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> Yes, there are a lot of people that use the car when they can not use it, thats still most of the car traffic.

so, do you have any data to back up that assertion? (I won't claim that I have any favorable to my argument, just the observation that driving in and Paris around Paris is pretty bad)

> For a lot of destination you can take 2-3 differentes routes.

most alternative routes usually take longer and end up congested whenever the main route is having issues.

I'm not sure Paris has one of the best public transit in the world or maybe that's just an indicative of the sorry state of public transit worldwide. I mean I wouldn't call world-class a system where just a single failure easily strands 1 million people halfway to their destination and where trains are delayed and cancelled routinely, often without information given to passengers.

I'm in favor of more public transportation, but if you think people use car willingly in and around Paris, I don't think you've tried it; it's so bad that only people with no viable choice will use a car. Or maybe you could explain (for example) how my sister in law was supposed to carry her two baby kids to the daycare using an overcrowded metro (and bonus, through stations without working elevators) or how my brother was supposed to carry the equipment he was using to constructions sites he was working. And then you've got all the places where taking a car is a 30 min trip vs 2 hours by bus or public transportation (thankfully the Grand Paris initiatives are helping a lot there).

For now, removing cars in Paris just push them around the city, because the public transportation network isn't ready.

it's also useful when power is cut, for example in case of natural disaster (I just saw today a video on Waffle House, where their disaster playbook mentioned just that)

while I'm not a big fan of US hegemony, I think it is preferable to most (all?) other contenders to the title of global hegemon. And I don't think a multi-polar world is any better, it'd just lead to more global instability.

Part of the issue is that rubbish in our bin (in the West) sometime ends up shipped across the world, in theory for 'recycling', but instead ends up dumped in another river...

Of course sometime I see littering in streets and parks, sometime literal feet away from bins and yeah, that's infuriating.

other just think pirating is an acceptable way to stick it to the Man.

well, being part of the Roman Republic/Empire meant peace, even if it was enforced at the tip of a pilum. And the population under the Empire were more prosperous and numerous, so much that the collapse of the Empire in the West had long-lasting negative consequences (I'm mostly basing my opinion off this article: https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-f...)

At least in France I don't think I've seen either of those. More common are poster stuck on public infrastructure

> Taken into a climate wetter than Egypt (in other words, pretty much any other climate where people actually live) it begins to disintegrate very quickly and needs constant maintenance.

For example papyrus was massively used in the roman empire and all those records have disappeared, only what had been copied and re-copied since then reached us.

> Same in the US. Especially in the party that now lost.

I'd say it's the same in both parties

For Catholic churches, it depends on the period (for example roman-style churches have smaller windows because the architect of the time didn't really knew how to build bigger windows) and in how it got maintained since stone darkens a lot when exposed to the polluted air of our cities. But churches with big windows and that have been restored within the last 50 years can be very bright, especially once you add modern lighting in the mix.

I was born two years after you and I'm always using an alarm clock, which saves me from worrying about my phone before going to bed (I just worry about batteries once a year instead). Though it's a simple beeping model from 15 years ago, I've never tried to use radio as an alarm clock.

> If you gave a company over to only engineers, it would also fail, just in a different way

Do you have an idea of what would be the failure mode(s)?

> a military prevented kidnappings by killing the people who could be taken as hostages.

which events are you talking about?

>I don’t think Spain can handle Florida anymore.

I don't think Spain ever could handle Florida

I skimmed the post linked at [^1], but I have a doubt about that:

> Fandom is actually part of the for-profit arm of Wikipedia

Are you sure about this? Since Fandom got acquired by private equity in 2018, I don't think Wikipedia has any stake in Fandom anymore

I think for beer there's a reason of bringing the glass to a colder temperature, which (from what I've heard) should reduce the amount of foam (not sure that's the exact term) in the glass.

> how much stuff is still on v11 even?

We've had a potential client ask for a PoC in Java 8, to integrate with their current system... But yeah, our product is deployed with Java 11 and since some dependencies have issues with 18, we'll likely stay that way for a few more years

I read elsewhere that Hezbollah recently changed to this pagers to communicate, maybe it those who put the bombs bet on the fact their victims wouldn't have time to realize that the battery have shorter life than advertised

I heard it from my brother who visited one such company, where they use explosive forming to shape metal parts used oil refinery; if I remember correctly for the corrugation on the metal that separate the hot and cold liquid in an heat exchanger, with the idea behind using explosive forging was that it allowed them to shape a big sheet in one go.

> but the West had no paper to print them until it was reintroduced

Europe started using paper a few centuries before printing was invented there. And why do you talk about _re_introduction? I don't think paper was used in Europe before it was introduced by the Islamic world

the edit was made because of the size limit on titles on HN

True, I was mostly thinking of what I'm seeing here in France

It seems like some of the conversations in that thread went a little nuclear, no?

sorry I couldn't resist

Nowadays I'd wager most ditchdigging is done with small excavators and I wouldn't want to operate one without some form of training. But I can use a broom if needed...

> Booking.com -> Pretending the venue is about to run out of places and there are only "2 places left..."

I was buying train ticket in France yesterday (through the SNCF website) and I was shown that exact message...

> it was something that really interesting people were focused on as a platform for writing, design and creativity

I've been spending less time there recently, but these last few years I've been part of various communities which were all about sharing creative writing; so it's still there, but maybe not as visible?

> the Paris metro, which has a ridiculously dense stop network, is for long distances

I think it's interesting how the most recent line (n° 14) has way less stops, instead focusing on covering more distance

except the setting doesn't seem to work cf https://x.com/KevinBankston/status/1811194932931027298

> It's amazing how long it's taken, how does a train take over a decade ?

Honestly, as some living in France, with a lot of high speed train lines, I'm not surprised. For example one of the most recent lines [0] took more than a decade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Bretagne-Pays_de_la_Loire