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by bluGill 3mo ago
Maybe that is the prosecutions motive. However I want all those going 120 punished even if they drive a Prius. That is the problem is not that they are punishing the Lamborghini driver, but that they are not punishing the other drivers, a
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> If we are going to start punishing companies for security negligence, there are WAY worse cases Perhaps, but you have to start someplace. I think we do need to punish companies for security negligence. However the details matter (nobo
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by bluGill 3mo ago
The problem is the law is about details. If an accidental loophole says this isn't a crime it isn't a crime even if it obviously is an accidental loophole. US constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 3: No Bill of Attainder or e
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Set yourself an alarm for 5 years from now to review. Investigations take time. Often by the time charges are made everybody has forgotten about the incident. It only takes a few times where things go away without charges to leave an inc
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by bluGill 3mo ago
They are opening that. This is the first step: figure out what crimes were committed by who. As I said a couple weeks ago when this broke, it looks like a crime was committed and I hope someone is charged. However we can't just charg
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by bluGill 3mo ago
The job of lawyers is to enforce the existing laws. (well they are a part of the enforcement, there are lots of other parts)
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Mens Rea is not required (at least not always). Mens Rea makes a big difference in sentencing. (first degree murder: you planed the murder, homicide you had not intent of murder but things got out of hand in the moment):
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by bluGill 3mo ago
A crime was committed, if there is enough evidence then the state is required to prosecute and the victim has not choice in this. The victim can say they don't care and that will often hold weight for the prosecution, but that is the
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Nobody understands their why. They say they don't want to, but what they really mean is service sucks so they can't and assume that means they don't want to. It is regularly proved around the world that when you give good ser
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by bluGill 3mo ago
They exist but not as a continuous empty space. Every few miles something else is in the way and blocks the whole route not just that few meters, the entire route). If not that means it is a bike trail and the bikers won't give it up.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Most share cities could get adequate ridership just by expanding service. That is more service would be more riders than they are getting. However they need a lot more service to reach this topping point to where people will choose to give
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by bluGill 3mo ago
A route is expensive to run, but there is no reason you cannot automate a bus driver just like a car driver.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Only by taking up more road space going to a parking lot. And more energy in those travels - that energy is at best 50% fossil fuels.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Whole the us has different numbers, but the same point applies. Most of the people in the US live in dense enough areas. The Mid west has similar size and population as France for example.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
The one size fits all bus would be better. A tiny car cannot share rides without adding big delays to the person already on it. That means you cannot count on getting there on time with a shared ride. The bus has defined delays so you can p
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by bluGill 3mo ago
People will figure it out if there is good transit. Sidewalks are cheap, they will build them if there is a place to get to.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Density is important, but overrated. There is plenty of density in the suburbs to support transit, but nobody gives transit the money needed for good service and so they don't get it. The money needed for his transit would be less than
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Bad operations is not the fault of transit it is the fault of operations. Making transit serve the poor is a political choice and the result is it didn't serve you. However there is every reason to think good operations with a good bud
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by bluGill 3mo ago
This is false. A fixed route is predictable. You know when it will be there and can plan for it. Non fixed routes mean you cannot be sure when your ride will arrive and thus cannot be sure you will arrive on time. That makes the fixed route
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by bluGill 3mo ago
When logic and the observation disagree that means your logic is missing something. Don't double down on flawed logic, figure out where the flaw is. I don't know where your flaws in logic is coming from, but I have seen the number
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Because most buses have terrible service and people are confusing the service with the vehicle. Where buses get good service they get used. When the bus is once per hour nobody uses it except those who have no other option and those are peo
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Microvans exist. However they are not cost effective. Drivers are expensive and they don't get much better fuel economy than a bus that holds several times the number of passengers. Waymo changes the driver costs but not the other cost
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I won't have time to watch that anytime soon, but your summary makes my point. The real world is complex and shape as a quick skim shows this article used is just a bad example. Worse they were using this bad example to try to make a g
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by bluGill 3mo ago
While this was the worst example he constantly wrote code like that. He could write code like that with few bugs faster than any other programmer I've ever worked with could write code. Management changed between loving and hating him,
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I always mow a different path each time because turns and wheels slowly build up damage to the lawn and so I want to spread that out over everything. Push mowers are light enough that this doesn't matter but a rider it does.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Sadly it is serious and in production code. (I left there 15 years ago, I suspect it isn't in production anymore) Worse, it was a giant switch, and the target system didn't have enough memory for all the code so there were differe
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Most systems are not large enough to need 200 developers. Even when they are, you hire those 200 over time. If you have 200 developers (or 200 anything) you need to have a good training and mentoring program. Language is not the problem.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
I stopped reading as soon as I saw the shape class. This example (along with the proverbial animal) has done a lot of harm to OOP and programming. You need base classes (which are not always the right answer, but when they are) to be base
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by bluGill 3mo ago
If your compilers is any good it will inline, and do a better job than you of figuring out what should be inlined. For that matter function calls are generally fast so long as the objects you copy as part of the function call are not slow
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> Sand/rock heat storage is for industrial and utility scale application, not your house. I've seen them for a house as well. (when the utility offers a large discount for power used overnight - 40 years ago my local coop was t

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