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mrybczynon Why Amsterdam Works So Well for Bikes

Nothing wrong with driving. Just drive appropriately.

Car sharing. Taxi / Uber. Hybrids. Electric cars. Self driving cars.

The freedom to transport yourself is a powerful force for good, and socialized public transport and bikes are not a real solution in many / most places.

(am a biker, love biking, only commute by bike to work 3 months of the year)

mrybczynon Git git git git git

alias p='git pull'

why type 8 characters 100 times a day, when you can type 1?

mrybczynon Outraged about the Google diversity memo?

Hard to say what the actual numbers are, but from the anecdotal evidence, a percentage of people felt that they had to pretend to be politically correct / leftist liberals. If you multiply any percentage, times the 80 million people in California, that's a lot of mental anguish and repression.

As long as there's food and shelter for most, things will continue as they are. First little bit of suffering, and it will explode into revolution. Normal way of things.

mrybczynon Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

Eh? That assumption of "not associating my personal identity" doesn't actually work. Your profile IS your personal identity, and can be associated trivially. If not algorithmically, then via one connecting piece of information supplied by various databases and no such agencies. You're living in a dream.

mrybczynon Close-Up View of DNA Replication

Here's the argument from Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html

mrybczynon Mathematical Chronology

Fantastic, I wish I had read this back in elementary / high school.

Will review with the kids!

Not having this context in mathematics teaching is criminal.

mrybczynon Supreme Court sets higher bar for education of students with disabilities

So I guess we'll see more of this? :

2007: https://www.cnet.com/news/uc-berkeley-first-to-post-full-lec...

2017: http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266033/obama-civil-rights-...

mrybczynon Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

A sequence of many 9's in a row in the decimal expansion, which Feynman jokingly extended ... and 'showed' therefore pi was rational.