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This seems pretty close to the "nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded" argument (i.e., reporting on the data points that go against the trend), except that major cities aren't inherently crowded, they're just refusing to allow sufficient housing to be built.
America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure. Then Came Coronavirus. What Happens Next? @smervosh nyti.ms/3ajz32C
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I think there's a good bit of it in Korea and China too. Different blame for why it was destroyed, though.
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Oh, the most famous building in Wuhan is one of these: it was originally built in AD 223, but the current building is from 1981, and 1km away from the original site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow…
BTW, the mud and straw buildings in Paris are (according to this colleague) relatively easy to identify because they couldn't build straight walls with that technique; they have to tilt inwards (away from the street) as you go up.
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On the other hand, I feel like it east Asia the norm is "here is our historic pagoda dating to 1273. It burnt down to the ground 11 times and was most recently rebuilt in 1983 after last burning down in 1943 because of American bombing."
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I've talked to a former colleague who grew up in a building in Paris that needed to have cement injected into the walls because they were built as mud and straw, but the straw gets eaten away after a few centuries, to the point where you can just poke through the walls...
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Are 5-7 story buildings with straight walls really supposed to look medieval? Looks more like 17th-19th century, I'd think...
(Another example of a mostly rebuilt city is Lübeck, but I agree that many old European centers are substantially real, though often with new mixed in.)
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A photo of an urban environment I like [29/N]:
Shiba 5-Chome, Minato-ku, Tōkyō-to, 〒105-0014, Japan (border of 24-ban/26-ban)
日本〒105-0014 東京都港区芝5丁目 (24番/26番)
April 2018
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IMO, that's a sign that we need to allow office development somewhere, and I'd rather put it in the places that are best for transit based commuting, which probably means dense urban centers near transit hubs...
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There's also a shortage of office space that's pushing prices for office real estate a *lot* higher than residential. Maybe it's *possible* to impact fee your way out of office space renting for 2.5x what residential space does (per sqft) (going rate in Palo Alto, anyway), but...
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A photo of an urban environment I like [28/N]:
rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France
November 2018
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I'm all for more density, though.
I think Santa Clara county may be benefiting from having a strong public health department, and we're proud of them.
per capita, Santa Clara county (with population that's 2.19x San Francisco's) has lower case numbers (0.95 per thousand versus 1.16) but higher death numbers (3.57 per 100,000 versus 1.92). (Case numbers suffer from systematic measurement error, deaths from small sample size.)
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Proper color management is currently scheduled to be turned on in Firefox 77 (though that could change); the only source I have is bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… .
We don't have support for colors outside of the sRGB gamut, though. (Do other browsers?)
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Well, your tweet got me to notice this, and bite:
Back when I was 20, digital cameras did technically exist, but most people still used film cameras (which cost money per photo). Thus most of us had much fewer photos (of ourselves, and other things), and thus much fewer good photos. #MeAt20 #GrandCanyon
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I most likely had this developed at Ferranti-Dege, which closed in 2006: thecrimson.com/article/2006/…
Back when I was 20, digital cameras did technically exist, but most people still used film cameras (which cost money per photo). Thus most of us had much fewer photos (of ourselves, and other things), and thus much fewer good photos. #MeAt20 #GrandCanyon
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Evidence from China was that centralized quarantine made a big difference relative to quarantine-at-home:
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
I finally stuck these numbers on the tipping point state of each US presidential election on the Web, and the electoral college's bias, at dbaron.org/presidential-elec…
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