giantg2

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by giantg2 7d ago
Fault matters in general, but it's not captured in the stats so you can't make an accurate comparison.
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by giantg2 7d ago
I imagine these same people are the type of people who would throw something out the window of an AV too.
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by giantg2 7d ago
It doesn't have to be a surveillance state for enforcement. Just preventing repeat offenders would practically remove that lowest denominator. For example, I knew a guy in high school who totaled 4 cars and had other minor accidents in
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by giantg2 7d ago
I was talking more about mandating or encouraging the tech in personal vehicles. I think there's plenty of buy-in for driverless taxis already. It's a perception thing - trust a stranger or trust an automated system. I think it&#x
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by giantg2 7d ago
If fatality rates were higher, then maybe. But at 1.3 per 100 million miles, it seems like that would have low effect.
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by giantg2 7d ago
Better driver education and higher test standards would save lives too. So would banning alcohol. None of these solutions, including automated cars, will be mandated any time soon. It's not enough to have data, you also have to have so
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by giantg2 9d ago
I'm so disappointed at the lack of dumb TVs and privacy focused streaming boxes.
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by giantg2 9d ago
I didn't. You shouldn't be claiming a specific person down voted you because the system doesn't capture attribution.
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by giantg2 9d ago
And this predates by 20 years! Wonder how pastuer faired...
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by giantg2 9d ago
It wouldn't have taken decades. Information might have taken a year or two. Decisions on what to do with that may take longer. I find it unlikely that germ theory wasn't known by those involved with the 14th amendment, even though
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by giantg2 9d ago
Things taking a year or two was normal, but 8 years is plenty of time. There were long distance publications in many areas of the world even earlier in time. You can look at how every back in the 1700s Benjamin Franklin had a newspaper acro
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by giantg2 9d ago
It should just be criminal reckless endangerment since they knowingly provided unsafe water.
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by giantg2 9d ago
Germ theory really started around 1860 and the 14th amendment was 1868. Seems they both coexisted.
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by giantg2 9d ago
It should just be reckless endangerment criminal charges - they knew it was unsafe and provided it anyways.
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by giantg2 11d ago
It's only 17% higher than in 2010. Seems like a majority believed the government was corrupt prior to Trump.
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by giantg2 12d ago
Lots of people here are focused on one guy. But the the article says "widespread". In my experience, much of the corruption is at a local or state level. At the federal level it seems the corruption is mostly related to agencies (
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by giantg2 13d ago
That's included. For example, I'm building a kiln to fuse the glass. That's where the biggest cost is.
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by giantg2 13d ago
"post-scarcity society" Labor is one thing, but there will always be some scarcity such as natural resources. I still doubt all labor could be done by AI alone at any point in the next couple generations.
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by giantg2 14d ago
I don't know. I doubt I can get an 16"-18" mirror for under $300.
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by giantg2 14d ago
I plan on grinding my own. That seems like it can be cheap too.
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by giantg2 15d ago
This really shouldn't be a problem. We were lazy with GPS. Maps, compasses, altimeters, etc all still exist. They might not offer the same precision as GPS, but they can easily fill the gaps. We already have inertia guidance systems fo
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by giantg2 16d ago
Just use ghost pipes for your grayanotoxin.
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by giantg2 21d ago
Yes, the cleanliness can vary based on the outfit and the tech/facilities tends to be lower. However, there are not 100s of animals being ran through the same grinder. It doesn't seem like there are any real tests being done to ea
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by giantg2 21d ago
Everyone is hating on statistics, yet HN posts studies all the time. Yes, stats can be used deceptively or incompetently used, but they are generally useful. You just have to look at the full study to see what the starting data was and all
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by giantg2 24d ago
I would guess that swamp coolers were fairly common.
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by giantg2 24d ago
Is the lack of green cover really problem? Seems like the lack of green cover would be natural for that area.
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by giantg2 24d ago
"It's also very not true that farmers are poor in the US (median household income about 30% greater than general population)." Most farmers work a "real" job in addition to the farm work. Then you also have farm wor
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by giantg2 24d ago
A lot of food cost is due to food waste and convenience (refrigerated shipping, out of season crops, etc). There's already a lot food waste due to logistics and consumer preference.
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by giantg2 24d ago
"It’s effectively become a wealth transfer to support poor rural American communities" I'm skeptical that rural community are the primary beneficiaries. Seems more likely that it's benefiting people who own the patents&#
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by giantg2 25d ago
Wouldn't they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was data on the phone that was wiped? Even the article says that only the data on the device at the time of the search is in-scope. Wouldn't you have to prove that t

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