bluecalm

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by bluecalm 4y ago
As close to the right as possible is around 75cm as confirmed by courts. It's more if there are parked cars on the curb. On many small roads it means taking the lane to ride safely. Additionally you can take the lane close to a junctur
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Why is it hard to imagine? It's easy to imagine him getting signals from the audience for example which can be done in multiple ways. I am not up to date with the state of metal/RFID detectors but simplistic ones they use at chess
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by bluecalm 4y ago
The event might be binary but our knowledge isn't. You may think he is likely cheating but you're not sure. You won't declare him a cheater but you will be suspicious.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Crypto is a bad example because it's pretty pointless in general. You can have better, faster, more efficient, safer, easier to use tech but at the end of day you're only achieving the same thing: skipping over regulations that ap
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by bluecalm 4y ago
There is value in knowing what experts say. I and 99% of people in IT will never be in position to evaluate if quantum computing is feasible or not. The only thing we can do is try to evaluate expert's credibility and pick a side so to
816.
by bluecalm 4y ago
You can turn most normal 2 lane (one lane each direction) roads into one directional roads for cars while turning the second lane into bidirectional bike/e-bike/e-wheelchair etc. path. Cars are only faster (marginally anyway) and
817.
by bluecalm 4y ago
I've rented a BMW a few years ago on vacation in Portugal. It had manual transmission and a system to prevent rolling back on hills. Those things are not incompatible.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I talked to police when I and my girlfriend were victims of a robbery. I have a few friends among lawyers (judges, attorneys and prosecutors). All of them say that the reason the police don't go after theft is that even if they catch t
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It's not the choice you have though in areas where those killings take place. It's either drone strikes or nothing. Boots on the ground to catch bad guys and bring then to court isn't possible.
820.
by bluecalm 4y ago
You're repeating the old trope that tough punishment doesn't work. Look at the theft statistics though: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/theft/ Neither USA nor UK have tough punishment for theft
821.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Statistics about injuries are even worse for cars. It's a fact that cars, despite the infrastructure being designed for them, endanger pedestrians more than cyclists. We all agree about common sense. It's just your perception of w
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by bluecalm 4y ago
A safety rule every cyclist understands after a close call or two. Don't ride too close to the curb and especially not if there are cars parked. Very nice you have that codified in law.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
And yet when you look at statistics it's almost solely drivers killing pedestrians even though the car infrastructure is 100x better and cars aren't forced to go on sidewalks. No one likes cycling on a sidewalk. People do it becau
824.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Idk, it seems theft is low in countries where they cut hands for it. Bike theft is a very harmful crime. It stops the move to healthier lifestyle, it leaves people, often poor ones who don't have cars without means of transportation an
825.
by bluecalm 4y ago
It's easy to remove the safety mechanism. Still, I don't see people going 40+ where I live although maybe that happens in other countries. My experience is that in a city at 30km/h you are passing everyone and with significan
826.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Letting you blacklist a site is one thing. They could improve upon it by letting people downvote/upvote pages and then using their extensive information vault to decide who is somewhat reputable or just similar to you. I mean, I am 40
827.
by bluecalm 4y ago
But it's not about all the choices, logins, subscriptions or anything like that. It's about the game play alone. It's smooth and fast while you play. The servers don't lag, don't crash, the UI is very responsive, yo
828.
by bluecalm 4y ago
I don't think commercial vs communist has anything to do with it. Thibault is just a very good, hard working programmer. If his political views were different then Lichess would still have the best platform and he would have way more m
829.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Bike, walk or use lightweight electric vehicles (e-bikes, 3wheelers, mobility scooters) which need a small fraction of the power, fraction of the resources to produce, are safer, smaller (thus higher throughout on city roads) and quieter. T
830.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Can you provide an example of such a game? I am following computer chess pretty closely and it's just all draws if we start from mainstream openings. By mainstream I mean things that are considered solid by today top players and engine
831.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Social programs I don't benefit from don't hurt me. They just cost me. Roads as currently implemented make my life way worse. That's the distinction people see.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
People with disabilities would be much happier if no one can drive in cities. Running a mobility scooter, a wheelchair or an electric wheelchair would be so much easier. Cars are especially bad for people with disabilities and not only beca
833.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Database of all cars. All penalties are assigned to the car and are to be paid on yearly inspection. If not paid, the car isn't allowed on the road. If the owner of the car let someone else drive it then it's their issue to resolv
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by bluecalm 4y ago
The difference between roads and other things you mentioned is that current road infrastructure, especially in cities have huge costs for health, lifestyle, mental health. I don't want cars in cities and if I have to have them I want c
835.
by bluecalm 4y ago
Cyclists are are smaller and easier to pass than tractors. Cyclists are better than obeying traffic laws than drivers. Multiple police surveys confirm it. Finally cyclists are subject of so much abuse and straight up murder attempts on the
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I am not saying Stockfish is going to solve it. I am saying it will not lose from the initial position. In other words my hypothesis is that we already have a soft solution to chess available. I can't prove it but I can proceed accordi
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by bluecalm 4y ago
My view on this is that the current World Championship cycle achieves the opposite of what it should achieve: 1)There are many tournaments where the best player is not allowed to participate making them tournaments of second bests for no re
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by bluecalm 4y ago
No one is going to waste the CPU time running Stockfish (or GPU with Leela) against each other at classical time controls long enough to see a decisive game which might never happen anyway so we will likely never know. I think current Stock
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by bluecalm 4y ago
They don't anymore, at least not the computers. When you let them start from normal starting position and provide decent hardware and some time it's always a draw and has been for a few years now.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Doctors aren't some magical people who know everything. They read the same books and studies available to you. They have their own biases, not much time for an individual patient. They often stopped educating themselves once reality of

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