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by gfaster 4y ago
Sorry for late reply, but I meant the former. I find it plausible that even with robust public transit, the idle miles driven by rideshare do not incur any net benefit.
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by gfaster 4y ago
The problem is that, at least in the U.S., we have been giving carrot after carrot to car owners in every conceivable way. We've frozen gas taxes, built highways into downtowns, mandated parking on all new construction, zoned to create
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by gfaster 4y ago
I'm unsure if anyone is seriously making arguments that dropping in Uber/Lyft into a city like Phoenix, AZ would be much more efficient. Rather, it would hopefully help as an intermediate transportation mode for cities that have a
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by gfaster 4y ago
In the policy brief series linked, they do draw a distinction between TNC and ridesharing: > Ridesharing — Ridesharing involves adding passengers to a private trip in which driver and passengers share a destination. Such an arrangement p
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by gfaster 4y ago
This isn't too surprising. If the goal is to reduce car ownership (and trips), then my first thought would be that adding ride sharing services could only help if it fills few remaining trips that a robust public transit system can&#x2
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by gfaster 4y ago
> And anyhow, those algorithms are just showing you what you want. Don’t try to deny it, if it wasn’t what you wanted you wouldn’t be doomscrolling so much, would you? I believe this to be based on a faulty assumption: people do what the
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A Brief Review of Citadel Email Server Software Running on a Raspberry Pi 3(cheapskatesguide.org)
1 points by gfaster 4y ago|0 comments
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by gfaster 4y ago
Like this? https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-to-get-started-using-twitte...
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by gfaster 4y ago
I believe the problem is server load. You want each server to listen and send updates to the federated feed, and forward the federated feed to the users of that instance. What you want to avoid is a celebrity on instance A posting and then
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by gfaster 4y ago
Mastodon does have a feature where you can verify you own a website by putting a hidden tag on it that links to your profile.
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by gfaster 4y ago
How nice would it be if corporations were held accountable for externalities? You'd almost immediately have all the big fossil fuel companies, automotive manufacturers, and likely banks sued into oblivion for defrauding shareholders. I
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by gfaster 4y ago
I think you're thinking of automotive manufacturing, which was a super important part of the economy at one point. Cars (and by extension the policies that enable car dependence), have an extremely high externalities. They require vast
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by gfaster 4y ago
What your missing is that this is not (generally) the same resource. The resource is individual shows, which are copyrighted and therefore a monopoly. Back when copyright holders didn't recognize the online streaming market and sold of
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by gfaster 4y ago
You mean trying to violate the deed restriction with compliance mandated by Section 26-475 (and other applicable places) of the Houston Code of Ordinances? I don't think a lawsuit would hold up very well, unless you could could convinc
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by gfaster 4y ago
Cars are not super cheap, and in fact are very expensive when you start to account for public costs and externalities. Especially in regards parking, building car infrastructure is expensive and space inefficient, and nowhere near the amoun
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by gfaster 4y ago
If you would like to be proven conclusively wrong, I'd suggest looking at Japan. Its zoning stayed much more liberal than the United States and despite the massive size and growth of Tokyo, it stays affordable. Even in SF, some of the
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by gfaster 4y ago
Over time Houston's land use code has gotten more restrictive to prevent close proximity of nuisance uses[1]. As for churches, they are very often allowed in residential areas regardless[2][3]. Houston's zoning regulations are sti
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by gfaster 4y ago
I'm personally still upset that they made all the ubuntu-advantage software a) come preinstalled b) making it impossible to uninstall because it's a dependency of ubuntu-minimal[1] [1]: https://packages.ubuntu.com&#x2
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by gfaster 4y ago
Well in that case it isn't strictly 'profit' but rather just benefit. In the same way that antisocial urban development isn't necessarily profitable per se, it just allows the people doing it to reap all the benefits whi
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by gfaster 4y ago
This was also how I could justify being more trusting of Apple. They didn't need all my data because that was paid for up front. The ongoing services that needed to make money I used were also paid for. Obviously that's no long
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by gfaster 4y ago
"Dammit, I went to school for the whole algorithm, I'm gonna implement the whole algorithm!"
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by gfaster 4y ago
In North America in September of 2022, your statement is not wholly wrong. Building cities around the car is a privilege that NA cities have enjoyed in the decades of unparalleled prosperity and abundance that followed WWII. However, we saw
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Potential Overcurrent Risk with 12VHPWR Connectors Using Non-ATX 3.0 PSU(wccftech.com)
1 points by gfaster 4y ago|0 comments
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by gfaster 4y ago
For the longest time in urban public spaces, there was a sort of privacy by means of the anonymity processed. You knew that you would never see any of the people around you. That's definitely completely gone now.
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by gfaster 4y ago
...until you have to exist outside of a car, then it is downright terrifying (and extra deadly).
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by gfaster 4y ago
Thank you! I've never been much for acting save for a brief foray in elementary school, during which I found out that I don't particularly enjoy trying to act out a character.
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by gfaster 4y ago
Personally, I dislike having labels on myself that describe behavior whether it be pseudo-science or science-science because I find myself "role-playing" those labels and semi-consciously using them to guide actions. Even for medi
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by gfaster 4y ago
It would prevent people from simply going and downloading solutions from the internet. A lot of easier assignments are fairly well treaded and already have solutions floating around.
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by gfaster 4y ago
This is pretty great. It would be nice if it were able to handle exceptions, for example: "The second Sunday of every month except in December"
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by gfaster 4y ago
If you wear glasses that invert the image, your eyes will adapt to the image after a few days. There is some information on the Wikipedia page of the guy who discovered it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Stratt

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