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by bpt3 6y ago
I've been very surprised about the vitrol on HN towards cars, which I also experienced recently when I posted some very basic facts about deaths caused by cars vs other means and have seen in some other threads. I live in an urban area
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by bpt3 6y ago
I don't see anyone claiming China didn't build high speed rail. I do see a number of people questioning the parent poster's metric for evaluating the future of China and the west, when many countries in the west also have hi
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by bpt3 6y ago
They made it a priority, unlike the US. Whether it should be a priority of the US is separate from whether it's possible to accomplish or not.
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by bpt3 6y ago
> I would argue the opposite is usually true. Setting aside China, authoritarian regimes are usually NOT known for being efficient or well-run. well run != efficient Authoritarian regimes are highly efficient at accomplishing what the pe
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by bpt3 6y ago
Authoritarian regimes are often highly efficient, whether they are doing the right thing or not. The ability to unilaterally squash any dissent is a very powerful thing. How you can conclude that the US is in decline because a street repai
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by bpt3 6y ago
Fortunately, those aren't the only two choices.
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by bpt3 6y ago
Thanks for the ad hominem attack, it's validation for the fundamental issues I raised. Bitcoin is a massive waste of the natural resources used to create and maintain the blockchain entries, nothing more, and probably won't ever b
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by bpt3 6y ago
It was created by a business with an obvious agenda (and therefore an obvious conclusion they'd like you to draw).
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by bpt3 6y ago
Bitcoin advocates focus on the limited supply when comparing to the USD, and forget that bitcoin also has very limited utility as a currency. I don't want to transact in something so volatile, nor something with such high transaction
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by bpt3 6y ago
From the linked article: Pandemrix was not licensed for use in the United States.
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by bpt3 6y ago
Walkability isn't the issue in major cities, nor is proximity to other classes of people. In Baltimore (to stick with my original example), your likelihood of being a crime victim varies block to block, with one block being safe and t
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by bpt3 6y ago
That's fair, but the person above seemed to be taking it to a logical extreme.
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by bpt3 6y ago
> So shifting infrastructure away from cars is really relevant. Sorry, it's really not. No one murders another person because of policies that don't provide enough to support to public transportation.
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by bpt3 6y ago
I think the point is that the parent poster doesn't understand what metrics are used to determine these "most dangerous cities" lists. Stress caused by car noise is way, way down the lists of issues in major cities.
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by bpt3 6y ago
Okay, but that's not what these types of lists take into consideration, partially because these are problems that are endemic in all cities.
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by bpt3 6y ago
It's not misleading for major cities that I'm aware of, and especially not so for the "most dangerous" ones that the parent brought up. It doesn't "just happen" that I picked Baltimore, it's highly re
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by bpt3 6y ago
Automobiles (and their drivers) kill, maim, or injure significantly fewer people than intentionally aggressive individuals in major cities. For example, in 2017 there were 343 murders in Baltimore [0] (which I knew would be on the list bef
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by bpt3 6y ago
> Code of Conducts give a single canonical state for what's considered acceptable This is what they're supposed to do. In reality, this is impossible because so many of the rules in a CoC are subjective, and therefore are
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by bpt3 6y ago
No, I don't need to pay more attention since I'm fully aware of that decision, but thanks for your condescending attitude. What impact does that decision have on the long lines in nearly every metropolitan area in the US, includin
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by bpt3 6y ago
It's not a cop-out, it's a summary of the facts, as opposed to your claims that "many" voters wait in lines like the ones shown in the article and the random picture you found. Like many of the individuals quoted in the
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by bpt3 6y ago
My point is that the cause of the long lines shown in the BBC article isn't likely to be targeted voter suppression because they are happening all over the US, ranging from areas where generally democrat-voting minorities live and vote
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by bpt3 6y ago
Yes, I haven't seen a single person saying that voting in the US is perfect or that no voter suppression takes place. What I am saying (and others are as well) is that the BBC article seems to be mischaracterising/misunderstanding
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by bpt3 6y ago
Agreed, and that's not acceptable, but no group is experiencing wait times of several hours each election, which seems to be the conclusion drawn by many readers of the BBC article.
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by bpt3 6y ago
Standing in line for hours to vote weeks before election day when all evidence indicates that lines will be significantly shorter in the weeks ahead does sound crazy to me. I provided the most rational explanation I've received in my
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by bpt3 6y ago
Hours-long waits to vote are not the norm: https://medium.com/mit-election-lab/insights-into-voting-wai... Having a single early voting location in an entire county that size isn't the norm either this year. I do
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by bpt3 6y ago
The data shows that hours-long waits are not and haven't been the norm, as I stated. There is data on wait times from 4 elections in the article, none of which supports a claim that the wait times shown in the BBC article are at all no
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by bpt3 6y ago
Here's hard data showing that long lines like these aren't the norm: https://medium.com/mit-election-lab/insights-into-voting-wai...
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by bpt3 6y ago
Sounds like this was on election day, which is 3 weeks away in the US and there will be significantly more polling places open then.
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by bpt3 6y ago
That's unacceptable in my opinion, but it's not the norm at all, even in traditionally democratic-voting areas.
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by bpt3 6y ago
In general, no. They assumed people would just wait until more polling stations opened up closer to election day (or on election day itself) to avoid waiting in these lines.

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