danjayh

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by danjayh 8y ago
I must apologize for my lack of clarity. The intent of my statement was to say that "Cars should pay for ..." and "Public transit users should pay for ", not to imply that the users of these services cover their costs
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by danjayh 8y ago
I am in general in favor of nearly all services being based on user fees, except in cases of people who have handicaps that prevent them from otherwise functioning normally in society (physical disability, mental health issues, developmenta
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by danjayh 8y ago
This is probably one of the most insightful comments in this entire thread. Density isn't the problem - zoning is. Even in a suburban area, if there was a corner store, you could just take a golf cart, provided that you live someplac
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by danjayh 8y ago
Electric wheelchairs typically go 3-4 mph. They are not a replacement for point-to-point transit. My area also swings from -5f in the winter to +105f in the summer, so anything that's not climate controlled is quite unpleasant.
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by danjayh 8y ago
On bad days, I either avoid extremely large stores or wait until I get a good spot. On good days, I walk from whatever spot I get. Either way, it's less walking than I'd do to/from a transit station.
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by danjayh 8y ago
I was in Shanghai for work for about 3 weeks a few years back. For the first week, I tried to use mass transit, because everyone said it was the best way around (and in shanghai, their mass transit is absolutely world-class, the best of the
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by danjayh 8y ago
I'm not sure that the drive should necessary be away from cars. With the advent of driverless cars, there is a new option: shared cars. They provide the time-savings of point-to-point transit for the already time-strapped lower class,
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by danjayh 8y ago
I have medical issues that are completely unrelated to lifestyle. Unfortunately, autoimmune issues often don't respond to anything but drugs with horrible side effects.
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by danjayh 8y ago
Already in place, via mitigations that have been implemented. Fuel injection, multiple catalytic converters, exhaust gas recycling, and closed-loop control all add substantial expense to modern vehicles. They do, however, very effectively r
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by danjayh 8y ago
I think public transit would only be viable in dense urban cores. In other areas, if the city desires to provide transportation assistance, I think it's probably more efficient to provide other forms of transportation to the working po
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by danjayh 8y ago
Actually, I'm going to argue for just the opposite: Let users of cars pay for the infrastructure they use (through gas and plate taxes), let users of public transit pay for the services and infrastructure they use (through ridership fe
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by danjayh 8y ago
I live in a mid-sized city in Michigan (Grand Rapids). Housing in the inner city is relatively expensive (3x+ the cost of the housing 20 miles out). Congestion is not really a thing ... maybe for 1/2 an hour right at 5PM and for 1&#x2F
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by danjayh 8y ago
Ironically, drives to eliminate cars typically disproportionately negatively impact poor people. Wealthy people value their time over money, and so tend to retain their cars even when faced with higher costs. Poorer people will give up thei
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by danjayh 8y ago
I think that if you do the same calculation to find the benefits (access to a greater variety of goods and services, access to a broader selection of employment, stable childhood environment due to not having to frequently move for work, et
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by danjayh 8y ago
Why should public transit be paid for by automobiles? Let the users of each service pay for what they consume. Cars pay for roads, maintenance, highway patrol, etc. Public transit users pay for rail, buses, dedicated lanes, etc. Forcing aut
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by danjayh 8y ago
I'm amazed that so many people who consider themselves inclusive in their thoughts don't realize how exclusionary anti-automobile policies are. As someone who suffers from mild arthritis, the trip to the back of a Wal-Mart can be
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by danjayh 8y ago
please read to the end nobody iterates chips right up to release. That's a software thing.
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by danjayh 8y ago
Typically, everything in civil aviation is done to DO-178C. Almost everything we work on is level A, the highest level of criticality. Military stuff is generally much less rigorous, believe it or not.
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by danjayh 8y ago
Even if it's not now, their intention is to provide higher levels of SAE automation on the same software as time progresses, which means that the current hardware probably has to hit a higher design assurance level than the current sof
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by danjayh 8y ago
That's not exactly how it works. Development doesn't freeze - change requests, PRs, etc. can all be rolled in right up to the end and even after release if the appropriate process is followed, and in software, even in a safety cri
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by danjayh 8y ago
4 years is a big lag if you're not doing safety critical work. If you are doing safety critical, 4 years isn't particularly fast, but it's not unreasonable. If you've never worked in aerospace or automotive, you would
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by danjayh 8y ago
It wasn't through the Internet. We had a dedicated phone line for it (quite an expense for a 5th grader). Others dialed in directly, and when one user was connected, anyone else trying to connect got a busy signal. If the user wasn&#x2
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by danjayh 8y ago
I have fond memories of using Prodigy as a small child. When they added images to the news service, it was magical. I can't think of anything now that brings the same level of excitement as the progression of technology during my child
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by danjayh 8y ago
Fusion power is already here, in the form of solar. The reactor is just not located on our planet. I think storage of the sun's fusion power is probably an easier problem to solve than actual fusion, and I think that very shortly the e
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by danjayh 8y ago
The university's position is absolutely ridiculous and has everything to do with what's wrong with higher education at large. I think the only reason that other frats/sororities/organizations with a similar rule weren&#x
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by danjayh 8y ago
It was actually released by the FilesLocker developers ... how magnanimous, releasing the master key before discontinuing support for the project to enable the community to continue development & provide decryption services. A lot of co
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by danjayh 8y ago
So true. The last time my wife and I had a night out by ourselves was like July.
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by danjayh 8y ago
Generally not. We prefer to have our child in a center, where there are more children, more support staff, and more teachers, and in our state such institutions are not allowed to operate without a license (the state will shut them down).
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by danjayh 8y ago
> So do you want to increase the child to minder ratio, cut benefits, or cut opening hours? All of the above, if the market will bear it (and I think in the case of reduced benefits, it will not - see my last paragraph). The point is tha
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by danjayh 8y ago
True, this could be used as a sort of indicator for that, but I think a more clear-cut set of metrics to see such an effect would be participation rate and unemployment rate among low-skilled workers ... but I have no idea where one would f

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