frenchy

> We can fly ultralights without a license.

Not over a city, also, how many pedestrians to ultralights kill anually? Generally people are not greatly bothered by someone engaging in solo risky behavior in the middle of nowhere.

> I think most people are capable of safely operating a car.

Great, now if we could just figure out who those people are and get the rest of them off the road, that would be amazing, but as it currently stands, car drivers are regularly killing people.

In Canada, our driving tests are reasonably stringent (it's uncommon to pass the first time), but you only have to pass once and the police rarely enforce traffic law. The result is that people are great drivers until they get their license, and then quickly turn into morons and just drive like everyone else.

Mandatory retesting might help, though if there's still no enforcement, we'll just get drivers who are good a taking the test, but not driving.

Maybe in the US, probably not anywhere else. You'd have to prove actual negligence, and in this case, it's quite possible the doctor's decision was reasonable. Benign abnormal heart behavior is pretty common.

Obama tried to close gitmo, but he wasn't the emperor, and there were many politians who opposed him. These politians were elected by US citizens.

malka is probalby using "we" as an exclusive first person plural pronoun. In English, "we" doesn't always include "you".

> Parking requirements are there to prevent businesses subsidizing themselves by snapping up all the free street parking.

This really shouldn't be a suprise, but the "market forces" solution would involve charging for street parking. That works perfectly fine.

> The reason you don't have a corner store is your neighbors don't want it.

You're sort-of right, but the reality is that walkable & dense mixed use neighborhoods are in high demand in North America, that's why they're so filthy expensive. Ultimately, this needs to get handled by local politics. People need to be able to talk about what they want their spaces to look like and go out and vote.

> but for the most part it was happy to be part of Russia/USSR until the USSR collapse.

All of the Ukrainian imigrants in North America would dispute that. See also, Holodomor.

Jest is inadequate because it doesn't support some non-standard experimental feature that was shoehorned into TypesScript to make it look more like C#?

I, for one, would like it, and I think I'd like it more than my wife. My personality is well suited to being a stay at home parent. I like chaos, and I like working with my hands. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of reduced-hour programming jobs, and our financial situation isn't such that one of us can be full-time stay-at-home.

Another thing is that it's awkard for breast-feeding women to be away from their babies for long times, and formula comes with its own set of problems.

I can't imagine poor people affording what would presumably be higher taxes in sprawling suburbs (though perhaps the issue is that there are suburbs in the middle of your city?).

Of course, taxing people based off their cost while also forbidding densification would just be a sick joke.

My kneejerk reaction would be the higher rural/urban ratio, but I don't think that's right, becaues Russia has even more rural space.

It's probably more due to the fact that many of the roads in the USA were built a lot more recently, and were built to make it convenient to use larger tractor-trailers (and not so much for other road users). In Europe, truck operators had to fit into the existing road system.

> I think, it's called sometimes backing soda - the powder you add to make cakes or croissants fluffy. Not to compare with the Natrium bicarbonate which is ...

That's a really strong claim, that someone would mix up the label of baking soda (it literally has "soda" in the name, aka sodium aka natrium if you're not English) with phosphoric acid.

As for the rest of this, it's the sort of thing that might have some truth to it, but it should really have data backing it, because human biochemisty is really complex and often acts counter-intuitively.

Each to their own, of course. You have a better idea of what's safe for you.

That said I live in a snowy country and ride a bike. I absolutely wouldn't ride a motorcycle. Speed is by far the largest reason. On a bike, you can see black ice before you hit it. You can run a foot along the ground for extra traction. You can get out and walk and push your vehicle. You can just jump off if shit really hits the fan.

That said, I also ride slowly when the roads are poor.

Car ownership, especially in Manila, is also not the norm there. There's over 110 million people on a handful of small islands. Also, public transit is way more efficient there than anywhere in North America.

To be fair, it is a bit of a privilege. Like most things, it requires a lot of work too, but people learn humility and kindness from each other. Those who grow up with loving parents are a lot more likely to become loving parents.

Both terms have been in use since the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Terminology

> language / multiculturalism is exactly the basketcase PRC wants to avoid

And the EU is probably on the verge of collapse, seeing as trilingualism is basically expected from anyone university educated.

There's a saying that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. What people choose to call the communications of a specific language community is often a very political thing.

Sadly, being completely detached from the difficulty of "motherhoood" is a pretty common form of idiocy.

Well lets say you have a process that requires stage A and then stage B to make product C, but stage B can't be done without A, and the result of B isn't useful by itself. Then you patent stage A and keep stage B secret.

I'm not a patent expert, but this seems to break the social contract of patents. Perhaps there is something in the patent law that prevents this?

I suspect that main problem is that it would be contrary to the spirit of the sport. It would probably also difficult to actually get working properly.

People have been using Python for way beyond what it was "originally good for" as long as I've been a programmer (close to 20 years).

For some reason people seem to think that since Python code is easy to read, that it's a "scripting language" (whatever that means). There are a lot of use cases for a language that's easy to do easy things in, and where performance doesn't really matter (or can be sorted out later.

I can only assume they mean "ok" in the sense of "the large fraction of less-sophisticated engineers who only want to think about the happy paths in their code."

Github's co-pilot is a poor code generator, but it's a fair example of how bad a lot of public code is. I'm not sure private code tends to be much better in many orgs.

14 km/40 minutes is 21 km/h. Assuming you don't live in hilly terrain, if you use an e-bike with a 25 km/h limiter, you can probably go a little faster, but it won't make huge difference.

It will probably will mean that you get less tired and exercise less, which may be good or bad depending on your opinion.

Oh! That makes a difference.

> So what? USA has more empty homes per capita (17 million for 330 million citizens, vs. 60 million in China for over 1.3 billion)

I have no horse in this game, but 17/300 = 5.2% and 90/1300 = 6.9%. (edit: wikipedia says population of China is 1.4 billion, which would give 6.4%).

Re the QR code, can't you just print it out on a paper?

In most places, and certainly in places that practice "common law" and democracy, part of what makes something legal is its moral acceptability. The laws on the books exist to reflect that and to make things function efficiently and fairly. Without that, laws are simply a tool of violence and oppression by the authorities (or the majority, in case of a democracy) against their population.

That's why we have juries of peers, and the ability of a jury to say "this person did the thing, but they shouldn't be punished for it".

I'm not sure why you were downvoted, but your experience (or anyone's really) is going to be pretty idiocyncratic.

America is a big place (China is too!) and there are a lot of distinct sub-cultures. There absolutely is karaoke, escape rooms, cards, and all sorts of recreational activities in the US, and these wouldn't exist if nobody did them. In my experience these sort of things are mostly done by people 25 and under.

To be fair, watching television is a big part of American culture. Eating food is a big part of every culture I'm familiar with.

Also, I'd be suprised 46% of the population feeling lonely at least sometimes wasn't very normal in most highly urban and mobile societies.

Edit: accidentally slaughtered a few words