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This argument doesn't hold water. Why is there no decent regional train system in the US then? Your point explains why there is no coast to coast NYC-SF bullet train, fair enough. …

It's nice to hear from the designer himself not to overinterpret the choices. It could have been any other photo, any other colour for the bike.

Moreover the US signed the Convention du mètre [0] in 1878. By law all US customary units are based on SI units since 1883 [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_Convention [1…

This is what I have in my mind: green with a black top. Like the staedler but with green instead of blue. https://discountoffice.nl/productImages/8/large/Q640366-1.jp...

Sycamore and linden are the perfect example of this.

The original is from John Bartholomew and co. from the Edinburgh Geographical Institute. It was published in 1914 in the Atlas of economic geography by Oxford University Press. htt…

Many works are left to rot on fragile film reels.

It is similar, but Hill Climbing moves one parameter at a time. While gradient descent moves along the steepest gradient adjusting multiple parameters at a time, but it requires th…

Half of the problem with cars is a geometric one, they take up too much space. They give rise to sprawl and thus increase the demand for cars in a vicious cycle. Them being electri…

There are also overnight trains from venice to paris operated by Thello.com. For other destinations check out Nightjet and Euronight.

The federal gas tax was and still is 18.4 cents/gallon. It would need to be raised to 77.7 cents/gallon. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/7/24/some-perspecti... Worse, that…

I checked: Paris-Bordeaux toll is 55€ (US$63 with tax) for 563km (350 miles) of highway, 583km total. Add 34L (9 US gal., 39MPG!) of fuel @1.5€/L (US$6.6 per gallon) that is 51€ of…

I would look into graded readers. Related : Do 20 pages of a book give you 90% of its words? Link: https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-9... HN discussion: ht…

Reading full novels is the original spaced repetition tool. Words get reused regularly in context.

The benefits drop precipitously after the 15 or 20min mark. A 10-20min walking or biking commute is good. 30min of driving in traffic is not.

if only more countries invested in soft power instead of saber rattling.

Related: The Lwow School of Mathematics before before WWII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematic... https://culture.pl/en/article/maths-madness-and-the-manha…

way less than poeple living there. Unless there is some sort of a unique land value tax

not only live events. Even books are sometimes mistranslated. See https://www.amazon.fr/Syst%C3%A8me-deux-vitesses-pens%C3%A9e...

The alphabet is a phenomenal invention. I mean the alphabet in the large sense, be it the Latin, Greek, Russian alphabet or any alphabet, abjad, abudiga or syllabary. The Chinese w…

The world is not down to China and the US. How about walking on French or German roads? How about cycling on a Dutch or Danish road? People there are rule abiding, very much so com…

kWh is for energy stored in this example, the "size of the tank". kWh is analogous to toe (tonne of oil equivalent) or gallons of gas. kW is for power, that is the flow of energy (…

thank you for taking the time to write this

how is FCF (normalized per market cap) a better metric? What kind of fuckery is P/E vulnerable to?

Oh. This Clovis. I didn't know there was a debate over the burial of Clovis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I