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And build one unit of transit next to them, it doesn't matter if the road or rail is connected.

They underestimated the ability of new media to manufacture consent.

I'm in Canada--if I want to buy a pair of jeans made here, my options are boutique brands starting at $150.

Your prescription to buy domestic is a noble end goal, but it's out of reach to the working class. What do you think are the intermediate steps to get there? How do we make over-consumption stop being normal?

Lower class people are the ones being exploited for fast fashion. If you buy a $10 shein tshirt and own it till it's thread bare, it's less environmentally destructive than tossing it after 3 wears, but some desperately poor people were underpaid to sell it at that price.

Not to mention the other dangers of turning a blind eye to production--kids clothes tainted with lead? Heads should roll for that.

Gawd those haunting eyes... I wonder how many people donated just to make them stop.

Believing that the data is recoverable seems to be as optimistic as believing that bitcoin will still have value by the time it's found. Did he recruit his financial backers at a TedTalk?

In the linked article, Strong Towns doesn't say much about the nature of these deaths, but in other articles, (e.g. below) they explore how many of these killings are vehicle-on-pedestrian deaths, and how we've normalized blaming victims.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/7/14/new-report-ame...

My vague recollection of the claim was that the owner of an influential newspaper was also an owner/steakholder of a cotton processing business. Urban legend as far as I can tell.

This plausibly might not be sarcasm O_o

> the enemy we are most likely to fight is the environment

My first trip on a bird scooter confirmed this.

Metric to imperial hours.

US and Canada have issues with rapidly declining quality of life and social mobility. Drug use might be, quite literally, opiate for the masses.

> Ann Reason

"Anne Reardon" (autocorrect wah wah waaah)

> "for many the worse the news is the more addictive their attention becomes. "

That is both terrible, and so accurate that ad driven media builds the business model around it. I wonder what the underlying mechanism is... maybe some sort of hedonic reversal happens, like people who enjoy cold showers/polar swimming?

How do you deal with the fact that the patch operations are not associative? This seems like a recipe for conflicting effects... you don't want the result to depend on the order you picked up items. Do you batch the effects? (e.g. deletes, then inserts, then modifications?)

What is the behavior of your chosen library--mutable or immutable operations? I.e. do you pay the penalty of making a deeply nested copy of your scene graph for each turn?

Asking for a friend....

I suspect that the geographical limits of pre-internet "social platforms" was what filtered out the toxicity we observe now.

If your social club was a dance hall or book club or garden society or union pub, your interactions were limited to people within an hour of travel time or so. That's such a TINY sample of people that fringe beliefs and behaviors were always recognized as marginalia and tended to stay there.

This was a double edge sword.... queer kids in small towns were trapped in the closet, but no one thought contrails were dispersing mind altering drugs.

Social reach may be a cursed problem. It's not obvious how to create a platform that will be safe for, e.g. trans people in socially conservative towns, but prevent it from also sheltering nazi sympathizers. Relying on self policing by the platforms has resulted in problems and dangers we still haven't addressed.

Previously retired coal power plants are being brought back into service just to power bitcoin. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ameren-deploys-bi...

You're right, but Netflix has been punished for taking risks. Look at the spike in churn rate with the release of 'cuties': https://thestreamable.com/news/report-netflix-saw-3-6-millio...

Is that because the beaverton writers are getting better, or because the world is getting more ridiculous?

Have you considered a low maintenance cover crop like no-mow grass or clover? They look like a good idea on paper, but are there side effects that are more trouble than the work of 'modern' lawn care?

That experiment will be defunded just as fast as the rat park.

http://utw10426.utweb.utexas.edu/quest/Q3/ratpark.html

> They are busy attacking the oil industry

What attack? Have they rolled back any of the billions of subsidies?

Cheating God is one of my favorite things about science.

Author has discovered a new method of torture. I tried to listen to the 2 minute sample, and rage quit after 30 seconds.

What, with your bare hands?!

I think inherent safety issues will keep ebikes classified as-is. A fast human humans can sprint 30km/h, and our skulls and skin can mostly survive a fall at that speed. Every ebike is limited to that speed because that's the safe speed. 40km/h doesn't feel much faster when you're doing it, but a fall at that speed is an order of magnitude more likely to need hospitalization.

I expect something between a velomobile and a tuktuk could be engineered to protect a rider from a fall, but where would you drive it? It wouldn't be safe to share a road with trucks, and but it would be a danger to cyclists.

Edit: We have the tech to do it right now--the homebrew combo of bafang motor and phaserunner controller can turn a mountain bike into a suicide machine. It would be a sensible upgrade for a dutch-style cargo bike though. Keep it locked under 30kph and you could take little kids on a grocery run. (Where city trail infrastructure exists.)

It's solving the problem of, 'we want programmers to be a more powerful caste.'

"Free lunch" was the same idiom that came to my mind when I read the parent comment about "no-loss lotteries," as if the electricity for hashing was clean and free.

The responsibility and risk of maintaining wallet keys seems on par to me with storing literal gold bullion. Laypeople aren't qualified. I'm not even convinced most programmers are qualified.

Great link, thank you, but now I have more questions:

Bottom of that article shows his tombstone... is there another tombstone in the background with a triforce?

I generally agree with his conclusions, but I found his argument about centralization very weak. Bitcoin on mars seems like an impractical thought experiment compared to the actual reality that 50 miners (maybe less) control enough of the network to seize control when they desire. [1]

I wish he'd spent some time discussing the fact that bitcoin's 'value' is proportional to the electricity needed for hashing, and that property will favor aggregating control to a few actors at whatever geographic local has the cheapest electricity. The political and environmental shenanigans exploited by these actors is a deep dive, too, but out of scope for his thesis.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/study-finds-bitcoin-more-c...