ItsDeathball

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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
The problem there is cost. Even Uber and Lyft are too pricey for most people to rely on them for a daily commute. If autonomous cars drive that cost down to something comparable to bus fare, that's going to cause a major shift in the w
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
Well how about that. I guess my cursory Google search was too cursory.
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by ItsDeathball 10y ago
>Its almost like the US saying to the world we open up waters in the middle of the Atlantic (international waters) for resource extraction by any of our corporations. The US doesn't have to do anything for that to happen, since that
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
The critical distinction between the arcade and mobile freemium models is that arcade pricing was skill-based. It's entirely possible to complete Raiden or Street Fighter on a single credit, and indeed the 1-credit-challenge is a conve
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
Convoys of 10-30 trucks closely following each other at 75 mph on a dedicated right of way with few or no drivers? Congratulations, you have invented a railroad.
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
It seems to have worked out okay for every other aircraft in existence.
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
They'd have to do something like gate the games behind purchase of a phone-compatible game controller. 2D side-scrollers are great pick-up-and-play short-term experiences, but they are absolutely terrible to play on a touchscreen. Try
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
>...the technology could affect users’ outlook and viewpoints more than other once-new technologies — such as televisions, the Internet or mobile phones — because it creates more lifelike experiences and often makes users active, rather
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
According to the ship's current caretakers at http://www.ns-savannah.org/ : From the FSAR (Final Safety Analysis Report) for the ship, STS-004-002, section 7.1.2 we obtain the following: "During the NSS's ope
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
How does that even process? Sure, if your neighbor is firing off rounds in the street, that's an encroachment, but your neighbor simply owning a thing you morally disagree with in no way affects you. If your neighbor keeps an AR-15 in
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
That's structural brick covered in stucco, which was pretty common in American cities in the 18th and 19th centuries. You see it a lot in areas with low-quality clay, since the resulting brick is porous and brittle, necessitating a stu
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
This is what amuses me when people talk about ebooks being environmentally friendly. A paper book will usually be made of paper milled from a sustainably managed forest - we don't generally go clear-cutting virgin forests for wood pulp
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
In the long run, humanity is better off if we're not paying people below minimum wage under the table to pick pears. If a portion of the surplus value generated by these awful machines can be captured and paid to the people they displ
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
What I'd like to see - and never see suggested in these discussions - is starting with a revenue-neutral carbon tax to fund a BIG. Since the tax would internalize the externalities of pollution and climate change, the government could
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
If you search for "journey to mars pdf" it's the top result, with a breakout box and summary. Not sure how much easier that can be.
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
It kind of depends on your definition of "war" and how you attribute causes of death, but in general, deaths due to warfare have been declining since the development of nuclear weapons and globalization. http://www.poli
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
In many cases we already do that. In the economic analysis of the author, poor people's time would be worth less. All other things being equal, then, they would be best served economically by the slow-moving local buses that otherwise
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
I'm thinking the lag time will be around the same as the metric system, so anywhere from 55 years to forever.
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
In Honolulu I commute on a recently opened bike lane with this design, and have two or three near-misses every week from cars turning into driveways without checking the bike lane. It's exacerbated by the sometimes steep curb, so drive
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality#Organis... There are actually a few immortal or extremely long-lived species in nature. Evolution still acts upon them because there are other selection forces at wo
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
The dystopian part of it, in "The Calorie Man," at least, is the implication that the global crop blight that wiped out all non-GMO crops was engineered and spread by the GMO companies, which then inherited near-total control over
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
You build a few skyscrapers on very valuable land and then what? The area gets even more popular, congestion gets worse further decreasing the viable area in terms of commuting, some of those people would want to start companies close to w
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
Earthquake resistance isn't an immediate win for low-density housing. Tall buildings can be safer in an earthquake than single-family homes and low-rise townhouses, both due to a lower structural resonance frequency and the ability to
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
Upon re-reading, nothing particularly egregious. There is the characterization of Sad Puppies as a movement to push women and nonwhites out of the Hugo Awards, when I believe the motivation is that the participants want their fun sci-fi esc
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
I'm gonna sound like a conspiracy nut here, but it seems like a side-channel attack on Gamergate (via Sad Puppies), coupled with the "we're on the right side of history" meme. I'm not saying I support either of thos
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
Pretty much every Amtrak line outside of the Northeast or the West Coast is a "ghost route" in the sense the article describes. I took the Sunset Limited as a kid once from New Orleans to Mobile. Aside from my dad and my brother,
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
CVS is actually a health insurer, or at least a component of one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVS_Health#Strategic_Business_...
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
It's not the house that's valuable to a renter, though. Most of the price variation for a given floor space comes from location-driven land cost. If someone on basic income plans to live solely on their BI for a bit, maybe to work
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
Jetways. The article mentions boarding passengers while others are still leaving the plane. That's only possible on a 737 by using two doors, which is only practical if passengers walk out on the tarmac and board/disembark via set
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by ItsDeathball 11y ago
I think there's a distinction to be made between complexity/expense of production and complexity/depth of gameplay. AAA games seem to be maximizing the former and minimizing the latter. The average single-player AAA experienc

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