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by crackercrews 2y ago
Yes, there are some places that people can walk, nearly everywhere. But GP suggested "getting them out of their cars entirely". That is not a nuanced proposal that acknowledges tradeoffs and seeks to find a balanced approach. It&#
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by crackercrews 2y ago
That might fly in temperate parts of California, but it sure doesn't work in places with less pedestrian-friendly weather.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
I know where to stop. I stop before the crosswalk What is less clear is what the word intersection means in a technical sense. Complicated or ambiguous rules are a part of life. If the idea is to get rid of anything that requires lots of ru
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by crackercrews 2y ago
> designed with cars in mind, not human beings This is a bad faith framing. The cars are driven by humans. Or in the case of autonomous driving, are driving humans around. I've come up to plenty of lights that had the pedestrian sig
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by crackercrews 2y ago
The second car definitely entered on yellow. It doesn't matter if they could have stopped. They have the right to enter on yellow. The first car passed the first line when the light was yellow, but not the second line. The area in betw
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by crackercrews 2y ago
The VP famously used it half a dozen times in this short clip. [1] It was apparently well-known enough of a term that she didn't define it. IIRC usage didn't really drop off until 2020 or after. That was when conservatives started
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Can also be helpful for names that are commonly male or female. Or foreign names. But there's not really a need to list multiple pronouns like "they/them/theirs", is there? Doesn't "they" say it all?
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by crackercrews 2y ago
The article has been updated with several edits. It no longer claims that CA fast food employment rose at a faster rate than the nationwide average. This drastically undercuts the claim that the new law didn't hurt employment. All it s
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Alternate perspective: https://reason.com/video/2024/12/19/no-californias-20-minimu... Is this an opinion piece or news? It's categorized as "ideas" at the top of the page. I do not know w
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Especially when some other outlet reports "Scientific American says XYZ". Readers will absolutely treat this as if there are scientific underpinnings. They will give it more credence than a regular opinion piece. The vast majority
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by crackercrews 2y ago
> by publishing these opinion pieces, they implicitly support them This would seem to be true if they tend to run opinion pieces that are all from one "side". If they ran pieces that espouse conflicting viewpoints, it would not
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by crackercrews 2y ago
> Did you do any research on this or just throwing out random guesses? As I said, I said it was a guess. I tried chatgpt, but no help there. I was hoping that people here who are more regular SA readers than me would have a sense of this
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Why does a scientific magazine have an Opinion section in the first place? Has it always? I would guess the number of Opinion pieces has gone up dramatically in the last decade.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
The funniest part was when she claimed the posts "do not reflect my beliefs". Her allies seem to know that isn't true. On BS there are plenty of congratulations for her willingness to say what so many others are thinking, etc
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by crackercrews 2y ago
I used the plural. Have there ever been any NBA teams with more than one Asian on them? Certainly not starters.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
If end users can't access the model without going through the prompt system then that distinction doesn't matter.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
There's a difference between inserting bias and allowing a real-world pattern to exist in AI. There may be reasons to dislike these real-world patterns, but that doesn't mean that allowing them to exist in AI is inserting a bias.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Good question. For a start, don't pretend that Nazi soldiers were a multiracial bunch. And don't do whatever Google did to generate clearly-incorrect output like this.
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Hiring based on merit, excellence, & intelligence (MEI) elicits muted response(twitter.com)
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by crackercrews 2y ago
> I think a lot of our current problems, especially wealth inequality, racism, and wars How are "dreamers" who see their own vision driving racism? We're talking about jobs and entrepreneurship here. In that context how ha
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by crackercrews 2y ago
What's the point of a time of use plan if it only varies 4 cents? Does that change behavior?
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Please name someone who is remotely close to Ronald Reagan's politics and who is in charge in California. The left is in charge. They have a supermajority.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Batteries charged by natural gas?
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by crackercrews 2y ago
What is the current composition of the city council? Are any of the members actually conservative, or just not-progressive? Why do you think things are so bad in the PNW compared to other places, if not the governance?
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by crackercrews 2y ago
California said they want no ICE vehicle sales by 2035 or something. They're also restricting ICE 18 wheelers. This has a huge impact on the viability of manufacturing these products for nationwide purchase. My guess is the goals will
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by crackercrews 2y ago
Other states can free-ride off of some of these innovations. But we also have to put up with the ways in which California regulations regarding fuel efficiency or whatever else hurt our markets. It's not clear that California's su
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by crackercrews 2y ago
I hear it is 2x to 3x that much depending on time of day in Santa Clara. Also, people built solar when there were different rules. The new rules make it much less advantageous.
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by crackercrews 2y ago
People are leaving California because it's too expensive. It's nice to internalize externalities. But if the result is that people leave then it's not really solving the problem. You've just shifted the emissions to Texa
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by crackercrews 2y ago
They use natural gas to charge up their batteries. [1] This is a different use case than California. 1: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/texas-wi...
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by crackercrews 2y ago
What parts pay normal rates? Are they heavily dependent upon solar, wind, and batteries? Or are they using gas or nuclear?

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