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Sorry for the dumb question, is the second version actually better than the first? Because I prefer the first. But perhaps you chose this as a particularly annoying/unuseful comment

Aren't fossil fuel plants much more efficient than ICEs for emissions per unit energy extracted?

Well, time to bite the bullet and learn jujutsu over the holidays

Naive question, why are Canadians more poorly connected by rail than they were at the beginning of the 20th century?

I'm curious what the missing features are in Figma from a designers perspective. You've mentioned the paywalled variables, what else? (I haven't been a product engineer in years, and have barely touched Figma in the last ~5 years)

What's the relationship to replit?

It's not perfect, but runtime_checkable is a thing https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.runtime...

It doesn't actually preserve typing on the protocol's methods though

How do you propose we do this?

What evidence is there that tarrif policy was LLM generated?

How rich are they if their time is worth $100/hour?

> Isn't Congestion Pricing a handout of public streets to the wealthy?

Wouldn't increased bus ridership and lower car traffic point to the opposite?

What were the jupyter notebooks for? Did you run your backend in notebooks?

Right there with you. A very influential crackpot who's read a bit too much sci-fi.

How did you determine that Montessori wasn't right for your oldest?

By IB do you mean international baccalaureate? Do you recommend that over standard curricula?

Some stories:

A friend at school brought a giant stack of $500 Zimbabwean bills to use at our school tuckshop. This stack of bills was probably about 2 feet high. This was in 2007, and at that point a meat pie or coke must must have cost tens of thousands of dollars at minimum at the tuckshop. It had probably been a while since I'd seen someone actually try to use such a small denomination bill... I asked to hold his stack, but as I was holding it, some of the bills started falling out of the middle. This was during our recess/mid-morning break, and there were a lot of kids standing around. Someone saw this money fall on the ground, and naturally came over and started throwing it in the air ("making it rain", like Lil' Wayne) and soon more joined in. The school headmaster just happened to be walking by (a large, grim-faced white man) and demanded to know who was responsible for all of this. My peers pointed me out, and I got corporal punishment the next day.

Power cuts were constant (daily at their peek) and we didn't have a generator, so I did my homework by candlelight. The city of Harare stopped delivering water to our residence in 2007, and AFAIK haven't resumed...

Another memory that sticks out is when my dad said "hey, let's go get some petrol for the car". This was at 7 or 8 pm, so I got in my pajamas, and we drove to the neighborhood gas station, where we waited over night to pour a few litres of petrol in the car. I didn't even think _that much_ of it: I'd grown up in an era of shortages and economic decline, and the situation only became worse in my teenage years.

It was anything but equal. My mother was well connected to a manager of a major supermarket, so instead of waiting in line for hours for a loaf of bread, she could go in the back door of the store.

My family were also property owners, so their wealth was not diminished as rapidly as the rest of the economy (though it certainly was diminished).

Hyperinflation is not a route I recommend if greater equality is what you seek :)

I lived in Zimbabwe through the hyperinflation era. While true that going through hyperinflation means that your debts are essentially forgiven, there are so many negative knock-on effects in the economy and society as a whole, that you'd have to have a pretty massive debt for that kind of hyperinflation to have a net positive utility for you.

I lived through the entirety of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation era. I don't quite recall how the updates of prices were done, whether you would pick the item up, and it would just be updated by computer while you were waiting in line, or if you'd only hear the price at checkout, or if you would just learn the price at checkout. What I do recall is how utterly empty every store was, and the massive queues that people would stand in to get a loaf of bread.

Also, a lot of money in the streets, in the literal sense. As greater and greater denominations were printed, and earlier denominations became worthless, people would toss the old bills out. It's somewhat amusing that tourists actually buy this 'worthless' money for its novelty.

Realistically, by mid to late 2008, you would have had to purchase basic necessities (and certainly petrol) in South African rands or USD.

Do you have anything similar that you would recommend?

Yes, the tendency to label Africa as if it were a country (rather than 54 of them) is highly annoying. Clearly this won't be available for me (Zimbabwe/South Africa)