Drunk_Engineer

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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Closed sideguards actually improve fuel economy due to reduced air drag.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Under HIPAA, any scrap of "individually identifiable health information" that can be used to connect online data with a patient cannot be sent to a third party without consent.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Among other things, data showed mandatory helmet laws may have had a perverse impact on motorcycle fatalities: http://john-adams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/motorcycle%2...
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Risk Compensation theory predicts this technology will increase risky behavior by drivers. It has been well established that people adjust their behavior in response to perceived risk -- and if the car is going to handle the emergency braki
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
This particular bill would only apply to properties near a transit stop. The Feds already provide considerable financial support to local transit operators, and could simply cut off support to localities that do not support TOD policies.
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Don't know if there has ever been a Federal case involving parking minimums, but in general the Supreme Court has been extremely deferential to local government regarding zoning issues. In my view, the Court was incorrect on some of th
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
This point is addressed in the article: "An originalist understanding of the Constitution would consider parking mandates a taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause protections, incorporated against
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by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago
Mostly inoffensive...aside from the "sexy born yesterday" trope.
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Four American Citizens Indicted for Spreading Russian Propaganda(fortune.com)
6 points by Drunk_Engineer 3y ago|1 comments
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
In other words, Regulatory-Capture ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp ).
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
"I can't tell if we're struggling because we're less competent or more corrupt..." It is obviously corruption. All project "management" was turned over to private consultants. The longer the project drag o
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
That Caltrans budget is for maintaining a huge network of roads/highways across the entire state, as well as paying for various public transit programs and the highway patrol.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
According to the 2017 ACS Census, Idaho has a respectable amount of pedestrian traffic. So lack of pedestrians (on a per-capita basis) can't be the reason. https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2020/20_0097.htm
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Unpermitted additions are extremely common, as are "illegal" backyard cottages.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
In San Francisco (and other big metros) landlords build illegal/unpermitted units all the time.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Buttigieg "won" the caucus because of Iowa's calvinball rules for assigning delegates. Sanders actually had more votes.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
This Spitting Image sketch never gets old: https://www.facebook.com/inmynewsfeed/videos/stupid-voters-s...
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
That would explain why ChatGPT is always so confidently-incorrect.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Your comment is off-topic. This proposal would not apply to gas stoves, only furnaces and hot water heaters.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Reading Spanish language sources, I find no reporting that says the firm did any actual work on the project. The delay was due entirely to communication back and forth between Renfe, Adif, and the contractor about what size train to build.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Another example is the Amtrak Acela. The coaches were built 4" too wide, and as a result the expensive "tilt" feature could not be used along a major section of the route.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Clickbait headline -- the error was caught during the design phase. At worst, this will cause a 2-3 year delay in building the trains. The more interesting thing about the story is how several top government officials were fired as a result
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
The current ATCS system was installed in the late 1990's, so it is actually not that old (for a train signal system). The real issue here is the usual SF Muni incompetence when they spec'ed and installed a signal system without kn
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
They ran out of money last year.
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Reddit is not exactly an authoritative source....
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
While nobody knows how to make a level 5 AV, we do know how to eliminate road deaths: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-a...
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
E-bikes are a very good solution for trips not well served by public transit. And E-bikes do have manual transmissions, for those who like that sort of thing...
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
Pre-COVID projection for SF Central Subway is 43,700 daily trips by 2030, and maxing out at 65,000. So yes, order of magnitude difference in capacity. https://www.wsp.com/en-US/projects/san-francisco-central-sub...
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by Drunk_Engineer 4y ago
The Singapore line is designed to handle 1 million daily riders. It is in not comparable to the rinky-dink Muni project.

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