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After months of delay, the House passes infrastructure bill
- nickthemagicman 5y agoI agree. I was affected by drunken bicyclist once. They hit my stroller and injured my baby. It's high time we mandated this kind of system on all human piloted systems. Bicycles, golf carts, roller skates, etc. They should require a full breathalyzer test and full ongoing facial motion detection to ensure safe piloting of the vehicle. Safety first, always.
- furgooswft13 5y agoDon't forget Power Wheels.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoAbsolutely I don't know why power wheels would be left out. Anytime a human pilots a machine, it increases their risk of injuring another person. We need to reduce these risks for safety.
- vagrantJin 5y agoDefinitely hoverboards too.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoMy upgraded scooter wheels on my office chair means it should probably just be illegal altogether.
- rrss 5y agoasshole move to mock someone’s experience with the impact of drunk driving with sarcasm. why don’t you try actually making an argument? I don’t really care about this either way, but unless you can point to statistics on deaths due to drunk bicycle riding, this is a stupid slippery slope.
- donatj 5y agoPeople who have lived experience of rare events are the people who have the least rational outlook on said events. Someone who’s child is mauled by a dog is going to have an unreasonable opinion on dogs, letting them have a say on policy just leads to overprotective laws.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoHow dare you sir! I don't appreciate you mocking my child's injury. Each year about 100 children are killed and 254,000 are injured as a result of bicycle-related accidents* It's high time we banned these dangerous machines. This bill does not go far enough if you ask me. Have you ridden a bicycle while intoxicated sir? * https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=accident-statistics-90-P02853 https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=accide...
- rrss 5y agoit’s fascinating that you are apparently incapable of making any genuine, honest comment on this subject, and favor spewing continuous sarcasm.
- dang 5y ago"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nickthemagicman 5y agoSir you're the one presenting ad hominem attacks on me without the faintest of point. Meanwhile I have a very solid point that bicycles are dangerous with evidence and citations to support that point. Bicycles kill more kids every year than school shootings. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01 We need to use the federal government to ban bicycles to prevent these machines from hurting our kids. Criminalize bicycles! Your parents should have taught you when you were younger that if you don't have something nice to say then don't say it. So if you have a valid point then please say so,otherwise stay quiet and stop these ad hominem attacks on people.
- Bombthecat 5y agoTesla stock will explode! Plus the hertz order was confirmed!
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- garmaine 5y agoBad news for crypto.
- quitit 5y agoI’d be interested to know the implications if you have time to share.
- garmaine 5y agohttps://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/06/house-sends-infrastructure-bill-with-crypto-tax-provision-to-us-president/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/06/house-sends-inf... Tl;dr it will be a felony offense to receive >$10k of any digital asset without filing a report including KYC information on the sender.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoThey're really working on making automobiles a lot safer by installing breathalyzers in every car. Exciting times! https://time.com/6086981/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-breathalyzers/?amp=true https://time.com/6086981/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-brea...
- ur-whale 5y ago>They're really working on making automobiles a lot safer by installing breathalyzers in every car. Exciting times! Can't tell if sarcasm.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoSome groups are huge fans of making everything as safe as possible. This is an exciting win for them.
- furgooswft13 5y agoStill can't tell...
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- op00to 5y ago100% support this. If you know anyone who has been affected by the callous and careless behavior of drunk drivers, ask them if they agree.
- gruez 5y ago>If you know anyone who has been affected by the callous and careless behavior of drunk drivers, ask them if they agree. I bet if you asked 9/11 victims whether they want the PATRIOT act, they'd agree as well. That doesn't mean it's a good reason to support it, or that their feelings should be given more weight than anyone else's.
- ianai 5y agoPrevious upload and convo of the senate bill text for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047538 Much ink gets spilled over the machinations leading up to legislation. But the machinations being in the open as they were give us normies a chance express our opinions on it in real time to our representatives. It’s actually the opposite of lobbyists and crony capitalism. Granted, two things can be true and lobbyists and “well funded interests” get their say all throughout the process. Still a world of difference from a bill coming out from closed door meetings with nobody outside even seeing it.
- CalRobert 5y agoThis whole time I've been confused how investing more money in roads is compatible with our climate goals. Should we not trying to decommission roads and encourage people to move to denser, walkable and cyclable city centers?
- ianai 5y agoRoads act more like veins transporting resources to parts of civilization. Decrease efficiency, increase emissions. But the critical thing is infrastructure being in disrepair can and has killed people.
- mrweasel 5y agoThe US is huge, and people are already migrating to the cities (a bad move in the light of COVID). The remaining cities still need to be connected by roads, even if you’re closing down small communities. You can also improve public transport, build bikelanes and sidewalk, while updating roads to help the parts of the community that will inevitable live outside the inner city limits.
- mym1990 5y agoHasn’t the trend been the opposite during covid, people have actually been moving out of large city centers? I think generally people like to have the space, especially with a family, and it’s just cheaper in the suburbs.
- vagrantJin 5y agoI dont have the data but it seems transportation is something that exponentially gets harder to solve the more resources you have. Anecdotally, I live in a suburban area in a "developing" country. It was definitely not designed for people to live in - there are no small shops just a huge big chain store, barely any sidewalks and I havent seen any people just walking about. Every house seems to have about two cars. Outside the suburbs its the complete opposite. Roads are full of people milling about and kids playing cricket or soccer. Cars are second class citizens on the townships. First class citizens in the suburbs. Crazy.
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- netcan 5y agoThe $1trn headline makes me expect something to excite the imagination... A roman aquaduct wow factor. Something to marvel at. Am I being shallow? Does it make bad sense to cut a $100bn slice for something epic? A hypersonic monorail perhaps?
- ianai 5y agoIt gives the DOE secretary a mandate and budget to commission projects for new, smaller nuclear plants (300MW). Unless that got removed…
- rsj_hn 5y agoThis would be really cool! Unfortunately I have no idea how to even tell what's in this bill -- do you?
- ur-whale 5y ago> The $1trn headline makes me expect something to excite the imagination A country running out of money and going into hyperinflation via money printing ? Exciting enough for you ?
- anm89 5y agoThe dollar is incredibly unlikely to hyper inflate. There is a big middle ground of damaging inflation that is not hyperinflation though
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- throwaway4good 5y agoWhat exactly is in it? If you add up the numbers at the bottom of the article, it is only about 500B. Is the rest already already allocated infrastructure spending?
- mister_tee 5y agogood catch; it's $550B in new spending and $450B of renewing infrastructure programs that were going to expire (or have expired since the bill has dragged on) I don't know what the $450B is though, all the media focus and interest is on the new shiny stuff.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoHa! Just as I expected, a bill that mostly builds infrastructure that corporations/Wall Street wanted, not much for the slave class (also known as the “middle class”). As Warren Buffet once said “there has been class warfare and my class won.” Biden should man-up and issue executive orders to satisfy at least a few of his campaign promises to the non-elite class.
- pavlov 5y agoYou have to be more specific and explain why the middle class slaves don’t benefit from power lines, airports, fixed water pipes, flood protections etc.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoWe benefit somewhat by increased employment but I believe that the reconciliation bill had the good stuff for non-elites, not this bill. It is an open question whether massive spending is appropriate right now.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoFor me, this article was quite confusing and hard to follow. In contrast, CNN’s article was easier for me to understand: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/house-votes-infrastructure-build-back-better/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/house-votes-infrastr...
- News-Dog 5y agoFiber to the basement, 1 to 10 gigabyte internet speeds?