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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Right, the reason it might be underutilized is if you're bad at designing cities for it. Which the US is, so it is. We design cities for cars, which results in the cities spreading out further and further, which makes transit less desi
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Waymo is subsidized. They operate vehicles without paying for the cost of the road, land, or surrounding parking. That's like owning a train system and not paying for the tracks. Yeah... that's a huge part of it. There's also
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Also just like... looking at a train and noticing it can carry a ton more people than a car, has no concept of traffic, and can theoretically go as fast as possible.
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
This is an implementation problem, not a problem with the underlying concept. Public transit like buses and lightrail are significantly more efficient per person than personal vehicles. This is because they can transport many more people
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
I really don't understand this mentality at all. Freedom is about the ability to do more stuff, not the requirement to do more stuff. Meaning, everything you want to do with a locked down phone, you can do with an open one. There&#x2
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
The prices would go down too much, and then infrastructure would rot as production slows down. Then, prices would skyrocket, and so on. Oil production and distribution is basically infrastructure, like energy or internet. It can't real
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Encryption is more work than not-encryption, and most software is optimally lazy and barely functional. The main goal of the developers is to make the app almost work most of the time, and not crash too much or be so inconvenient that users
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Because the parent used their anecdote of gluten intolerance to explain why caring about the gut microbiome matters. But traditional gluten intolerances are not related to the gut microbiome. We also don't really understand why things
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Presumably try to get those women arrested, or at least investigate them. It's actually quite difficult to investigate an abortion, though. Abortion isn't "real", in the sense that there's no obvious difference betw
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
A fecal transplant definitely doesn't work for celiac disease, which is the only gluten intolerance you have to worry about. Other gluten intolerance is probably not gluten, gluten is just a close enough proxy. Could be FODMAP + IBS or
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Rust's stdlib is fine, it's similar to C++ and C++ never had this problem. It's just that it you give developers tools, they will absolutely abuse them to the highest extent. The problem with cargo is it's too good, so o
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
You don't need proof or measurement if it's a question of time complexity. The time complexity covers that. And if you aren't optimizing for time complexity, then it's probably an over-optimization. Even if switch was fa
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Gluten intolerance is a real thing but I don't think that necessarily means that your gut flora is damaged or whatever. Plenty of people are lactose intolerant, and their gut flora is fine, they're just lactose intolerant. I don&#
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
People who have gluten allergies have a legitimate disease, typically celiac disease. Being tired after eating bread or whatever is not a gluten allergy, that's just how food works. A lot of people claim to have gluten allergies but no
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
It's a measurement problem, which engineers also fall prey to, perhaps even more. It's the danger of data driven decision making. Cutting people and resources right now gets you a measurable gain. Not cutting them gets you a gain
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Some people like those things but it's a matter of perspective. The American point of view of sprawling suburbs and automobiles is just one perspective on freedom. To many, it is not freedom. Having to drive a car is not freedom. Havin
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Ambition is good, but too much ambition becomes clawing, desperation. It's pathetic mostly, but it works. Because, again, people like hearing good things. So their leaders like hearing that they want the job really really badly and wou
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
This isn't how most people would define individualism and collectivism, I think. Individualism is the propensity to do whatever is best for the individual, even if it hurts the collective. Collectivism is the propensity to do what&#x27
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Riots in the streets because you have to wear a piece of cloth on your mouth and stand slightly farther away from people? I don't know how people are so delusional to think lockdown was a lockdown. Did we... did we have the same COVID?
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Wearing a mask was always such a non-issue. Even if the effect was only marginal, there's essentially no cost to wearing a mask. It's, like, slightly uncomfortable. Slightly. As the other commenter said, people complained not beca
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
I don't think it's that managers or decision makers are bad, I think moreso it's that, for most companies, the criteria for promotion are absolutely busted. And, it creates a culture of self-preservation, which affects ICs, t
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Policy still matters even if guns exist. After all, murder is still illegal even though murderers exist. Building a bomb is still illegal even though bombs exist. The tricky part with the US is the already vast supply of firearms circulatin
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
I think both dense and not dense areas suffer from tragedy of the commons. The only difference is in the suburbs the effect is spread out, so you can kind of pretend it doesn't exist. Which also means that each individual person has th
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
From a cost perspective, it is solved. The communists solved it a long time ago. Build more, denser housing that is therefore much cheaper per-unit. We don't do that because of people's preferences, and more importantly their will
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
The common string between both of those advocacies is that they heavily favor huge corporations instead of the little guy. Basically, DMCA and DRM makes you a criminal while protecting NBC and Disney and such. And AI steals your work and al
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
If other innocent people are collateral damage, then yes. Essentially the US "let this" happens and now wants to reverse course, but they're gonna be taking down a lot of good, hard working people with them. Also, this will n
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
We are actively seeing the current US government shift towards malevolence and fascism. These fears of government control were very rational, evidently, as the government is currently abusing every possible system it can. I mean, a lot of t
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
That's an extremely low bar, Windows has been shit for a long time and has basically only degraded. Some people think Windows 10 was good, it wasn't, they just haven't used Windows for long enough. Apple software isn't b
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
It's slightly less lines of code which is nice. I'm someone who prefers terseness so I get it. However, it's bad. I much prefer the rare, elusive, postfix if: goto fail if (condition); It can create some very readable
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by array_key_first 5mo ago
Because some crafts are more sacred than others. Making a painting is more sacred than smearing my shit in the Barns and Nobel bathroom stall, although arguably less fun. Who decides that? We do, collectively. Why do we have that power? Bec

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