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by danny_codes 5y ago
I assume you're being contrarian. It's hard to imagine a sane person who opposes effective enforcement of reckless driving laws.
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by danny_codes 5y ago
As with all things, there are pros and cons to Singapore's approach. Having better surveillance is a tool which can be used for good and bad, contingent on circumstance. For example, I live in the SF Bay Area. One highway near me (880)
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by danny_codes 5y ago
Alternative solution: Lean into private/public ventures to change the economics. We just make the private risk profile look reasonable. via direct investment.
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by danny_codes 5y ago
100km/h is very slow. China is running 350km/h lines all day every day. So with proper investment that train ride is more like 2 hours 40 minutes. Which, per your numbers, is nearly twice as fast as the plane. IMO we're think
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by danny_codes 5y ago
A high-speed train is about 40% the speed of an airplane. So a 1 hour flight is comparable to a 2.5 hour train ride. However a quick check shows that, on average, it takes over 2 hours (133 minutes) to get on the plane after you've arr
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by danny_codes 5y ago
I would argue the opposite actually. If the US had embraced trains as people movers early on, with local subway systems, I'd imagine we'd have seen even more economic growth than we did. Our cities would be far more prosperous, ou
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by danny_codes 5y ago
As long as they're speed-limited to conventional biking speed I don't think this is much of a problem. E-bikes have similar mass to normal bikes so the forces are basically the same.
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by danny_codes 5y ago
I don't think this is true. I lived in SF for a while (assumedly this meets your definition of built up), and there's plenty of space. The key is that cars don't belong in most places anyway. A residential street can easily b
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by danny_codes 5y ago
In regards to bike-rider behavior on roads, of course cyclists appear "misbehaved" on roads. The roads are not designed for cyclists, so we have to fight with the design of the transport network to get anywhere Car-oriented transp
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by danny_codes 5y ago
I feel you. The mainstream approach to industrial policy and infrastructure investment in the US is so embarrassing. It's painfully obvious that the US could sink 10s of trillions into infrastructure without over-investing. And infrast
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Why not? Most developing countries don't want nuclear weapons. They're a liability. If I were a country like Jordan (random example), I would be perfectly happy signing a (presumably good) deal for nuclear power, even if it came w
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by danny_codes 5y ago
I fail to see how this is relevant. China can already make nuclear weapons and presumably has a MAD amount. Nobody needs more than a couple hundred thermonuclear weapons, there's nothing left to hit with the next 100.
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by danny_codes 5y ago
I find this kind of thinking kind of insulting actually. As a guy with a physics degree who's doing machine learning (precisely what the author bemoans), I don't feel like I "lapsed". I have other interests besides physi
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by danny_codes 5y ago
On first read I don't see anything wrong with this bill. It appears to extend a reporting requirement already applying to cash transfers to other forms of monetary exchange. I don't see why transferring money via a cryptocurrency
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by danny_codes 5y ago
This NotJustBikes video covers this subject nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU Watching his channel has reinforced the dramatically negative impact American transportation policy has had on urban life.
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by danny_codes 5y ago
> This isn't even a solution to wealth inequality so I think your question isn't relevant. Wealth inequality is a complex problem and you can't fix it by just taxing people more. Why not? Redistributive wealth tax seems li
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IMO this kind of thinking is narrow-minded. Americans seem very opposed to taxing wealth for some reason. I believe it's a fear of change mostly, or perhaps an irrationally strong belief in some narrow school of economic thought. Even
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by danny_codes 5y ago
Hmm 250 million a year from Bezos. Who made something like $50 billion in that time-frame. Can I get the 2% tax rate too, or is it just for Bezos?
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by danny_codes 5y ago
What would your solution to rising wealth inequality be? Or perhaps you don't think there's a problem?
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by danny_codes 5y ago
> I later got covid and only lost sense smell/taste for 4 days. Didn't feel the need to miss any work. Bruh. You went to work while you were sick with covid?
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by danny_codes 5y ago
> That price is at least 5x solar+wind+storage. Do you have a source? This seems.. unlikely to be true. As for your point on graft, you seem to have a very black/white view of government. I find, in general, that black/white vi
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by danny_codes 5y ago
This seems pretty naive to me. Big public works projects are big so they take a lot of time and money. Of course there's political overhead and graft, etc. However, I'd argue that doesn't really matter. Let's say it cost
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by danny_codes 5y ago
I presume this is a troll post. But in all seriousness you should probably quit your job and do some introspection. It sounds like you ended up in a pretty dead-end position.
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Except that this time the elixir isn't powered by magic or fairy tales. Aging is just another biological process. It's controlled by genetics and environment like everything else, and can be manipulated using similar principles. I
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by danny_codes 7y ago
> I had a conversation with a dean of a university about offering online courses and the reason they said they would never do it seriously is because that would greatly devalue that people admitted to that school were top tier and thus w