Dan42

Thank you, thank you so much for sharing that. It's been a while since the last time my mind was blown away that much.

I think I found what I was looking for: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/

> Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies.

I'm adding this one to my quotes.txt

I'm glad there's plenty of people here mentioning the Condorcet Winner. Because that's the one and only voting property that I can't compromise on. If there is a Condorcet Winner, a voting system that doesn't choose it is useless. But it's not like IRV has to be entirely thrown out. As some have suggested, it would be just fine to use a hybrid system like "pick Condorcet Winner if it exists, use [IRV/STAR/etc] otherwise".

I'd like more people to talk about Ranked Pairs / Tideman. It satisfies a ridiculous number of voting criteria, even more than Schulze, but with the huge advantage that it's explainable to a layperson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_pairs

> and the derivative of sin(x) is ... ?

I believe it's cos(x). And I fail to see how that would change regardless of what unit x is expressed in. Sorry, my trig is veeery rusty.

That's an interesting video, but it focuses on entirely enclosed "interior cities". But the lack of sunlight and connection to the outside has been a known weakness of those places for decades. This "LINE" design at least attempts to address that by providing a massive view to the outside via two 500m-tall transparent walls.

Hmm, I guess this argument makes sense for the more hippie-oriented types, but as an urbanite the idea of having the convenience of a big city without the overcrowded downsides has me downright drooling.

I go camping once a year to connect with the environment; I wouldn't want to spend the 360-ish other days that way.

I doubt it will get built, but they really have people who understand the fundamental concepts behind Arcology. Honestly I'm surprised at how many parts of the design are well thought-out and well adapted to the desert environment. Sunlight from the sides, but not so much that it overheats the city. Heat escapes up. 5-minute walkable neighborhoods. The proximity to services of cities combined with the roominess of suburbs. At least in theory it's the perfect place to live.

One thing I'm a bit puzzled about is why so many people here describe this as a dystopia or prison. This is super similar to the old utopian sci-fi designs from the 60s/70s. Sure today it seems a bit dated/naive, but hardly dystopian.

Ok, the first thing I looked at is "long content" https://defensivecss.dev/tip/long-content/ and here they recommend to just clip it. Because who cares about content right? Who cares if the partial content you display is useless, as long as it looks good. And that's the kind of tip everyone here is applauding. I would like to say webdesign is in a sorry state nowawadays, except it was also that way 20 years ago. Maybe this "who cares about the content" attitude is inherent to web designers? Sorry if I sound blasé or cynical, but one gets tired after long enough of this.

How well does this handle several freeze-thaw cycles per year?

The carbon aspect is great, but I love how this attempts to address the unstable ground problem. Here in Quebec due to cheaply made road foundation and harsh freeze-thaw cycles, at this time of the year the roads have almost more potholes than... road.

This was an incredibly enriching read. It's too sad that such an article results in much fewer comments on HN than less insightful but more provocative ones.

My main question is, since this was published in 2009, has anyone tried to apply these recommendations? And if so, what has been the result? A priori it sounds like a very plausible model, but it needs to be tested.

Actually there is a shortage of glass-grade silica. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...

> If Montreal weren’t in Quebec, it would be an unstoppable startup scene.

I'm really puzzled by that statement. I don't see Quebec as having anything particularly different from other provinces that is harmful to startups. French? Everybody in Montreal speaks English anyway, and developing i18n software is super-trivial if you do it from the start; not something that would impact startup velocity in any meaningful way.

Or was this meant the other way around? That Quebec founders are disadvantaged in the same way that black and female founders are disadvantaged in SV?

This is the most perfectly condensed and accurate description I ever read of the fundamental sickness that is afflicting the current internet age.