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by dotnet00 2y ago
Are 48% of the ~1.4 million people who use NYC busses so poor as to be unable to afford to pay the bus fare? https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus...
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Agreed, a lot of this 'empathy' is largely naivete, 48% of New Yorkers aren't so poor as to be unable to pay for the bus. Most of them are anti-social or lacking in a sense of duty towards the commons, making the fare free wo
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by dotnet00 2y ago
A lot of that happens because the government provides the contractors with an endless stream of money and refuses to use the accountability mechanisms in the contracts when they mismanage their tasks. As a currently popular example, most of
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They usually just don't insist that strongly because they'd rather not get into a confrontation, as not moving might also anger people other than just the one you're holding for (as an argument I once saw happen on a bus went
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Most if not all NYC busses have tap to pay now, so yes, they could tap and pay. Tracking phones that aren't paying might cause issues though.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Fire departments aren't something open to a public which doesn't give a damn about it being shared property, (fire department equipment is typically only handled by the trained people employed by the department) nor do they typica
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by dotnet00 2y ago
They get to extort more money at that time for "lost revenue" as the cost of allowing field repairs.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think besides the points made by others about popularity with asian audiences, there's also the point that western gamers have likely at least heard of Wukong as a character, so it doesn't immediately come off as intended only f
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by dotnet00 2y ago
The reduction is in the rideshares. Due to their launch rate and low internal costs, SpaceX is able to offer a fixed schedule launch capability for small payloads to popular orbits. These small payloads individually have to pay much less th
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I mean, SpaceX has already been contracted for the flights for the remaining years that the ISS will be around. They already don't have the ability to raise prices that much. NASA keeps Starliner around because they've already co
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There was a period of roughly a year where SpaceX was the only medium lift rocket in the Western world with available payload capacity. ULA was in between Atlas V and Vulcan, ArianeSpace was between Ariane 5 and 6, with both upcoming rocket
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I recall that in a previous thread, someone had explained that the agreement between Boeing and MD was that MD's management would be retained at similar positions in Boeing, and that many of MD's management gamed this agreement by
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by dotnet00 2y ago
>Despite his projected persona, Musk would love nothing more than to get to the position of being the bloated encumbant supplier with guaranteed government contracts regardless of results. I'm impressed you can keep saying this nons
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Agreed, so far, SpaceX seems to be fine with building more Dragons, I had been assuming they were just refitting the 3 they built initially for the free-flying missions, but turns out they have 5 in service at the moment. Boeing seems to ha
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Most of the companies with actual money behind their space station proposals seem to intend to use the IDSS, so theoretically they'd be able to take either of the commercial crew spacecraft. Besides that, iirc one proposal is basically
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by dotnet00 2y ago
NASA officials have previously admitted to applying more oversight to SpaceX than they did to Boeing regarding commercial crew. SpaceX's success is in being self-motivated. The government money is nice, but they want to develop and com
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Yes, permanent teflon deformation. Problem is, if the deformation observed in ground tests was permanent, why did the ones in space eventually seem to recover? That's what's making it harder to trust the thrusters I think.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
That's the standard crew rotation cycle, and their capsules stay as emergency escape vehicles during their stay.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
My understanding is that's how it already works, at least that's how it's been for the journals I've published in. When you submit the paper you simply promise to pay if the paper is accepted. Then peer review happens an
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by dotnet00 2y ago
On the other hand, the ML community is especially big on papers with cherry picked results and things that can't be replicated.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Same here, had trouble controlling the habit before, but was surprisingly easy to drop it when RiF died.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I think the issue is just that the developers Apple wants to poach for this are the ones that they push away the most. Not only does Meta already control a large chunk of VR game development (to the point that even regular PCVR has been kin
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by dotnet00 2y ago
There's no benefit to using Starliner suits in Dragon since they can't be plugged in, and there is no risk to using Dragon IVA suits that are based on the measurements they already have of both of them.
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Fairly certain the other user is misinformed and the general media reporting on this entire affair has continued to be so awful as to blow up the fact that the two capsules use incompatible IVA plug-ins. If they choose to return on Crew-9,
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by dotnet00 2y ago
NYC is a big, dense city, it already takes forever to get around via public transport. If busses were about as fast as walking, people would just use cars. There's nothing all that bad about driving a car, so public trasport has to be
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by dotnet00 2y ago
From my experience in NY, where most stops are optional unless someone needs to get on/off, the schedule means very little. If the schedule says the busses come at 15 minute intervals, all you can assume is that the bus might hopefully
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I'm the same, and similarly, the idea of taking a pill to make it go away is terrifying. I have to keep myself very disciplined on the "helpful" medications I do allow into my life because I know how easy it'd be for me
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by dotnet00 2y ago
A 50% tariff on foreign workers means you're forcing companies to pay employees in other countries much more than in the US. They obviously aren't just going to shut down their international presence, so that's just transferr
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by dotnet00 2y ago
Agreed. Every time we get a thread like this, the majority opinion seems to be to call it a bad thing and to blame technology. But, why shouldn't we be enjoying the place that is supposed to be our own? I can get a lot more work done w
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by dotnet00 2y ago
I agree, what I'm trying to emphasize is that the current software is able to undock autonomously, it isn't able to handle failures autonomously. Many people seem to be thinking that Starliner had been capable of autonomous dockin

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