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by avalys 3y ago
If you want to ban cars from New York City, that's fine with me. Do you realize that NYC makes up 0.008% of the land area in the United States?
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by avalys 3y ago
This is a fantasy. In general, people don't want a shared vehicle. If they did, everyone would own a 5-year-old Toyota Camry, and not luxury pickup trucks, sports cars, Mercedes and BMWs, etc. The idea that these people are just sheep
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by avalys 3y ago
Governments have paid very little attention to this problem to date. It seems like regulation on chemical composition of tires might be warranted. I don't have a problem with that. The fanatic anti-car people will actually reduce the c
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by avalys 3y ago
Not driving is not a solution. The reason zoning in the US requires developments to take cars into account, is that people in the US want cars. And if someone builds a new residential or commercial development that doesn't recognize th
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by avalys 3y ago
Transit systems are designed around cars because people want to use cars. This idea that it was some kind of a massive conspiracy from the auto manufacturers is just bullshit. Yes, cars are expensive. We can afford cars today. No one wants
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by avalys 3y ago
Yes, because we're a wealthy and productive society and the fruits of human progress in the past 300 years have allowed us to build a civilization where nearly everyone can afford to use a multi-ton machine of nearly incomprehensible c
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by avalys 3y ago
> The conquerer of Hawaii is very much still alive and kicking. This all happened in 1898 or something, didn't it? And Hawaiian Kingdom was itself not even 100 years old at the time, itself being the product of a (native) military c
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by avalys 3y ago
That was not a software bug, but a bad design from a dysfunctional organization that had long since stopped valuing sound engineering.
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by avalys 3y ago
The Thirty-Meter Telescope is absolutely progress over the superstitions of a defunct agrarian society. In my opinion, cultures that pursue deeper learning and understanding of the physical world are superior to those which do not. I think
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by avalys 3y ago
That’s nice, but seeing as they have not yet even demonstrated a machine that achieves energy breakeven, this seems like premature hype.
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by avalys 3y ago
This whole thread is full of software engineers incorrectly mansplaining mechanical engineering. Titanium is not stronger or stiffer than steel.
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by avalys 3y ago
The previous iPhone used a steel frame. The titanium makes it lighter, not stronger.
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by avalys 3y ago
Maybe they’re just trying to make the phone easier to repair? Why does everything have to be a scheme or some kind of cover-up for a flaw?
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by avalys 3y ago
Metal is not an option due to wireless charging. Compared to plastic, glass feels better in your hand. You can feel the stiffness and thermal conductivity of glass. The surface is more durable against minor wear, scratches and dirt. After a
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by avalys 3y ago
I’m curious, what would you recommend they should have said instead?
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by avalys 3y ago
If it helps - the game is fine but it’s not the platonic ideal of video games in the way that the press coverage (and your blog) suggest. You’re really not missing anything by not playing it other than an enjoyable way to kill some time. It
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by avalys 3y ago
Peer review is not a magic spell that reveals the truth. “Most-reviewed” is meaningless here if the underlying data was not collected or reported properly.
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by avalys 3y ago
Ah, but don’t worry folks, those vaccines which generated $40B in profits for Pfizer and Moderna, those are just A-ok. Trust the science, which in this case is perfect, unassailable and uncorruptible (unlike everything else the pharma indus
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by avalys 3y ago
There are types of communication that are best done by writing, and others that are best done by speaking. When someone tries to communicate in writing something which is better handled by speaking, it's tedious and slow. When someone
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by avalys 3y ago
It doesn't need to be perfect to be effective. So what if someone sees the wrong ad even half the time?
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by avalys 3y ago
Do you think animals in the wild are being cruel to each other when they eat them?
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by avalys 3y ago
Given that this started in 2022, I’ll just remark that both Covid and the mRNA Covid vaccines have been reported to cause tinnitus.
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by avalys 3y ago
You can tell who didn’t bother to read the article here, by the people who clearly assumed the article was asking “Is Beekeeping Morally Wrong?”, as opposed to the actual topic of the article which might have been better titled “Is Beekeepi
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by avalys 3y ago
The single biggest problem with America today is the presentation and consumption of national news, political commentary and public policy as entertainment. The media has figured out that America is the ultimate reality TV show and they pre
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by avalys 3y ago
I prefer to just not visit websites that are full of obnoxious ads. I find it's a good screening technique for garbage content that isn't worth reading in the first place. Unsurprisingly, there's a significant correlation bet
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by avalys 3y ago
Uber has so many little annoyances that make it a miserable experience. I generally don't engage in the "recreational corporate hate" thing but it's one of the few companies and products I actively dislike. The app is mi
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by avalys 3y ago
What she learned is that America is so rich that only the very poorest people near homelessness travel on a Greyhound bus, and that life for the very poorest people is unpleasant. Is this supposed to be a surprise? It certainly isn't r
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by avalys 3y ago
What do solar panels have to do with it? What color are solar panels? Do they produce less heat island effect than "blacktop"?
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by avalys 3y ago
He’s referring to a “Hydrogen bomb”.
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by avalys 3y ago
I've been programming for ~20 years and I sit very slouched, with my butt resting at the at very forward lip of my chair. This is very comfortable and relaxed and puts no pressure on my back at all. I keep my monitor high up so my head

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