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We also used to use heuristics like "avoid making unprotected left turns onto main streets." The telltale sign of overreliance on consumer-grade vehicle routing algorithms is the line of cars waiting to make a difficult left at a two-way stop sign instead of using a signalized intersection

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there's a good reason that the cultural work that stands as the perfect antithesis of the modern culture of optimization and degraded attention includes two novels named for alternative routes used by the narrator to take walks: The Way by Swann's and The Guermantes Way

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I see this wave of phony journalistic self-reflection about Biden coverage more as an attempt to import a favorite practice of right-wing journalism--keeping an old story about a hated liberal enemy alive in the headlines no matter how dead the issue is--into the mainstream press

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graeber deserves jared diamond's reputation more than jared diamond does

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lot of southwest side barbers trying to figure out whether they're supposed to have framed pictures of two different popes on the wall, or what

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if you worship linear algebra you should know what orthogonal means

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