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Or we could just make tall buildings legal to build again.

I don't know where you're from, but the law nearly every city in the US limits how many housing units can be built in every tract of land, so the simple arithmetic forces long commutes.

> Crops are generally loving climate change though, as more food will be produced than with colder temperatures This is not true. "each degree-Celsius increase in global mean temperature woul…

The problem with Penn Station's destruction isn't the destruction itself, it's that the building that replaced it is so hideous. Most historic buildings aren't valuable because the…

We tried quadratic voting for our team choosing a new name, and we did not find it to work well. I think the analysis that the scheme even converges makes simplifying assumptions that aren't well…

I stopped buying physical books for most of what I read after my last move, but I missed having books around as decoration, conversation starters, and things to loan or for guests to read. And I didn&…

If you have complaints about the article's accuracy, spell them out instead of knee-jerking from the headline.

> Isn’t figuring out whether warning was happening pretty straightforward? Not exactly. There are two ways that it can be ambiguous: 1. We don't measure the entire earth to measure its tempera…

It isn't the same reasoning at all. Our prior for what could possibly happen should be informed by what has happened before, and we know to the best of what geology can tell us, that many mass ex…

You invest heavily in deploying technologies so that they become cheaper, and either win on cost alone or at least become an easy political choice to switch to. Ramez Naam talks about this in much mor…

They compared both temperature over time and temperature vs forcing. The latter test factors out the "quantity of emissions" which as you say are much harder to predict (geopolitical), so ju…

Having the combining character version of that would be fantastic. Eventually, It would be amazing if all the details of math rendering could make it into unicode.

The heat death is when the universe is in it's maximal information state.

This was exactly my experience. The story they were telling in HL2 was extremely poorly suited to the technology they were trying to use to tell it. You can't tell a story about being an insurge…

No audio-logs either. No text. Just experiencing the whole thing first-hand, with set pieces that felt like plausible places and not just "cool geometry."

I put one in my son's bedroom and was blown away. He's 3, and calls me in to sleep with him sometimes. It's a small room, and we keep the doors closed so his sister doesn't wake hi…

Exactly. I always felt like the world of magic was bigger than my imagination of it, that the cards were a tiny window into an unfathomably strange world. "Eldritch" is maybe the best word I…

>For some counterexamples to your point, look at any of the art by Seb McKinnon. His stuff looks fantastic, and does look a lot like the more "tarot" inspired art of early magic. Thanks f…

>I don’t know about this domain So then why don't you believe me when I tell you that all of these variable names are extremely standard, and will be familiar to anyone who has written deep le…

The notation in the code will be very familiar to anyone comfortable with the underlying research and math. The "conceptual" documentation is in the literature. What you're asking for i…

AMP makes some trade offs, and not everyone is happy with those trade offs, but pretending that it exists due to some nefarious ulterior motives rather than making UX of the web better makes talking a…

I recommend "Tartine Bread" as a supplement to that, specifically for making breads with wild yeast. The method in Flour Water Salt Yeast for starting and maintaining the culture seemed real…

If you're new to the idea of locality sensitive hashes and want to learn about them, or would like to use one on on massive sparse data and a key-value store, I wrote up a post that walks through…

Awesome examples! Thank you!

If you can remember any of the queries that failed, I'd be happy to pass them along to debug. If you have it turned on you can look in your search history here: https://myactivity.goog…

Thanks! Did you finally find a good page?

Do you remember the full query?