papermule

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by papermule 9y ago
> How does requiring a license for cyclists solve this problem? Well, would you argue that requiring a license for motor vehicles is unnecessary? The benefits should be similar and identifiable.
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by papermule 9y ago
Dude, you're missing the point. You do not walk on the road the same way a cyclist cycles on the road. You do not walk up to T junctions, indicate with your arms and turn left. You neither come to a set of traffic lights in the same wa
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by papermule 9y ago
> You've clearly never walked in the countryside. I've lived in the countryside for 14 years. I don't walk on the roads where I live. The roads are narrow and there is no place to walk as the side of the roads are raised e
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by papermule 9y ago
> I very much doubt that you would be arrested if you tried to drive a car without a license. Without a valid driving license you will not be able to get insurance, unless you stole an insured vehicle from your parents or off the street.
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by papermule 9y ago
There are many more rules that just red, yellow green and the stop sign. It would be nice if the highway code was that simple though. For example, how to navigate a busy multi-lane roundabout safely as a cyclist, such as Old Street roundabo
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by papermule 9y ago
Well I think the issue is that unlike the pavement, the roads are much more stringently regulated with sign posts, markings and lights. For as long as cyclists have to cycle on the roads as we know them a cyclist should be required to demon
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by papermule 9y ago
> What is the actual gain to society from requiring a cyclist license? Today, without licenses, police can and do hand out moving violations to cyclists. I could, as someone who doesn't have a driving license, or has never learned t
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by papermule 9y ago
Since running is largely recreational most runners avoid congested areas on purpose. If this changes it will have to be revisited. Nice strawman though.
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by papermule 9y ago
No, I don't think so? 1. Pedestrians move at much slower speeds than bicycles. If two pedestrians walk into each at 5mph the damage is much lower than if two cyclists collide at 30mph. 2. Since pedestrians move much slower than bicycle
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by papermule 9y ago
> Retrain them before you retrain cyclists. Why can't we retrain both? Do we have to pick one or the other?
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by papermule 9y ago
> Thought experiment: if you didn't have any motorised vehicles on the road, would you still want cyclists to have a licence? Of course! In a world where there were only cyclists there would still need to be a set of rules that all
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by papermule 9y ago
There have been a couple. However, when it does happen it gets a lot of media attention, the most recent incident taking place on Oxford Street, a popular shopping street in London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-
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by papermule 9y ago
Could you add some more explanation here? What is unreasonable about it?
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by papermule 9y ago
The number of people on bikes running up the inside of vehicles on narrow streets is too high. I’d walk through Bank (a junction in London) 5 times a week and I’d see time and time again people riding up the inside of tipper trucks and buse
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by papermule 9y ago
Even so, a bike is capable of moving at speeds high enough to cause severe harm to the rider or pedestrians. What if the threshold for a test was based on the average speeds of the vehicle?
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by papermule 9y ago
Pedestrians are, with the exception of some rural areas, provided with dedicated carriage such as a pavement or sidewalk. The rules of crossing the road are well defined and in some European countries pedestrians are even arrested for J wal
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by papermule 9y ago
Why shouldn’t cyclists need a license to ride on the road? Others road users must have one. ---- It's a shame I'm getting downvoted, but the current state of affairs is that in cities like London bicycles, cars and trucks will be
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by papermule 9y ago
I have Zen Internet. It is a little bit more expensive than competitors such as BT and TalkTalk, but the customer service is so much better! It’s all in-house, run from their office in the U.K. The Fritzbox! router is fast, reliable, has gr
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by papermule 9y ago
QC25s are great at reducing noise, but it’s not just noise that’s the issue! I find that older planes have more more vibration in cabin and that’s not something that noise cancelling headphones can help with.
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by papermule 9y ago
This is a great example of collaboration between competitors where there is much to be gained and nothing to be lost!
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by papermule 9y ago
I’m not sure about that. A lot of people purchase run down homes and renovate them, often selling these homes for good profit. That’s not due to the increasing value of land?
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by papermule 9y ago
I used Homebrew back when it wouldn’t work without chowning /usr/local/bin. I’m not sure if that is still a requirement, but it did leave a bitter after taste. Beside that, I like to install packages from their canonical sou
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by papermule 9y ago
Devils advocate: I’m the other kind of Mac user who hates homebrew and refuses to use it. Give me a package or bash script to run!
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by papermule 9y ago
Apple, for example, have most of their cash offshore and can’t bring it home without being subject to a large tax bill. There is a great write up about it here https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2017/12/12&#x2F
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by papermule 9y ago
I think disposable income is great! I like having it as much as the next person, but gosh do I waste it! If I saved all the cash I’ve “donated” in tips and excessive spending I’m certain I’d have a couple $1000 more in the bank and would be
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by papermule 9y ago
I often read the comments before I read the link. I’m not sure when I started doing this, but I found it gives me a diverse range of opinions that I can consider when reading the content.
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by papermule 9y ago
Wouldn’t it be much less than 51% in practice since a lot of Bitcoin is in hardware or non-custodial wallets?