measures of fire risk in chaparral. Fuel moisture levels have been approaching critical this season in Southern California and, due to lack of rain, didn't follow the seasonal p
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California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones(latimes.com)
412 points by tafda 2y ago|526 comments
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The Job Drought in Finance and Tech Is Ending(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tafda 2y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 2y ago
“Walkable” and “grid” are orthogonal concerns. London and Tokyo are two examples of very walkable non-grids, which I prefer to American grid-based city planning — the random connections fuel serendipity. I think the problem in modern suburb
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by tafda 3y ago
To prevent a tragedy of the commons in street parking spaces, Japan has an excellent system, the shako shomeisho , though looking at how hard it's been to push through a congestion tax in lower Manhattan, I doubt it'd be politic
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by tafda 3y ago
The condenser unit on my Miele heat pump clothes dryer just went out after less than two and a half years. It's a $1500 out of warranty repair on a $2K dryer, and the part will take a month to arrive. Could be bad luck, though I see a
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by tafda 3y ago
Berkeley’s Hearst Gym at Bancroft & Bowditch https://www.nollandtam.com/portfolio/hearst-gymnasium-pool
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by tafda 3y ago
Medical evacuation (unrelated to method of travel) is specifically one of the benefits of an Amex Platinum card, as long as you’re more than 100 miles from your address. Maybe worth $700/year, maybe not. See: https://www.ame
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If Every Brand Is Funny Online, Is Anything Funny?(nytimes.com)
20 points by tafda 3y ago|30 comments
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by tafda 3y ago
" In a recent survey of French restaurants, more than a third fessed up that they serve industrially prepared, and often frozen, food. Fast-food outlets, mind you, weren't even included in that poll, which was conducted by Synhorc
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by tafda 3y ago
Sure, good example of that is r 3.4 out of 5 on the Japanese restaurant review site Tabelog is miles better as a signal of good food than any number of 5 star yelp reviews in the US. My larger point was that LA and NYC (and specific communi
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by tafda 3y ago
You need a immigrant community large enough to be cooking for their own palate. Los Angeles, for example, has a population of ~30K Thai, ~180K Japanese, and ~5M Mexican origin (numbers from Pew). Plenty of options in LA for northern, Isaan,
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by tafda 3y ago
I don’t agree with the article and its definitions, it seems poorly sourced and to be advocating for English towns as the apex of civilization. That said, the photos provided and the descriptions focus more on the style of the buildings tha
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by tafda 3y ago
Tokyo is the complete opposite of what you describe, “ugly” per the article but walkable and lively. No acres of parking lots either.
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Pandemic Population Boom in Rural Hotspots Sparks Resentment(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by tafda 3y ago|3 comments
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by tafda 3y ago
NICU is an exception to that rule! All you need to replicate at home is vital sign alarms and 24x7 nurse care.
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Revolut’s US payment flaws allowed thieves to steal $20M(ft.com)
11 points by tafda 3y ago|4 comments
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Fears grow of deepfake ID scams following Progress hack(ft.com)
1 points by tafda 3y ago|0 comments
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San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks(latimes.com)
138 points by tafda 3y ago|143 comments
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A Tale of Paradise, Parking Lots and My Mother’s Berkeley Backyard(nytimes.com)
2 points by tafda 3y ago|0 comments
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US cancer drug shortage forces doctors to ration life-saving treatments(ft.com)
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by tafda 3y ago
I was also thinking Tarkovsky’s Stalker while reading the parent comment - a great accompaniment to a nap on a lazy afternoon. Nice atmosphere, but did anything happen in that movie?
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C3.ai Criticized for Product Delays, Founder Tom Siebel’s Micromanaging(bloomberg.com)
3 points by tafda 3y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 3y ago
Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking is the classic in the genre of explaining how cooking works. Rather dry textbook style.
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Chronicling of the Collapse of Public Transit in the US(bloomberg.com)
3 points by tafda 3y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 3y ago
That Somerville bike path is infamous in some circles as being a poor use of $100 million of transit funding, see: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/07/23/the-leakage-pr...
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What if San Francisco never pulls out of its ‘doom loop’?(ft.com)
9 points by tafda 3y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 3y ago
Similar to hospital pricing Her screenshots, taken earlier this year, speak for themselves. What they show are price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software. The eye-popping increases are so
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by tafda 3y ago
Neutraface is easy to find but rather boring and cliche. I went with custom house numbers in Adrian Frutiger’s Univers font from here: https://www.accurateimageinc.com/

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