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>Great if you live on a route popular enough that they do that. I was alluding to the fact that it a circular problem - frequent routes (within reason) become popular routes. >it a…

Thank you for the glimpse into your zoning codes - I rarely get a chance to hear ones from other countries explained, and they are always a fascinating counterpoint.

Your point about taking your car and heading to Tahoe and Yosemite, strictly speaking, is correct. However, speaking only for myself, I do not find it particularly urgent to make l…

I'm not kidding. I am saying there are tradeoffs between suburban living and urban living. You give up a yard in the city. It is more expensive for far less space. However… - I hav…

You do not have access to 10x more things, because the suburbs have less things spread out over much more area. There's no free lunch.

Not to be too pedantic, but the L'Enfant's DC plan precedes Haussmann's plan by 62 years.

Went looking for audio samples, here's some from one of the researchers: http://www.zhizheng.org/demo/is15_mte/demo.html http://www.zhizheng.org/demo/dnn_tts/demo.html

Yeah, it's pretty sad. His design for a currency is fascinating, and apparently unknown by these people.

Federal spending does not technically create money, as those dollars were collected by taxes or lent by bondholders. However, the point of the Federal Reserve Bank is primarily to …

Yes, and there's more - Portland cement is made of constituent parts, each presumably extracted from different stones (using energy intensive processes) and then precisely recombin…

I second the recommendation of Diana Kleiner's video lectures. Absolutely fantastic, thorough, and well explained.

Correction: An earlier version of this post misidentified the programming language C as the operating system Unix.

Got it, your language was a tad to declaritive. It's certainly niche, and painfully so. I think there is some potential for growth, given the absurdity of my aging friends forcing …

It's weird and false to imply that classical composition no longer exists. Classical was one of the first fields of art to retreat from mid-century modernist experimentation and ge…

When speed increases, the safe distance between cars increases as well, therefore reducing overall throughput.

"Since publishers aren’t putting money into first novels anymore, and since the magazines have died, and since television isn’t buying from young freelancers anymore, and since the…

That people outside of the "voting ring" or "in-crowd" get voted up by a "voting ring" or "in-crowd" sometimes does not obviate the central criticism - insiders exclusively decide …

Thanks! Was curious if Project Wonderful worked, given how remarkably cheap it is. Targeting specific comics works best, got it.

Willing to share where you advertise and why? I've got lots of friends and relatives doing comics online, would love to have a little specialist knowledge to help them out.