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balfirevic
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
> But be warned, it takes a long time

What's a "long time"? A month, a year, 10 years?

> They're not the cheapest option

Whats "not the cheapest"? 100 EUR, 1000 EUR, 10000 EUR, more?
balfirevic
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
Barring not-yet-invented advances in automation, shrinking population means fewer and fewer people providing goods and services compared to the number of people that need them, which means worse and worse poverty for larger and larger fraction of people.
balfirevic
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
Yes, but that is the common terminology.
balfirevic
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Our assumption was that we were in a stealth baby boom.

That somehow evaded fertility statistics?
balfirevic
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
> people just want their recreational drugs

Yes, people want to recreate, doing all kinds of activities with various levels of risk. They don't need to concern themselves with whether you can respect it.
balfirevic
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
"General aviation" does not include commercial air transport, so that's probably not what you meant.
balfirevic
·14 hari yang lalu·discuss
In Croatia, which is (and has been) seeing a tremendous rise in real estate prices, everyone talks about the high prices, but rarely can you hear about about housing shortage. Indeed, building new housing is sometimes brought up as one of the reasons for rising prices.

The economic illiteracy is just that bad.
balfirevic
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
> I do not think the exact shape has any influence

Yes, that's what I said.
balfirevic
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
> that doesn't affect the sound

That would be the whole shape.
balfirevic
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
Tetris effect, but with the baby!
balfirevic
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
> whereas in this case the transformation is overwhelmingly negative.

> The finding that this technique is actually bad in most cases

Why do you think this?
balfirevic
·22 hari yang lalu·discuss
> In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet.

No it's not.

> protective gloves with hardened knuckles is of course mandatory

No it's not.
balfirevic
·23 hari yang lalu·discuss
> No one uses their indicators/turn signals as they approach. This is a major issue because it makes the roundabout incredibly ineffective, as every driver needs to treat it effectively like a 4-way stop because you don't know the intentions of the cars around you.

As another commenter mentioned, roundabouts work just fine even if nobody indicates anything (which they usually don't where I live).
balfirevic
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
> People are now ignoring those stop signs (because it’s a roundabout!)

Do you mean they treat it as if they have right-of-way when entering? Because that's also unusual (but not unheard of) in roundabouts.
balfirevic
·bulan lalu·discuss
> anyone capable of living happily while being outcompeted by machines is well-adapted for the future.

> I'm not

Why not?
balfirevic
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> I believe the science is pretty clear that in principle these beat gas phase change systems.

Do you know by how much?
balfirevic
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Some people will sleep through alarms, turning them off without remembering it.

But more importantly, if your sleep schedule is shifted you might not actually be able to fall asleep when you need to, even if you haven't had enough sleep. After a few days you will be exhausted, fall asleep in the afternoon and take a nice 4 hour nap, leaving you unable to fall asleep until very late, after which the cycle continues.
balfirevic
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Can you expand? What's actionable about it?
balfirevic
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> Go to bed early

Why? You have 24 hours in a day no matter when you sleep. How did it help?
balfirevic
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> the only way to do things you don’t want to do is to do them

Do you have anything that's not tautological?