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xerxes777 commented on Plans for a new city in the American desert   cnn.com/style/article/tel... · Posted by u/daegloe
hn_throwaway_99 · 4 years ago
I'm very curious, have there ever been any "cities from the ground up" projects that don't turn out to be total shit that end up just reflecting the urban planning fallacies of the day? (Looking at you, Brasilia)

I mean, all of the cities that are most "livable" in my mind are old cities that were designed before the car and thus have enough density and public transportation to make things both close and also the kind of place where it's fun to just walk around.

These "master planned cities" always end up like houses that are designed with all these pretty rooms that nobody actually uses.

xerxes777 · 4 years ago
Saint Petersburg
xerxes777 commented on Birds had to relearn flight after meteor wiped out dinosaurs   theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/a_w
Isamu · 7 years ago
I never understood the evolutionary push to develop flight, because I thought of it as an expensive form of transport.

Until this graph, which shows the cost of transport to actually favor flight over terrestrial locomotion.

http://www.wprize.org/images/TuckerCostGraph.gif

xerxes777 · 7 years ago
xerxes777 commented on RawTherapee 5.3 – Photo software   rawtherapee.com/blog/rawt... · Posted by u/jseliger
xerxes777 · 8 years ago
How it compares to Lightroom?
xerxes777 commented on Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”   medium.com/the-polymath-p... · Posted by u/_chu
geoka9 · 8 years ago
> Everything in a person should be excellent

Probably nitpicking, but I'd translate "прекрасно" as "beautiful" here.

xerxes777 · 8 years ago
Russian here. "Excellent" is better.

"Прекрасно" is "good in every way", "perfect", it is something that cause wonder and delight or feeling of exaltation. So it's not about beauty. It's about what beauty of something do to you.

xerxes777 commented on Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?    · Posted by u/dataflow
executive · 9 years ago
Correct - see http://www.crosspixel.net for example:

"Cross Pixel's DMP is powered by our proprietary data relationships with more than 5,500 web sites and mobile apps where we identify and harvest the shopping and researching behaviors on over 650 million unique browsers. Our data partners are leading e-Commerce sites, search directories, comparison shopping engines, coupon sites and toolbars across North America and Latin America."

In general, the 'marketplace' is usually the DMP (Data Management Platform) where two parties can meet and share segments without data leakage (for example - Krux is a DMP used by a lot of Fortune 500 companies).

However the lines between DMP and Data Provider are blurring in recent years...

xerxes777 · 9 years ago
Big thanks for the info, that was insightful.
xerxes777 commented on Google Chrome Pages Refresh 28% Faster Because of Facebook   1reddrop.com/2017/01/28/g... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton
xerxes777 · 9 years ago
This is great! I mean, this was an Opera feature for 20 years, but who cares...
xerxes777 commented on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]   assets.donaldjtrump.com/_... · Posted by u/arzt
bzbarsky · 9 years ago
> 50-80 years ago you banned drugs everywhere.

Just so we're clear, 50-80 years ago I wasn't alive. ;)

But if you insist on doing things this way, you could make this sort of case about all sorts of countries:

"50-80 years ago, you were killing Jews in Europe; now you're not and are so happy about it." Well, except not everyone is happy, of course.

"50-80 years ago, you Japanese were enslaving people in countries around yours, now you're not and are so happy about it."

"25 years ago, you Swiss wouldn't let your women vote in elections in your canton, now you do and are so happy about." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell_Innerrhoden#Women.27...

> Now you doing opposite and are so happy with it.

I dunno about _happy_. There are a bunch of people not happy with marijuana legalization, and a bunch more who are not terribly happy with it but are even less happy with the state of things.

Just like there were people who were not happy to end alcohol prohibition, but were even less happy with the state of things when prohibition was in effect.

> Now you like LGBT, in 50 years you will kill them.

Just like the Swiss will repeal women's suffrage and various countries in Europe will go back to murdering Jews, right?

Or perhaps, just possibly, that might not happen? Maybe?

> The problem is that you do all this things to the world.

Really? How, exactly, is "the world" affected by the legality or not of marijuana in the US? There's some interaction with our immediate neighbors due to attempts to eliminate smuggling operations, but other than that, what is this doing to "the world"?

xerxes777 · 9 years ago
All this countries don't rule the world. You are THE ruler. You must be much much much more aware of what you do with each step (let's for a minute ignore that you don't really care).

>Really? How, exactly, is "the world" affected by the legality or not of marijuana in the US?

It's simple. CA accepts -> other states accept because they look after CA & NY & TX -> UK accepts because in such things they look after USA -> EU accepts because in such things they do what USA & UK do -> Russia accepts because in such things they do what EU do (yes, it is true).

5-10 years for each step.

xerxes777 commented on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]   assets.donaldjtrump.com/_... · Posted by u/arzt
adt2bt · 9 years ago
What's the alternative? Centrism? Honestly curious.
xerxes777 · 9 years ago
I think it's conservatism. And by conservatism I mean not something archaic, stupid and with reliance only on tradition, like leftist think... It's motion to the same goals, only slower. People must have freedom. But too much freedom too fast always creates problems.

Each step must not make revolutions and counterrevolutions. Each step mustn't break people's minds. Each step must consider everything (not "goal for goal"). So conservatism is much more complex because you need to consider everything and with this knowledge make hard decisions, not just run to the sun with some hope that everything will be all right, like drug addicts do. For me, leftism and all modern liberalism is infantile and conservatism is for grownups.

xerxes777 commented on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]   assets.donaldjtrump.com/_... · Posted by u/arzt
croon · 9 years ago
What do you suggest the other 80% is?

I happen to agree with you in concept, although I'd put knowledge closer to 30% (guesstimate).

In my line of work I would say that knowledge is a third of what I need, and the rest is a mix of patience, ability to learn things I don't know, humility and ability to work well with others.

Are these the traits you would look for or something else?

And how would you rank Trump on these? (or yours, if you have others)

xerxes777 · 9 years ago
Yes, like this. I don't exactly know how to express this in English. In Russian I would say that this is "good pseekheeka" which means combination of man's abilities (like in RPG).

So, it is emotional intelligence, persistence, will, ability to make friends, charisma, luck, fearlessness, high motivation, sensitivity, humility, ironic perception of the world, ability to resolve conflicts, ability to make boundaries, healthy aggression, ability to cope with your own aggression and aggression of others, ability to cope with doubts, deep understanding of other people, ability to learn things, ability to understand, ability not to divide everything to black and white, ability to break patterns in mind, lack of mind problems... etc.

You also not only need to know many complex things. You need to know unique things, and this things must create something like 3D network in mind. They must be linked with each other. The quality of this network and quality and uniqueness of facts are 100 times more important then amount of facts.

So if some liberal know many things like "LGBT is good", "aggression is bad", "people are equal" and usually they just repeat that over and over, this is nothing. They can read books, but reading by itself doesn't create links and facts that they read aren't unique. This is just something like propaganda but more subtle. They install kernel of left liberalism in their mind and that kernel controls them. They don't have ability to control it. They don't even understand that it's exist.

So if we look at this like points in RPG, I rank Trump higher than Clinton. He understands people much better so he has better emotional intelligence and many other things. He is good showman and this means that he has many social abilities. He is funny. He is businessman so he is very adequate in life. He has healthy aggression and this is good. He is more fearless. He doesn't fear to look stupid. He doesn't have much shame and I thinks it's healthy. He has charisma. He has healthy family.

xerxes777 commented on Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]   assets.donaldjtrump.com/_... · Posted by u/arzt
bzbarsky · 9 years ago
To some extent we do this. For example, we rolled out "legal recreational marijuana" to a few states several years ago, then watched what happened. In this election we rolled it out to a few more states and will see what happens.

Not random selection, of course, but better than nothing.

xerxes777 · 9 years ago
50-80 years ago you banned drugs everywhere. That what USA intention. Now you doing opposite and are so happy with it.

Now you like LGBT, in 50 years you will kill them.

Same with many things.

The problem is that you do all this things to the world. And poor world must bend to your changing mind.

USA, keep this mind-changing insanity to yourself, ok?

u/xerxes777

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