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I wouldn't outright call them lies tho, probably more like he was asking a little too much from that age technology.
interestingly even factual, sourced post like this were victims to trolling; I though there were protections to anti social behaviour in place, but alas, here we are.
well the '70s blocks in Poland do have quite some shared greenery, at least the southern part were I've been extensively, but I saw them also up north, even in the outskirts of 'special case' cities that have had their historical centers preserved or restored like Gdansk [1] or Torun [2] - that's what planner can do to encourages a local and social aspect to the local neighbors
but still it doesn't solve working places interconnection in a way that makes walking nor public transit satisfactory.
1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Danzica,+Polonia/@54.34153...
2 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Toru%C5%84,+Polonia/@53.02...
there's a load of people, especially in big cities, that commute further than feasible with bicycle.
and no, people will not want to live within biking range from heavy industry.
there's zero chance mass transit can accommodate people's needs, even if you somehow solve the shopping issue with local markets and fixed item prices, the job<>house graph will always look like a fractal set of overlapping stars.
cars is one of the most important social equalizer of this and last century. it allows people from basically all social status to move themselves, their family and their belongings at any time in full autonomy, enabling them to find houses and jobs in the most economical and convenient places.
private cars win over public transit because it's a better product. the only way for public transit to compete is to mandate laws to make cars comparatively a worse product, which is fundamentally anticompetitive - once public transit become monopolistic, once the company owns a tract, they can abuse their position deciding pricing and timetables.
even in traffic, private cars offer a better experience: people are in their own space, under a roof from start to finish, with their preferred temperature and away from both obnoxious or influenced people.
forcing mass transit trough legislation will surely have some short term benefits, but also:
- more class divide between the richs, that will always be able to afford a car, and the poors who won't
- massive gentrification of well connected areas, while the poors get pushed out to where service is of less quality
- dependency of the poors to expensive third party services on any occasion they need to move themselves or their goods across a non serviced destination. rentals is not an option: rentals need a credit card, and guess who don't own one?
- dependency on public transit times. have an unusual work shift or need to visit parents? get prepared to wait in the open under the cold or rain. need to get your child out of school in a down hour because he's suddenly ill? too bad, transit only gives peak service at peak hours.
of course there's situation where mass transit gets convenient, like large cities where a significant percentage of the population shares the same source/destination points, at which point people will use it naturally on their own.
opposing private transit is going to destroy an important achievement of modern society, the car has been a great economical equalizer and still is. market, after all, need customer flexibility not to be captured. pollution is something to be solved with more efficient cars and better technology all around.
it'd be like discovering tomorrow that soap pollutes: some will want to force everyone to smell, some will create a better soap.
Rome is all but working perfectly fine, with commuter traffic locked almost daily by the tiniest fender bender happening on the highway around it
Venice is likewise a mess, situation was so bas they built an highway to go around the existing highway that corrected it to the nearby areas, and the lack of easy mobility in the city center is fuelling a severe living cost inflation
turns out you can do take appointment at the gp, it wasn't impossible
turns out you can request exams trough email, it wasn't impossible
turns out you can have a pre-screening via photo and messaging apps, it wasn't impossible
turns out you can safely deliver prescription trough digital channels to both the person and the pharmacist so that you can just show up with your healthcare number and take the drugs home
it has been dragging medics and other professionals around then into the present kicking and screaming
then how come you can land at Schiphol?
weird then not finding mention of the Varier Balans chairs.
I had one growing up, and bought another one after a month of lockdown as my home office setup wasn't meant for extended usage.
that one and a standing desk seems working well so far.
that's a weird point of view. would steampunk in a non Victorian retro-future even work? are we gonna rename futurism if it doesn't keep up with times?
then why is this fixation with cyberpunk being rooted in the now?
> Bruce: wannabe Shadowrun or Cyberpunk 2077 media tie-in fic.
so yeah, basically an elitist point of view filled with "no true scotsman" kind of platitudes.
that'd be like saying every fantasy sucks because it's just a lord of the ring tie in.
> Bruce: I would dearly love to see a new form of SF emerge that reflects the baseline of now
if only he was a writer. oh wait.
as a solo hobbyist game developer that can dedicate a couple hour/week a tool like this can save me months of tedious work, as long as establishing a two way data channel between the ux state and the game state is easy enough.
> with just four transfers
I don't understand the rules set forth from the article for its calculation
for some reason the automatically most used link don't work, I've to pin websites to the new tab area, but then they're static, and have to be maintained
it a page timeouts the description text is so long the retry button is out of screen, and that test doesn't scroll itself, and your stuck going into the hamburger menu because something as common as drag down from top too reload isn't supported here
oh and the update also forgot all my settings about min and max font sizes
in contact doesn't mean has contracted. the last round of testing showed 21% prevalence over 3000 samples; if that was the prevalence in march anyone that had more than 15 contacts has 95% chance of having been in contact with the virus by now.
> I find very interesting that this is being downvoted.
since when his high majesty Paul has christened downvoting as a valid substitute for arguing disagreement things have gone downhill. funny because they got it right for submissions. tbf climate was less toxic back then. but still, it certainly doesn't feel not up to date with the recent society changes.
lethality was grossly overestimate and subsequent decision built off not only partial and incomplete data, but flat out wrong.
would full lock down have been the best course of action? probably still so. but the extent and duration and especially now follow up actions seem extremely exaggerated.
there's quite a difference in Italy for example from the "hundreds new cases a day" in march, with a unknown size pool of undetected cases, and "hundred new cases a day" but everyone else is fine and contact tracing will find the rest.
the issue is political because the GDP and welfare budget are intertwined. and then there's the big hairy issue with schooling.
the world isn't black and white and fighting the virus can't be the sole priority for six months, let alone one or more years.
but both now and yesterday people with a wide view of the issue were basically ostracized and chased away as if they were flat earther or antivaxxer.
it's about time people start questioning what is the long term plan and if the previous decisions were data driven or scare driven.
likewise. that why you argue the argument, not the authority behind for a healthy discussion on anonymous forums.
> and equally glib
except I provided an argument for the benefit to the individual, while the whole of your post hinges on appeal to (un)authority
another case in point: all the pc stores exclusives. imagine having to have to install 5 different stores for accessing this or that publisher games on a phone. how can you argue that is pro-customer?
we already know that it is what is going to happen, because it has already happened. and it was not for the better; there was no reduction of prices (if anything, aaa went from 49$ to 69$) and a constant fight for user attention by undercutting each other stores with exclusives. so the price cut reduction did not materialize, and we have to fight against a tide of software spying each other on top of it.
> Coercive bundling should warrant anti-trust scrutiny
fair enough, but it still doesn't mean it has to be incorporated in law, where it gonna stay for a long time and likely used as hammer in all kind of unexpected ways.
> the traded good is not inherently fungible with another offering
or the consumers are happy with the locked platform. those who aren't, after all, can already sideload to their android. this seems more of a case of a minority wanting a cake and eat it too, not a real issue with predatory behavior.
as long as there are alternatives, it's the user choice to get into the walled ecosystem. people enjoy the ease of mind of it, and while I'm not among them, I can say I find the play store and the 'apk downloaded from somewhere' experiences both grating compared to the apple store.
a curated store has it's appeal, and it's value. is it 30%? that is for the customer to decide, not the legislator.
if you think that is research, there's no more point to discuss.
the statement stands. the fear of police is deeply ingrained in the American society and the antagonism is deeply American.
dropping fallacy names at random is not gonna help your case either.
the populace here deeply trusts and support the police. there have been few bad cases and the individuals responsible were immediately ousted and eventually had justice brought to them, with little to none cameradrie that you'd see in the 'police Vs everyone' characterization you're trying to blanket upon the world.
there's zero systemic abuse of justice of the likes that we see in the American news circles, no matter how you wish that the rest of the world is as bad as they are, it is not.
sure.
third image is already from 2014, not an impressive case density then, is it?