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by Mawr 3y ago
I'd be surprised if the ratios matched up exactly. That'd mean the only factor dictating the level of obesity is food culture. Not likely. I'm sure Japan has a variety of unhealthy foods, I don't see how that matters. Th
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by Mawr 3y ago
Maybe any automaker could take liability too, maybe not. It's all just words in the wind until they actually do it. Mercedes put their money where their mouth is and I respect them for it. It's the opposite of bullshit.
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by Mawr 3y ago
The bold, bold bet of building time proven solutions instead of hoping we'll come up with better tech just in the nick of time. Don't build nuclear, don't build rail, just cross your fingers and pray we'll solve mass ene
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by Mawr 3y ago
I'm looking... https://youtu.be/lr4MmmWQtZM?t=34
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by Mawr 3y ago
Completely wrong. Every skill, no matter how useless, generalizes. Competitive team games are the best examples. Playing them well requires internalizing the concepts of probability, teamwork, mindset, efficiency, dealing with failure, etc.
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by Mawr 3y ago
The reverse of that adage holds even truer - absence of evidence is not evidence of existence.
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by Mawr 3y ago
I think the strongest argument for evolution is it's the simplest approach that could possibly work. Or, using backward reasoning, what would be the simplest possible way to achieve life as complex as a human? Evolution.
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by Mawr 3y ago
People are products of their environment. What are the chances a child born to christian parents will be a christian vs a buddhist? Why as the access to knowledge has been increasing more and more people are becoming non-believers? Why have
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by Mawr 3y ago
> A bicycle is trash (fun to ride, not that useful). Entirely dependent on the infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8 > What are you going to carry on your bike? Five bags? Seems like a lot of
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by Mawr 3y ago
> Most pedestrian result from pedestrians doing stupid things, like walking in the middle of the road at night wearing black while drunk. A ridiculous notion not supported by anything you've linked. Somehow it's the most vuln
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by Mawr 3y ago
To clarify the bit about coercion: "SQLite attempts to coerce the data into the appropriate type using the usual affinity rules, as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle all do."
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by Mawr 3y ago
Oh, but you already can check instagram while driving, people do it all the time :)
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by Mawr 3y ago
> I personally know that every time I let my tesla go FSD, I'm only intervening every 90 seconds because of the unreasonably high standards I hold it to. Self driving cars only need to make the right decision like ~80% of the time.
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by Mawr 3y ago
You're comparing the cost of only self driving tech vs the cost of the entire rail infrastructure. • Underground parking for 600 cars? 35 million euro - https://youtu.be/mXLqrMljdfU?t=690 • Rebuilding a highway? Half o
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by Mawr 3y ago
> Public transit is no good. It's easy and convenient: • https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?t=43 • https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc?t=65 > I don’t want to walk to a station and then share the space with
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by Mawr 3y ago
You wouldn't "go shopping", you'd just stop by the grocery store that's along the sidewalk/cycle path to your workplace.
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by Mawr 3y ago
As for rentals, car sharing exists too, it's fast and easy: https://youtu.be/OObwqreAJ48?t=44
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by Mawr 3y ago
Okay, what's the timescale for self-driving cars? That's right, it's unknown but most likely decades away. Meanwhile, you could sit down and work out a public transport infra plan using current tech with exact timelines toda
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by Mawr 3y ago
There's no need to imagine, what you're describing already exists in Europe. We already know how to do this with today's tech, no need to wait for anything. It's as simple as public transport + bicycles + dense mixed use
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by Mawr 3y ago
Self-driving is a distraction from the fundamentally unsustainable car-centric world we've built. Would it be nice to have? Sure. Will it solve the underlying problems? No. All countries should be moving towards what the Netherlands is
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by Mawr 3y ago
Check out the Netherlands: • https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?t=895 • https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?t=305 • https://youtu.be/ZsrVP7p33Ng?t=605 • https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?t=80
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by Mawr 3y ago
That's the wrong graph to look at. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/us/pedestrian-deaths-2022... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedest...
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by Mawr 3y ago
Unfortunately, it's not possible to reliably automate this. A phone has no way to tell how it will be used after getting charged. It can try to detect some usage patterns, but it'll just be guessing, so even in the best case scena
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by Mawr 3y ago
That's where the focus usually is, but aborting at startup is the next best thing. It's an undervalued technique.
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by Mawr 3y ago
Check out these in-depth articles from the Valorant devs: - https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-... - https://technology.riotgames.com/news/peeking-valorants-netc...
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by Mawr 3y ago
Because cars are inefficient. So much so, that I'm pretty sure if you tasked an engineer to come up with the least efficient way of transporting people, they'd come up with something resembling a car. Electric cars are a good step
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by Mawr 3y ago
That's not what those poll results mean. The way parents interpreted the poll is not "Given a hypothetical park somewhere in the world, should..." But rather "Given the current state of parks in America, should..."
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by Mawr 3y ago
I don't want to pay for what I don't use. I want a simple no-ad plan that I can share with my partner. I don't need and don't want to pay for Youtube Music, more than one other person, offline videos, etc. I would also b
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by Mawr 3y ago
Makes sense, although your preferences wouldn't be sustainable if extended to the whole population. The only way to fix car pollution is for most trips to be made via more sustainable alternatives.
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by Mawr 3y ago
Isn't a "stroad" just a name for a street designed like a road? Is it inherently a negative word or does it just seem that way due to the anti-car context in which it typically appears?

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