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by exue 13y ago
I'd argue that safety directly translates into speed as well, as a single accident can shut down 1-all lanes of the freeway and result in several hours of delay for the parties involved. So even being selfish you'd have reason to
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by exue 13y ago
The purpose of making traffic flow smoother is that it'll push out the point where flow breaks down and you can extend the zone of (relatively) uncongested operation with higher vehicle throughput. Smoother flows leads to fewer abrupt
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by exue 13y ago
Paints a great+balanced high-level picture picture of the phenomena - I noticed it was submitted a few weeks ago without much attention. I'd also add reading about TopCoder and IOI / various competitions - star performers in anoth
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by exue 13y ago
In general, most humans run 'late' on a 24.5-25.5 hour cycle with lack of any light - it's natural lighting that tends us towards 24 again. So it's true that artificial lighting messes with it, but not in that we were pre-disposed to sleepi
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by exue 13y ago
On one hand urban planners tells us density is the future and inevitable for American cities to not fall behind and . On the other hand the fastest growing cities in the US are the low density type: Houston, Raleigh, Phoenix, etc. Cheap hou
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by exue 14y ago
I guess this invalidates what I've been used to for the last 4 years about using phone mapping. [1] I've always wondered what would happen if a police officer thought you were texting but you were actually using a GPS, or changing a song on
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by exue 14y ago
The pitch may be a bit awkward and I can't attest to the quality of other contestants, but I have a good impression overall from Your Mechanic. Car repair is heavily stuck in the 20th-century model of businesses. Individual shops open from
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by exue 14y ago
I think the true rate of human accidents is higher than 1 per 250K miles - many are simply never reported to the police or DMV, especially because many states have a cost threshold ($750 in California, higher in other states) or require an
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by exue 14y ago
On the topic of courts: There is a US court case in the 11th circuit where a federal judge, in fact, ruled that people are not required to give up their encryption passwords under the 5th amendment. It isn't a supreme court case however. h
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by exue 14y ago
Quora! The question and answer site: Here's a great example: Question: Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? Answer: http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-soft
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by exue 14y ago
1: Stop hatin' on Somalia 2: The US Supreme Court has in fact decided that the 'data' is not not copyrightable in terms of phone book listings. Because they are no longer scraping off Craigslist itself, they are no longer violating terms of
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by exue 14y ago
Question: Is the pointer the start location or the end location of the commute? It wasn't immediately obvious to me and in many areas it makes a huge difference. It seems like it's just pulling worst case "in traffic" drive times right now.
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by exue 14y ago
This is the kind of crazy stuff you get to do in college with all these resources around you. Take advantage, no matter what your project may be, because after you graduate, it's gonna be infinitely harder.
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by exue 14y ago
The point is having a Pentium III Win 7 machine covers using a Pentium 4, Athlon XP, and all those other old computers to install IE9 - covering the biggest fraction of users through backward compatability.
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by exue 14y ago
Despite all its flaws, Yelp is the best solution I've had for finding good restaurants and other services. I love being able to read reviews by locals I might randomly see, browse through their profiles and see what else they like. In the v
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Internet giants should equally value personal privacy and advertising dollars(boston.com)
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by exue 14y ago
http://www.bts.gov/publications/federal_subsidies_to_passeng... Roads definitely have subsidies, but according to the document above, much less than urban transit or rail - if people pay the full costs of cars, they should pay the full co
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by exue 14y ago
This article's view is a visionary one, and I applaud that: But people promote (bullet) trains, subways, etc. as revolutionary inventions when they really aren't. They've been around for 50+ years and have 'lost' to cars in the marketshare
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by exue 14y ago
So you just choose one industry that's 20% of the economy to demolish and expect no side effects? Get rid of the car industry, and the flying jetpack, massive underground subway, or whatever industry will come in to fill the gap. Economics
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by exue 14y ago
Cities are still designed for people. It's just that they are choosing to live in large, cheaper houses with lawns instead of a high-rise apartment in NYC.
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by exue 14y ago
Problem 1: This article is a giant anti-car rant with a few points of rational debate baked in that might help public policy. It's no more objectively helpful than reading a spiel from BimmerForums or ClubWRX on why they love their 300hp sp