Pipoca

Which ones still use wheat?

All the ones I've ever seen use a mix of gluten-free starches and flours - rice flour, corn flour, tapioca, sorghum, potato starch, etc.

Edit: googling around, its apparently actually a thing, but it's pretty rare.

It actually works in reverse: by making a dough and washing it, starch washes out and leaves gluten and the rest of the flour.

If you dry the wash water, you're left with wheat starch, which if you're careful enough can be gluten free. It can be added to a gluten free flour mix in the same way that you'd use corn starch and potato starch.

Yes, uncountably infinite sets are larger than countably infinite sets.

But these are both a countably infinite number of bills. They're the same infinity.

That's not really how counting infinite sets works.

Suppose you have the set {1,2,3} and another set {2,4,6}. We say that both sets are of equal cardinality because you can map each element in the first set to a unique element in the second set (the mapping is "one to one"/injective), and every element has something mapped to it (the mapping is onto/surjective).

Compare the number of integers to the number of even integers. While it intuitively seems like there should be more integers than even integers, that's not actually the case. If you map 1 to 2, 2 to 4, 3 to 6, 4 to 8, ..., n to 2n, then you'll see both sets actually have the same number of things in them because that mapping is one to one and onto.

There's similarly the same number of real numbers as numbers between 0 and 1.

But there's more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are integers.

More pedestrians means more people about for drivers to kill, though. The Netherlands still has a lot of people driving.

It's less about driver empathy, and more about traffic calming. Bollards, chicanes, speed humps at intersections, etc. Streets that don't feel safe to speed excessively on. Not making everything a shitty stroad, but having better differentiation between streets and roads.

Not just bikes has a pretty good YouTube video about stroads vs Dutch streets and roads

Do you really think that road design doesn't matter at all, and all designs are equally (un)safe?

Consider a library with a parking lot across the street.

In one design, the street is four lanes, 45 mph, and there's no crosswalk. The expectation is for people to walk a quarter mile out of the way to the nearby intersection.

In the other design: the road is 25 mph, with only two narrow lanes. There's a crosswalk that's over a speed table, with chicanes before and after.

Do you really expect both designs to have equal numbers of deaths?

Or is the answer simpler than that - is it the rise of SUVs which don't have to comply with normal vehicle safety standards?

The answer the answer is honestly much more complicated than either.

Some is increasing vehicle size and weight that make crashes more deadly to pedestrians. Some is road design that encourage unsafe driving habits, as well as designs that are actively dangerous to pedestrians. Some is new distractions for drivers.

So why do road deaths happen at dramatically different rates in different countries that have very different transportation design?

Is it a better explanation that the Netherlands has road designs that better promote safety, or more conscientious drivers?

In the US, at least, AI works are inherently public domain. Because copyright only applies to works with a human author.

It's not just car-centric Euclidean zoning and suburban sprawl.

The US also builds really dangerous stroads that you don't really see in most other countries.

5+ lanes of 55mph traffic next to a sidewalk and tons of driveways for businesses is inherently unsafe.

It's also interesting to note that the biggest spike in fatalities was during the pandemic.

The best explanation I've heard is that bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic essentially disappeared with the switch to WFH during the pandemic. Streets artificially looked safer pre-pandemic due to drivers getting stuck in traffic at peak periods. The pandemic just revealed how inherently unsafe American stroads are.

So why was there such a big spike in deaths during the pandemic, essentially limited to the US?

They have phones in the Netherlands, too, but didn't see the spike in deaths. Are the Dutch naturally more responsible drivers or something?

NYS guarantees 12 weeks of paid postnatal parental leave, paid at 66% of your salary.

Which isn't great, but is better than most states in the US.