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In Seattle, many trips of 3-6 miles are fastest by bike. Faster than transit or car even without including parking time. There are quite a few dedicated bike paths that make it smooth sailing for most of the trip.

Looks like Detroit today.

GiveDirectly. They give cash, no strings attached. So hardly any overhead. NPR Planet Money tried to have a guy build a school in Haiti. They were flush with donations. After all was said and done, a year later they barely had a concrete foundation. That was it. They asked the guy, a highly experienced American contractor/builder/etc. if, starting over, he'd have just given them cash. He said, "Definitely." GiveDirectly was started because charities like Red Cross do so badly.

You should move there.

Where I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, we’d have inexplicable traffic light outages. Well, some times it was due to rain. Invariably traffic would be backed up for half a mile. It was terrible.

Granted, Boeing’s cutoff is 2.7.

And this is why sperm banks require donors be at least 5'9" tall.

I think in 2003, NYC was a swampy Dutch trading post. I was born around then - I'll never forget it.

We need to blast off into space sooner than later to escape this tyranny. We must declare independence.

"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way. We want freedom from the white man rather than to be intergrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here.

The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."

A Roman makeup container was found a while ago, with fingerprints still visible in the cream: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/makeup-scienc...

But nobody wants to move there. I loved my four years in Ann Arbor, but any other metro area just blows it out of the water.

Why haven't you done all manner of things to improve the world at your expense? How much are you donating to Harvey relief? Why haven't you sold your gas car to buy an electric? Etc.

People say traffic is bad in LA, but Seattle is next level congestion.

Please no. Leave Denver alone.

Finally the obsession with white collar careers is ending. I much prefer the German system of presenting trades and office jobs as equally valid. This is the first step to revitalizing skilled trades in the US.

Does it matter if the economic benefit of Amazon's presence in a city outweighs the initial tax breaks?

I would not. Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding.

Plagued with millennial self-obsessed fluff. Ugh.

https://youtu.be/Sz0o9clVQu8

Here's a fun one, from our very own YCombinator:

> The Flex group uses technology to improve the range and fluidity of human expression. We invent new concepts and representations that amplify people’s ability to create, connect, and understand. We create tools that blur the line between using and creating, in order to provide a conversational medium for thinking and doing.

What they really do is make graphical programming tools. That's it.

https://harc.ycr.org/flex/

I'm eating some delicious Korean BBQ right now. I highly recommend it.

All of the modules he suggests avoiding are the ones that make up the standard data science tech stack. So, IOW, learn Python before doing data science. Your usual beginner Python tuts don't mention Pandas or matplotlib, so this seems like a non-issue.

We'll just have to learn to live with it. American exceptionalism is a farce.

Since it's not part of a prescription, my opthalmologist just gave it to me over the phone.

Not even close. The PCH follows the coast and the PCT follows mountain crests: http://www.bigbearhostel.com/uploads/6/9/6/1/6961020/9626729...

Goldman Sachs

Selling pickaxes. Nice.

Switch to protonmail. The only downside is spelling out the domain when giving it to people over the phone.

It won't help save passengers money. It will help the perpetually bleeding airliners save $35 billion though, possibly: https://www.ft.com/content/00b23be4-b321-3dd5-af19-fd64c4f7c...

"supersonic" relative to the sound speed at normal density I assume. With no air, there would be no sound!

Edit: corrected pressure to density