RhysU

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by RhysU 1y ago
I think GP meant not realizing that one is unavoidably immersed in politics.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Man, I will certainly change the bully's lifelong behavior by making him ride 12" off my rear bumper for 5 miles while incurring no personal danger when teaching him the error of his ways.
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by RhysU 1y ago
You're in the left lane at 70 MPH passing a long line of cars. Some idiot comes up behind you at 90+ and rides your tail. Good thing you could accelerate quickly starting from 70 to finish passing the line then move over into the right
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by RhysU 1y ago
Hurricane evacuation routes come to mind.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Blowing through lights on a bike, when everyone else obeys them, then claiming it's destiny that you're back in front is brazen illicit entitlement. I just want the lights to apply to everyone in travel lanes equally. I don't
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by RhysU 1y ago
This is running a red light. If a car stops first then proceeds through on red it would be a red light violation. That's why it's a light not a stop sign. I don't care what special lanes are present. You're running the i
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by RhysU 1y ago
I don't accept that bicyclists are safe when they run red lights, cute name for the practice or not. Red light means stop until green. The red-light-running bicyclist blows past the stopped traffic that just had to safely navigate gett
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by RhysU 1y ago
Taxes win the plurality of my spending: Federal, state, local/property, sales, fuel, fees, etc. I would put more into savings/investments and charitable giving if the taxes came down.
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by RhysU 1y ago
> We need a name for this phenomenon. There's a classical one: Sunk cost fallacy
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by RhysU 1y ago
You've invented the plot device in Asimov's short story "Little Lost Robot" [1]. One robot has a modified first law which removes its obligation to avoid human harm through inaction. Fantastic story. [1] https:/&#x
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by RhysU 1y ago
Excluding those recently punched hard in the kidneys.
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by RhysU 1y ago
Thank you for the detailed response. > Humans are a K-selected species - the optimal strategy for passing on our genes is to invest as many resources as possible into the smallest viable number of offspring. It's certainly fashionab
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by RhysU 1y ago
I said human wants are limitless. You said no they're not. I said yes they are, giving the example of population growth as a way that aggregate demand increases even if some people are completely satisfied. This is ECON 101 and a small
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by RhysU 1y ago
When there's a stable supply of food, medicine, and housing people reproduce. More aggregate people implies more aggregate demand. Suppose only 5% of the population breeds like rabbits in the presence of food, medicine, and housing. It
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by RhysU 1y ago
> there won't be enough housing, food or medicine for everyone. This scarcity of resources is true and it has nothing to do with capital allocation methodology. It's just economics. Human beings collectively have unlimited want
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by RhysU 1y ago
That saying is old old old going at least back to Chaucer (1343-1400): > For Solomon says that `idleness teaches a man to do many evils.' [1] https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/tale-melibee-0
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by RhysU 1y ago
Does Harvard now start accepting individuals from the domestic student waitlist?
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by RhysU 1y ago
If turbulence wasn't such a pain in the butt, we wouldn't exist. The article reads like there's a more rigorous proof of some classical renormalization results. I wish it had connected the renormalization results to empirical
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by RhysU 1y ago
For commercial use, send the fines back to the restaurant/business. For private use, rescind the license for non-payment. For extra fun, surcharge the dope ordering DoorDash when his e-bike driver breaks the law. Tips will dry up. Prob
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by RhysU 1y ago
> the main one is speeding Speeding mildly is usually a consequence of stupidly low speed limits. Unless the speeding is bucketed, this alone is enough to skew the results to say motorists are worse than bicyclists. Remember, speeding ti
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by RhysU 1y ago
This can change. Having been a juror on a civil trial against the MTA, I assure you that the New York public is perfectly willing to hold people accountable for injury. Drunk driving was reduced over my lifetime [1] by calling attention to
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by RhysU 1y ago
Automatic cameras send tickets for cars running redlights in NYC: https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/vehicles/red-light-camera-v...
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by RhysU 1y ago
Yeah, just imagine. I did. For hours yesterday evening I imagined. Had a car killed my wife or unborn child, there would have been a legal trail and insurance. Had the e-bike killed my wife or unborn child, there was neither. I doubt I coul
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by RhysU 1y ago
Stand on a corner in NYC and count the moving violations the e-bikes commit. Running lights and stops. Going the wrong way. Etc. These aren't subtle infractions of the law. Tell me why automated traffic enforcement cameras don't
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by RhysU 1y ago
Congestion isn't limited to cars. My pregnant wife was hit yesterday in SoHo in broad daylight by a delivery driver on an e-bike. He ran a redlight. He hit her in a crosswalk. She was wearing a bright orange dress. She was not on a pho
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by RhysU 1y ago
Sowell's arguing that neglecting to include welfare transfers makes inequality look worse than it is. Especially when there are stark differences in earnings as a consequence of working. If you earn $5 and the state gives you $45 in
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by RhysU 1y ago
Yes, one such book is Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" 5th Edition. Page 209 says... > A simultaneous rise in rewards for work and a growing welfare state that allows more people to live without working virtually guarante
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by RhysU 1y ago
(Traffic deaths / km driven) was NaN for most of human history. It's a dumb metric with dumb units. There should be a well-defined unitless quantity that's real-valued across human history, say normalizing by population size
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by RhysU 1y ago
> We report on a data-driven method for learning a nonperturbative guiding center model from full-orbit particle simulation data. > Then we describe a data-driven method for learning from a dataset of full-orbit α-particle trajectori
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by RhysU 1y ago
> Now inequality is high and keeps getting higher. Gramm et al's book, or at least the first couple of chapters, are worth reading on this topic. Oft-quoted official statistics neglect taxes and transfer payments. There is definitel

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