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by Retric 8mo ago
22 tons are huge busses and overkill unless you actually need that much space, and tend to have 4 axles. ((22 / 4)/(3/2)) ~= 13.5x a heavy SUV but could be replacing 30+ vehicles. Also that visible ware is noticeable because
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by Retric 8mo ago
Dead people are easy to see, the issue is trying to differentiate one cause from everything else. Smoking for example wasn’t believed to be particularly deadly for a surprisingly long time.
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by Retric 8mo ago
It’s not exactly new. Pig slop is generally random food scraps etc. Big brother used “slop” for their flavorless penalty food long before LLM’s. Arguably the connotation has changed slightly, but AI slop caught on because it fit so well.
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by Retric 8mo ago
Roads still need maintenance even if nobody uses them, so a significant portion is split evenly across all traffic. Busses are light compared to 18 wheelers and other heavy equipment, they also replace many cars and SUV’s which keep getting
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by Retric 8mo ago
Slavery in Europe was replaced with a more efficient system in the Middle Ages. So calling it a constant throughout history is only true in the way that slavery still exists today, in that you could find it somewhere on the globe.
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by Retric 8mo ago
The US already has a completely separate model where we send yellow busses to pick up and drop off school kids which involve buses going to a large fraction of US homes 4 times a day 180 days a year for minimal expenses that’s free at the p
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by Retric 8mo ago
Busses get tiny subsides in the US. It’s a large percentage of total bus revenue by design, and a significant expense for some local governments. But the number only look large because of how we split the vast majority of government spend
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by Retric 8mo ago
Around 1/5 of the US population is elderly ~1/4 by 2050, add in moderately disabled people and this isn’t a small population we are talking about. Paratransit is for a far smaller percentage of the population due to the significan
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by Retric 8mo ago
> I'm personally able to walk a block or two further “A block or 2” each way at the start and destination is a significant difference (4-8 blocks) for most elderly people. Busses fill two different roles, as primary means of transpo
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by Retric 8mo ago
That’s true today, it wasn’t true when Germany was heavily subsidizing solar to get economies of scale going. Solar is historically a great example where public / private collaboration actually had a place. Even if today it’s time to
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by Retric 8mo ago
Here’s an example where Amazon strait up increases prices. There’s a great deal of self published fiction posted online for free. Amazon is happy for people to sell bundle that into a book and sell that. Kindle Unlimited specifically requi
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by Retric 8mo ago
Step back a moment and ask yourself, “How exactly would Dr Dan Erickson know if someone else’s patient said this?” There was massive regional differences in how different parts of the country and even different parts of the same state respo
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by Retric 8mo ago
There’s a large industry for cleaning cash which then makes moving a clean 10M or even 10B in clean cash nearly trivial. 10M might not be as noticeable but crypto being nominally in a country on its own isn’t that useful as you still want
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by Retric 8mo ago
> Okay, so what's your answer? Stick yet another computer in to go wrong and fly the plane into the ground when it gets the wrong idea about a situation? Add yet more sensors to the car to prevent the driver steering away from an ob
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by Retric 8mo ago
> "Contributed to", in the sense that the pilots decided to just blindly trust the autopilot and let it make a developing situation worse rather than, oh I don't know, maybe FLYING THE DAMN PLANE. Excuses don’t save lives.
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by Retric 8mo ago
Autopilots have contributed to a significant number of crashes and that’s with a very safety conscious industry. In a hypothetical Tesla style let’s take more risk approach, buggy autopilots can surprisingly quickly get into a situation at
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by Retric 8mo ago
> It's trivially easy to fly a plane in straight level flight, to the extent that you don't actually need any automation at all to do it. You simply trim the aircraft to fly in the attitude That seemingly shifts the difficulty
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by Retric 8mo ago
Recover from upsets is the big thing. Maintaining flight level, speed, and heading while upside down isn’t acceptable. Levels of safety are another consideration, car autopilot’s don’t use multiple levels of redundancy on everything because
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by Retric 8mo ago
Autopilots do a lot more than that because flying an aircraft safely is a lot more complicated than turning a steering wheel left and right and accelerating or breaking. Tesla’s Autopilot being unable to swap from one road to another makes
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by Retric 8mo ago
There’s over 1/2 million former Americans living in Canada or the UK which doesn’t require learning a foreign language. You really can’t make those kinds of sweeping statements about populations that large. Many Americans without any
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by Retric 8mo ago
Some did. The US expat community has been quite large for decades. Most people didn’t do FIRE style early retirement while dealing with pre existing medical conditions. There however was plenty of expats pre ACA who very much left the cou
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by Retric 8mo ago
Morgan (or someone else) The hiring freeze stops everyone not just that one specific person. A 4 year pause on new researchers is meaningful even if this specific person wasn’t going to start a lab.
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by Retric 8mo ago
Ok a group discount for multiple sites, just allocate money based on which article people click on and you have micropayments.
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by Retric 8mo ago
In a hypothetical universe with different laws people would make different decisions, like abandoning the US. But you’re asking about medical conditions which rarely apply and laws that don’t exist. That’s not a failing of FIRE for the va
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by Retric 8mo ago
Good insurance is one aspect including long term disability coverage if you haven’t retired. That’s the thing medical expenses when young are unlikely enough insurance is a viable strategy. Long term it’s worthwhile to move to a country wi
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by Retric 8mo ago
That’s more plausible especially when you consider people would find skeletal remains long after the animal went extinct. However, Occam's razor points to African rhinos as a more reasonable source for keeping this myth alive vs thous
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by Retric 8mo ago
Because 100,000 years is rather extreme to have any kind of myth survive. Instead the ultra long spiral horn likely comes from narwhal as in people could hold and sell “unicorn” horns. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017&#x
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by Retric 8mo ago
Side effect seems like an odd way to describe what’s going on when these functions are required for a company to operate. Companies don’t survive if nobody is paid to show up every day or if they keep paying every single ex employee that ev
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by Retric 8mo ago
Moving some function to the government doesn’t eliminate the need for it. Something would still need to tell the government what you’re paid unless you’re advocating for anarchy or communism. Also, part of that etc is doing payroll so ther
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by Retric 8mo ago
You say that but we’ve had cars that can do what you describe for a decade and yet actual autonomous driving is still waiting. Not failing due to a software or hardware issue is way more complicated than just usually working. Avoids a colli

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