Anechoic

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by Anechoic 15y ago
I completely disagree with what you wrote, but yon don't deserve to be downvoted. You don't believe that the "negative externalities" of smoking or drinking should be addressed in any way? Even through (say) taxes/surcharges on said product
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by Anechoic 15y ago
How you vote/flag is weighted in a number of ways. I've certainly noticed that my own karma isn't strictly related to the number of upvotes/downvotes I get in a certain time period, (a day for example). Moreover is seems that posts that a
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I disagree - I don't fit in perfectly with the typical HN demographic (I'm black and I'm not a programmer), and I've made comments that disagree with consensus, and so long as I've been able to back up those comments, I've gotten upvotes. C
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I found that the most significant factor in diminished reliability was simply to let people have infinite moderation powers all the time. Interesting observation since, IMO, unlimited "moderation powers" has been the biggest problem with
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by Anechoic 15y ago
So you want PF to retroactively check people's predictions to see if they were correct? That would be interesting to see, but it's clearly not what they do, they address current statements based on current information. Now was there any rea
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Is there a particular statement from Orszag that you feel Politifact should have addressed?
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by Anechoic 15y ago
IME the state won't start talking compensation until after the Final Environmental Impact Report has been accepted for your segment.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> I think there's a threshold beyond which it becomes socially mandatory for all cars to be autonomous. Economics are still going to be the driving factor (no pun intended) for the poor and working class. As long as beater non-automate
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> With proper networking, you could have cars doing 60mph while only a few car lengths from each other, vastly increasing the capacity of any segment of road. That works if 100% of the cars are autonmous. I'm betting that even if autom
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by Anechoic 15y ago
VIPR also operates on roadways (highway rest stops, truck weigh stations, etc) so in comparing car vs train delays, at best it's a push. > Any train that costs $XX billion dollars is going to be deemed a terrorist target, so you can exp
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> It's more than likely that track designed for 200mph HSR will be completely incompatible with 400mph maglevs. Again, it's completely different infrastructure, so yes, it's completely incompatible in the sense that a bicycle trail is
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> In addition, there will likely be nontrivial TSA/VIPER security checkpoints that will further slow down travel. If Amtrak's experience is any indication, this won't be an issue: http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/188504.aspx?PageIn
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by Anechoic 15y ago
You can't simply "swap" out trains for maglev, it's a completely different infrastructure with different requirements.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It doesn't have to be an either-or situation, they may be able to coexist together. For autonomous personal vehicles, you get an end-to-end solution that is infinitely flexible, but may be subject to congestion, parking and ownership proble
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Planes are entirely valid solution to the problem of traveling between LA and SF The problem is that LA and SF-area airports are almost at capacity and increasing that capacity through adding runways or building new airports would be
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> I'm going to make a generalization here and say that most Americans have lost this kind of DIY spirit. I disagree - most Americans in my experience are perfectly willing to DIY, just not in the same areas that you or I may DIY. W
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> passing because the formation is literally the same, including the depth at which the RBs will line up. Yep, you're correct, we were only told to cheat up in play action when we knew we had to pick up a blitzer.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> unless its the damn Patriots of 2010 I heart Gronk and Hernandez! > If they are in line, in front of the QB then you can safely assume a pass or trick play. Not really, since defenses can see the same thing and know a team's t
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Such playing-with-computers is something that was confined to the somewhat richer and educated people in American society, which the african-americans were not, 15 years ago. That explains the "many african-americans and many women w
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Do you have any evidence either way? edit: downvotes for asking for evidence? I provided some, I'd be happy to evaluate more.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Diversity for the sake of diversity hurts us all I agree with this, but at the same time, a lack of diversity might (I stress might ) indicate a problem with racism or (more likely these days) disparate impact and it's worth inves
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> The most likely reason they did not do that, is probably because it just did not occur to them. Is your stated reason ("it just did not occur to them") more likely than "they didn't have the opportunity to take those steps because of
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> the trash can image on the dock turns into an eject image, although I'm pretty sure that it hasn't always done that. It's always done that in Mac OS X, but not in Mac OS 9 or older
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> The recession would be long over before the environmental impact reports are even submitted For megaprojects where a municipality might be creating new infrastructure or modifying infrastructure, sure. But there are plenty of big pr
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> there's no doubt he's self-made Sure, but a large part of the reason he was "self-made" was his mother's relationship to an IBM executive. I'm not so sure Bill Gates becomes the world's richest man if his mother was a teacher and his
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It didn't seem to work when Apple dropped out back in 2009.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> how about the general amount of crime committed by said Black men? It is higher per capita, is it not? It depends on what numbers you look at. In terms of raw imprisonment numbers the plurality of prisoners are serving time for drug
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> This is actually a fairly serious issue for all non-Android handsets, IMO. Well not all non-Android handsets - Nokia maps has free turn-by-turn directions as well as downloadable maps (not just pre-caching a route, you can download
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> If black people are not discriminated in music or sports, I don't know why they would be discriminated in other industries. And yet there is plenty of evidence to show that they are. This http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/ASR_pager_et
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by Anechoic 15y ago
DRM was never a consideration for ALAC since Apple never sold tracks in ALAC. My understanding was that Apple developed ALAC instread of using FLAC because they were concerned about possible patent problems with FLAC.

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