The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I'm reliably told that Majority of NYC residents do not own a car.
NYC, however, is the only major city in the country where this is true.
So really its a ruralish area attached to an urbanized one? So my guess is the majority of residents can't walk to the theater.
Nothing rural about it; the "swathes of nature" are a large park and a few (closed to the public) reservoirs. Certainly a majority of residents can't walk to the theatre, but the same is true in Manhattan. It's suburban.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
This is even worse, especially in New Jersey, where we've got weird stuff like Metutchen (pop 15,000) entirely surrounded by Edison (pop 110,000). Edison is just dense suburbia.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
NJ townships are also incorporated (and are by far the most common form of municipal government), but a few of the borough/township splits have joined in the past few years, notably Princeton (home of the eponymous university)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Likewise, 'how far' do you have to travel to get to the nearest live theater? If you live in an area that is technically sparsely populated but you can drive <20 minutes and see a live production, that's gotta be suburban. If you can walk to see one, OBVIOUSLY Urban.
Millburn, NJ is clearly suburban, despite a live theatre being right there. Density 900/km^2.
My own adjoining town is just barely over 1500/km^2, but it, too, is clearly suburban. There's also a live theatre in our downtown, such as it is.
The car thing doesn't work for the opposite reason. Philadelphia is full of cars. So is Chicago. So is New York, for that matter. No American city has a transit share of commutes above 50%, though NYC has been above that. Next closest city outside the NY metro is D.C at 26.6%.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
· Edited 6d ago
You are really supporting the people of my X bubble, who when presented with a tweet suggesting we pay teachers what they were worth, mostly responded about how much money we would save or how minimum wage laws make it illegal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Certainly he was wrong scientifically. But not a fool; he knew that actual reality was of far lesser practical significance than political reality.
"A black woman invented the telescope. You might disagree. You might even have evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over? A black woman invented the telescope."
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Proving P=NP doesn't break all asymmetric crypto. Factoring probably isn't even NP-hard, nor is discrete log on a Galois field or an elliptic curve. You need both more and less to break asymmetric crypto. More, in that you need a practical break; if you can factor numbers or extract discrete logs in polynomial time but the minimum exponent is 1000, you've got nothing useful. Less, in that you could theoretically come up with a polynomial-time solution while leaving NP-complete problems without them.
If you do find a practical break, obtaining a few "orphaned" bitcoins and selling them might be the best thing to do. But the NSA might be watching for that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
If they were such fools, they wouldn't have won so totally.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Not necessarily. I could see a strong argument that proper exposure and socialization with the normies is actually good for the supergeniuses.
It's an argument, but when the 'supergeniuses' are getting beaten up and their 'socialization' is to the role of pariah, then if you don't reconsider you're doing the same thing progressives do when they swear that not disciplining the violent will improve the system.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
I know society has started to wake up from this, but it's still so shocking to see how much political capital was burnt on the left over the past generation over this bizarre ideology, and how everyone that dared to question it was scolded, chided, or threatened off as some heretic.
Thing is, society has NOT started to wake up from this. Originally there was some pretense that there was a debate over whether schools would work better (for black kids, anyway) with the leftist policies or the traditional ones. The lefties won, implemented their policies, they didn't work... and they still cleave to them. There's nearly no backlash. Not only isn't it about the outcomes, it never was; the desire for the policies themselves is a first principle. This also holds in other areas such as crime.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
You gotta teach them about anarcho-tyranny when they're young, they'll be seeing a lot of it in the real world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
UBI, for those who pledge to do too many drugs to seek societal change
We already have that, but it doesn't work because those seeking certain sorts of societal change get to use them as foot soldiers.
Someone made maps for that here. This makes a large part of the NY metro area one enormous city of 14M. Edison is near the bottom left but I can't tell for sure if it's in or out. Might be useful for some purposes but definitely doesn't map to what Americans would consider 'a city'. (Then again, NYC itself doesn't either)
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