I think improving transport links will still increase rents wherever the people commute
It might just move things around a bit like you say.
But (and this is oversimplifying) consider that you can double speeds. Assuming that the real limit for what people will put up with is the transit time, your catchment area is twice as wide but is now four times the area.
To take an absurd example, what if teleportation via some kind of stations was an actual thing[1] and it took five minutes of setup time and cost twenty bucks to do one hop anywhere within a thousand miles. I think rents in Manhattan will go down more than rents in Burgsville Idahoma will go up, because there's also Villesburg Michylvanio and plenty of others.
I was thinking along the lines of how some music was mixed to sound good on over AM on a cheap transistor radio (where "good" == "almost acceptable if you're stoned") but you've hit the nail on the head far better than I could. Bravo.
P.S. That thing's huge. Is the bottom half where you store the coal?
Somebody, somewhere, is thinking that simplifies to 12 arctan (1/234).
The worrying thing is that he's probably somebody's boss. The other worrying things is that apart from "it just obviously doesn't" I can't really explain why.
Almost all accreditation programs and licensing rules require you to have at least a year or two as an apprentice under a master.
I doubt that's true for everything everywhere. My brother was looking at getting his CORGI (gas fitting) cert some years back and it was possible to do an intensive course in a couple of months if you already had the hands-on skills - which as a plumber, he did.
In the end he was put off by the classroom side of it, but I think he could have done it if he tried.
Don't forget to write the start and destination on each piece or you'll have to start again. As an optimisation, if the string isn't long enough to do that it's probably not a contender anyway.
But it won't be equal. It will be more equal than others.
History shows that classes/castes form if you give them the slightest excuse. Being born with a title, going to Oxvard or Yalebridge, plain old money.
If you give them an excuse to think they're better than everybody else they'll take it - and this one is all the more dangerous because arguably it's to some extent true. It's human nature.
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So it's a bit like what happened to Gnome?
The solution's the same - create their own version. They could call it Forknite.
They're lying.
Doing nothing is a better option than making things worse.
Irrelevant - I don't.
That word doesn't mean what you think it does.
Mine work without electricity.
I hope, for the sake of your sanity and mine, that you copy-pasted that and didn't do it from memory.
[aside] Not that he can even remember what he had for breakfast.
Why yes! I said so in almost those exact words, didn't i?
Oh wait. I didn't.
Cares would totally be much cheaper if we could make them from cardboard or something and like do away with brakes and all that shit.
It might just move things around a bit like you say.
But (and this is oversimplifying) consider that you can double speeds. Assuming that the real limit for what people will put up with is the transit time, your catchment area is twice as wide but is now four times the area.
To take an absurd example, what if teleportation via some kind of stations was an actual thing[1] and it took five minutes of setup time and cost twenty bucks to do one hop anywhere within a thousand miles. I think rents in Manhattan will go down more than rents in Burgsville Idahoma will go up, because there's also Villesburg Michylvanio and plenty of others.
[1] Yes, I know Elon Musk is working on it.
Gerald Ratner.
More like old bastard music. Don't ask him about that time he went to Shelbyville.
WTF is it, apart from an Italian sponge cake?
A could cause B. Possible.
B could cause A. Not possible, since A happened before B.
C could cause both A and B.
I reckon C is stupidity.
Enough to still be alive.
I was thinking along the lines of how some music was mixed to sound good on over AM on a cheap transistor radio (where "good" == "almost acceptable if you're stoned") but you've hit the nail on the head far better than I could. Bravo.
P.S. That thing's huge. Is the bottom half where you store the coal?
Somebody, somewhere, is thinking that simplifies to 12 arctan (1/234).
The worrying thing is that he's probably somebody's boss. The other worrying things is that apart from "it just obviously doesn't" I can't really explain why.
I doubt that's true for everything everywhere. My brother was looking at getting his CORGI (gas fitting) cert some years back and it was possible to do an intensive course in a couple of months if you already had the hands-on skills - which as a plumber, he did.
In the end he was put off by the classroom side of it, but I think he could have done it if he tried.
That's like saying that if I throw one empty bottle on the beach it doesn't matter. It matters if everyone takes the same attitude.
Since you apparently aren't a millennial I'm surprised you haven't heard the expression "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came.
Ever been to Wales? Your definition of straight down will vary quite a lot just by walking a mile or two.
There was a popular screensaver that showed where it was day and night. The terminator was a very similar shape to the line on the sea graph.
Don't forget to write the start and destination on each piece or you'll have to start again. As an optimisation, if the string isn't long enough to do that it's probably not a contender anyway.
I doubt it makes that much difference for the purpose here. It's not going to make the Irish Sea turn out to be wider than the Pacific.
But it won't be equal. It will be more equal than others.
History shows that classes/castes form if you give them the slightest excuse. Being born with a title, going to Oxvard or Yalebridge, plain old money.
If you give them an excuse to think they're better than everybody else they'll take it - and this one is all the more dangerous because arguably it's to some extent true. It's human nature.
There's another book with a similar theme in it. Can't remember the name, but it's taken on something of a cult status in some parts of the world.
Rather surprised Adams didn't sue, to be honest.
You're the 5th person counting how many people are making the same joke.
I, however, am the first one counting the people who are counting the people. That's why I have a corner office.