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by comte7092 1y ago
Sub out “who hates hiking trails?” and sub in “who hates having popular government programs?” Answer: people who don’t want constituents to believe that the government can be effective and deliver good services. That’s the ideological compo
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by comte7092 2y ago
>Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis. This isn’t a law of nature. The behavior the admin is displaying is exactly the type of thing that leads to your statement not being true anymore.
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by comte7092 2y ago
I think it’s more that the people who are boosting LLMs are claiming that perfect super intelligence is right around the corner. Personally, I look back at how many years ago it was that we were seeing claims that truck drivers were all g
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by comte7092 2y ago
> So how did she find herself in U.S. custody with a revoked visa? The original officer likely lacked the authority to actually revoke her visa: https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM040311.html 9 FAM 403.11-3(B
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by comte7092 2y ago
The conversation I engaged with was about people who are following the law. You are arguing against a point I never made here. I’d ask you what the point of having laws is if we are going to detain and deport people outside of the establish
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by comte7092 2y ago
The only option is to pursue draconian “enforcement” on people who enter through ports of entry following the established legal process? Let’s not kid ourselves here, it’s not nor has it ever been about “illegal” immigration, it’s immigra
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by comte7092 2y ago
> Somehow the prices are still high enough that it's cheaper to buy a cheap used car and drive it instead. I find this claim to be incredibly dubious. More convenient? A practical necessity? Sure. Cheaper ? Gonna need to see some r
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by comte7092 2y ago
When you don’t have a driver anymore you quickly run into an issue with keeping the vehicle clean. One time having a drunken stranger puke in your car while you’re not using it will be enough for a lot of people to determine it isn’t worth
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by comte7092 2y ago
US manufacturers absolutely make electric busses, but when you’re talking about global trends/capabilities in the market, you have to keep in mind that the core competency of most suppliers on the US market is still diesel drivetrains,
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by comte7092 2y ago
Why do transit agencies keep falling for hydrogen busses? From the perspective of the US, it’s pretty simple: 1. Transit agencies have no way to reasonably validate what the future holds. From the standpoint of today, a hydrogen bus can be
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by comte7092 2y ago
It’s a bit of a hot take, but not wildly outlandish either. Pandas supports so many use cases and is still more feature rich than polars. But you always have the polars.DataFrame.to_pandas() function in your back pocket so realistically you
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by comte7092 2y ago
Rhetoric, not science, convinces people, at least at the level of the general public. It is nieve to think that an negative result will have any impact on the discourse here whatsoever.
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by comte7092 2y ago
A fool and his money are soon parted
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by comte7092 2y ago
> Public transport information and timetables Public transport information is published and maintained by transit agencies themselves. It’s an open standard and trivially easy to access. See: https://gtfs.org/
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by comte7092 2y ago
I’ve often seen an equivalence made on this forum between levying higher capital gains taxes and discouraging investment. While they are certainly related, rates of capital gains taxes aren’t the primary driver of productive investment. We
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by comte7092 2y ago
I work in public transportation, at the end of the day there is a finite supply of resources and you have to decide where and how to deploy them. The biggest determinants of quality of service are geographic coverage and frequency. Good luc
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by comte7092 2y ago
Im not talking about taking away parking per se, im talking about taking away free parking .
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by comte7092 2y ago
So you make the street parking paid. It’s insane that so much land is dedicated to giving people free space to store their personal vehicles. “But that’s unfair!” People can take the bus. “But the bus service isn’t good!” That’s because no
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by comte7092 2y ago
How would chatgpt be able to spot overruns, fraud, or make a value assessment off of a budget? Unless you provided significantly more information than implied in your post, eg actual spend, the entire exercise was pretty absurd. This is t
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by comte7092 2y ago
Having a STEM degree isn’t a substitute for real world experience in a production facility. Clustering is a feedback loop where production creates people with experience in production, something needs to kickstart that process.
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by comte7092 2y ago
While your statement is fundamentally correct, the issue here is that people typically use these charts as an excuse to point the finger. The tension globally is between the west who has high per capita emissions, a long period of high emis
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by comte7092 2y ago
Energy generation methods aren’t fungible. Methane is favored in many cases because they can be quickly ramped up and down to handle momentary peaks in demand or spotty supply generated from renewables. Without knowing more details about th
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by comte7092 2y ago
Your reasoning it entirely fair. My point is that this is an article about the perspective of the US government, calling it an obvious honeypot of, say, Russia, is just farcical.
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by comte7092 2y ago
*50% of your fare goes to the driver, as well as paying for fuel, vehicle maintenance and depreciation, insurance, etc. Without a driver those other costs don’t go away.
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by comte7092 2y ago
> Waymo also has the option to drop prices lower than Uber/Lyft when vehicles are unutilized I think that’s an unproven assumption. There’s certainly reason to believe it to be true of course, but uber and Lyft are already capturing
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by comte7092 2y ago
Taxis today are already far far larger than they need to be for two people. Logistically you need the flexibility of having more seats available. If you’re in a rural area and need to transport a family are you going to send 4 vehicles sepa
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by comte7092 2y ago
> You could ostensibly leave a few taxis around to service otherwise underserved areas and have them run without having to secure a driver each time. I think you’re dramatically overestimating how much of a barrier obtaining a driver is
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by comte7092 2y ago
Very difficult to take this article seriously when it characterizes WhatsApp and signal as “obvious honeypots” of “foreign nation states” (obviously in reference here to non western aligned countries). Absolutely a ridiculous statement.
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by comte7092 2y ago
At the end of the day that isn’t a technical problem but a unit economics one. Removing the driver from a taxi doesn’t bring down costs that much . Self driving cars aren’t going to change the uber/taxi model at a fundamental level. T
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by comte7092 2y ago
The grudges are valid. The default in America is to make everything out to be individualistic, but the rest of us have to bear the very real costs of the externality of pickups, not just limited to pollution but also safety, land use, etc.

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