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That makes no sense. Mixed use and mixed speed creates an environment where drivers have to notice diversity of traffic, including cyclists and pedestrians.

If we can increase forest cover, yes. But also, bury trees and plant new ones in their place.

There's nothing that previously stopped people from doing that. A fine at the library just prevents you from further use of the library.

A very similar concept is the idea of the innovation token. You only have some many tokens to spend innovating.

> A possible solution would be to slightly increase taxes on childless to make up for that difference.

Not getting dependent/child tax credits already does this.

> I see that as a good thing, not a bad thing.

I believe that's exactly the point this article is trying to make. Inducing demand for cycling is ideal.

One tip from reading this post: I can see that you're writing sentences that are too long.

- Write simple small sentences.

- Put a space after your periods.

- For engineering communication use white-space liberally. This last one is not standard English writing style, but I love it for work communication.

Ok. And in what wild world of ethics does this even hint at being justified?

Torture is not punishment. Torture is torture.

> It's still delusional thinking you can have a 'relationship'

It's overly cynical to think that you need to be intimate and in the flesh to call it a 'relationship' (in scare quotes?). It is a relationship. There's a real exchange of ideas and emotions.

He's probably talking about the butterfly key keyboards build into Macbooks that were notoriously bad in the mid-late teens.

The external keyboards were never so bad.

I actually got more interested in pranayama and breathing techniques after some experiences with N2O, nitrous oxide.

It helped me quite a lot at one point, and I have a theory that some of its dissociative effects are a similar mechanism as ketamine.

I would really love to do some more research on the link between the 3, but I feel incredibly out of my depth.

Well. Actually that’s not as terrible of an idea as you probably think.

Look into “modern monetary theory”

Do they manage the private keys?

I always thought that they only managed the public keys.

I thought that your backup is stored in iCloud or Google Drive unencrypted. Facebook doesn't have direct access to that. You phone must be already logged in to those services.

Yes. If you're ever talking to someone one on one and they're not paying attention find a way to address it.

I use mobiussync on iOS. It's not actually FOSS, but given the absence of something like F-Droid that's the way the iOS ecosystem works.

Once you get past the cute intro it’s a really great history of audacity, interview with some of the creators, and an overview of the ui challenges the new head of ui/ux has to face (keep it simple, but make it powerful, etc.)

It's hard to understate Thailand's herb culture. They're salad, they're medicine, they're garnish, they're everywhere.

In many monasteries monks that aren't otherwise allowed to eat after noon can even have a medicinal herb salad.

That's a good point, and I think that to a varying degree the relevant parties - Max Roser, Steven Pinker, and Noah Smith - all agree with it.

I'm new to this controversy, but after reading these comments for entirely too long it appears in this thread that Hickel is writing numerous scathing articles misrepresenting the views of Max Roser, Steven Pinker, and Noah Smith to make this point. It's unfortunate.

He didn't "as if" the zero-sum argument away.

In the very next paragraph:

> Rather than being drained dry, [the global south] are advancing, growing their share of the global pie even as they deliver better lives to their own poorest citizens.

Unfairness isn't good. They probably agree that things are unfair and should be better.

Hickel is saying ~you're wrong about poverty because the situation is unfair~

Noah Smith is saying ~OK. But I'm not wrong about the fact that poverty is decreasing and the situation is improving.~

The Goenka centers do have a filtering questionnaire, but I think they tend to just get so incredibly much wrong on their handling of psychological problems. It's infuriating.

I will recommend that a friend does one, after giving some warnings, and making sure to talk with them afterwards, but I wouldn't blindly recommend anybody do one.

> Apparently this is a known attainment

It's certainly a common enough experience, albeit rare in the middle of daily life on that amount of practice. What it means, benefits, etc. are what's up for question.

I guess by "strange psychological territory" I was more thinking of destabilizing and harmful things that don't stop even after you stop meditating.

Edit: also, thanks for sharing.

But on the topic of market impacting capitol flight, is that a real possibility?

No.

Intensive retreats aren't to be underestimated. It's a serious spiritual path that isn't designed to make one well adjusted to this world right away. I think the end result can be a fully integrated self actualized person, but the traditional view is that it might take lifetimes.

Lifetimes are not what most westerners are (or should be, imho) willing to sacrifice.

Top tier meditation institutions in the west and in Asia are not ignorant of meditation induced psychosis and they have ways of dealing with it. Everyone who claims all meditation is great and nothing bad can happen is ignorant.

Some of my most respected meditation teachers are known for recommending that people don't take up intensive retreats if they feel they have a choice in the matter. If it feel unavoidable, then do it. If it's just something you want to try, don't. I can immediately recall at least 4 saying this.

However, if 20 minutes of mindfulness a day sets you off into strange psychological territory, then I have a hard time believing that meditation was at fault. The "dosage" simply isn't high enough to be the key factor.

The test doesn't sort evenly. One of the most popular online test sites says in one of their descriptions - I forget which one - that "this is the rarest type with only x% of the population."

I had a female friend who was an INTJ, and told me that it was very rare among women. Being very, INTJ, she was referencing some rigorous statistics.

But there is also a military political party in the civilian government, and they lost seats in November's elections.

3rd paragraph: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-a...

> Why they would risk sanctions to do this is a mystery.

Sorry for offering wild conjecture, but the first thing that comes to mind is some kind of a payout to generals from China, who is hoping for sanctions from the rest of the world so that they can be the sole influencer in the country.

Or some variation on that theme: influence from China.

Or perhaps just some power hungry generals longing for the old days <shrug>

- official docs: Embarrassingly I often neglect to even learn doc tools available to me offline and instead rely on google for even the most basic stdlib documentation.

I am in Thailand where the tap water is considered undrinkable.

Just this morning I went to the neighbourhood Reverse osmosis machine and paid a few cents to fill up my drinking water bottles.

I think it's a great system.

> righteous indignation

That's just the default for me while cycling.

I know many people who hold onto the idea of free market like it's a religion. They call their religion libertarianism (I don't know if this is accurate of libertarian thought leaders)

I do have to refute that idea. I'm not sure how much their opinions matter and if my time is well spent trying to change them, but they're in my life so I collect the evidence.