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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by thaumasiotes on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:08PM (#18780233)
> we can consume as much transport as we get. If it was cheap and fast I could have ramen lunch in Tokyo. Pick up the kids from crèche in Portugal on my way home to New Zealand.

Nitpicking this from a physical perspective, consuming this amount of travel fundamentally requires you to experience a certain amount of acceleration. I'm pretty sure that the itinerary you describe here would kill you, regardless of how cheap it was.

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by A2017U1 on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:00PM (#18781235)
At 1g constant acceleration/decceleration you could make it to the Moon (380,000 km) in 3 hours.
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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by thaumasiotes on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:44PM (#18781884)
Fair enough.

A six hour commute is unrealistic, but by my calculations a constant 1g of acceleration is enough to cover a round trip from Wellington, New Zealand to Tokyo and another from Wellington to Lisbon in under 90 minutes of daily commute.

I note that in reality, we don't ever travel with constant nonzero acceleration, but it's fair to ignore that under the explicit assumption that there are no costs involved.

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by max76 on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:43PM (#18780793)
Piling on the nitpicking.

Portugal isn't 'on the way' to New Zealand from Tokyo regardless of speed or timelines.

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by thaumasiotes on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:22PM (#18781343)
It is "on the way" if that's what your schedule shows. If you need to leave work, pick up the kids, and arrive at home in that order, then you'll pick up the kids on your way home regardless of spatial arrangements.
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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by max76 on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:50PM (#18781693)
Even as a native speaker, the way people use the language still surprises me.
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