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by dpark 10mo ago
That’s a really good point. This is all very back-of-the-envelope, but if the total cost per life saved were 10 million it gets into the ballpark of sane. But as you noted this 50 billion is likely a major underestimate (for comparison the
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by dpark 10mo ago
Have we already forgotten that a self-driving uber ran over a pedestrian a few years ago or that Tesla’s autopilot has caused multiple crashes? I’m not optimistic that a bunch of robots sharing stairs with pedestrians is going to work out g
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by dpark 10mo ago
Sorry, this doesn’t make any sense. If the problem were that criminals have high powered e-bikes, the obvious answer would be to give high powered e-bikes to the police. What you’re actually griping about isn’t criminals using e-bikes as ge
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by dpark 10mo ago
And again, the conversation here is about delivery trucks, not cars. Eliminating cars doesn’t eliminate the need for infrastructure for moving goods.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Sure. In 2022, 672 pedestrians were killed by large trucks. How many of those do you believe happened in say New York City? And how many of those do you think you could eliminate with this hypothetical tunnel system? And how much will this
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by dpark 10mo ago
The context here is not cars but delivery trucks. The tunnels in question also did not transport pedestrians and were essentially focused on coal delivery and ash removal.
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by dpark 10mo ago
lol. People will try to paint anything they don’t like as bad because criminals can also use it.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> and then it's more stressful because you aren't used to having to know where the vehicular entrances are “I rarely drive and so I am stressed when I do” is not an issue that needs to be solved.
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by dpark 10mo ago
This is neat but also seems like an insane solution to the problem of “I don’t like seeing service trucks”. How many such tunnels and elevators would it take to supply the buildings in a typical city’s downtown area? And what else could we
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by dpark 10mo ago
Wrappers are a great idea if you need a small set of what the library provides. Also very valuable if the library you are using doesn’t have good support for testing. Certainly you should not wrap a library “just because”. The benefit of do
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by dpark 10mo ago
> magically solves everything This is the real problem. Too often frameworks/libraries are geared towards making things magic instead of making things solid. Magic solutions are usually very one dimensional. e.g. The Magic only work
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by dpark 10mo ago
I think this is both inaccurate and unreasonable. From what I’ve seen there is a lot of effort placed on trying to reach out and correct these misplaced views (or at least there was under the previous administration). You are saying that
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by dpark 10mo ago
HN seems like exactly the place for a discussion on the unintended effects of speech suppression on social media platforms.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> win trophies for rooting out corruption Many a corrupt government has touted their anti-corruption activities that inexplicably seem to snare almost exclusively their political opponents.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> The solution is really to keep the scope of government small Of course. Politically active billionaires are always famously lobbying for large government and more regulations.
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by dpark 10mo ago
It’s frustrating that this is flagged. I don’t agree with the article but I think there’s good context here for actual discussion.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> I rarely see anyone actually going into a public forum to try to clearly communicate the evidence for vaccine safety Then you haven’t looked. There are endless examples of qualified people explaining the actual risks and benefits of va
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by dpark 10mo ago
He didn’t say the article is correct. He said that arguing against the article without reading it is dumb.
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by dpark 10mo ago
The placebo effect is shockingly strong. 30-50% report subjective benefits with placebo. Makes sense that about the same would report subjective side effects.
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by dpark 10mo ago
I see. There are two separate but related questions. 1. Why did Python replace Perl? 2. Why did Python become so extremely popular? The answer to the first is because it’s better than Perl for so many engineers in so many cases. The answer
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Isn't that the crux of the issue? Perl was great if you're a hacker who 'got' it. For the remaining 95% of the population, Python worked. It’s really not the crux of the issue though. “Better than Perl for normal de
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by dpark 10mo ago
Did you seriously start this thread just to ask people to confirm your bias? In that case, yes. Perl is beautiful. Python sucks and only succeeded because idiot developers couldn’t see the beauty of Perl. Python is poorly suited at every jo
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by dpark 10mo ago
With respect, lispers are probably not the best people to ask how to make a widely adopted language. Regardless, you’re regurgitating exactly what I said. Your gut is that Python was just a slightly better replacement for Perl. This is at b
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by dpark 10mo ago
I think the controversy around Python’s indentation helped it gain success. Regardless of how you feel about the choice, it’s a great opportunity for bike shedding and encouraged (and still encourages) a lot of talk about the language.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> If you survey the language landscape now, a language can be much better than Python but never get the chance Python did just because it happened to look a bit better than Perl. Which is absurd to me. You’re struggling to understand Pyt
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by dpark 10mo ago
> And they sufficed to keep the CPAN article on site, so the system works. This is such an absurd take. “It this one example the system worked so clearly it’s fine.”
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by dpark 10mo ago
People get extremely frustrated and upset about arbitrary rules, especially when they are imposed inconsistently. From the talk page it seems like exactly three people were involved in deciding if this was worth deleting and they indicated
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by dpark 10mo ago
Deleted pages are no longer accessible, meaning the history of changes is gone. “Memory wipe” seems reasonable.
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by dpark 10mo ago
For sure. Your can definitely tip over your logging pipeline and impact visibility. I just wanted to make sure we weren’t still talking about “causing a cascading outage due to increased log volumes” as was mentioned above, which would indi
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by dpark 10mo ago
Your statement that logging would contain zero useful information indicates an assumption of incompetence.

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