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But the EU paid 7.939.103.064 HUF of the total.

Transplanting the trees that have previously been in the median, planting a further ~500 trees and ~11000 bushes, three years of maintenance on these, renewing 21600 m2 grass, one Unimog for everything from mowing the lawn to catenary maintenance.

Átadták az 1-es villamos Kelenföld vasútállomásig meghosszabbított szakaszát - Hírek - Közlekedés - Budafok-Tétény

Several different cost figures in www.budafokteteny.hu/hir/atadasra... from 8 600 667 769 to 10.059.862.153 HUF for phase 2 (1.7 km grassy double-track, plus greenscaping along the route (including neighboring streets), new paving and fountain in the park, parallel bike path, (trans)planting trees..

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A budapesti Rákóczi híd 1995-ös átadása óta napirenden lévő közlekedési fejlesztés ért mára véget az 1-es villamos Kelenföld vasútállomásig meghosszabbított szakaszának átadásával – jelentette be Tarl...

Not what I meant. I meant you should deliberately write in that genre, instead of accidentally writing something sort of adjacent.

The genre of "competence porn" exists.

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For me: be stillborn. (Had the umbilical wrapped around my neck.)

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He has worked under Budapest mayor István Tarlós (Fidesz). He oversaw the "budai fonódó" project, and the extension of tram line 1 to Kelenföld, the reorg of BKV into BKK (~TfL, IIRC) + BKV (operating), aggressive priority for trams 4&6 (Tarlós made him roll it back when motorists complained), ...

Just cherrypick the posts on Bertran de Born and on ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddad.

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First, text-to-speech would boom. Second, audio/video formats (e.g. podcasts) would grow at the expense of text formats (e.g. blogs). Third, institutions would rework the "fill out this form" paradigm to be accessible. But fair enough. Next issue: students should be allowed to test out.

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What I meant was that society works with the population it has. If half the population couldn't read, then society would figure out ways for people to live productive lives without being able to read. Thus literacy would cease to be "critically important"; could still pay well, like programming.

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(The fancy term is "functional illiteracy".) Literacy has become a can't-do-without skill exactly because most people can read. The simple guess is that most would continue to learn to read because it's so useful. The weird alternative is devaluation of literacy due to widespread illiteracy.

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Let's still grant that school has *some* benefit. But we can compare that benefit to spending ...first, much of childhood and all of adolescence on school. Don't bury this. This is the first cost. Second, after that, we also spend heaps of money, tying up labor as schoolteachers. Is it worth it?

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Indeed. School's benefit is very much squeezed between: - from one side, parents trying (with varying levels of success) to teach their kids explains away school's benefit; - from the other side, we checked and many kids can't read. Whether phonics would help is a question for later.

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They aren't trivial, I listed them exactly because they do justify K-4 or so. K-6, even. (Though my impression is that upper-middle class kids commonly *enter* school not-quite-illiterate.) And yes, I learned two non-Latin alphabets quite easily. Did mostly forget the language, though.

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- Professor, don't cede the point that "college fails to teach knowledge" so easily. - Then what, for that matter, do K-12 teach, that most adults in a society reliably retain? Reading, writing, and 3 of the 4 basic arithmetic ops (but not division).

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Sure -- but that's because the whole wizarding population is *tiny*. Several thousand to low tens of thousands in all of Britain. Small town or very small town.

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Just that passage? Humanity is *consistently* like that in that (and the aliens have some, too).

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The contrary position is exactly that the credential represents *selection* rather than learning. Certification that you aren't a troublemaker, that you don't e.g. lash out in N years of being made to do random useless tasks. Like a certification that you are taller than [height].

Is a drama allowed to contain more than one miles gloriosus character?

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Even if that were true, it still shouldn't matter. The traders they hired *can know* that there will be shortage prices a few months from now. That they will be rewarder for buying oil today. Perhaps almost all of them are playing Keynesian beauty contest *with a short (<1 month) window*?

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At least we aren't at the point where increasing supply is either illegal or price-capped into the red.

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As in, "cooperation" would here mean nothing more than every government on its own deciding that ...they won't do anything. Not remove these taxes, and not talk about possibly removing them. This (or "of course we won't do that") reassures all other governments to do the same.

Not even PD; a mere Stag Hunt. Not getting it right reflects even worse on us. In the PD, only defect-defect is Nash. Coop-coop is not Nash, which is why it's worth studying. In the Stag Hunt, both D-D and C-C are Nash. You only need to trust the other player(s) to do the obvious right thing.

Eh, the modern schema is to be ruled by furniture, from "throne" through "bureau" to "the chair of the board". (It's sort of a pity that "commonwealth" fell out of use.)

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I understand that the medieval Alexander Cycle is in some sense the equivalent of superhero comics.

Would it make sense to simply do the series for HoI 3 instead?

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Hard pease, bland pease? We should have cooked it for longer, and added some spice.

Throw in a plausible version of the Julian Jaynes hypothesis? Internal monologue-> not your voice; your ba/daemon/genius talking to you. Emotions-> bodily symptoms (no "afraid" but "quivering"). Decisions-> pray to god and tell you (or see ba/genius above). Sing, o muse, and I will repeat after you.

Amarna tablet 35, in the voice of a gypsy. Bro! Blessings on your 'hole house, brother! Copper! Less delivered than promised! Mooching! My brother, gimme [...], and then I will send you, my brother, whatever you, my brother request. Anything! And whatabout your debt to me? It's due; *you* pay me!

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The degrowthers don't want to do more with less. Somehow they ended up in an unhealthy place where they want to do less; where they don't want to benefit humanity; where they want fewer people, poorer per capita. I don't understand this worldview either, but it exists: www.vhemt.org

vhemt.org

VHEMT

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At Oxford/Cambridge, institutions grow and shrink over time, and thus repeatedly "digest" each other's former parts. Opening or walling off doors, putting rooms to different uses. The result is allegedly a fantastic mess. Why would adjacent medieval houses' floor levels match?

Basil Marte @basilmarte.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yes, because a "Yerevan radio" version of that happened to me a month or two ago. During talking about politics-in-general, a relative told me she believes in the blood libel. (By content; she didn't seem aware it has a name, or any distinction from other facts about the world.)

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From a transit point of view, it's stupid to break frequency between duplicate-by-class *networks*. But where frequency is cheap and the userbase of future WaymoÜberPod is willing to pay a premium fare (by itself sufficient to create the split!), it could work anyway.

Trains invented having 1st, 2nd, 3rd class coaches in one train. Airplanes have business, premium-econ and economy classes in one plane. At one point in the US, buses used to have a front and a back. With frequency so cheap, they could be separate vehicles, if that is what people will pay for.

Driverless tech makes frequency cheaper. (See above: transit desert to decent frequency.) This is going to make leftists angry, but in places with abundant frequency (e.g. today 10 minute headways -> future ~2 min?) you can afford to break frequency by service class (2* incompatible 4-min).

So if you can introduce a "new" type of public transit as an upper-middle-class (bougie?) thing, distinct from the bus (which is for smelly-poor-people), and it's useful service, I think they will ride it. IMO it is natural for robotaxis to evolve into robobuses (no, not buses, robo-pod-things).

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Narrowly-construed carbrain does exist (see "trucks"). But AFAIK lots of Americans very specifically hate the bus but have positive vibes for streetcars/trolleys. (E.g. "lifestyle center" malls install a few hundred feet of tram track.)

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"Americans hate buses and don't know what they are" -> call the driverless minibuses (with a side of marshrutka) some other word. Call them pods, for all I care. Driverless, they can run at very convenient frequencies (<5 min) where today you have nothing, or an excuse service (a bus an hour).

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Yep, this really should have a scatterplot version. Another example: according to the estimates, more than half of the households above $100k are also above $1m.

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Yes -- so keep them, if you want to. That's why he didn't list the agents in the costs that can be cut: bsky.app/profile/ccha... Though there are both "back-office" fare-collection-related employees, and in some cases "meat faregates" who add disproportionately little to security.

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Yep, we Hungarians say we're in Central Europe (V4, once-Jagiellion lands?). If e.g. Germans/Austrians (who we say are in Western Europe) say they are in Central, and we in Eastern Europe -- that's no big deal. On the other hand, if they say that Hungary is in the *Balkans*, that's fighting words.

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*pales* Ten or more usual-ish armies' worth of sailors by headcount, just to open a path for the actual army being transported.

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