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A lawn is a pretty boring garden.

> Have you tried living in the dense cities like Mumbai, India or Manila, Philippines?

I've lived in Hong Kong, which is a similar order of density, and which I loved; it was a feeling of being vibrantly alive that's hard to duplicate in a more spread-out environment. Also spent a decent amount of time in Mumbai and enjoyed that - though I might not have if I were one of its poorer residents. Would it be worse than being poor in a village? Not sure.

> It's quite clear that with population density, trash output also increases and is harder to manage.

You're saying that 10 people per km2 produce more trash each than 5 people per km2? What's the mechanism at work there? I'd think denser cities means smaller houses and therefore less room for spurious stuff.

> Everyone I know who left a dense city never wants to go back

Okay. I don't know who you know but it doesn't sound like the people that I know.

> And worse for the people who live there. I get anxiety just thinking of living in a dense city.

After having lived in some small towns, I get anxiety thinking about not living in a big city. Different strokes. As it turns out, most people in most countries do choose to live in cities.

I have a €500 43" 4K and it's great. But anything else feels so small now.

Mine has 16GB and I regularly use some Mistral LLM as well as OpenHermes.

The only things that ever seems to get my fan going are transcoding a video or a really long compile.

Never once has the fan run during web browsing or any of the many everyday tasks that used to bring my previous one to its knees.

Better for the planet, better food and cultural options, shorter travel times for typical daily activities... in my book it definitely is.

I made a link shortener in 2010 and it was such a terrible experience. Constant notices from my hosting company about child porn links, repeated ominous emails from the FBI and their counterparts in other countries, having my server temporarily shut down repeatedly. I abandoned it after 6 months because the amount of time it took to continually adapt countermeasures to all the scummy abusers was too overwhelming. In so doing, I'm sure I contributed to all the link rot out there.

... in a world where utility-scale battery technology doesn't continue to evolve along its current trajectory because of, um, reasons.

When people in richer countries buy a lot of solar panels and heat pumps and whatnot, that brings down the manufacturing cost of these items, so that they also become the rational choice in poorer countries.

Once everyone in America started driving cars, that didn't drive a resurgence in the use of horses for transportation in Africa.

It's a real site, I've used it for at least 10 years.

And, sadly, make it easier for repressive regimes like China and Iran to block access to websites that are currently accessible thanks to CDNs' reuse of IP addresses.

I also suspect that it gets considerably worse with every bit of duct tape they stick on with to prevent it from using copyrighted song lyrics, or making pictures of Trump smoking a joint, or whatever other behavior got the wrong kind of attention this week.

And so now nobody is adding anything new to Stack Overflow, and thus ChatGPT will be forever stuck only being able to answer questions about pre-2024 tech.

Does that tell us how reliable the cars are, or how much people are willing and/or able to spend on replacing their cars with new ones?

> a few years ago Miele changed their canister vacuum bags to force customers to replace them more frequently

Thankfully they also sell bagless vacuums, our Miele bagless is working pretty well so far (though after a couple years it's definitely started to get louder, despite me doing all the recommended maintenance).

This type of machine: https://dingsmagnets.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Eddy-Cur...

The rotor contains powerful magnets and when it spins quickly it induces a magnetic field in nonferrous metals like aluminum, repelling them from the rotor so that they overshoot the "other waste" bin.

> NYC is paying $4B/mile for their latest tunneling projects.

So only what, about 30x as much as Madrid spent?

In an ideal world, housing is built directly above transit stations, so people can get on the train without even having to go outdoors, leaving it the most obvious choice for almost all journeys.

Look at what they've achieved with this in Hong Kong. Plus the lines and stations basically pay for themselves due to revenues from residential property.

I love that in Germany it's still fairly normal to get drinks in obviously reused bottles. Very rare most other places these days.

In my locale the waste management company encourages us to toss aluminum cans in the bin with everything else except for glass and paper. They use powerful magnets and eddy current sorters to separate them from the rest of the stream.

I chose Makita for the same reason and I've loved the stuff. The tools are solid and well thought-out, the batteries have lasted for years, and I've been able to get away with far fewer batteries than I have tools which saves a bunch of money.

But don't you have 01.00 - 02.00 EST and then 01.00 - 02.00 EDT?

I assumed that's the point - can you see things like a "normal" person does?

> you simply aren't allowed to work in any form if you are in Japan on a tourist visa

You will never get the Japanese government to say this, if "any form" includes incidental remote work. And "incidental" is undefined and they aren't going to want to be pinned down on that either.

> When I was in Thailand about 7 or 8 years ago they just recently raided a co-working coffee and jailed the 'nomads' over night

That was because the authorities did not understand how co-working spaces operated, and had concluded that the foreigners in there were employees of the space's owner.

They have since said that they will not repeat that, and have been true to their word so far.

My insurance paid for all of that without a quibble after my family doctor made a referral. My insurance company has many customers. So I am going to stick with "many people".

I'm not taking a position on its legality. In most cases that's undefined because the law did not anticipate this situation and it's never been tested in court.

They obviously can't prohibit people from checking emails or taking work calls while on vacation, because that means the end of big-spending tourists.

Nobody has drawn a red line at a magic point along the continuum from one emergency work call during a two-week holiday, to 9 hours a day in a hotel room hunched over a computer. Where would it be, and why does that particular point maximize benefit for the host country?

When I lived in a hot American city, the saving grace was that at both office jobs there was a shower available. After breakfast I'd stuff my work clothes in a backpack, bike to work in shorts, take a quick shower, and arrive at my desk the most clean and refreshed person in the department.

Japan is not particularly expensive. It's significantly cheaper than USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, NZ, etc.

US$68,000 is enough for a very comfortable life there.

Literally never. This topic is one of those things that draws resentful ruleboys out of the woodwork to preach about something they have no firsthand knowledge of because none exists.