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there are some but only ones which have kept going from before zoning came in in the 40s-60s. that's why they always look old; since then the overhead of zoning means that generall…

Ebay has used copies for ~12$. I got a few to give away to nephews & nieces who might be interested in this kind of thing

Robin Hanson reviews Planiverse here: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/the-planiversehtml which might give you an idea of what some of his work was like! > The book seems crazy wro…

+1 I LOVED it. Huge, huge, influential book in my thinking when I read it at 11 or 12. It led to interest in world simulations, sociology and how it relates to physical structures …

Yeah, the framing you need to have to understand the comment is dark. How is one to "know" that one ought not to do this, unless the facts about cultural behavior are communicated?…

True. Although most science fiction which would take place over such a long timespan might involve methods of locking things down more firmly, and putting at least part of the worl…

I often think about a scifi story where after X million years, somehow familiar humanity survives, and two plates containing land with VERY different natural flora and fauna approa…

related: a market summarizing what I know about China's intentional map offset laws, specifically on whether Google will continue following this (only 4 bettors, not very meaningfu…

To the opposite point: the reply says "women are failing cause the event design is biased" and also "women could do perfectly well if not for society making them not play" Which on…

Why have you locked off the easy complimentary answers: "women generally are smart enough to know running 100 miles at once isn't that useful" or "women on average have more import…

yeah, the author seems to like the guy but still falls into typical prejudicial choices in explaining the actual story. It's so schoolmarmish. Step back man, people can do what the…

> The thing is traditionnally sports have been invented by men with charactetistics/rules that suited men first. Take a look at the history of the concept of marathon; I think your…

You might like this conversation Laz had with Tyler Cowen a few months back: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/lazarus-lake/

Yes, and MJ has no public API either. Same for Ideogram, I imagine they have at least 10m in the bank, and aren't even bothering making an API despite being SoTA for lots of areas.…

+1 on the recs for his main work. I also wanted to mention that I loved his book Tatja Grimm's world, too. It's great, alternate world fantasy, but with Vingean depth of thought ab…

Readers may be interested in this link, which is to all the SBF sentence-related markets on manifold. Caveats: just like twitter follower counts, instagram like counts, hn upvotes,…

Freedom of choice means you have the right to try to create such a system. As other people can try what they want, VC funding, astrology, etc. It's all legal and competes. But, if …

I loved Debt for the ideas, but I abandoned this since it seemed to be pushing their politics so hard. I've read Zinn, GGS, later pop science anthropology books, 1491, 1493, as wel…

how long they live before reproduction, reproduction rate, edibility (while you're waiting for them to be tame), in-captivity behavior, what they eat, etc matter a lot since they a…

100% agree w/this recommendation. The title is pretentious and put me off, so I missed out for a few years, but the contents are amazing. He has another related book, The Secrets o…

Another type 2 site I forgot: stackoverflow And another type 1: github

Another problem is that due to fear of lawsuits, you really are not allowed to talk to candidates afterwards. Even innocuous things like "We all really thought you'resmart, and lov…

This is really great. I want to review this for everywhere I've been, because the variation in how gov'ts do statistics is hiding so much of what's actually going on there.

That matches what I would expect. My normal continuation would be to look at the growth from 2014 til now in global internet users, and at the competitors like youtube, insta, etc.…