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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
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] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order
Comment · 8 years ago
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...
Comment · 8 years ago
Sycamore and linden are the perfect example of this.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
https://archive.org/details/atlasofeconomicg00bart/page/n93
Comment · 8 years ago
Many works are left to rot on fragile film reels.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 the function to be differentiable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing#Mathematical_des...
Comment · 8 years ago
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 electric or self driving will not solve that.
Comment · 8 years ago
There are also overnight trains from venice to paris operated by Thello.com.
For other destinations check out Nightjet and Euronight.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 was in 2014.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 fuel. So toll+fuel total, that's at least 106€ ($122) one way. Now you have to take into account the car rent/lease/depreciation+maintenance. You're likely better off with the train (2 hours and 8 minutes) unless you carpool.
Comment · 8 years ago
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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673229
Comment · 8 years ago
Reading full novels is the original spaced repetition tool. Words get reused regularly in context.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_Stat...