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balfirevic
·4 gün önce·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 gün önce·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 gün önce·discuss
Yes, but that is the common terminology.
balfirevic
·6 gün önce·discuss
> Our assumption was that we were in a stealth baby boom.

That somehow evaded fertility statistics?
balfirevic
·6 gün önce·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 gün önce·discuss
"General aviation" does not include commercial air transport, so that's probably not what you meant.
balfirevic
·14 gün önce·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 gün önce·discuss
> I do not think the exact shape has any influence

Yes, that's what I said.
balfirevic
·17 gün önce·discuss
> that doesn't affect the sound

That would be the whole shape.
balfirevic
·19 gün önce·discuss
Tetris effect, but with the baby!
balfirevic
·20 gün önce·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 gün önce·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 gün önce·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 gün önce·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
·geçen ay·discuss
> anyone capable of living happily while being outcompeted by machines is well-adapted for the future.

> I'm not

Why not?
balfirevic
·10 ay önce·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 ay önce·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 ay önce·discuss
Can you expand? What's actionable about it?
balfirevic
·10 ay önce·discuss
> Go to bed early

Why? You have 24 hours in a day no matter when you sleep. How did it help?
balfirevic
·10 ay önce·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?