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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The difference between HSR and driverless EVs that can go from SF to LA is the former has existed for 50 years and the latter has literally never been demonstrated.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That's cherry-picking a favorable example for the car. It's always better to take your car when you fill it up with people, compared to other modes that charge per person. It's true locally - always cheaper to drive from Oa
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
We did put this to a vote and it passed.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
There is no bus or plane that can do anything like what HSR can do. That's the entire point of the project. It will triple the capacity of our north-south transportation system at a fraction of the cost of equivalent airport capacity
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
No, the upper-middle-class robbing the poor has been the history of our highway system, which you can't use without owning a car and paying ~ $0.55/mile to operate it. We have shoveled hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
A beer is a hoax if it tastes terrible but beer critics fawn all over it and it costs $9 for a pint. Hazy/cloudy beers are the recent pinnacle of this style. They are the all-white paintings of the beer world. Brewers spent centurie
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
A lot of those innovative West Coast beers are, at best, hoaxes. I think maybe the craft brewers could swing back slightly to tradition. I seek out craft pilsners and lagers because a clear, tasty pilsner is very difficult to produce in qua
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
827, in its terminal form, contained a provision that anyone building within a quarter mile of a transit station had to provide their tenants with transit passes in perpetuity, a net present cost of about $50k. I really don't think 82
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Residential solar thermal no longer makes any kind of economic sense. These existing mandates only show how government regulations can serve to ossify bad practices and harm innovation.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Those peopler are, of course, totally incorrect. Our population boom is partly from migration but mostly from longevity.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I don't think this proves anything about the state of self-driving tech generally. It just proves that Tesla doesn't have any, and that camera vision alone can't do much. Waymo's car doesn't drive like this.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Watch the last two minutes of this test from Edmunds and tell me why Tesla is even allowed to sell this junk. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxeK0F-D3gg
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Boring story. Vic Gundotra, the clueless jackass from Microsoft that Google made SVP for Social did not think RSS fit into his idiotic vision so he shut it off.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Whatever you are about to say was likely covered in the existing 1000-comment thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12701272
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I mention it because hardly any cars come factory-equipped for towing these days. And FYI the Outback tows 2500lb and gets 25 MPG. Considering that th typical trailer weight even for F-150 drivers is zero, 2500 covers many use cases
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Crosstrek is just a jacked up Impreza hatch. People want the turbo 2.5L engine in a hot hatch instead.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
EPA rating is a joke. On Fuelly F150 Ecoboost drivers report 18 MPG which is rather less than the 27 MPG reported for my Crosstrek which can also tow, although not as much.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Yup you are right. I did not mean to say "New York City" in the second case, I meant to just say "New York" the state, in which 2.8M people voted for Trump.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Acres don't vote, thankfully :-) 74% of California's delegation - 39 of 53 - are Democrats.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
California is diverse and populous. There are enough far right voters in California that if they were to migrate en masse they would totally overwhelm their destination. They're also more likely to migrate, being the most irked by Ca
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Most people "don't realize" that because it's totally false. Only holders of specific OAuth scopes can use the Gmail API. The "basic account info" access that login with Google grants is not sufficient.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Your ethical argument is a bit weak. If society sees Bitcoin as a bad thing then there's no reason why they shouldn't slap a huge tax on any gross transaction, be it 34% or 340%. There are many ways to view cryptocurrencies in a
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Alabama produces a million cars a year, in factories that are actually high-tech unlike Tesla’s. You think they are clamoring to bring in an automaker struggling to produce a handful of cars with double the industry injury rate?
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
The laws protect the public generally and can't be negotiated away by anyone.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
You can't just tell your non-exempt workforce to stay home without pay for a week. That's a layoff, and there are laws for that, even in America.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
AGI is net of deductions though, hence the "adjusted". AGI is literally the bottom line on form 1040. You can't just figure it in your head.
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
How are you meant to reckon your AGI without in essence “doing your taxes”?
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
No, im saying it's no surprise that someone can learn to cook the cuisine of the next town over. In California all cuisines at every restaurant are cooked by Mexicans. Or maybe Salvadorans but again you can't expect Americans to m
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
Albania and Italy are only as far apart as New York and Philadelphia, and Albania and Greece are adjacent. Americans are not inclined to draw a distinction between regions separated by so little distance. It would be like you saying that
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by ebikelaw 9y ago
The first image that Twitter shows me for that hash tag is this one, which contains neither bikes nor failure. https://twitter.com/clair_415/status/981749790001135616

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