llbeansandrice

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by llbeansandrice 5d ago
Colorado is shipping a regional rail project in the front range. Service will start in ‘29 and the district is voting on new sales tax to fund the expansions. It’s a very solvable problem. We’re also not talking about removing car infrastru
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by llbeansandrice 6d ago
It’s actually quite easy. RTD in the front range in Colorado has drastically reduced issues on buses and the light rail the past couple of years. It wasn’t that hard. I take various forms of transit regularly and I’ve never had an issue mor
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by llbeansandrice 6d ago
So you agree there should be more options besides cars?
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by llbeansandrice 6d ago
Roads cost $200b a year and that doesn’t include the individual cost of owning a vehicle, fuel, insurance and maintenance. It also ignores the opportunity cost in having parking lots and land taken up by highways instead of being more econo
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by llbeansandrice 6d ago
Unnecessary is the perfect word. If a car is unnecessary then can simply choose to not have one. Right now a car is required to live in most places in the US. No one is saying people must give up their cars. I just want more options. Your
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by llbeansandrice 6d ago
Then why is Amtrak breaking ridership records?
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by llbeansandrice 6d ago
My pithy response is the same as people who have told me what to do when I try and advocate for transit. “Move somewhere else.” I don’t find these problems unsolvable. We spend over $200 billion on roads a year. That’s almost $75bn more tha
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by llbeansandrice 21d ago
You keep saying Starlink may be more efficient without providing any actual evidence that it is. Also ignoring the political implications of a country spending tax money to buy services from a highly political company from a country whose p
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by llbeansandrice 1mo ago
Also, whether an organization (private or public) is bloated and inefficient is often only a reference to what you think the goal of the organization is. If the goal of the USPS was to turn a profit, then serving rural addresses is ineffici
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by llbeansandrice 3mo ago
Actually many cities aren’t accepting traffic deaths at all and are adopting Vision Zero. I believe it’s Norway that adopted it for the entire country and was able to go over a year with exactly zero traffic related deaths. This problem is
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by llbeansandrice 3mo ago
Cars are not necessary nearly as much as most Americans think they are. It is a difficult problem to untangle, but not impossible. Accepting this level of tragedy and violence because cars are sometimes “economically necessary” is very sad.
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by llbeansandrice 4mo ago
If they do not want to fund it they do not support it. The purpose of the system is what it does. Or in this case, the actions of the billionaire class and their capital are their values and morals.
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by llbeansandrice 4mo ago
You don’t need to outperform an LLM tho. The experience of working on it together is incredibly meaningful. I generally reject this litmus test that someone has to be “better” and an LLM in order for the human interaction and effort to be w
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by llbeansandrice 4mo ago
This is anticipatory obedience and it's actively harmful. You are also wrong. Contracts, ordinances, and everything related to governance get rolled back or changed all the time. Especially at the local level. If you have lost the init
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by llbeansandrice 4mo ago
This is just anticipatory obedience. Deciding that you've already lost before even trying is actively harmful, especially when paired with a lack of any other action. If you don't believe in this system then start setting things o
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by llbeansandrice 4mo ago
They are absolutely hoovering up the excess profits are you fucking stupid? That’s literally how capitalism works. When have you ever saved the company money and been given a bonus that was even 1/10th of that money?
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by llbeansandrice 4mo ago
Those flock cameras arrived in many places in the US bc people did not show up to public city council meetings to oppose them, aka “activism”.
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
I read something a while ago that talked about this. Friendships are solidified mostly by asking for help. It shows the other person that you trust them and people are often honored that you would do so. Even if the request is small. So bei
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
From a user perspective this makes sense. But if you’re MSFT or GitHub this number is pretty embarrassing. They would love if everyone on the platform used all of the features and had massive lock-in right? So if some part of that is always
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
Does this truly play out? I’m sorry but I don’t buy that this is true based on a stereotypical Japanese exceptionalism trope.
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
The parent comment is specifically talking about abusing zoning laws. It’s also a very generic term and I’m interested in what would be an abuse of zoning laws specifically. There are many kinds of zoning laws going as far as to say how tal
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
It’s a bike lane not a road. It’s mine as a cyclist gtfo.
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
Dang maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to drive then
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
Idaho stops are legal for cyclists in some form in a dozen states. There are tons of cycling specific laws that are separate or different from cars.
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
First, in many states cyclists explicitly do not have to stop at stop signs, it’s called an “Idaho stop” and it’s legal in my state. This is much safer for cyclists since most crashes occur in intersections and allowing cyclists to move thr
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by llbeansandrice 5mo ago
What do you mean by “abuse”?
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by llbeansandrice 6mo ago
Money is a form of acknowledgement. Other forms of acknowledgement are a way to keep HR and your boss accountable for giving you more money ime. If you’ve delivered a bunch and thats been seen then its much easier to advocate for higher pay
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by llbeansandrice 7mo ago
> - Attempts to squash 1st amendment, particularly on gender explain yourself
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by llbeansandrice 7mo ago
> People largely weren't on their deathbeds with covid claiming it was a hoax There were actually lots of people doing exactly this. Perhaps "largely" is the key word here but there were plenty of people dying of covid and
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by llbeansandrice 7mo ago
If you're going to be snarky you should try being right. You said > "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives. Which is incorrect and what I was responding to. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be

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