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  • General use - Keychron. Great build quality, well priced, feels great to use

    Ergonomics - Kinesis. The software is underwhelming but the actual keyboards are rock solid, I’ve daily driven the same freestyle pro for 5+ years without issue

    Gaming - Wooting. Delightful feel, great build quality, and the configuration software doesn’t totally suck. Premium price but worth it if you care about things like actuation point and trigger speed.



  • A lot of people have pointed out the auto industry lobby, but even if it were removed, getting high speed rail in place would still be a tough sell because of the settlement patterns that the postwar car + suburb boom created. Boston to DC is easily dense enough to support high speed rail, but huge swathes of that corridor (especially Connecticut and New Jersey) are so thoroughly suburbanized that getting to the train in the first place is a non-trivial drive, which renders the train much less attractive. New Jersey is the densest state in the country but The Acela, which serves that corridor, only has stops at either side around New York and Philadelphia because Jersey’s density is spread fairly evenly across a functionally infinite suburbia.















  • Not very, it spreads human to human but much less aggressively than flu or covid.

    “We do believe that there may be some human-to-human transmission that’s happening among the really close contacts, the husband and wife, people who’ve shared cabins,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of epidemic and pandemic management at the World Health Organization, speaking at a press conference on Tuesday.

    However, Debbink says, if this is indeed human-to-human transmission, the virus does not seem to be highly transmissible because then “you would have a lot more cases on the cruise ship, just from people being around each other in pretty close proximity.”

    Per NPR