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waveBidder··on Induced demand is not a useful concept
there's nothing wrong with inducing demand; the point is that cars are extremely inefficient at meeting that demand
waveBidder··on Induced demand is not a useful concept
it almost feels like the njb video was specifically a reaction to this, the exact misunderstandings this article has are what he's responding to.
waveBidder··on Induced demand is not a useful concept
that's called latent demand, not induced. induced demand is people changing e.g. housing in response. like all those businesses that start around train stations.
waveBidder··on How Boeing Lost Its Way [video]
it's interesting seeing them partner with more traditional journalists for this one; kind of excited for them to move into deep dive news.
waveBidder··on I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)
Retail only costs money because it's actively expanding. Or at least, that was true in like 2018 when I last read about it.
waveBidder··on Permutation City (1994)
his mastodon presence is full of such things

https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF

waveBidder··on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus (2008)
much like there's always room for startups, there will always be room for exploring new giving opportunities. Ubi is no substitute for Givewell.
waveBidder··on Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
there's another reason for some optimism about a voting-truth connection: wisdom of the crowds. As long as there isn't a strong bias to people's estimate, the average will converge on the truth.
waveBidder··on Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
But we never know any quantity to full precision, so it's not like we get infinite bits about any given quantity.
waveBidder··on Ludum Mortuus Est
not sic semper tyrranis?
waveBidder··on Palworld Has the Highest Player Count on Steam
I definitely thought it was a Nintendo product for a couple of seconds when I saw it on steam, until the basic improbability of that sunk in.
waveBidder··on QMK and Keyboards
I've got a weird split thumb board like OP, and the muscle memory for a normal keyboard is fine. I think it helps that I mostly left qwerty intact, and messed with meta keys.
waveBidder··on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
such websites still get made all the time, they're just not useful for Google to surface. https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
waveBidder··on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
humans are quite capable of generating bullshit, I don't think that's ever been in contention. doesn't mean all or even most human generated content is garbage.
waveBidder··on A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning
Do you not consider the negative externalities when choosing what to do? Pretty sure that's normal behavior, and disregarding your impact is antisocial.
waveBidder··on Deciyear Calendar
you're right of course, but man I wish we had megamonths, the name is great.

you're describing the French Republican calendar btw. I blame Christianity for the travesty of stopping it's adoption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar?wpr...

waveBidder··on What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]
just introduce new coins. if we were keeping up, the modern equivalent of a 1913 quarter would be an ~8 dollar piece.
waveBidder··on What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]
the 1913 penny is 30 cents today. bring back the dollar coin and drop everything but the quarter.
waveBidder··on What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]
0.38 should actually just be 0.40, possibly 0.35 if the seller's generous. in physical transactions nobody pays 3.1415926 dollars for anything, even if the pricing algorithm says that's what you should charge. you just round to the nearest available coinage.
waveBidder··on Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels
in that case he wouldn't be riding anything, he'd be dead.
waveBidder··on Joint initiative for trustworthy AI
they're known for trustworthy and extremely private banking, for one
waveBidder··on Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night
this may be useful: https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens the sun isn't magic, we now have the tech
waveBidder··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
also spellchecking
waveBidder··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
it's big RAM now! (a bi-gram is the probability of a word given the previous 2.
waveBidder··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
it's… from men in black iirc, so if it knows movie scripts, it'd know this.
waveBidder··on The Drums of War Are Growing Louder in South America
This is what the much maligned "world's police" role the US military actually plays. It's a shame the NeoCons didn't understand the point of the threat is to never have to use it. the first gulf war didn't need a round two.
waveBidder··on Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
literally a thousand…
waveBidder··on U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated
land value tax is an efficient tax. No need to arbitrarily ban people from using debt. if by build smaller houses you mean make it legal and easy to do, yeah. also if the government is directly building them and selling them. but don't throw yet more requirements at developers.
waveBidder··on U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated
land value tax would solve this…
waveBidder··on Writing documentation for your house
nothing productive to add, but man that sucks.
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