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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> Why would you like transportation staff to treat you like a criminal? Because I accept that a slight inconvenience will lead to a much better riding experience. For example, Amtrak has aggressive fare checkers onboard (full pass of the
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I'm not talking about the millimeter wave scanners TSA has where they make you take off your shoes and take out all your stuff. We're talking 1-2 officers who quickly glance inside your bag and maybe a metal detector you walk thro
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Replace 2 teenagers with "homeless guy that shit himself" or "criminals" [1] and you have a different story. If you have proper security this sort of class of behavior is entirely prevented. [1]: https://www.s
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
$2k e-bikes are probably more robust than the $600 scooter I was riding and would definitely be my choice next time around. For anyone interested in e-scootering though, avoid the Segway ES series like hell and make sure you do your researc
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
US cities I've been to: East Coast city 1: no light rail, buses come every 45min East Coast city 2: no light rail, buses come every 30-45min, but at least they were free West Coast city 1: no light rail, buses come every 45min and cost
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I commuted to/from a train on an electric scooter. Not only are they just not viable for any trips longer than 3-4 miles, you can't go up any sort of incline either. Mine was "overclocked" to enable up to 500w of power a
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
It would also financially cripple any poor person that relies on a car to get to work. And public transportation won't be viable in the US until cities finally wrap their head around the reality that you need basic security checkpoints
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Data engineers should be building pipelines and delivering business value, not fidgeting with some JVM or Spark parameter that saves them runtime on a join (or for that matter, from what I've seen at a certain bigco, building their own
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Abstractions almost always end up leaky. Spark SQL, for example, does whole-stage codegen which collapses multiple project/filter stages into a single compiled stage, but your underlying data format still needs to be memory friendly (i
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Land Value Tax says you tax land at a (high) flat rate per area regardless of value to encourage density. That is entirely different from higher property taxes on landlords (which would not lower rents but might lower property values). I ag
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Bay Area commuter route, East Bay -> San Jose. Not only is the train restricted from going faster than 35mph in half of the East Bay due to NIMBYism, it also goes through a lot of marshy environmental preservation areas and hilly areas w
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
That doesn't solve the issue, because the high rental rates are caused by limited supply due to NIMBYism. If you raise taxes on rental income rental rates will just go up and pass on costs to tenants. Rentals are highly inelastic. The
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Having commuted to work via Amtrak before, the train car shakes far too much and mobile data is far too unreliable (even with 5G) to be able to work without interruption.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> four units where single family homes stand This is because the state passed legislation forcing them to, not because they wanted to do so. > Quality of life Surely rampant drug addiction and homelessness fueled by high rent prices i
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
They were simply selling apartments at market price. You fundamentally cannot increase the price of a good by selling it. What's more likely is that housing prices in your area have gone up so much that even apartments are now more exp
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Yes, and a massive purge of millions of people began soon afterwards in the same country...
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
But there is a large market for server CPUs and presumably FPGAs on eBay. I doubt something like the CPU in a Waymo isn't a commodity off-the-shelf SKU, the brunt of the work is done by TPUs anyways.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Hah, the moment those Waymo cars go into poor areas they're going to get ransacked. I used to live in a poor area and got daily notifications of catalytic converters being stolen. There's tens of thousands of dollars of tech on th
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
The way I read it was that with many columns the overhead of the compare function (even if it's inlined) is too high compared to sorting overhead.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Eventually it becomes more profitable to automate. See: Sony's automated PS4/5 factory. Formerly these would've been assembled in some Foxconn plant by tens of thousands of low wage workers.
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Good luck getting Congress to pass a tax increasing the price of gas by 1.33-3x. That's political suicide, even for Democrats. Directly fucks over the working class but corporate fleets can afford to pay the extra $$$ or switch to elec
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
This is a pretty garbage take. Goldman Sachs is easier to get into as a software engineer than any FAANG. And every FAANG I know takes the majority of their new grad hires from public universities which, at least in California, are banned f
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I'm tempted to agree with Carmack here, having worked at a now-defunct self driving project previously that used multiple server-grade GPUs and many-core CPUs pulling 1000+W in their car that couldn't even figure out how to move a
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
I took a quick look through your comments. You seem to work in tech and/or IT. Either of which can be considered white collar and neither of which has hourly work you need to get done. Have you ever worked as a retail worker? Or teache
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
It sounds like you've never worked with people who intentionally "use the bathroom" to not work. If you step out of your white collar tech bubble for a moment you'd realize giving _two months_ to give a doctor's not
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
> Fancy apps are not needed Not sure if Anki counts as fancy, but it certainly is orders of magnitude more efficient than taking notes or active reading. See also: Make It Stick [1]. If you're trying to memorize content spaced repet
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Core CPI understates localized inflation in certain assets. Real estate happens to be highly inelastic, illiquid, and has a limited supply due to NIMBYism. The federal government has also handed people tens of thousands of dollars in printe
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
2008 had a lot of variable rate mortgages. That's not the case today. Most people (at least I'd hope) don't use their house as an investment so if their mortgage is still the same payment each month and they can afford it the
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Because when this happens en masse, they won't have enough "next person" to get work done, so they raise wages. That's how a market works (see: low wage jobs in the US now).
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Notice that most of this guy's problems come from rent. Getting decent housing is expensive, having a long commute is a byproduct of high rent, etc. That's caused by rampant NIMBYism preventing the construction of new housing, and

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