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by spaced-out 2y ago
Some of us like to jump out of moving vehicles and do a cool roll or flip like in an action movie! This is yet another use case the Silicon Valley technocrats didn't consider...
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by spaced-out 2y ago
The value of the land is a function of the amount of money one could make off the land, which is a function of the overall economy. A coffee shop next to lots of office buildings can sell lots of overpriced coffee which affects the value o
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by spaced-out 2y ago
If you give away the land to someone else, but still own the building on it, the person you gave the land to would have to pay land value tax and they would pass that onto you in rent.
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by spaced-out 2y ago
>I don't see anything at all that contradicts the idea of the Shire as an idyllic anarchic/collectivist society. Sam is Frodo's servant. Anarchic societies don't have masters and servants. Then the natural question
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by spaced-out 2y ago
We do know Shakespeare was a real person because he did a lot more in his life than just have his name appear on some plays.
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by spaced-out 2y ago
The court telling an artist they're not allowed to sell their videos to the highest bidder seems like a greater infringement on their freedom. What if no one wants to pay for this person's videos except for an AI company? You&#x
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by spaced-out 2y ago
>The Viet Cong were able to pay those poor men too, but the vast majority of them chose to fight for and to be paid by the south. If this is true why couldn't the South beat the North, or at least defend itself on its own? After th
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by spaced-out 2y ago
I feel exactly the same way. The Dispossessed was both one of the best and one of the most boring books I've ever read. There are a lot of things I appreciate about it and I'm glad I read it, but damn was it a slog to get throug
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by spaced-out 3y ago
You could say that about nearly any good thing in life. Your current job/relationship may be holding you back from an even better one. Those leftovers you grabbed out of the fridge are occupying the space that could be taken by an ev
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Why did you "help" (in other words make a post/comment) that person on Reddit? Because you enjoy it, you enjoyed reading posts and comments by strangers, replying to them, and seeing your comments accumulate upvotes and othe
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by spaced-out 3y ago
I've yet to read a clear explanation of how "surveillance capitalism" is any different than regular capitalism with computers. As long as people are trying to make money they're going to try and crunch data to do it bet
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>I wish all of these benchmarks pitted autonomous cars against a somewhat comparable user group – say professional taxi drivers – over just a general sampling of the population. When you say professional taxi drivers, do you mean people
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by spaced-out 3y ago
I disagree. Some people will drunk drive no matter the legal consequences, or in my case, I once rear-ended someone because I was drowsy but kept driving because I wanted to get home (fortunately no one was hurt, and yes, the accident was
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Why would someone drive drunk if they can just let their car drive them home while they snooze in the back?
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Making something illegal doesn't stop some people from doing it, so it's something that should be considered when looking at the overall safety of human drivers. One benefit of robots driving is that they won't get drunk, ge
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Why? Allow enough humans to drive and inevitably some of them will start doing so drunk. It's in our collective nature.
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>How about we invest in making our cities more pedestrian, bike, and public transportation friendly? There are tons of companies that would love to help (get paid to) build out public transit infrastructure in cities. You think any majo
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by spaced-out 3y ago
> Keeping autonomous vehicles on the road will result in thousands of edge cases, and without a clear safety benefit (as opposed to Level 1 systems) its better to stop everything and reconsider. True, but I bet either a Cruise or a Waymo
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>more pedestrian friendly infrastructure and use the boring technology that already exists to get people where they want to go. the future is on buses and trains and bikes and pedestrian friendly 15 minute communities This is a political
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by spaced-out 3y ago
That's not hard for me to imagine. Now that I think about it, it should probably be standard for autonomous cars -- if there's an accident or something unexpected it should pull over, unless it can't reach the side of the ro
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>but because they don't have the credit score for anything within city limits That's because there's not enough housing in the city limits. >Space and access to sunlight are also components of quality of life and you ha
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by spaced-out 3y ago
I guess it depends on the listing, but I once booked a place that was billed as a nice romantic getaway in a beach town on AirBnB, and when we got there the room didn't look anything like the picture, many of the sheets and towels did
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Hotels aren't selling a boutique experience.
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by spaced-out 3y ago
If your urban planning is going to prioritize giving tourists scenic views rather than building affordable homes for the people that live and work in the city, then you shouldn't be surprised if the city turns into an giant museum&#x2F
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>I talked to someone who was renting out their basement apartment on AirBnB for a few months before a remodel was scheduled. They had one tenant try to file complaints about everything, down to the color of the bedding not matching the p
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by spaced-out 3y ago
>so the new houses with floor to ceiling windows turn into unlivable greenhouses in the summer. I find this hard to believe. I live in a place with tall (not quite floor to ceiling) windows and hot summers and having such large windows
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by spaced-out 3y ago
Looking at the residential complex in the article, Risørholmen, it looks like the "ugly" modern houses have rooftop gardens are large windows while the traditional houses have only a few small windows. Sure, the red tiled roofs l
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by spaced-out 3y ago
People aren't "projecting" demand, the demand is being driven by the market. Downtown apartments (in good condition) are expensive because they are in high demand while office space is getting harder and harder to fill. If y
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by spaced-out 3y ago
The US Supreme Court has already said no, see the case of LinkedIn vs. HiQ. https://www.fbm.com/publications/what-recent-rulings-in-hiq-...
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by spaced-out 3y ago
No. The US Supreme Court has ruled that a website cannot use TOS to prevent other companies from scraping publicly available data, even if they're doing so to directly harm the people who posted that data (citation below). Basically,

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