fnimick

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by fnimick 3y ago
Maybe because you communicate like a prick. When your first sentence is "I don't care if my SUV makes you feel unsafe" and you go on to justify bullying other people not in cars off the road because you've decided they d
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by fnimick 3y ago
Or what if instead we required trucks to meet the safety standards of other vehicles? There's no reason hoods that high should be allowed, it's purely for aggressive styling, not any practical purpose.
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by fnimick 3y ago
The first option is not actually more expensive than the cost of how we handle it now. E.g. we could just give homeless people housing for less than the cost we already spend on homeless services. The problem is the "they don't de
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by fnimick 3y ago
Yup. The problem in the US as a recent study pointed out is that the private benefit of owning an SUV is greater than the public benefit - basically, it's shifting cost and the risk from the person to society at large. I'm not sur
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by fnimick 3y ago
Crossovers are still markedly worse to be on the receiving end of a collision from than an ordinary car. That's the problem.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Sure, and then when people need to get places without cars, we just put the bikes and the people on the same road and call it a day. Brilliant!
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by fnimick 3y ago
Oh, they know, but they don't care. Their kids are in the SUV and they're fine. If your kids are outside the SUV and get run over, that's not their problem.
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by fnimick 3y ago
"Roads are for cars, not for bikes or people" You realize how stupid you sound, right?
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by fnimick 3y ago
It's a lot worse than no car at all - which people understandably don't feel comfortable doing when they're surrounded by vehicles with bumpers as high as their chest. I get hit by a sedan, I break my legs, it sucks. I get hi
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by fnimick 3y ago
> It's a deadly arms race to get as big as you can. SUVs too - I'm 3x more likely to die in the same crash if I'm hit by one rather than by a passenger sedan. Of course, the real people hurt are the pedestrians and cyclist
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by fnimick 3y ago
That's a policy failure. We can't have people getting into bigger and bigger cars to protect themselves from other people in big cars. Having road designs that leave non-car users vulnerable is a problem.
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by fnimick 3y ago
My personal take is that it's a stress response in the US. Our society and economic system has evolved to put the vast majority of people one or two paychecks away from poverty. When you feel like your life is miserable, and you have n
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by fnimick 3y ago
A disturbing number of Americans would be very happy if they didn't. See: "tough on crime" winning elections everywhere, three strikes laws, mandatory minimums, and the surprisingly popular viewpoint even in relatively libera
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by fnimick 3y ago
The "optimization" really is around signifying class. How much can you afford the exotic activities, how good is your network to get that unpaid internship or that volunteer opportunity, and of course you can't be in a financ
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by fnimick 3y ago
Sure, but are you maximizing his college admissions chances via skills in carefully selected activities in order to stand out? (mostly joking, but this is how a lot of people approach scheduling these days)
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by fnimick 3y ago
Meanwhile I know people who look at analytics and numbers to decide what sports and activities their child (who is still in elementary school!) should be doing in order to maximize college admissions chances. It's madness. Don't p
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by fnimick 3y ago
Absolutely no relevance. And even if there was, I'd like to see a business where having to take an extra fifteen minutes to reference an algorithm textbook is the difference between success and going under.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Moral ambiguity is a competitive advantage for the business too. Holding back "progress" turns you into a cost center in a real quick way and that's something the business wants to avoid. Who do you think did better for Uber,
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by fnimick 3y ago
Can confirm I know people who use beta blockers for interviewing. Abuse of ADHD drugs is also getting fairly common. If you play "fair", you're a sucker.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Have you interviewed recently? The vast majority of companies won't even have a conversation with you until after you've jumped through this.
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by fnimick 3y ago
By the time that happens the person who gets to tout the savings on their resume has already leveraged that for a salary bump somewhere else. It's an unfortunate reality that if you're employed (not a founder) and you think more t
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by fnimick 3y ago
Exactly. This is why the "tell me your weakness" question is a trap. It's deliberately selecting for people able to read the subtext and the situation and respond accordingly. The interview, and to a lesser extent the workpla
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by fnimick 3y ago
I got explicitly failed from a first round interview because I took too long to solve a graph traversal problem. I reasoned my way through and got to the optimal solution, the interviewer confirmed that it was the optimal solution, then sai
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by fnimick 3y ago
Shareholder disdain and lying on estimates made the stock price go up. They couldn't be happier.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Any policy that doesn't include raising the cost of driving might as well be useless. And I bet the vast majority of people don't want that.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Not just native inhabitants, people like to forget the whole "slavery" thing.
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by fnimick 3y ago
People regularly vote because "gas went up". It's not just Republicans. Unfortunately the party that says "climate change is a hoax and you don't have to change" is always going to win over the one that says &q
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by fnimick 3y ago
If it costs the average person a dollar more or requires them to drive a mile less, it won't happen. People are selfish and will gladly vote away their future for a more convenient today. This isn't a 'party' problem - t
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by fnimick 3y ago
If you mean you can't purchase stuff that would harm the planet.... yeah? That's how a solution works? We can't say "everyone has the freedom to pollute as much as they want" and get through this.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Or the even simpler solution: raising gas taxes to discourage people from driving. Adding a tax on carbon pollution to make products reflect their actual cost. It's not hard, but anyone proposing "drive less" might as well be

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