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by bumholio 8y ago
I think that driving pass would be so valuable that it could corrupt any and all social institutions. The people handing them out would be demigods, imune from all forms of authority in this world other than the Holly Eternal DMV itself.
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by bumholio 8y ago
The pinnacle of spin: paying 50c more for a gallon of gas in US will bring untold suffering to those desperate people in Africa who have no cars, no electricity and are generally carbon neutral by virtue of using dried dung as their only en
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by bumholio 8y ago
> what is needed is mass transit, Why mass transit and not walking more or personal blimps shaped like giant Trump babies? To make them more than your opinion, you need to put some numbers on those statements. And the numbers work much w
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by bumholio 8y ago
>2 second gaps needs ~20 passengers per pod Sorry, I don't follow. Why can't a 2 person pod reach 40 Km/h and maintain 22m spacing between pods? As for the number/price of the pods, the relevant metric is price per p
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by bumholio 8y ago
Sure. Developments in self driving and electric vehicles, ride hailing and general automation make PRT a much more convincing proposal today and a genuine public transport alternative to the personal car, which collective vehicles with ri
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by bumholio 8y ago
> your 2 second gap is a pipe dream, not technically but logistically. You need scheduling flexibility to maintain such small gaps. A 2 second gap means that a pod needs to sync and squeeze between two vehicles 4 seconds apart, or 45m at
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by bumholio 8y ago
At the limit, with proper design a stream of pods can act almost like an endless, continuous train - no subway network can beat that. But even if we accept a 2s spacing between pods, human level reaction times, that's still around 1 p
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by bumholio 8y ago
That would help surely. But I would say the main problem in this space is not the infrastructure - Tesla meltdown aside - it's the other drivers.
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's quite easy to envision some ramps where the vehicle steers out of the main underground lane and ascends on a 20% incline for 10m, stops into a station not dissimilar to any other public transit station, with multiple platforms so
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by bumholio 8y ago
I think custom hardware would make sense on custom infrastructure: small 2m wide tracks dedicated to rapid electric transit pods, tucked under and along side the main roads. It would simplify the design a lot to the point where you could bu
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by bumholio 8y ago
I find it doubtful that Atorvastatin was not available for health/risk reasons. I can buy it cash in 5 minutes, no questions asked. What tends to happen in some EU countries is that the retail drugs are heavily subsidized by the govern
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by bumholio 8y ago
Doubtful. It just so happens that a well known intro to neural nets focuses on controlling GTA using only on screen data and simulated keyboard inputs. That basic principle is valid for any game and can be improved to an unlimited extent. F
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by bumholio 8y ago
>Standard Oil probably had real oil (asset) and Amazon now has an inflated valuation based on potential future earnings. Apple to Oranges Amazon has a dominant market position in online sales. It's not a natural resource but it a po
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by bumholio 8y ago
I hope you realize there is a built in sentiment analyzer on HN, based on highly advanced, natural intelligence algorithms. Your filter actually seems to dig strongly opinionated posts. They are not automatically bad, and they can be quite
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by bumholio 8y ago
For the working class, tech is disrupting faster than it's creating value, the results are more distributional then they are enriching. The self driving car removes the human behind the wheel but does nothing to reduce the cost of the
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by bumholio 8y ago
> we re-engineered our processes to fit SAP. That sounds just about like the most revolting and negative endorsement you can make for a business solution. Every company is special and the flexibility to adapt to a changing environment
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by bumholio 8y ago
Still blocked for me. C'mon now, I get it as an emergency measure, I get it when LA Times does it since they aren't interested in European visitors; but this here is just plain lazy.
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's a story as old as the world: trying to get noticed while doing essentially the same thing as the successful kids, but lacking that essential element of luck or genetics, that last second on the chronometer, that "in" pre
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's a symbolic victory that might have strong practical effects 10-20 years from now, when every auto repair shop will have a metal 3D printer that could be used to quickly reproduce military-grade weapons in quantity, with a few clic
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by bumholio 8y ago
I would expect it's easy to make the case of misappropriation when directing the money to an unauthorized advertising campaign; or to an authorized campaign, but for a different, unauthorized product. It's a lot harder to make tha
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by bumholio 8y ago
Sounds like an excelent front end, for best performance. For the back end stability is paramount, that's why I would always recommend to pair this with a shell script server: https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd Bas
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by bumholio 8y ago
Any parent will tell you that inducing a desired teenager behavior while maintaining the illusion of free will is a simple wording trick: "I would love to see you succeed in any career you choose; of course, society values things very
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by bumholio 8y ago
Hey, a bunch of shell scripts glued to some DOS executables were good enough in my time. We had no fancy schmancy github back in those days, yet we built this business on nothing but hard work and pizza. Why, the sources of the DOS exes wer
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by bumholio 8y ago
What we the people are demanding are insanely hard puzzles. Not an enumeration of hard games on the 6x6 board, but a heuristic generator for the 7x7 or the 8x8 or even the 10x10 if need may be, of games that seem utterly intractable for the
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by bumholio 8y ago
I'm not entirely sure I follow the logical argument: regulation is relaxed along transit arteries, allowing developers to build and sell more units there at market rates, thereby keeping the market prices in check; that's great. B
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by bumholio 8y ago
> Now that everyone forgot why the new technology was bad, we're free to begin the cycle again. We can very easily break the cycle by training a deep learning TensorFlow brain in the cloud, that will be fed the daily mouse gestures
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by bumholio 8y ago
The democratic majority is not your friend unless you are part of it. Think about anyone convicted of socially reprehensible crimes. The information that you used to be a pedophile will certainly make your life a living hell when it is used
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