Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Trains in Europe vs US

Long story short, the European network is optimized for passengers, the US network is optimized for freight, and ours probably works better for us.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

QOTD

Government is just a word for the things we do together, like cracking down on free popcorn at hardware stores - Overlawyered

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Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Loving your enemies, more important than ever

Particularly enlightening:
Part of this stems from our tendency to think of certain foundational elements of our own belief systems as “common knowledge.” I recall, for example, a conversation in which I referred to Immanuel Kant as one of the philosophers that “everybody knows.” Someone quickly pointed out to me that this is absurd: large swathes of the human race could not tell you that Kant is a philosopher, much less identify any of his beliefs. But because I first read Kant in high-school, I naturally think of him as someone that any reasonably educated person knows.
I would say I have committed this particular sin many a time.

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